By Matthew Robert Anderson, Adjunct professor, Theological Studies, Concordia University
Despite their seemingly secular modern-day iteration — featuring wine, chocolate or other products — Advent calendars continue to carry the spiritual foundation of the season.
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By Stefan Wolff, Professor of International Security, University of Birmingham
David Hastings Dunn, Professor of International Politics in the Department of Political Science and International Studies, University of Birmingham
America’s new vision of its place in the world has left its European allies wondering whether Nato can survive in its current form.
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By Jolanta Burke, Associate Professor, Centre for Positive Health Sciences, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences
While we can’t control everything that impacts our health, making room for a more positive outlook in life can help support both wellbeing and longevity.
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By Lisa Slominski, PhD with the Department of Historical and Critical Studies, Kingston University
Nnena Kalu’s win shows how contemporary art can be more inclusive if more facilitation, like that provided by ActionSpace, can be supported.
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By Gemma Ware, Host, The Conversation Weekly Podcast, The Conversation
Anthropologist Michael Rose speaks to The Conversation Weekly podcast about how a official sounded the alarm about organised crime in Timor-Leste.
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By Abdulrosheed Fadipe
"A country that deprives its young ones of education in their mother tongue has denied them access to the deepest and most authentic sources of knowledge."
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By Catalina Turcu, Professor of Sustainable Built Environment, UCL
In the past year alone, four major environmental negotiations have collapsed.
Global talks on a treaty to cut plastic pollution fell apart. Governments did not agree on the timeline and scope for the seventh assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Talks on the International Maritime Organization’s
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
In a week when teenagers started trying to flout new online bans, politicians proved it’s not just the kids who are good at finding ways to get around things.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Protesters hold placards in solidarity with humanitarians who were still detained in Greece, November 18, 2021. © 2021 Hesther Ng/SOPA Images via AP Photo Two dozen humanitarian workers facing 20 years in prison finally got their day in court on December 4 and 5 on the Greek island of Lesbos after a seven-year wait. We were there. The hearings quickly revealed just how baseless the case against them is.The defendants were associated with a small search and rescue group, Emergency Response Center International, working to save the lives of asylum seekers, migrants,…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image A Ukrainian serviceman released from Russian captivity during a prisoner exchange hugs a crying woman searching for her missing loved ones in Chernihiv Oblast, Ukraine, on May 23, 2025. © 2025 Vitalii Nosach/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images. Russian authorities and military forces have systematically tortured and ill-treated Ukrainian prisoners of war.The evidence indicates that their physical and psychological torture is a widespread pattern intended to break prisoners’ sense of self and human dignity.Russian authorities should end torture and the ill-treatment…
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