Many Congolese people desire progress, but a population that has suffered over 6 million deaths in the last decade knows well that change in Congo means devastating risk.
Like everything to do with risk management, there is the further danger that the existence of the risk strategy itself inoculates managers against thinking imaginatively about rare but devastating risk possibilities.
"Whether it's environmental problems, expensive transport links or the decimation of employment at Heathrow, we now know for sure that this project poses a devastating risk to the taxpayer.
However, modern medicine has become exceedingly complex, specialized, and interdisciplinary, offering hope for fantastic cures, but also inadvertently introducing potentially devastating risks.
Shanta's story is all too typical among women in rural India where soon-to-be mothers often face devastating risks during pregnancy like poor health, unsafe home births and inadequate access to quality healthcare.
Necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) in neonates is devastating, and risk-factor identification is crucial.
"There is no credible evidence that conversion therapy can change a person's sexual orientation or gender identity or expression, and it is abundantly clear that conversion therapy poses devastating health risks for LGBT young people," Sainz wrote in a letter to Psychology Today's chief executive and publisher.
Even in adulthood, to tell of one's abuse is to risk not being believed; it is to risk devastating rifts in the family.
In Eastwood's film, all sympathies are potentially misguided; all actions, even ones done in pursuit of his own clear sense of justice, risk devastating results.
Now the government's agenda is being called into question by protests on campuses across the country, but those who get involved risk devastating consequences.
The volunteers must perform flawlessly, in front of large crowds at Howard J. Lamade Stadium and millions more watching on television, or risk devastating the talented yet fragile preteenage players.
