What’s the difference between a complex or complicated problem?

by Kate Simpson/

What’s the difference between 12 boys trapped in a cave and 20 trapped in an orphanage in Lybia? All children, all victims of circumstances not of their own making (except perhaps those in the cave).

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70 years of the NHS — Bring on the next 70 years

by Kate Simpson/

For 70 years the NHS has been providing not just health care free …

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The Diana Ware Award

by Kate Simpson/

On November 3 2017, we lost Diana Ware,  a beloved friend, colleague, and Wasafiri family member.

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The Malabo Race that Everyone Can Win!

by Alex Rees/

A flame to ignite agriculture reform, nutrition and food security in Africa: will it be nurtured or snuffed out through irrelevance?

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Expect the unexpected (unless you are Isaac Newton)

by Kate Simpson/

If we don’t know what will work, then how on earth do we work out what to do? Traditional approaches to change management assume there are a set of rules which will …

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On the front lines of preventing violent extremism: an interview with Gaëlle Le Pottier

by Hamish Wilson/

It’s 16 years to the day after the attacks on the twin towers and I’m sat in a chilly Nairobi café eating a limp croissant with Gaëlle Le Pottier and trying to work out what it really takes to provide leadership in the face of one of today’s pre-eminent complex problems – violent extremism.

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