Trust between citizens and their states is crucial for resilience in the face of COVID-19 and the global challenges on the horizon. Ironically, the pandemic has magnified a particularly consequential…
On Monday, November 15, 2021 (N15), a Facebook group of more than 31,000 young Cuban artists and other critics of the Cuban government named Archipiélago (“Archipelago”) called for a “Civic…
Sudan’s non-violent pro-democracy movement has declared that it will continue to protest the recent coup until the military hands over power to a civilian government. While military leadership has strong…
Disinformation is pulling at the seams of our already frayed societies. Democracies face an epistemic crisis of daunting proportions coupled with the erosion of trust in institutions and public authorities.
This piece argues that global development leadership is faltering yet remains necessary for advancing an equitable recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, tackling global challenges, and driving progress towards the sustainable development…
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s appointment of a party loyalist as the university president and his efforts to gain control of Bogazici University are a part of his Islamization and…
We owe cultural rights defenders a significant debt of gratitude for the work they do to defend human rights and ensure beauty, color, dignity, expression, celebration, thought, meaning and memory…
The failure of scholars to recognize the agency of children in political spheres matches the failure in practice to engage children when developing programs aimed at responding to their specific…
As the Biden administration appears to recommit to a foreign policy based on democracy and human rights, Bahrain offers a stark reminder of the difficulty of pursuing such a policy…
Outright deplatforming and suppression of religiously and ideologically motivated extremist users, groups, and content does not appear to effectively curb their influence or prevent the radicalization of new users. This…
