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El Poeta, directed by Katie Galloway and Kelly Duane de la Vega, Loteria Films, 2015. 55 minutes, distributed by Bull Frog Films, DVD ISBN 1-94154-546-7
On March 28, 2011, seven…
With China at the helm, South-South cooperation on climate finance can make 2016 a historic year, write Thomas Hale and Peter Ogden.
The December 2015 UN climate summit in…
Marghoob Saleem Butt, Executive Director of the IPHRC, argues that despite a slow start there are hopeful signs that the implementation of UNHRC Resolution 16/18 is about to pick…
Western policies on Syria were misguided. And they were not in line with basic responsibility to protect principles.
Syria is the latest large-scale humanitarian tragedy. Syria,…
This year the Global Leadership Initiative at the University of Sheffield led by Dr Chay Brooks and Prof Tim Vorley have taken a team of social scientists acting as policy…
Trade-Related Agricultural Policy Analysis edited by David Orden. Singapore: World Scientific 2015. 480 pp, £91 hardcover 978-981-4616-21-8
Agricultural protection, commonly…
In March 2016, the Global Leadership Initiative at the University of Sheffield, led by Professor Jason Heyes and Dr. Thomas Hastings led a team of social scientists acting as…
The Global Entrepreneurship Congress (GEC) is run by the American organisation Global Entrepreneurship Network (GEN), and is now in its eighth year. It attracts individuals from…
This post reflects on the city hosting the Global Entrepreneurship Congress in 2016, Medellin. This blog is an opinion piece that stems from the opportunity to spend time…
This year the Global Leadership Initiative at the University of Sheffield led by Dr Chay Brooks and Prof Tim Vorley from Sheffield University Management School have taken a team…
Captive Society: The Basij Militia and Social Control in Iran by Saeid Golkar. New York / Chichester: Columbia University Press 2015. 289 pp, £41.50 hardcover 9780231704427…
Policymakers and modern-day abolitionists have co-opted trafficking and slavery discourse for illiberal ends. To say so is not the same as denying the appalling realities of the…
Anyone familiar with the world of academic economics will be aware that most economists specialize over esoteric areas of study and rarely see the dots (let alone connecting)…
Marcus Rolle: Despite the international scientific community’s consensus on climate change, there are still people who deny that climate change exists or that it is caused…
This post is the seventh in a series of opinion pieces from the ongoing 2016 EITI Conference, in Lima, Peru being covered on the ground by the Global Leadership Initiative's…