Dialectiq·Oct 27Can the World Bank Learn Politically?The World Bank’s new strategy for engaging in fragile and conflict-affected settings makes a more systemic way of thinking unusually…
Dialectiq·Sep 23Systemic Investing: Once Capital Begins to Move, What Counts as Evidence of System Change?There is something increasingly difficult to ignore in the way we invest in complex problems. We have become much better at identifying…
Dialectiq·Aug 31Where Politics Becomes Visible: Why Behaviour Changes the Way We Understand Governance ReformOne of the things that puzzled me while working on governance reform in the Democratic Republic of Congo was that we spent much of our time…
Dialectiq·Aug 24From the World Bank’s Fragility Analysis to Political NavigationWhat the World Bank’s New FCV Strategy Reveals About the Shift from Political Analysis Towards Political Adaptation
Dialectiq·Jul 15Understanding the landscape and sensing how it moves: Two complementary approaches to navigating…Alan and I met online in early 2026 when Alan was synthesising forty reports on health systems corruption in Africa and South Asia using a…
Dialectiq·May 19From Collective Intelligence to Collaborative Political IntelligenceToward Politically Durable Systems ChangeA response icon1A response icon1
Dialectiq·Mar 24Collective Intelligence Won’t Change Systems: Why collaborative intelligence mattersCollective intelligence has become one of the most influential ideas in systems change.A response icon1A response icon1
Dialectiq·Jan 21What matters when systems start to shift?Over the past few years, working on governance reform, systems change, collaboration, and public sector innovation, I keep encountering the…A response icon1A response icon1
Dialectiq·Dec 17, 2025Seeing the System Together: From Political Economy Analysis to Civic Infrastructure in Fragile…How collaborative political economy analysis in the DR Congo is reshaping how we think about governance reform, power, and collective…A response icon1A response icon1
Dialectiq·Dec 10, 2025Seeing the System Together: Political Economy as Civic Infrastructure — Part 2The Method: How Collaborative Sensemaking Rewires a Political Economy AnalysisA response icon1A response icon1
