This is the second of three posts stimulated by the Violent Pasts workshop...
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This is the third of three blog posts stimulated by the Violent Pasts workshop...
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This is the second of three posts stimulated by the Violent Pasts workshop...
In January, NISSEM co-conveners Jim Williams, Andy Smart and Margaret Sinclair took part in a high-level...
On 8 March 2019, in alignment with the UN’s International Women’s Day, the Conflict and Education Learning Laboratory (CELL) is organizing a day of action to close the gender gap on Wikipedia – as part of its larger mission to reduce divisive s
Societies around the world struggle...
My journey to Armenia and to United World College (UWC) Dilijan started in August 2015, when I put myself on a plane from Belgrade to Yerevan
In 1978, Thomas Barefoot was convicted of killing a police officer in Texas.
Academic solidarity is a core value shared by researchers all over the world. There is a recognition of the need to support, challenge and – when required – protect each other, our disciplinary integrity, and our fundamental investigative principles.
Our inability as a nation to engage in difficult conversations about race has left us with a lack of agreement on how to define equity.
From Syria and the Democratic Republic of Congo to Myanmar and Nigeria, countless children remain trapped in armed conflict.
The relationship between education inequality and violent conflict is clear: Inequitable access to quality education makes the world less safe.
In Zahle, about an hour from Beirut, is an informal settlement of Syrian refugees. A place where some have been living for nearly seven years.
Robert Mugabe’s presidency illustrates a problem several countries are wrestling with. Their leaders have had military careers, whose personalities are shaped by long years in combat – and all the traumas that such experiences bring.
As a cognitive neuroscientist, I approach topics of interest for psychological research by integrating the knowledge we have of brain activity...
The national turmoil we are witnessing [in the United States] is not just a crisis of institutions, or politics, or a society at a crossroads. It is also a crisis of health.