In 2008, the unemployment rate in the Gaza Strip reached 71%. The Palestinian economy is endemically weak, in part due to its split geography between Gaza and the West Bank, and its challenges have been exacerbated by political instability, conflict, and the COVID-19 crisis. In this episode, our Middle East Events Officer, Shariq Haidery, speaks … Continue reading “Stumbling Blocks to Palestinian Development” with Prof. Bashar Malkawi
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In this podcast with Dr Hla Kyaw, the chairman of the European Rohingya Council, we seek to understand more about the ethnic cleansing campaign against the Rohingya Muslims and discuss the potential solutions to this devastating crisis. https://open.spotify.com/episode/6ZluSL68fpyULsKce8Ig7P?si=4tmAIrw_RBifI5mRX_Qj1Q Interview by Lita Sitoh. Music by Lorcan Cudlip Cook
OxSID President Caitlin Smith speaks with Ruby Weaver co-founder of Our Generation for Inclusive Peace - a new youth-led research and advocacy initiative seeking to revolutionise how we conduct peace and security negotiations. https://open.spotify.com/episode/0gejlm3H0lPZEDuNL5QTXm?si=IAPW4zAUQEmkq3OzO_gp6w Interview by Caitlin Smith. Music by Lorcan Cudlip Cook
Middle East Events Officer, Caitlin Hennessy, speaks with Dr Sa'ed Atshan Assistant Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at Swarthmore College and who is currently on sabbatical a Visiting Scholar in Middle Eastern Studies at University of California, Berkley about his recent publication 'Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique'. https://open.spotify.com/episode/3ZyErTQMaElfWyLplrVPzD?si=vO92Wm0mSu2xJSzm3AhGyQ Interview by Caitlin Hennessy. … Continue reading “Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique” with author Dr. Sa’ed Atshan
Africa Events Director, Priyan Selvakumar speaks with Matthew Page, Chatham House Associate fellow for the Africa programme. He is also the former US intelligence Nigeria expert as well as former Deputy National Intelligence Officer for Africa on the National Intelligence Council. Since this interview we've seen a major development in the situation in Nigeria as … Continue reading “A Day in the Life of a Nigerian Politician” with Matthew Page
Europe Events Director, Timea Iliffe, speaks with Catherine Woollard, Director of the European Council on Refugees and Exiles. https://open.spotify.com/episode/0IAGcbFT3ppdWAAl5L3yaA?si=_PHi3ylATn625ss7z67d8Q Interview by Timea Iliffe. Music by Lorcan Cudlip Cook
In this podcast with academic and author Professor Cathryn Costello, we discuss the significance of refugee and asylum law for human rights, and investigate the ways that systems of international law have been put into question during COVID-19. We use migration as a lens of analysis to interrogate assumptions that law is fixed in order … Continue reading “Human Rights and Refugee Law During COVID-19” with Prof. Cathryn Costello
Join us for a conversation with Jonathan Watts, the Global Environment Editor at The Guardian Newspaper. Jonathan has been a journalist at the Guardian for 24 years, taking up roles such as North Korea visiting reporter, Asia Environment correspondent, East Asia correspondent, Disaster coverage, and Latin America correspondent, writing extensively on environmental degradation, deforestation and … Continue reading “Journalism and Climate Activism” with Jonathan Watts, Global Environment Editor at the Guardian
In this episode, Hannah Brock speaks to Kolbassia Haoussou MBE, co-founder of Survivors Speak Out a national network of torture survivors connected with the charity Freedom From Torture. A survivor himself, Kolbassia has been through the journey of life after torture and shares his insights about policy issues surrounding torture survivors and asylum seekers both … Continue reading “Speaking Out About Torture” with Survivors Speak Out co-founder Kolbassia Haoussou MBE
Join us as Sanam Naraghi Anderlini, an activist for women, peace and security, consultant to the UN, and CEO and co-founder of the International Civil Society Action Network, talks us through the role of women in peace-making. We’ll be drawing on her work with women living in conflict zones who are fighting without weapons for … Continue reading “Women in Peacemaking” with Sanam Naraghi Anderlini
