The UK's Department for International Development is respected the world over for the lead it has taken over the past two decades on the issue of corruption. Robert Barrington, Professor of Anti-Corruption Practice at the Centre for the Study of Corruption, University of Sussex, examines how a...
13 August 2020
Heritage is commonly perceived as being about a passive preservation of the past, passed down from one generation to the next. In reality, however, heritage is dynamic and shaped by the ways in which we choose to use and interpret it. This possibility of change and adaptation makes it very much...
12 August 2020
12 August 2020
12 August 2020
More research activities with children with disabilities are urgently needed, and it is important that conventional and existing ethical practices used with children are further developed to embrace disability inclusion. This will encourage the realisation of children’s right to participate...
6 August 2020
Heritage sites play a vital role in sustaining community identities as well as individuals’ personal wellbeing. In the Middle East, religious minorities have not only suffered physical violence at the hands of Daesh but also systematic destruction of the heritage sites which nurture their very...
30 July 2020
Amid the very real devastations of already-vulnerable lives and livelihoods caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, there has been a tsunami of commentary. Academic and policy experts of every stripe are already asserting the lessons and proposing competing agendas that the crisis seems to...
29 July 2020
27 July 2020
24 July 2020
Covid-19 has meant that the people who can, are physically distancing, and many schools are closed. The result is that young people are expected to socialise and do their schooling online. Services, social and sexual lives are moving further online. Popular influencers say they are getting more...
24 July 2020
17 July 2020
Daesh’s violent targeting of Iraq's religious minorities between 2011-2015 destroyed communities and shattered infrastructure. Now, the lives and livelihoods of religious minorities are once more under threat as a result of Covid-19, the measures to contain the pandemic, and from Daesh, which...
16 July 2020
