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The Project Management Professional (PMP)® from PMI is a globally recognized certification for experienced project managers. For those newer to the field, PMI's Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM)® is a common starting point. Other notable certifications include those focused on agile methodologies, such as the PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)®, and program management certifications like the Program Management Professional (PgMP)®. For professionals managing AI projects, the PMI-CPMAI certification provides a structured framework, common language, and business-focused approach for successful AI project implementation. #### How does PMI support career growth for professionals? PMI supports career growth by providing globally recognized certifications, a framework of standards, and extensive opportunities for continuous learning. Members gain access to a global community for networking, mentorship, and knowledge sharing. The organization also produces research and thought leadership on emerging trends, helping professionals stay current with skills in areas like AI, agile practices, and strategic business management. These resources are designed to help professionals at all levels enhance their skills and advance their careers. #### What is the PMBOK® Guide? The PMBOK® Guide, or A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge, is PMI’s foundational guide to generally accepted project management knowledge and practice. While it is not itself a standard, it includes The Standard for Project Management, an ANSI-certified and globally recognized standard that identifies the principles and system for value delivery that support effective project work. 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TIME gets exclusive access to the Greek coast guard as they search for, and rescue migrants_ by [Tara John](https://time.com/author/tara-john/) ## Tara John Oct 22, 2015 6:10 PM UTC  Hungarian soldiers close a border with Croatia near the village of Botovo, Croatia, on Oct. 17, 2015. Hungarian soldiers close a border with Croatia near the village of Botovo, Croatia, on Oct. 17, 2015.Antonio Bronic—Reuters by [Tara John](https://time.com/author/tara-john/) ## Tara John Oct 22, 2015 6:10 PM UTC The Great Wall of China did little to halt Genghis Khan and his Mongolian army from conquering 13th century China. Constantinople’s ring of fortifications could not stop the Ottomans from taking over what is modern-day Istanbul. Persian soldiers breached the fortified walls of Babylon in 539 B.C. Yet the building of border structures persists. Around 40 nations in the world have built barriers on their borders with 65 other countries since the fall of the Berlin Wall. The threats prompting these constructions have changed over time. Justifications for border barriers range from territorial defense—such as the Korean demilitarized zone and India’s Line of Control with Pakistan—to the threat of terrorism, [which compelled Turkey this August](http://uk.businessinsider.com/turkey-is-building-a-wall-along-its-border-to-keep-out-isis-militants-2015-7?r=US&IR=T) to reinforce pre-existing wire-fencing while adding concrete walls to parts of its border with Syria. Increasingly, however, walls are being built to control the movement of people—not armies. The threat politicians see today is not the conquering hordes of the past, but unarmed migrants simply seeking safety. Border walls have shown some temporary successes. [According to the Department of Homeland Security](https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/secretary/14%5F1009%5Fs1%5Fborder%5Fslide%5F508.pdf), there has been a plunge in the number of apprehensions of illegal migrants on the U.S. southern border—where over 700 of the border’s 2,000 miles are now fenced off— from over 1.6 million in 2000 to around 400,000 in 2014\. “There is no doubt that building the fence, putting in drones and of the smart border technology, like cameras and sensors, has made it much harder to cross the border,” says Reece Jones, the author of _Border Walls: Security And The War On Terror In The United States, India, And Israel_. Yet the fall in border apprehensions may be less a sign of the wall’s success than an indication that resources are being focused in the wrong area. “Some scholars would suggest that the decline we are seeing with people emigrating across the border was more related with the changing economic conditions that were pushing and pulling people to migrate rather than the increased enforcement at the border” says Jones. Less people are trying to emigrate to the US, while those that do often bypass the southern border altogether. Robert Warren, a former demographer with the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service,[ has estimated](http://jmhs.cmsny.org/index.php/jmhs/article/view/45) that