YACOOB ABBA OMAR: Closing the gap between Buddhist thinking and Brookings policy actions

Think-tanks that act as searchlights into the future need to be supported, and their outputs appreciated and used to guide policy and strategy 🔒

The World Health Organisation released a set of scenarios in September that dealt with the future of Covid-19. It brought to mind the report by the Mapungubwe Institute dealing with epidemics in Africa, which was released in 2019, just before Covid-19 hit our shores.

This is often the tension think-tanks face: too far into the future and some of their thinking may be considered outlandish; too close and it may sound like it is just regurgitating current thinking or even cHowever, think-tanks that act as searchlights into the future need to be supported, and their outputs appreciated and used to guide policy and strategy.

Another example of effective forward thinking is the scenarios developed by the Indlulamithi Project in 2017, which have now entered the lexicon of political discourse. meant to describe a country on track to achieve the 2030 targets of the National Development Plan;describes the continuation of the status quo at the conceptualisation of the scenarios; but the third one,described a floundering false dawn of dreams deferred and was meant to have been the “worst case scenario”.

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