Below you will find a carefully selected collection of links to videos, news articles, primary sources games, and other useful websites. These resources have been chosen to promote discussion and to further your learning on the key topics and themes in each chapter.
Artificial Intelligence will play a significant role in the future of humans. This has posed a huge number of question. The following videos explore some of them:
Professor of history Devin Naar lectures on the dissolution of the major empires of the Hapsburgs, Romanovs and Ottomans, and the creation of the modern world map: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NkM8iTVg2k
What is the future of the nation state in the age of globalization? In this lecture, Professor Knut Kjeldstadli offers a vision for the future: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uubhJ4kJpZ8
This interview with UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein discusses the universal danger of ignoring human rights violations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgMThsg7g5Y
This games offers interesting information about the lifeworks of some famous individuals who have fought for human rights across the globe: youth-egames.org/games/ffr/ffr.html
In Guantanamo Bay detention facility, it is alleged that some prisoners have been held for years without any trial and some have died while in custody. This game explores the issues of human right abuses and shines more light on them: homelandgitmo.com
This game explores the role of choices and showcases how many Americans constantly live on the verge of unemployment: playspent.org
Play the International Trade Game, a classroom activity that helps students understand the nature of international trade and what role it plays in the economies of nations: https://www.economicsnetwork.ac.uk/showcase/sloman_game
The rapid economic development in China had brought along with it, an increase in its urban demand for labour. This movement of people from rural to urban areas has seen one of the largest human migration in history. The ‘Year of The Dog: Inside The World's Largest Human Migration’ showcases a human dimension of Chinese migration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPNkJgrSaGM
Video interviews with experts from the Planetary Security community explore the connection between migration and climate change: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQslOVboFfU
New York City, 1907. You are Lena Brodsky, a 14-year-old Jewish immigrant from Russia. How will you start a new life in America? https://www.brainpop.com/games/missionuscityofimmigrants/
This country isn't just carbon neutral, it's carbon negative! In this TED talk, the Prime Minister of Bhutan shares his county’s mission to put happiness before economic growth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Lc_dlVrg5M&t
‘The Devastating Effects of Pollution in China’ visits the single most polluted place on earth, the coal-mining town of Linfen in Shanxi Province: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4DtOhe2LfQ
‘I Bought a Rain Forest’ tells the inspiring story Majuli islander Jadav Payeng, who has been planting trees since the 1970s in order to save his island: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATCIvO7N5Uk
This lecture from Stanford's Centre for International Security and Cooperation tackles the fundamental question: What is terrorism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHo15RLTTJc
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