Author: Dr Farhang Morady The Democratic Education Network (DEN) organised the closing event of the World in Westminster Festival on the 17th of March. DEN is a student-focused initiative based at the University of Westminster which engages students from all over…
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Author: Prof Roland Dannreuther It is now frequently stated that Russia’s intervention into Ukraine has started a new Cold War. However, it should be remembered that the defining feature of the Cold War was that it did not escalate into…
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David Chandler It would be nice if the choices we are confronted with by the Russian invasion of Ukraine were pure ones. However, much of the anti-war coverage of the conflict has been overladen with racial and colonial stereotypes. This…
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Author: Dr Sara Raimondi Who is more important, you or everyone else? How do we move forward when individuals’ rights (or even perceptions of rights) clash with what’s best for the group? These are classical debates of philosophy, stretching back…
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Daniel Conway, University of Westminster This article may contain spoilers. Damon Galgut, a white South African playwright and novelist, has won the 2021 Booker Prize for his novel The Promise, a satirical portrait of a white family living in Pretoria…
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From “MARKS: The scars and trauma of illegalised migration“. Photography by Max Hirzel. Author: Dr Federica Mazzara For at least the past three decades, migrants crossing the sea via unauthorised routes have been victims of shipwrecks in one of the most…
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Author: Dr Dan Greenwood Panel discussion with Professor Michele Betsill (University of Copenhagen), Professor Roberta Herzberg (George Mason University), Professor Joyeeta Gupta (University of Amsterdam), Professor Peter Newell (University of Sussex). Chaired by Dr Dan Greenwood (University of Westminster). This…
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Authors: Annapurna Menon, Arshita Nandan and Jo Krishnakumar “Without community there is no liberation .. but community must not mean a shedding of our differences, nor the pathetic pretence that these differences do not exist” (Audre Lorde) During this period…
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By Karen Jackson, University of Westminster and Oleksandr Shepotylo, Aston University During the G7 summit in Cornwall, the group of nations unveiled a global initiative to help low and middle-income countries to cover the vast cost of green infrastructure. Intended as a green…
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Author: Prof. Pippa Catterall It is good to see that diversity and inclusion in the public spaces have been widely discussed over the last years Because of COVID-19, people had to deal with multiple lockdowns, and we have all become used to having less…
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