Chris Estallo
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Polycrisis – just a new buzzword at Davos?
The concept of polycrisis can be a helpful tool, but it should be used with clarity and care. That's the main message of a new study with 50 top experts published ahead of World Economic Forum in Davos.
Explore the study on our website: buff.ly/lLv0CMN
The concept of polycrisis can be a helpful tool, but it should be used with clarity and care. That's the main message of a new study with 50 top experts published ahead of World Economic Forum in Davos.
Explore the study on our website: buff.ly/lLv0CMN
January 21, 2026 at 8:52 AM
Polycrisis – just a new buzzword at Davos?
The concept of polycrisis can be a helpful tool, but it should be used with clarity and care. That's the main message of a new study with 50 top experts published ahead of World Economic Forum in Davos.
Explore the study on our website: buff.ly/lLv0CMN
The concept of polycrisis can be a helpful tool, but it should be used with clarity and care. That's the main message of a new study with 50 top experts published ahead of World Economic Forum in Davos.
Explore the study on our website: buff.ly/lLv0CMN
In the postcolonial period, power was not redistributed but reorganized, remaining concentrated among oligarchic elites who continue to benefit from these enduring structures.
An insightful documentary by @cna-poster.bsky.social
youtu.be/HNNNkS4I6yg
An insightful documentary by @cna-poster.bsky.social
youtu.be/HNNNkS4I6yg
How Did The Philippines Become One Of Asia's Most Unequal Countries? | Insight
YouTube video by CNA Insider
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January 21, 2026 at 12:48 AM
In the postcolonial period, power was not redistributed but reorganized, remaining concentrated among oligarchic elites who continue to benefit from these enduring structures.
An insightful documentary by @cna-poster.bsky.social
youtu.be/HNNNkS4I6yg
An insightful documentary by @cna-poster.bsky.social
youtu.be/HNNNkS4I6yg
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New article out (actually last month) on cognitive warfare- Anita and I have new drafts in the works focusing on the Philippines and a more direct comparison between Russian and Chinese methods. digitalcommons.usf.edu/jss/vol18/is...
Surveying New Battlegrounds: Ukraine and the Future of Cognitive Warfare
Cognitive warfare (CW) has emerged as a decisive battlespace in modern conflict, shifting the focus from physical terrain to the perceptions and resilience of societies. This article analyzes the Russ...
digitalcommons.usf.edu
January 5, 2026 at 10:02 PM
New article out (actually last month) on cognitive warfare- Anita and I have new drafts in the works focusing on the Philippines and a more direct comparison between Russian and Chinese methods. digitalcommons.usf.edu/jss/vol18/is...
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They explain the country’s slide from democracy to dictatorship
Six books to read about Venezuela
They explain the country’s slide from democracy to dictatorship
econ.st
January 7, 2026 at 4:21 PM
They explain the country’s slide from democracy to dictatorship
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AMOC "was the really big story of the year"—shocking even scientists working on it. @djspratt.bsky.social & I review '25's climate reality: from COP failures to the UK National Emergency Briefing filling Westminster Hall.
Essential👇
https://youtu.be/nJxh0UL3rGc
#ClimateScience #AMOC #ClimateCrisis
Essential👇
https://youtu.be/nJxh0UL3rGc
#ClimateScience #AMOC #ClimateCrisis
2025 In Climate Review: AMOC, Overshoot & Emergency Briefings– With Guest David Spratt
In this end of year episode I am looking back on the main climate highlights of 2025 with Research Director at the Breakthrough National Centre For Climate R...
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December 26, 2025 at 5:06 PM
AMOC "was the really big story of the year"—shocking even scientists working on it. @djspratt.bsky.social & I review '25's climate reality: from COP failures to the UK National Emergency Briefing filling Westminster Hall.
Essential👇
https://youtu.be/nJxh0UL3rGc
#ClimateScience #AMOC #ClimateCrisis
Essential👇
https://youtu.be/nJxh0UL3rGc
#ClimateScience #AMOC #ClimateCrisis
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Naga City has launched its artificial intelligence (AI) Command Center, an initiative aimed at strengthening the city’s disaster response capabilities and enabling flood risk forecasting once it becomes fully operational.
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Naga City launches AI command center for smarter governance - BusinessWorld Online
Naga City has launched its artificial intelligence (AI) Command Center, an initiative aimed at strengthening the city’s disaster response capabilities and enabling flood risk forecasting once it becomes fully operational. In a Facebook post last Monday, Naga City Mayor Maria Leonor “Leni” G. Robredo said the initiative marks a strategic shift from purely reactive crisis response […]
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December 25, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Naga City has launched its artificial intelligence (AI) Command Center, an initiative aimed at strengthening the city’s disaster response capabilities and enabling flood risk forecasting once it becomes fully operational.
