It’s complicated: are the US and the UN heading for a breakup?
Rosa Brown explores the effect of President Trump on the increasingly uncertain relationship between the US and the UN
New UN chief must marginalise the far right
António Guterres, as of today, the 1st January 2017, has become the new Secretary General of the United Nations, faces no small task. The...
How do we make girls’ empowerment work for everyone?
While society fights for gender equality, is the gendered language used to promote an egalitarian world in itself discriminatory?
World Humanitarian Day: A Day of Celebration & Commemoration
World Humanitarian Day: A Day of Celebration & Commemoration World Humanitarian Day is a day to salute the soldiers – these ones don’t carry...
A Critical Overview: Global Food Shortages
Eliminating hunger and malnutrition, and achieving wider global food security is imposing enormous challenges on the world’s policy agenda. A combination of factors are...
Unpacking the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Pledge that “No One will be Left Behind”
The newly released Sustainable Development Goals mark a turning point in the development trajectory. Here, Zoe Nutter problematises the links between changes in discourse...
Development or Underdevelopment: political implications and the wrong focus
Development scholarship, despite covering several disciplines, lacks diversity. Debates about what we mean by development, the way we measure it and the terms we...
Why the next election will determine the future of the USA in world politics
Two weeks ago the Republican Party hosted its second Presidential candidate Debate at the Regan Presidential Library. Whilst the debate touched on many important...
The Youth Summit: DFID assert youths will “make or break” the success of the SDGs
On September 12, London saw thousands of protestors marching towards Parliament over the refugee crisis, demanding Mr. Cameron to open UK borders on the...
Development and Infrastructure: Post 2015 Development Agenda and Long Term Solutions
Infrastructure such as roads, water supply networks, electricity and robust public institutions play a central role in development and the distribution of poverty. Here, Lydia Baker...
Staggering 1.9 Million ‘people in need’ in Palestine – but the UN needn’t get involved
When is the UN, an international organisation designed to promote peace and help nations work together, not the ‘right venue’, to promote peace and...
World AIDS Day: HIV and post-2015 development
The 1st of December marks World AIDS Day. On this occasion, Lydia Greenaway offers some thoughts on combating the disease, the Millennium Development Goals, and the post-2015...
South-South Cooperation
Traditional international development has often focused on countries of the global North sending aid and expertise to those in the South. This model is...
The fight for universal education and the Nobel Peace Prize
With 2015 fast approaching, education is a development issue that is currently under the spotlight as one of the key Millennium Development Goals. Inma López...
Every child in school: how Westernised education is shrinking knowledge in the 21st century
The globalisation of education is underway, on a scale unprecedented in human history. While its promises are many, Blog Editor Louisa Jones reveals the negative consequences...
Demobilising the Democratic Republic of Congo
In response to our November post about conflict in the DRC, Sofia Shariff argues that lasting peace can only come from within the country...
‘Can we really end poverty? A debate on the future of development’
Hannah Loryman reports on this recent debate in London, in which a panel of high-level guest speakers predicted the future of international development policy...
Africa’s forgotten war
Politics might have kept the Democratic Republic of Congo’s civil war off the global agenda for more than a decade, but the scale of...
A tribute to the Blue Berets (the DPKO)
. Alistair Walker analyses the sacrifices made by the UN’s Department of Peacekeeping Operations in Conflict. Alistair is studying an MA in Interactive Journalism...
Millennium Development Goals: where are we now?
. The Millennium Development Goals have generated a great source of criticism since its inception at the turn of the new millennium and with...