since 2008 there have been more people simply overstaying their visas in the U.S. than illegal border crossers. Like the French Maginot Line—a defensive system built in the 1930s that the Nazis merely avoided while invading France in World War II—a border wall can sometimes be sidestepped with an alternative route, albeit one that is often more dangerous. The securitization of traditional crossing points on the U.S. southern border has shunted migrants into remote and often unforgiving desert terrain, where [around 160 have died this year](http://missingmigrants.iom.int/en/latest-global-figures). “While the total number of people being detained via crossing has declined after the construction of the fence the number who have died has increased because people are doing it in the deserts of Arizona, where its very dangerous to try and move through those spaces,” says Jones. A similar phenomenon is unfolding in Europe. The razor wire fences along Greece and Bulgaria’s land borders with Turkey, built in 2012 and 2015 respectively, have forced migrants to pursue more dangerous and expensive alternative routes. Trips on the Eastern Mediterranean route from Turkey’s Western Coast to Greece [now cost over $1,000](http://time.com/4065539/smugglers-profit-migrants/). With Hungary sealing its southern frontiers as a [response to over 200,000 migrants](http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/248dc176-5f8e-11e5-9846-de406ccb37f2.html) passing through its territory and the installation of temporary border controls in Germany, Austria, the Netherlands and Slovakia, the price of getting into Europe is likely to increase—a fact that most directly benefits criminal human smugglers. The erection of border walls often stretching for hundreds of miles can also have a substantial environment impact. A [study conducted by Peking University](http://www.nature.com/hdy/journal/v90/n3/full/6800237a.html) found that the Great Wall of China has altered the genetic structure of the same species of plants on both sides of the wall by blocking its natural gene flow, that aids in the evolution of a species. On the U.S.-Mexico border, the 15-foot-high wire-mesh fence has been acting like a dam, blocking the natural flow of flood water, which in turn disrupts plant life at a UNESCO biosphere reserve in southwestern Arizona, known as Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument. Despite the downsides, the building of barriers remains popular for many countries. After 9/11, Elisabeth Vallet, an expert on border walls from the University of Quebec, noticed a sharp rise in the building of walls around the world. “We assumed September 11 triggered the proliferation of walls in the world, but we backtracked and discovered that the walls were on the minds of states’ already.” What she found was that building of walls was a sort of backlash to globalization. National identity was in crisis in a world that was rapidly eliminating barriers to trade, communication and cultural exchange. “People were feeling like their way of life was impacted by globalization, that the way to define themselves is to define themselves against the other.” Building a wall is a very physical way for a country to deal with changing demographics. According to Vallet, the voices of Europe’s right-wing populists like Hungary’s President Viktor Orban, who likes to [invoke Europe’s historic Christian heritage](http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/03/migration-crisis-hungary-pm-victor-orban-europe-response-madness) against the largely Muslim migrants, and the appeal of Donald Trump’s vision of sealing the U.S.–Mexico border, comes down to national identity. To her, the call for more border fences is a sign of the rise of the extreme political right. At its most basic, a wall, border or even a basic picket fence psychologically makes people feel safer—whether or not it does in fact. “In the past the threat was often an invading army that was coming to take those resources, to sack a village or to climb over medieval city walls to steal whatever is inside of it… today the change is poor people are on the outside trying to come in to access opportunities which are contained in these borders,” says Jones. Continued war, poverty and climate change will lead more migrants to spend their savings and risk their lives for a better future. The choice governments will have to make is to either build more costly walls—a kilometer of the U.S.