“There are no walls high enough to insulate any of us from the consequences of extreme climate change,” wrote Nick Mabey last month. The same could be said for the refugee and migration crisis facing many parts of the world today, including an exasperated Kenya, detailed in another of our most popular posts. These are problems that no one nation can solve.

Joining these and other new stories were two Wilson Center events on why gender dynamics are becoming so important to global development and peacebuilding efforts. “When people’s livelihoods, when their access to exercising political voice, when their…access to social services, employment, and their basic ability to live on their land is taken away, you create a vacuum in which you can have extremists come and exploit that sense of insecurity,” said Mayesha Alam on April 29. “And always it is the women’s rights that are trampled on first.”

1. New Approaches to Addressing Gender Inequality in Global Development, Sreya Panuganti

2. Peace After Paris: Addressing Climate, Conflict, and Development, Sreya Panuganti

3. Singapore and the Climate Dilemma: There’s No Way to Go it Alone, Nick Mabey

4. Hunger in Shangri-La: Causes and Consequences of Food Insecurity in the World’s Mountains, Andrew Taber

5. Innovative Sludge-to-Energy Plant Makes a Breakthrough in China, Coco Liu

6. How Successful Were the Millennium Development Goals? A Final Report, Josh Feng

7. Global Population and Reproductive Health (Book Preview), Deborah R. McFarlane

8. From Chicago to India, Journalist Tracks Long-Lasting Effects of Childhood Malnutrition in ‘First 1,000 Days’ Aimee Jakeman

9. In Sustainable Development and Conflict Resolution, Women Seeing Larger Roles, Adrienne Bober

10. Why East Africa’s Refugee Crises Can No Longer Be Ignored, Evie Kirschke-Schwartz