The recent deal between US-Saudi arms agreement has buzzed around global political landscape and media. The U.S President Donald Trump visited Saudi Arabia on May 20th, 2017. KSA (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia) has been the traditional U.S ally since the time of Cold War. He signed for sales of arms deal net worth around $110 […]
I remember very fondly receiving my acceptation letter to the field research in Geneva, precisely to the Human Rights Council (HRC.) A Canadian student of international affairs, specializing in conflicts and human rights, the idea of being able to witness how human rights were concretely protected through the United Nations, seemed to me the opportunity […]
RenewableEnergyWorld.com, is an internet based platform, whose “Foremost mission is to inform [their] readers about the use of Renewable Energy worldwide and, in the process, assist you with decision making when it comes to anything related to Renewable Energy.” The website was started in the year 1999 by a group of professionals who worked in […]
Bosnia-and-Herzegovina (hereby Bosnia) remains a major struggle for conflict transformation actors as ethnic tensions are rising anew. Ravaged by Europe’s bloodiest conflict after the Second World War, Bosnia then enjoyed over 20 years without violence with the signing of the Dayton Accords in 1995. Nonetheless, the rise of nationalist movements, such as the one led […]
Since the beginning of a turmoil wave that swept across the Middle East and North Africa region urging millions of people to flee, migration and asylum policies have come to dominate the European media agenda. Arguably, one of the most emotionally charged was a discussion in the media on the looming clash of civilisations. Fears […]
After the agreement of the Paris Conference of the Parties (COP21) climate change agreement in December 2015, many representatives from business, government, international institutions and multiple other sectors spoke out in approval of the agreement. According to the World Economic Forum (WEF) this is what a few of them had to say. President of the […]
One of the biggest outcomes of the recently concluded 28th African Union (AU) Summit held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia was the readmission of Morocco as a member after 33 years away from the AU. Morocco was the only African country that was not a member of the Organisation of African Unity, as the AU was then […]
On January 27 2017, President Trump released an executive order suspending the entry of all citizens from Iraq, Syria, Sudan, Iran, Somalia, Libya and Yemen into the United States for 90 days. In many informal discussions, the executive order has been termed, ‘the Muslim Ban’, due to the selection of countries provided. In addition, the […]
We have all used oral forms of communication to tell our stories for as long as we have been able to form words and create sounds, but every new form of communication since then, whether in written word, printing media, radio or television, has taken the power of storytelling and given it to a select […]
The Climatescope 2016 results have recently been released and South Africa has ranked number 5 on the list of countries overall and number 1 in the Africa and the Middle East region. This is down one position from its 2015 ranking. China was ranked number 1 followed by Chile, Brazil and Uruguay. India, Uganda, Honduras, […]
