Written by Karim Merchant & Ingrid Nyborg. Whilst we wait for the Taliban to meet international human rights standards, it would be wrong to withhold humanitarian assistance as the harsh […]
Written by Karim Merchant & Ingrid Nyborg. 20 years after Western troops invaded Afghanistan in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks, Kabul has fallen. The speed of the Taliban’s […]
Written by Karim Merchant, Gry Synnevåg & Arif Ammar. The Presidential election results announced in February became a hotly contested affair, with the electoral victor President Ashraf Ghani and third-time […]
Written by Lyla Mehta. First published in IDS News & Opinion. Since the end of 2019, India has been rocked by protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the […]
The EU has good reason to hope that Brexit goes badly, writes Noragric’s Paul David Beaumont. That would continue to deter Eurosceptic parties on the continent from hardening their stance. But […]
The election of Boris Johnson once again highlights the salience of nostalgia to the Brexit debate. This is more than a throwaway attack line – drawing upon social psychology can […]
Noragric PhD Fellow Tomohiro Harada on the UN’s recent Local Communities and Indigenous Peoples Platform in Bonn. Indigenous peoples are no longer ’observers’ at the UNFCCC. As effective ’contributors’ to […]
Written by Karim Merchant and Gry Synnevåg. By design, peace processes tend to be a patchwork of discussions with a variety of key individuals and groups, under the general oversight […]
In the Stranger Things reality of Trump’s America, the image of the Statue of Liberty holding up her beacon to welcome ships of migrants to American shores has been turned […]
Written by Kirsti Stuvøy, Associate Professor at Noragric In last week’s news headlines, we could read that Russia decriminalizes violence against women. The traditionalist, conservative and anti-liberal forces in Russian […]