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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...
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Pakistan needs a new vision — an intra-elite war isn’t the answer
In this blog, originally published in Al Jazeera, post doctoral researcher Asha Amirali argues that the current political crisis in Pakistan pales in comparison to the crisis of imagining development as modernity and growth. Crisis is now passé in...
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Negotiating the Self: Researching Your Own While Being the Other
By Vibhor Mathur What is ‘home’ and what is the ‘field’, Farhana Sultana (2007) asks, when researching one’s home country as a scholar based in another country. I am an Indian, doing my doctoral research in the UK, studying...
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8 billion people: why trying to control the population is often futile – and harmful
In this blog, originally published in the Conversation, CDS member Dr Melanie Channon and Dr Jasmine Fledderojann of Lancaster University discuss population growth. The world’s population is expected to hit 8 billion people on November 15, according to the UN. Already...
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Countering Ignorance: Why Africa must be included in the National Curriculum
By Abi Glyn Until the age of 14, I thought Africa was a country. Kudos to me, by the time I went to university I had learned it was a continent. However, that’s about as far as my knowledge...
