By Stefan Wolff, Professor of International Security, University of Birmingham
The inaugural meeting of Donald Trump’s board of peace in Washington on February 19 caps a busy week for US diplomacy – though, not necessarily for the country’s professional diplomats. These people have been largely sidelined in the close-knit circle of the US president’s personal envoys, his former real-estate business partner Steve Witkoff and son-in-law Jared Kushner.
Earlier in the week, Witkoff and Kushner attended two separate sets of negotiations in the Swiss city of Geneva. They first sat down for indirect talks…
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By Mehak Bharti, Assistant Professor of Marketing, Toronto Metropolitan University
Jing Wan, Associate Professor of Marketing, University of Guelph
Ethical consumption does not fail because consumers are indifferent or hypocrites, but because ethical choices often feel financially out of reach.
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By Kimberly A. Williams, Professor of Women's and Gender Studies, Mount Royal University
Violence is interpreted through a double standard when it comes to trans people and cis men, allowing masculinity as a structural driver to remain unexamined.
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By Kawser Ahmed, Adjunct Professor, Natural Resource Institute (NRI), University of Manitoba
Strategies to prevent youth radicalization into violence should prioritize a grievance-oriented and trauma-informed approach, and emphasize exit from the online world while reducing exclusion.
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By Francesca Jackson, PhD candidate, Lancaster Law School, Lancaster University
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office. The arrest comes after the US government released files that appeared to indicate he had shared official information with financier and convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein while serving as a trade envoy for the UK. But the police have not given details of exactly what they are investigating.
It is important to be clear that the arrest is not related to accusations of sexual assault or misconduct. In 2022, Mountbatten-Windsor reached a settlement with the late Virginia Giuffre for an undisclosed…
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By George A Heckman, Schlegel Research Chair in Geriatric Medicine, Associate Professor, University of Waterloo
Robert McKelvie, Professor of Medicine (Cardiology), Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, Western University
People living with complex chronic conditions are poorly served by our health-care system, which was designed to care for acute illness.
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By Kim Hebert-Losier, Associate Professor in Sports Biomechanics, University of Waikato
Ceridwen Fraser, Professor in Marine Science, University of Otago
Heather Hendrickson, Associate Professor in Molecular Bioscience, University of Canterbury
Kelly Burrowes, Senior Researcher in Bioengineering, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
Shannon Davis, Lecturer in Landscape Planning, Lincoln University, New Zealand
Tangiwai Rewi, Professor of Indigenous Studies, University of Waikato
New Zealand universities are slowly closing the pay gap, but men are still more likely to fill senior leadership roles in the highest pay brackets.
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By Milton Speer, Visiting Fellow, School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, University of Technology Sydney
Lance M Leslie, Professor, School of Mathematical And Physical Sciences, University of Technology Sydney
Over the past decade, southern Australia has suffered numerous extreme weather and climate events, such as record-breaking heatwaves, bushfires, two major droughts and even flash flooding.
While Australia has always had these disasters, our research reveals these new extremes are the result of dramatic climate-driven changes in the upper atmosphere above Australia.
Eight to ten kilometres above the ground, the fast-flowing jet stream air currents have shifted further southwards, dragging rain-bearing winter…
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By Allen Cheng, Professor of Infectious Diseases, Monash University
Kelly Cairns, PhD Candidate studying antimicrobial resistance, Department of Infectious Diseases, The Alfred Hospital and School of Translational Medicine, Monash University
Antibiotic prescribing around the time of surgery and in aged care isn’t always appropriate, a new report shows. Here’s what else we learned.
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By Robyn Schofield, Professor and Associate Dean (Environment and Sustainability in Faculty of Science), The University of Melbourne
Robert George Ryan, Research Fellow in Atmospheric Composition, The University of Melbourne
Space junk returning to the Earth is introducing metal pollution to the pristine upper atmosphere as it burns up on re-entry, a new study has found.
Published today in the journal Communications Earth & Environment, the study was led by Robin Wing from the Leibniz Institute of Atmospheric Physics in Germany. Using highly sensitive lasers, he and his team of international researchers observed a plume of lithium pollution, tracking it back to the uncontrolled re-entry of a discarded Space X Falcon 9 rocket upper…
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