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zurl.co/2N56V
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🎧 The Resilience Brief E8 is now available!
In "Integration climate resilience across domains? CAF Major General (Ret.) Simon Bernard and Dr Jack Watling discuss how the conversation around climate and resilience shifts from the perspective of Multi Domain Operations.
⬇️ Listen today:
In "Integration climate resilience across domains? CAF Major General (Ret.) Simon Bernard and Dr Jack Watling discuss how the conversation around climate and resilience shifts from the perspective of Multi Domain Operations.
⬇️ Listen today:
The Resilience Brief Episode 8: Integration climate resilience across domains: Multi-Domain Operations - The Council on Strategic Risks
Episodes 5-7 of TRB considered how Defence is tackling climate resilience on operations within individual domains – land, sea and air. But operations are rarely conducted in isolation. How does the co...
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December 23, 2025 at 2:56 PM
🎧 The Resilience Brief E8 is now available!
In "Integration climate resilience across domains? CAF Major General (Ret.) Simon Bernard and Dr Jack Watling discuss how the conversation around climate and resilience shifts from the perspective of Multi Domain Operations.
⬇️ Listen today:
In "Integration climate resilience across domains? CAF Major General (Ret.) Simon Bernard and Dr Jack Watling discuss how the conversation around climate and resilience shifts from the perspective of Multi Domain Operations.
⬇️ Listen today:
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🎙️#Podcast
In this podcast IDS Research Fellow @philipproudfoot.bsky.social interviews Haneen Sayed, the #Lebanon Minister of social affairs who talks about her country’s main social development issues
📻Listen at: https://ids.pulse.ly/mwbzjx70ze
In this podcast IDS Research Fellow @philipproudfoot.bsky.social interviews Haneen Sayed, the #Lebanon Minister of social affairs who talks about her country’s main social development issues
📻Listen at: https://ids.pulse.ly/mwbzjx70ze
December 15, 2025 at 5:00 PM
🎙️#Podcast
In this podcast IDS Research Fellow @philipproudfoot.bsky.social interviews Haneen Sayed, the #Lebanon Minister of social affairs who talks about her country’s main social development issues
📻Listen at: https://ids.pulse.ly/mwbzjx70ze
In this podcast IDS Research Fellow @philipproudfoot.bsky.social interviews Haneen Sayed, the #Lebanon Minister of social affairs who talks about her country’s main social development issues
📻Listen at: https://ids.pulse.ly/mwbzjx70ze
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Four residents of Pari, a low-lying Indonesian island, filed the complaint in January 2023.
Swiss court to hear Indonesian islanders' climate case against cement giant
Four residents of Pari, a low-lying Indonesian island, filed the complaint in January 2023.
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December 22, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Four residents of Pari, a low-lying Indonesian island, filed the complaint in January 2023.
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🎧 The Resilience Brief E7 is now available!
In "Resilience in the Air: Jet Zero or zero chance? Gp Capt Maurice Dixon and Honorary G/C Kevin Billings discuss how specific environments affect air platforms and planning, the tyranny of distance, how to generate urgency, and more.
⬇️ Listen today:
In "Resilience in the Air: Jet Zero or zero chance? Gp Capt Maurice Dixon and Honorary G/C Kevin Billings discuss how specific environments affect air platforms and planning, the tyranny of distance, how to generate urgency, and more.
⬇️ Listen today:
The Resilience Brief Episode 7: Resilience in the Air: Jet Zero or zero chance? - The Council on Strategic Risks
Aviation fuel emissions have been an enduring issue for air forces in the fight for climate resilience. However, with developments in Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) driven by mandates, what else is o...
councilonstrategicrisks.org
December 12, 2025 at 3:45 PM
🎧 The Resilience Brief E7 is now available!
In "Resilience in the Air: Jet Zero or zero chance? Gp Capt Maurice Dixon and Honorary G/C Kevin Billings discuss how specific environments affect air platforms and planning, the tyranny of distance, how to generate urgency, and more.
⬇️ Listen today:
In "Resilience in the Air: Jet Zero or zero chance? Gp Capt Maurice Dixon and Honorary G/C Kevin Billings discuss how specific environments affect air platforms and planning, the tyranny of distance, how to generate urgency, and more.
⬇️ Listen today:
Sharing with you my post-graduation blog reflecting on the question: So what if I graduated from the Asian Institute of Management #AIM with Master in Disaster Risk and Crisis Management (Executive Program)? What now? www.linkedin.com/posts/activi...
