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Why renewed China-US cooperation bodes well for climate action
In this piece first published in The Conversation, Yixian Sun lays out why we should be optimistic about recent high-level developments in China-US relations. The relationship between the US and China is the most important in the world, and it...
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'We miners die a lot'. Appalling conditions and poverty wages: the lives of cobalt miners in the DRC
In this piece first published in The Conversation, Roy Maconachie discusses labour condition in DRC's mining sector. It was a cool, dusty morning in July 2021, when I first visited the Kamilombe cobalt mine in Lualaba Province in south-eastern Democratic...
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Picking up the pieces of the UK’s conflict and development policy
Oliver Walton and Andrew Johnstone discuss how UK conflict and development policy since 2015 has become more fragmented and explore the wider implications of this case for the security-development nexus. International development policy in UK, long seen as a relatively...
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Tobacco production, livelihood diversification in Malawi… and some UK connections
James Copestake On 16 November this year Malawi ratified the World Health Organization’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) - see WHO (2023). This is worthy of note given that the main thrust of this global agreement is to...
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Counter-terrorism laws create major barriers to humanitarian relief. How are NGOs responding?
In this piece first published on LSE blogs, Sam Nadel and Oliver Walton discuss how state measures to prevent support reaching terrorist groups can impede the work of humanitarian organisations. Recent crises from Gaza to Afghanistan are a reminder of...
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Children in Palestine and Israel continue to suffer as international law is routinely ignored
In this piece originally published by The Conversation, Jason Hart comments on the fear and violence being experienced by children across the political divide. Among the hundreds already dead in the latest hostilities between Israel and Hamas, very many are...
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Thinking about the future: methods and approaches to inform development policy and practice
by James Copestake In an era of heightened crisis and uncertainty, prospects for anticipating future trends and events accurately seem more remote but the potential pay-off to doing so increases. It therefore seems opportune to reflect on how we think...
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Unsustainable: Big Tobacco’s use of the UN SDGs
by Tom Gatehouse and Britta Matthes. This piece was first published in Tobacco Tactics. The United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a set of 17 goals in key areas for humanity and planet Earth. They are part of...
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Tanzania’s gas boom that never was – when local hopes are dashed by global realities
In this blog, first published in The Conversation, Aidan Barlow traces a resource boom and bust cycle in a peripheral Tanzanian region Rising international commodity prices can shape or reshape the fortunes of places. When large mining and oil and...
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What is the future of the Sustainable Development Goals to and beyond 2030?
Yixian Sun, Nicki Schantz, Edoardo Eichberg, Taimiya Khalid and Michael Bloomfield report proceedings from an Earth Systems Governance (ESG) workshop on meeting SDG goal. A modified version of this post was originally published on the ESG website. On...
