Dublin is covered in signs commemorating the Easter Rising which occurred in 1916 and started a process leading to Irish independence as well as sectarian strife offering an example of the long terms affects of politicizing religion and also the possibility of overcoming seemingly hopeless conflict in the goodness of time.

‘Once upon a time, when people were still using paper and pen for writing up their thoughts and communication implied physical proximity, people used to work together by gathering in one room and discussing different problems and possible solutions…these people would be highly familiar with each other, they would speak the same language, they would look…

Europe has a backlog of more than one million migrants – refugees fleeing war in the Middle East. But events in Germany at the start of the year, following Angela Merkel’s decision to relax migration regulation reveal that the problem is not just the scale and volume of migrants – it is also about integration…

One of the most remarkable economic events in the past two years occurred in the global crude oil market. The price per barrel dropped from $114 in June 2014 to $28 this past January. There are two main drivers for this dramatic fall in oil price: The technological innovation related to the extraction of shale…