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Essays, stories, portraits and testimonies: the human stories behind security and migration.
The remedy against disinformation and deliberate ignorance is quality education and quality reading. The final part of the Intellectual Capacity series makes the diagnosis and gathers the proposed solutions.
Incompetent rulers find no place for themselves in questioning societies. The second part of the Intellectual Capacity series looks at the questioning society and the government's report card.
The aim of science is to improve life, but some governments use the social sciences for their own agendas. The first part of the Intellectual Capacity series describes how the individual's intellectual capacity has been mown down.
In the 1960s a polygraph expert claimed that plants react to human thoughts. Starting from this experiment, the author questions society's ability to recognise and remember evil.
A newly married couple promise not to open the door to anyone on their first day. But when the bride's parents come, the door is opened. An essay on the bond between fathers and their daughters.
A reminder for politicians who say “We came not to be masters of the nation but to serve it”: Robert Greenleaf's approach of servant leadership and the Hermann Hesse story that inspired it.
As the Compass Security Research Community (PUGAT) begins publishing: a concept of security that extends from the individual to society, and from the state to the world.
“A Message to Garcia”, a classic of the military and business world, and a story from Rumi's Masnavi. Two instructive texts on initiative, integrity and the sense of duty.
The death of General Servet Yörük, who gave 44 years to the country, found almost no echo in the media or in the ranks of the state. The author voices a reproach at this silence.
When we draw the mental pictures of different channels and newspapers, we may in fact find a single picture. The fourth part of the Situational Awareness series looks at visual media and confirmation bias.
Perception, comprehension and anticipation: Mica Endsley's model forms the backbone of situational awareness. The third part of the series describes the stage of comprehension and comparison.
Like “spot the seven differences between two pictures” puzzles, situational awareness begins with a clear mental picture. The second part of the series describes the mental picture and selective perception.
The subconscious needs a defence system that works automatically against manipulation and propaganda. The first part of the Situational Awareness series introduces this “mental antivirus”.
As access to information has become easier, identifying its source and reliability has become harder. The author argues that we should trust not the revelations of mafia leaders but the public's situational awareness.
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