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    OPINION - Ukraine, Gaza, and worldwide political chaos: we are entering the age of wicked problems

    by Robert Fox Nov 27, 2023 3 minutes
    Source: AFP via Getty Images

    The news from home and abroad seems beset with what policy wonks call wicked problems. These are problems “difficult or impossible to solve,” says the dictionary definition, “because of incomplete, contradictory and changing requirements that are often difficult to recognize.”

    Take the crisis in Gaza, the grinding deadlock in Ukraine, the political chaos of and . Wider still we have the lack of global and national accord on climate change and migration. All these are hyper-active playgrounds for those

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