Public discourse

A platform for serious policy conversation. Essays, transcripts, panel discussions, interviews, op-eds, and response pieces on the issues that shape the Maldives' future. Policy Lab's own analysis alongside guest voices.


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Interview on research experiences

A lightly edited transcript of a conversation between two Policy Lab researchers on the emotional and intellectual experience of doing policy research — the doubts, motivations, and the relationship between research and real-world impact.


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We publish guest essays, op-eds, transcripts, and response pieces. If you have something substantive to say about policy in the Maldives, we want to hear it.

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Events & panels. A section for upcoming panel discussions, public conversations, and recorded events is in development. Details will appear here as programming is confirmed.