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At the recent AU Humanitarian Summit, finding African solutions to African problems was an important theme. What will it take to walk the talk?
In Ethiopia, Kenya, and Somalia now…
With Boris Johnson’s departure, the drama of the Conservative leadership election, and Keir Starmer’s declaration that “integrity matters” in politics, the question of what…
Biden must release Afghanistan’s foreign reserves to alleviate suffering, argues Ecuador’s ex-central bank director.
"Hell on earth.” That’s how the World Food Programme’s…
What were the origins of European imperialism? Drawing on a new study, Jan P. Vogler explains that centuries of European interstate rivalries were an essential…
This blog by Andreas Brox was written as part of the LSE's DV455 MA module which GP's Online Editor co-teaches with Duncan Green. It is reposted here as…
Duncan Green urges investigators to focus on starvation methods in their extraordinary efforts to document war crimes in Ukraine and…
The “living with COVID” strategy being pursued by many countries relies heavily on two key pillars. First, that vaccines continue to protect most people from severe disease. And…
Overfishing, seabed mining, corporate greed: let’s take back control of our marine environment for the common good.
For most of human history, the oceans have been seen as a…
We need to face uncomfortable realities about the unequal power dynamics in development and humanitarian spaces. This needs a complete paradigm shift towards our understanding of…
As much of the world shut down early in the COVID pandemic, Sweden remained open. The country’s approach was controversial, with some calling it “the Swedish experiment”. But…
Hassan Ahmed Abdein argues that the West should engage international faith based organisations to build a bridge between the Taliban and US policymakers that will aid to flow.
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Dan Steinbock argues that relying on think-tanks and corporate proxies, particularly those of Secretary of State Antony Blinken, US Big Defense seems to be driving the White House…
People in many global regions can make complex trade-offs between the risk of contracting disease and the need to support their livelihoods, particularly in situations of poverty…
Dharish David and Louis Martin-Vezian explore the possible ramifications of Biden’s Summit for Democracy.
While the economic damage from the pandemic has been extensively covered…
Sarath Ganji corrects the record on “sportswashing” by detailing the ways that regimes—including Qatar, host of this November’s World Cup—use sports as a tool of information…