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December 8, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Sharing with you my post-graduation blog reflecting on the question: So what if I graduated from the Asian Institute of Management #AIM with Master in Disaster Risk and Crisis Management (Executive Program)? What now? www.linkedin.com/posts/activi...
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Our new piece in the Journal of Strategic Security on lessons from cognitive warfare in Ukraine, and it's open access
digitalcommons.usf.edu/jss/vol18/is...
digitalcommons.usf.edu/jss/vol18/is...
Surveying New Battlegrounds: Ukraine and the Future of Cognitive Warfare
Cognitive warfare (CW) has emerged as a decisive battlespace in modern conflict, shifting the focus from physical terrain to the perceptions and resilience of societies. This article analyzes the Russ...
digitalcommons.usf.edu
December 5, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Our new piece in the Journal of Strategic Security on lessons from cognitive warfare in Ukraine, and it's open access
digitalcommons.usf.edu/jss/vol18/is...
digitalcommons.usf.edu/jss/vol18/is...
Same is true across the Philippines or largely around the world.
Again and again across the US, the cheapest housing is often in the most dangerous places – the ones most exposed to floods, fires and storms made worse by climate change.
Our story in the LA Times:
Our story in the LA Times:
Contributor: Moving to a climate-disaster zone just to afford a home
The only affordable property is often in low-lying areas at flood risk, such as in Houston and coastal Texas, or in higher-wildfire-risk areas, such as in California foothills and canyons.
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December 5, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Same is true across the Philippines or largely around the world.
Foucault’s “regimes of truth” alone is already a mind-bending journey I’m hallucinating to fully grasp! Then add @juergenhabermas.bsky.social “public sphere” to analyze the current state of political discourse in the PHL 🇵🇭 That’s no longer a final exam question. That’s an entire dissertation 🤯
Jürgen Habermas (@juergenhabermas.bsky.social)
Philosoph und Soziologe. Begründer der Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns. Verfechter der Kritischen Theorie.
juergenhabermas.bsky.social
December 2, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Foucault’s “regimes of truth” alone is already a mind-bending journey I’m hallucinating to fully grasp! Then add @juergenhabermas.bsky.social “public sphere” to analyze the current state of political discourse in the PHL 🇵🇭 That’s no longer a final exam question. That’s an entire dissertation 🤯
This #PHL #Marcos #elitist regime shows how detached they are from the realities millions face every day @ibonfoundation.bsky.social
November 30, 2025 at 3:16 PM
This #PHL #Marcos #elitist regime shows how detached they are from the realities millions face every day @ibonfoundation.bsky.social
In the Philippines, political dynasties are often blamed for the nation’s ills. But banning them may not exactly be the real cure.
Political Dynasties: To ban or not to ban? - Universitas
This article was originally published in BusinessWorld on 31 October 2025. The piece is reproduced here with the author’s permission. By Dr. Nick Alviar Even in democratic societies, power eventually ...
universitas.uap.asia
November 23, 2025 at 5:36 AM
In the Philippines, political dynasties are often blamed for the nation’s ills. But banning them may not exactly be the real cure.
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As global military expenditure climbs, progress on the #2030Agenda Sustainable Development Goals ( #SDGs) slows.
This #SIPRI Research Policy Paper by Xiao Liang and Nan Tian makes the case for rebalancing resources away from #militaryexpenditure and towards the #SDGs.
Read more ➡️ bit.ly/49rOyaR
This #SIPRI Research Policy Paper by Xiao Liang and Nan Tian makes the case for rebalancing resources away from #militaryexpenditure and towards the #SDGs.
Read more ➡️ bit.ly/49rOyaR
November 21, 2025 at 1:54 PM
As global military expenditure climbs, progress on the #2030Agenda Sustainable Development Goals ( #SDGs) slows.
This #SIPRI Research Policy Paper by Xiao Liang and Nan Tian makes the case for rebalancing resources away from #militaryexpenditure and towards the #SDGs.
Read more ➡️ bit.ly/49rOyaR
This #SIPRI Research Policy Paper by Xiao Liang and Nan Tian makes the case for rebalancing resources away from #militaryexpenditure and towards the #SDGs.
Read more ➡️ bit.ly/49rOyaR
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The first of my new Malaya Business Insight newspaper column here in the Philippines, in reaction to our last two storms
malaya.com.ph/weekender/th...
malaya.com.ph/weekender/th...
