Multiple global crises are worsening one another to produce what many policymakers, scholars, and commentators call a “polycrisis.” This website is a hub that helps this emerging community better understand and address the intersecting crises affecting humanity.
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Collective Memory and Genetic Social Psychology: A Necessary Rediscovery in Times of Polycrisis
The author argues that prevailing approaches to collective memory are too descriptive to address the developmental dynamics shaping memory in a polycrisis era marked by authoritarian resurgence and democratic fragility. He advances Genetic Social Psychology ...
How Do We Navigate Asia-Pacific’s Climate-Cyber Polycrisis?
The author argues that a new polycrisis is emerging at the intersection of climate change and cybersecurity, as extreme weather, natural disasters, and cyberattacks increasingly occur simultaneously and amplify one another. Focusing on Asia and ...
Development of Technology Convergence Assessment Framework for Polycrisis
This article explores how open science, artificial intelligence, geoinformatics, virtual reality, and augmented reality offer a transformative approach to addressing complex polycrisis challenges. Using a multifaceted methodology that includes a structured review, technology convergence assessment, ...
Reflections by Thomas Homer-Dixon
In this interview, Dr.Thomas Homer-Dixon reflects on his intellectual journey from studying political science and human conflict to developing a broader framework for understanding interconnected global crises. He explains the concept of polycrisis as the ...
Uncomfortable Questions in Unstable Times
In this episode, Nate Hagens introduces a new recurring segment, Uncomfortable Questions in Unstable Times, focused on examining foundational assumptions about growth, stability, and societal purpose. He explores what might change if societies shifted their ...
Flattening the Curve on Societal Crisis: Lessons from History
The authors argue that today’s polycrisis, marked by climate change, inequality, and institutional fragility, echoes recurrent structural challenges seen throughout history. While most historical crises led to violence and collapse, a small number were successfully ...
America’s Polycrisis Has Arrived
The author argues that the United States is experiencing a polycrisis, a convergence of simultaneous, mutually reinforcing crises spanning foreign policy, the rule of law, civil rights, constitutional governance, the environment, healthcare, the military, and ...
What the Global Risks Report 2026 Really Says About the Urgency of Environmental Threats
This article highlights how environmental risks remain among the most severe global threats in the World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report 2026, yet their perceived urgency has shifted across time horizons. While short-term concerns are ...
Peace Studies and International Relations in an Age of Polycrisis
The author contends that the 2026 Doomsday Clock setting reflects a polycrisis. Arguing that traditional frameworks in International Relations are inadequate for addressing the political, ethical, and structural dimensions of this moment, the article calls ...
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Reflections by Thomas Homer-Dixon
In this interview, Dr.Thomas Homer-Dixon reflects on his intellectual journey from studying political science and human conflict to developing a broader framework for understanding interconnected global crises. He explains the concept of polycrisis as the ...
Uncomfortable Questions in Unstable Times
In this episode, Nate Hagens introduces a new recurring segment, Uncomfortable Questions in Unstable Times, focused on examining foundational assumptions about growth, stability, and societal purpose. He explores what might change if societies shifted their ...
The Slow Forces Behind this Year’s Fast Crises
This article argues that what looks like sudden disruption is actually the visible crest of decades-long, slow-moving structural shifts. Drawing on complexity science, it explains how small, often barely perceptible stresses accumulate along a “long ...
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