About this episode
Lily Boland discusses the importance of understanding future risks and the techniques of foresight in policymaking.
The world is overwhelmingly chaotic as the international system buckles. The practically placid era of cooperation that marked the 1990s and early 2000s is increasingly looking like a winner-takes-all competition among a handful of great powers, even as the world is succumbing to the opportunities of new technologies and the challenges of climate security. It all boggles, and that’s not even including all of the risks that don’t make it to the top of the charts. Lily Boland wants to help policymakers get a greater handle on these future risks, both to understand them individually and how they intersect with each other. She is the Strategic Foresight Fellow at the Converging Risks Lab of the Council on Strategic Risks . In that role, she designs unique foresight games that bring people together to explore alternative realities and their implication for our own.Alongside host Danny Crichton , the two talk about the techniques of foresight and how it differs from forecasting, what can be learned through games, how and why people change their mind, and what are the most under-reported risks that we should all pay more attention to.
People in this episode
Host: Danny Crichton
Guest: Lily Boland
Topics covered
- foresight
- risk assessment
- international relations
- technology
- climate security
- policy making
Keywords
- foresight games
- future risks
- international system
- great powers
- climate challenges
- policy implications
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Converging Risks Lab, Council on Strategic Risks
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