-Mexico border barrier costs between $1-6 million to build and, [according to an investigation by the Government Accountability Office in 2009](http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d09244r.pdf), $6.5 billion to operate over 20 years—or seek sustainable solutions with the money they would have otherwise spent on these barren frontiers. ### See James Nachtwey's Photographs of the Journey of Hope  A man signals to arriving boats from the beach in Lesbos, Greece. Refugees from Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia cross the sea between Turkey and to the island of Lesbos, as the first step in making their way across Europe, Sept. 26, 2015. James Nachtwey for TIME  Refugees celebrate after arriving on the beach in Lesbos, Greece. Thousands of migrants each day set out from nearby Turkey for the Greek island, riding in barely seaworthy rubber boats. Some don’t make it, Sept. 26, 2015. James Nachtwey for TIME  A young girl is helped off a boat after arriving in Lesbos, Greece, Sept. 26, 2015. James Nachtwey for TIME  Migrants arrive on the beach in Lesbos, Greece after traveling from Turkey on inflatable pontoon rafts, Sept. 27, 2015. James Nachtwey for TIME  Two women help a third scramble ashore after arriving on the beach in Lesbos, Greece, Sept. 23, 2015. James Nachtwey for TIME  Leaving behind everything they've ever known, migrants arrive on the beach in Lesbos, Greece with little or no possessions. A woman sits on the beach recovering from the sea journey, Sept. 27, 2015. James Nachtwey for TIME  A man is helped from an inflatable boat after arriving on the beach in Lesbos, Greece, Sept. 23, 2015. James Nachtwey for TIME  A man helps a child reach shore in Lesbos, Greece, where refugees from Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia cross the sea from Turkey by means of inflatable pontoon rafts, Sept. 23, 2015. James Nachtwey for TIME  A man walks with crutches on the beach in Lesbos, Greece after arriving on an inflatable boat from Turkey, Sept. 25, 2015. James Nachtwey for TIME  A veiled Muslim woman carries both a handbag and garbage bag holding her possessions while getting off an inflatable boat after arriving on the beach in Lesbos, Greece, Sept. 26, 2015. James Nachtwey for TIME  After arriving on the beach in Lesbos, Greece, a woman washes clothes in the sea, Sept. 24, 2015. James Nachtwey for TIME  Muslim men pray upon reaching the beach in Lesbos, Greece, Sept. 25, 2015. James Nachtwey for TIME  Refugees from Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia cross the sea between Turkey and Greece by means of inflatable pontoon rafts to the island of Lesbos as the first step in making their way across Europe, Sept. 26, 2015. James Nachtwey for TIME  A migrant walks towards shore in Lesbos, Greece after swimming from the inflatable boat he had taken in the crossing from Turkey, Sept. 27, 2015. James Nachtwey for TIME  A man hold his baby on the beach in Lesbos, Greece after making the journey with his wife from Turkey, Sept. 28, 2015. James Nachtwey for TIME  Life preservers and other debris left by the migrants on the beach in Lesbos, Greece, Sept., 28, 2015. James Nachtwey for TIME  A man walks with his son behind him as they make their way to the train station in Tovarnik, Croatia, on the border with Serbia. In the Balkans, many migrants began traveling by foot, echoing more ancient journeys, Sept. 17, 2015. James Nachtwey for TIME  A family walks in the no man's land between Serbia and Croatia, towards the train station in Tovarnik, Croatia, Sept. 18, 2015 James Nachtwey for TIME  A man carries his son as they walk in the no man's land between Serbia and Croatia, towards the train station in Tovarnik, Croatia, Sept. 18, 2015. James Nachtwey for TIME  A blind man and his son rest in a field in the no man's land between Serbia and Croatia, Sept. 18, 2015. James Nachtwey for TIME  A man sleeps as he waits for a bus that will take him further into Croatia. Refugees line up their bags to save their place in the long lines for the few buses dispatched each day, Sept. 18, 2015. James Nachtwey for TIME  A police officer screams at refugees as they attempt to board a train in Tovarnik, Croatia, Sept. 17, 2015. James Nachtwey for TIME  Local NGO workers carry a young girl onto a train in Tovarnik dispatched to transport refugees further into Croatia. 17, 2015. James Nachtwey for TIME  A young man climbs into one of the few trains dispatched to Tovarnik to bring refugees further into Croatia, Sept. 17, 2015. James Nachtwey for TIME  A police officer screams at refugees as they attempt to board a train in Tovarnik, Croatia, Sept. 17, 2015. James Nachtwey for TIME  Refugees plead with police officers to let members of their families board the train in Tovarnik, Croatia, Sept. 17, 2015. James Nachtwey for TIME  Refugees on board a train in Tovarnik, Croatia, Sept. 18, 2015. James Nachtwey for TIME  Refugees mainly from Syria, but also Afghanistan, Iraq and parts of Africa make their way north on a train. Two children sleep under a blanket, at right, Sept. 21, 2015. James Nachtwey for TIME  At the train station in Tovarnik, Croatia refugees camped on the train tracks leaving debris behind, Sept. 21, 2015. 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