The Debating Chamber - Japan's agony offers key lessons to an increasingly vulnerable world

The capacity for mitigating the impact of events such as the multiple crises in Japan is increasing dramatically, but governments and the UN system are failing to take the right course of action. Japan's agony offers us key lessons as the world faces a future of increasing vulnerability,asserts Dr. Randolph Kent, director of the Humanitarian Futures Programme at King’s College, London in an AlertNet report.