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Can international humanitarian organisations adapt to face the challenges of this century?

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The history of humanitarianism is one of vulnerabilities, power, mobilisation and adaptation.

This has been true since humanitarian aid became an industry in its own right and continues to be so today.

BBC Today: Chinese strategy, rising US-China tensions, and the state of ‘weaponised interdependence’ that the US and China find themselves in

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Japan’s plans for an anti-China alliance

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South Sudan’s oil and water give it bargaining power – but will it benefit the people?

Read more about South Sudan’s oil and water give it bargaining power – but will it benefit the people?

Robert Lipinski

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Short bio

Can the past still shape the present? The crumbs of an answer to this question lie in many corners of the globe and across the ages. In my thesis, I explore political legacies of history at three stages (1) living memory (Baltic Way demonstration and watching Finnish TV in Estonia); (2) collective memory (British history of slave trading); (3) institutional legacies (border changes; remnants of the partitions of Poland 1772-1918).

MEC & OSGA present - Women, Protests, Revolutions: Iran Uprising after Five Months.

Read more about MEC & OSGA present - Women, Protests, Revolutions: Iran Uprising after Five Months.

Close to five months have passed since the death of Mahsa (Zhina) Amini in police custody sparked nation-wide protests in Iran. The women-led uprising has taken many twists and turns since. Although streets have been quieter in the past few weeks, the movement's reverberations continue strong.

The Politics of Exit: Emigration, Collective Action, and Agrarian Change in Mexico

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(part of the TEL Program)

Digital Echoes: Understanding Patterns of Mass Violence with Data and Statistics

Read more about Digital Echoes: Understanding Patterns of Mass Violence with Data and Statistics

Data about mass violence can seem to offer insights into patterns: is violence getting better, or worse, over time? Is violence directed more against men or women? But in human rights data collection, we (usually) don’t know what we don’t know – and worse, what we don’t know is likely to be systematically different from what we do know.

Where next for ESG investing?’ a conversation with Baroness Morrissey DBE

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‘After a tumultous year, where next for ESG investing?’ investor and diversity campaigner Baroness Helena Morrissey in conversation with Dr. Dyedra Morrissey Oxford SDG Lab Programme Manager

Baroness Morrissey DBE

financier, diversity campaigner, member of the House of Lords, author and mother of nine

The Sustainable Development Goals: A Perspective From Politics

Read more about The Sustainable Development Goals: A Perspective From Politics

Join us for a conversation with Lord McConnell, co-chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for the UN Global Goals for Sustainable Development, House of Lords, including q&a on priority areas for the implementation of the SDGs.

Lord (Jack) McConnell was First Minister of Scotland, 2001–07. He has been a Member of the House of Lords since 2010. He is a leading campagner on tackling global poverty and working for peace.

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