Business Unusual: Forget Forecasts: Plan for Plausible Futures - Malaya Business Insight
By CHAD BRIGGS THE Philippines was hit in consecutive weeks—almost days—by two storms that illustrate the challenges of understanding and anticipating how to react in our new climate reality. Typhoon ...
malaya.com.ph
November 16, 2025 at 4:13 PM
The first of my new Malaya Business Insight newspaper column here in the Philippines, in reaction to our last two storms
malaya.com.ph/weekender/th...
malaya.com.ph/weekender/th...
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The business sector has an unexplored role in fostering #peace and #Climatesecurity. When businesses adhere to conscious involvement in fragile and conflict affected situations #FCS, they can provide #resilience to areas affected by #Cilmatechange and #Conflict.
🕊️ Find out more: bit.ly/4nOGLao
🕊️ Find out more: bit.ly/4nOGLao
November 12, 2025 at 2:17 PM
The business sector has an unexplored role in fostering #peace and #Climatesecurity. When businesses adhere to conscious involvement in fragile and conflict affected situations #FCS, they can provide #resilience to areas affected by #Cilmatechange and #Conflict.
🕊️ Find out more: bit.ly/4nOGLao
🕊️ Find out more: bit.ly/4nOGLao
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Together, #ClimateChange, human #mobility and #security present a pressing policy challenge. This new SIPRI Policy Brief from Kheira Tarif addresses the need for a more nuanced analysis to design effective policy responses.
Read it now ➡️ doi.org/10.55163/SBGH8196
Read it now ➡️ doi.org/10.55163/SBGH8196
November 11, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Together, #ClimateChange, human #mobility and #security present a pressing policy challenge. This new SIPRI Policy Brief from Kheira Tarif addresses the need for a more nuanced analysis to design effective policy responses.
Read it now ➡️ doi.org/10.55163/SBGH8196
Read it now ➡️ doi.org/10.55163/SBGH8196
Congratulations, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social !
A powerful win that strengthens the #Socialists and the movement for progressive, people-first change. ✊🌹
A powerful win that strengthens the #Socialists and the movement for progressive, people-first change. ✊🌹
Wir nehmen die New Yorker Bürgermeisterwahl zum Anlass, um einen genaueren Blick auf die Geschichte und Gegenwart der sozialistischen Bewegung in den USA zu werfen.
November 5, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Congratulations, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social !
A powerful win that strengthens the #Socialists and the movement for progressive, people-first change. ✊🌹
A powerful win that strengthens the #Socialists and the movement for progressive, people-first change. ✊🌹
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Wir nehmen die New Yorker Bürgermeisterwahl zum Anlass, um einen genaueren Blick auf die Geschichte und Gegenwart der sozialistischen Bewegung in den USA zu werfen.
November 5, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Wir nehmen die New Yorker Bürgermeisterwahl zum Anlass, um einen genaueren Blick auf die Geschichte und Gegenwart der sozialistischen Bewegung in den USA zu werfen.
I recall a very similar question for a major exam during my first term in the master’s program in disaster risk and crisis management. It was a foundational and fundamental question.
Why was Hurricane Melissa so powerful? And did climate change play a role? Renowned climate scientist @katharinehayhoe.com separates fact from fiction. #ThisIsClimateChange
October 30, 2025 at 2:41 PM
I recall a very similar question for a major exam during my first term in the master’s program in disaster risk and crisis management. It was a foundational and fundamental question.
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Why was Hurricane Melissa so powerful? And did climate change play a role? Renowned climate scientist @katharinehayhoe.com separates fact from fiction. #ThisIsClimateChange
October 30, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Why was Hurricane Melissa so powerful? And did climate change play a role? Renowned climate scientist @katharinehayhoe.com separates fact from fiction. #ThisIsClimateChange
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Another day for #ResilienceRewind 🌍
Thelma Krug says it best: "adaptation isn’t about losing hope; it’s about acting on what’s already here."
Excited to see what’s coming at #COP30 in Belém! 💪
#Resilience #ClimateAction
Thelma Krug says it best: "adaptation isn’t about losing hope; it’s about acting on what’s already here."
Excited to see what’s coming at #COP30 in Belém! 💪
#Resilience #ClimateAction
October 23, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Another day for #ResilienceRewind 🌍
Thelma Krug says it best: "adaptation isn’t about losing hope; it’s about acting on what’s already here."
Excited to see what’s coming at #COP30 in Belém! 💪
#Resilience #ClimateAction
Thelma Krug says it best: "adaptation isn’t about losing hope; it’s about acting on what’s already here."
Excited to see what’s coming at #COP30 in Belém! 💪
#Resilience #ClimateAction