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9 April 2026
Safeguarding and reviving heritage in the Middle East
Two new books celebrate and document the work by young people to preserve and revive Syrian Christian heritage across Syria today and...
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13 October 2025
Powering an Inclusive Energy Future: Driving the G20 from Commitment to Implementation
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
As the world accelerates toward a clean energy future, the question is no longer whether the transition will happen, but how...
Publication
11 August 2025
Water Resources in Gulf Cooperation Council Countries
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
This K4DD Rapid Bibliography summarises key literature on the sustainability of the GCC’s water resources. The paper covers four...
Book
22 July 2025
Ideologically Motivated Sexual Grooming
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
Across diverse societies, coercion often hides behind cultural norms, religious expectations, legal systems, and gendered power structures. This book exposes a disturbing but overlooked form of abuse: ideologically motivated sexual grooming – the manipulation of women and girls from religious minorities for both sexual exploitation and coerced religious conversion.
Brief
16 April 2025
Rapid Scoping Review 2025: Egypt
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
Egypt has a rich history of feminist activism, but progress on LGBTQI+ rights and women’s rights ‘remains elusive, characterized by fits and starts along a non-linear trajectory’. Although Egypt’s President, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, regularly pays lip service to women’s rights, his government’s record is very poor.
Publication
7 April 2025
Powering Change: The Critical Role of Women and Youth in Sustainable Energy Transformation
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
How do we build economic systems that recognise and work within the biophysical limits of our finite planet while simultaneously reducing poverty and inequality? This has become a defining question of our time, and the global transition to clean energy is increasingly considered an important vehicle via which we might address this ‘trilemma'.
Book
21 February 2025
The Handbook of Iraqi People’s Heritage
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
Iraq is a land of rich and diverse cultural heritage, shaped by thousands of years of history. However, many groups and communities are marginalised on religious, ethnic, linguistic, and cultural grounds in Iraq. It is the heritage of such marginalised groups that is most at risk of disappearance.
Project
Reconfiguring Heritage: Present Engagements with Communities’ Pasts for Resilient Futures
Advancing the notion of ‘pacific heritage’ which attends to the potential of heritage to advocate peace, and peace as a means of...
Past Event
Mobilising social science for humanitarian action: insights and lessons
This webinar will share key learnings from the Social Science in Humanitarian Action Platform’s mobilisation of evidence and expertise...
Working Paper
5 November 2024
Was There a Famine in Gaza in 2024?
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
This paper assesses the extent to which a famine occurred in Gaza. It concludes that, whilst the answer depends on which definition of famine is used, Israel’s use of food as a weapon of war against civilians in Gaza caused avoidable hunger and starvation deaths, and almost certainly constitutes a war crime and a crime against humanity.
