By Meg A. Warren, Professor of Management, Western Washington University
Men and women who took part in an interfaith programme experienced a remarkably lower incidence of violence, even years later.
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By D. Yaw Atiglo, Senior research fellow, University of Ghana
Charlotte Abra Esime Ofori, Lecturer, University of Ghana
Research showed that older women used safer methods of abortion. Fully safe methods did not dominate in any region of Ghana.
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By Ellen Fungisai Chipango, Senior Research Associate, University of Johannesburg
Some women in Zimbabwe are being left behind in the move to green energy because they can’t afford solar systems that can power electric stoves.
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By Elizabeth Hull, Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology, SOAS, University of London
Women farmers in KwaZulu-Natal have had to abandon their fields because the government has failed to maintain irrigation systems built in the apartheid era.
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By Salvador Sánchez Tapia, Profesor de Análisis de Conflictos y Seguridad Internacional, Universidad de Navarra
The impacts of the joint US-Israeli operation against Iran, which began on February 28, will be felt globally in ways that we cannot yet foresee. Financial markets are reacting negatively to the offensive, and the price of Brent crude oil has risen by 25% since the attack began.
Iran has also announced that it will close the Strait of Hormuz. If the blockade is effective and prolonged, the world will face a very turbulent economic outlook in…
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By Christopher Lyon, Visiting Research Fellow, Centre for Death and Society, University of Bath
Jonathan D. Gordon, Postdoctoral Researcher, Palaeoecology, University of York
New study finds that plant biodiversity collapsed in landscapes where arable production was abandoned during and after the Black Death era.
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By Christophe Premat, Professor, Canadian and Cultural Studies, Stockholm University
Sophie Oluwole (1935-2018) was a Nigerian scholar and the first woman to earn a PhD in philosophy in her country. She not only placed Nigeria’s rich Yoruba philosophical tradition on the intellectual map, she also helped redefine African philosophy, a field dominated by men.
As a scholar of cultural studies with…
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By Jean de Kervasdoué, Professeur d'économie de la santé, Conservatoire national des arts et métiers (CNAM)
France may not have oil reserves, but it does have a well-oiled public health service comprising doctors, state-funded hospitals, strong state regulation and medical expenses that are reimbursed.
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By Gemma Ware, Host, The Conversation Weekly Podcast, The Conversation
Simon Mabon talks to The Conversation Weekly podcast about how the evolution of the relationship between Iran and its Gulf neighbours.
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By Scott Lucas, Professor of International Politics, Clinton Institute, University College Dublin
The conflict in the Middle East is now in its sixth day and is showing no sign of letting up. Israeli and US warplanes have continued to strike targets inside Iran, which has prompted retaliatory attacks throughout the region. An American submarine has also sunk an Iranian navy ship off the coast of Sri Lanka, killing at least 80 people, while Nato defences intercepted a missile heading towards Turkey.
US officials, who initially envisioned the conflict in Iran lasting four to five weeks, are now warning it may go on far longer. “We are accelerating, not decelerating,”…
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