The real crisis presented by the breakdown of our medical malpractice litigation and insurance system is that the wrong people are getting most of the money. Often, the people who sue have substantial injuries but dubious liability claims, while many people with legitimate claims can't even assert them. As a result, many doctors are angry and resentful toward patients who bring frivolous claims...

Several problems related to violence, grievances and states’ lack of legitimacy capacity manage economic, social political issues are clustered together as a lump misery in the Middle East Northern Africa (MENA) [...]

Many public funded social welfare schemes in India suffer from implementation problems. Most of these problems can be traced to missing or broken information flows and accountability loops. First, beneficiaries are often not aware about the schemes and the rules and regulations governing the schemes and the policymakers does not have any direct medium to obtain feedback on the schemes from the ...

Agricultural development can contribute significantly to peace by raising incomes and employment, thereby reducing the social frustrations that give rise to violence. Agricultural growth also generates revenues for governments, allowing them to redress the grievances of disadvantaged populations. In this way, growth can be made more equitable, an effect that is enhanced if inequalities in acces...

Imagine your practice with fewer complaining patients. Imagine your patients more focused on their goals than their grievances. Patients begin with complaints, but complaints are just the raw material of goals. Embedded within every complaint is at least one goal. Our patients often need help seeing things that way. Goalification is the term I use to describe the process by which we transform c...

struggles would transform the world during the twentieth century. Instead, it turned out to be the age of ethnonationalist conflicts. Wars fought in the name of national liberation or ethnic autonomy comprise only one fifth of the wars between the Congress of Vienna (1814) and the Treaty of Versailles (1919). From Versailles to 2001, however, the share of ethnonationalist wars rose to 45 percen...