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Cultivating Trust in Local Government: PASO Colombia Records Significant Increase
This “Empirically Speaking” column explores the ways that collaboration and coordination can act as drivers of trust in local government and data from OEF's PASO Colombia program that shows a meaningful correlation.
South Korea’s New President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol
The conservative People Power Party’s candidate Yoon Suk-yeol narrowly won South Korea’s presidential election on 9 March 2022 with a final voting count of 48.56% of the electorate. His main opponent, Democratic Party’s Lee Jae-myung, received 47.83% of the votes. Lee conceded defeat in the early morning hours of 10 March 2022. The voter turnout was 77.1%, which is only 0.1% less than the turnout in 2017. The official inauguration will be on 10 May 2022.
ONN's Statement on Nuclear Escalation
Conflicts involving nuclear-armed States always pose some risk of escalating to nuclear weapons use. During times of heightened tensions and high stakes, it is only through dialogue and communications, based on credible information, that de-escalation and conflict resolution are possible.