Tom Kirk

Tom is GP's Online Editor and researcher at the London School of Economics and Political Science. 

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Maria Gabrielsen Jumbert explores the pitfalls and potentials of the use of AI to provide windows into humanitarian crises and human rights abuses. AI-generated images have…
Daniel Clausen with some useful tips and techniques for those seeking to refine their art. As scholars, thinkers, students, and citizens, we are all craftspeople in the fine art…
Understanding Territorial Withdrawal: Israeli Occupations and Exits by Rob Geist Pinfold. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. 344 pp., £54 hardcover 9780197658857…
South Africa’s case against Israel at the International Court of Justice belies its recent history of ignoring international law, writes Imogen Saunders. But the case could have…
Duncan Green on whether the UK will seek to regain its lost legitimacy for thought leadership on aid. So, apologies for the anglo-centrism and all that, but the recent series of…
Briony Hannell explores the positive influence of the microblogging platform. Like so many millennials, my teenage years on the multimedia microblogging platform, Tumblr…
Robert H. Wade on why repeated predictions of the end of the dollars hegemony are probably, once again, too soon. The air rebounds with claims of “the end of dollar hegemony…
Sander van der Linden, Lee McIntyre and Stephan Lewandowsky argue that people can be inoculated against the effects of disinformation.  With over half the world’s…
Ubuntu is based on a simple yet radical premise, that there are no primary differences between people. If we take that message into our politics and legal systems we can address…
Jess Crombie explores data from new research into the humanitarian and development sector's enduring problem. The term Poverty Porn (coined in 1985); the widely…
Kristian Alexander draws inspiration from youth activists around the world for those looking to advocate in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). MENA youth part of global…
One of the best things about the course I give on ‘Influencing for Senior Leaders: Analysis, Strategy, and Practice’, with Global Policy's Tom Kirk, is the anecdotes…
Shafiq Ahmad Kamboh and Muhammad Ittefaq discuss climate activism in the Global South, highlighting the need for advocating eco-friendly agri-livestock practices and cleaner…
Farida T. Bena explores steps towards a UN Framework Convention on International Tax Cooperation. A few months ago, I interviewed Abdul Muheet Chowdhary (below…