Data science for human rights
Nicole Lin
In essence, data science is a bag of tools at the intersection of mathematics, statistics, and computer science, used to harness a large amount of data for better-informed decision making. The same tools for commercial use to generate more profits can also be used for more effective international development programs, humanitarian relief missions, and human rights protection endeavours.
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Delfts Blauw: Framing at the ethnographic museum
Julie Reintjes
This illustration is part of an ongoing visual research project concerning ethnographic museum collections; displaying and representing the “other”; the attempts and (im)possibility of decoloniality inside the museum.
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Sexual exploitation and abuse in UN Peacekeeping
Demetrius Wijesinghe
Despite its successes and the necessity of peacekeeping in an era where conflict is widespread, one of the most prominent black marks on the UN’s record has been its issue with holding peacekeepers accountable for sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA).
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Is the UK citizenship model in need of reform?
Elan Schwartz
In an attempt to bring awareness to the increasing problem of statelessness, Dr Bronwen Manby of the LSE Middle East Centre convened a workshop, ‘Preventing Statelessness among Migrants in North Africa’, where she shared the findings of research conducted in partnership with research centres in Egypt and Morocco, and invited others to speak on their engagement with the same issues in other contexts.
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