INDEPENDENT PUBLIC POLICY ANALYSIS
Independent analysis for better public decision-making
Exploring how evidence, visible choices and meaningful dialogue can strengthen public decision-making.
FEATURED ANALYSIS
Weapons from the Past
How collective memory becomes a security issue
Security is not shaped by weapons and borders alone. When states experience competing narratives about the past as threats to their identity, historical memory can become a source of geopolitical escalation.
This analysis explores the mnemonic security dilemma — and why diplomats and decision-makers should read memory laws, commemorations and historical disputes as signals within wider political conflict.
When being Right is Not Enough
What a 1973 film reveals about communication, systems and change
In complex organisations, evidence alone rarely creates change. When people feel excluded from the inquiry, even the strongest argument can be dismissed, resisted or misunderstood.
Using Fassbinder’s Welt am Draht as a lens, this essay explores why effective change depends on trust, shared ownership and dialogue — not simply on having the facts on your side.
WHAT I CONTRIBUTE
Three ways I strengthen a decision
Clarify the question
I bring together the public issue, relevant facts, uncertainties and institutional context so that the real decision can be understood.
Make choice visible
I structure realistic options, trade-offs, risks and likely consequences so that decision-makers can exercise informed judgment.
Support dialogue
I help ensure that relevant expertise, interests and perspectives are brought into the conversation before a formal decision is made.