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Mary Stratigou is an international human rights lawyer and researcher with long experience in refugee and migration issues. She has completed her Master studies in Human Rights, Gender and Conflict studies: social justice perspectives in the Erasmus University of Rotterdam. She is the Deputy Partnerships Director in the World for Refugees organization and fluent in […]

A few months back, no one would have expected that US elections would take such a turn. Ever since Donald Trump became president-elect, there have been speculations that Russia, or rather Putin, conspired to make Trump the President. Whatever the speculators say the fact remains that Trump took oath on 20th January and is now […]

People around the world were visibly shocked by the result of the Colombian referendum on the peace accord. At first sight it seems that the only reasonable response to attacks and atrocities, committed by the FARC rebels, would be an approval of recommended peace agreement. The pure “moral monument” to those fallen in the fight […]

Trump’s victory in the US presidential election has led experts to consider whether there is a an emergence of right-wing populism across the world. During the US presidential campaign, Trump rhetoric to backlash from globalisation, creating jobs, and slashing taxes wooed America’s white, poor and non-college educated. The majority of literature today mostly focuses on: will Trump […]

On Sunday 2nd October 2016, Columbians surprised opinion polls by voting against a peace agreement to end 52 years of war with the country’s largest rebel group, the FARC[1]. Though the deal had been widely expected to pass, it eventually failed. Thirteen million voters turned out to the polls, and 50.2 percent rejected the agreement[2]. […]

Democracy can be exercised in different ways depending on its characteristics. Hobson (2012) presents various forms of democracy, where liberal democracy for long has been the prominent model. In a very simplified manner, the essence of a liberal democracy is characterised by citizens electing their representatives. Hence, it is a “one person – one vote” […]

The United States and Russia jointly own nearly 93% of the world’s nuclear warheads which are in the process of nuclear modernisation. President Trump poses as an unpredictable Head of State whose policies on nuclear weapons and energy could tip the status quo and the distribution of power in the world, not to mention affect […]

 The decline in world commodity prices has taken with it African economic growth rates. Being so wholly dependent on its oil sector for economic growth, countries such as Angola have recently hit a stumbling block. Since the 50% fall in oil prices in June 2014, Angola’s GDP growth dropped to 4.5 percent from the impressive […]