So, I'm looking at these issues of collapses for a lot of past societies and for many present societies.

Jared Diamond on why societies collapse

Because those who aspire to democratic culture are in power, or have societies that are leading globalized, powerful societies, powerful countries.

Human societies got larger, denser, more interconnected.

How do we make stable societies? Longevity.

In medieval societies there were defined allegiances.

And you have more choice driven societies.

Richard Wilkinson How economic inequality harms societies

Participation in or membership of professional societies

What's changed is we now can look at the evidence, we can compare societies, more and less equal societies, and see what inequality does.

We know our societies have to radically change.

Kids do worse in the more unequal societies.

We must celebrate how diversity enriches our societies.

International aid and development has been going on for years, but extremism in those societies, in many of those societies, has been on the rise.

How can we understand what makes some societies more fragile than other societies? The problem is obviously relevant to our situation today, because today as well, there are some societies that have already collapsed, such as Somalia and Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia. There are also societies today that may be close to collapse, such as Nepal, Indonesia and Columbia.

In the light of all this, we recognize that for any societies, and for our Arab societies in particular, there is still no alternative to reform.

People are living longer and societies are getting grayer.

Active participation and involvement of ACWW Member Societies worldwide.

We must help societies and markets recover their vitality.

Anthropologists have found evidence of romantic love in 170 societies.

Young people should take responsibility for developing their own societies.

Academic and commercial scientists and their professional societies and unions

It has been observed that corruption, though a universal problem, is more present in some societies than in others, causing monumental devastation on the development efforts of these societies.

They've been building civilizational demand for their values on the grassroots, and we've been seeing those societies slowly transition to societies that are increasingly asking for a form of Islamism.

Originally, you had the most complex societies, the hunter gatherer village.

And, again, civil societies breathing down the neck of the establishment.

The fourth item on my checklist is relations with hostile societies.

To invest in cooperative societies for needy families, identifying local potentialities.

Our globalizing world increasingly compels our societies to become more interdependent.

We live in a world where HIV AIDS undermines entire societies.

We believe in dialogue among cultures, among people and among societies.

Terrorism cannot tolerate the complex and paradoxical character of modern societies.

So, some societies, for subtle environmental reasons, are more fragile than others. And then finally, another generalization. I'm now teaching a course at UCLA, to UCLA undergraduates, on these collapses of societies. What really bugs my UCLA undergraduate students is, how on earth did these societies not see what they were doing?

That's our modest role. We cannot change these societies, but we can help the people in these societies who are struggling and usually failing, because the odds are so stacked against them.

Terrorist attacks are a violation of human rights, which are the foundation of modern societies they represent an assault on the very essence of those societies and thus negate their very modernity.

What will happen to societies that are top heavy with older people?

Now I'm going to show you what that does to our societies.

Many societies provide examples of microcosms of civilizations that span the globe.

Female genital mutilation is a coming of age ritual in some societies.

It was registered in 1982, under Rajasthan's societies registration act of 1958.

A Cross Cultural Comparison of Juvenile Offenders, Offences, Due Processes and Societies.

Good health is essential for the well being of individuals and societies.

new efforts to reduce structural inequalities within societies by eliminating group discrimination.

This unprecedented achievement is transforming all sectors and institutions of societies worldwide.

f) Promoting Waqfs and their Role in the Development of Islamic Societies