Ukraine war: How the west’s weak reaction to Crimea’s referendum paved the way for a wider invasion
London: The annexation of Crimea and Russia's narrative about why it had the right to the territory raised policy and political challenges for Europe and the wider western world.
The Conversation / 16 Mar, 2023
Roald Dahl rewrites: rather than bowdlerising books on moral grounds we should help children to navigate history
Children’s literature implicitly shapes the minds of child readers by presenting particular social and cultural values as normal and natural
The Conversation / 12 Mar, 2023
Women politicians pay too high a personal cost for their leadership
A report on violence against women politicians in South Asia, for example, found that 90% of women in India, Nepal and Pakistan felt that violence breaks their resolve to join politics
The Conversation / 08 Mar, 2023
Reintroducing top predators to the wild is risky but necessary – here’s how we can ensure they survive
The author says that the most successful species to survive in new environment were maned wolves, pumas and ocelots while lions, brown hyenas, cheetahs, Iberian lynx and grey wolves were least able to survive
The Conversation / 19 Feb, 2023
From Chaucer to chocolates: how Valentine’s Day gifts have changed over the centuries
Melbourne: In Chaucer's poem, The Parliament of Fowls, the narrator of the poem is unsuccessful in love, despairing that life is short compared with how long it takes to learn to love well
The Conversation / 13 Feb, 2023
On the first-ever India Giving Day, the highest-earning ethnic group in the US gets a chance to step up and help their homeland
The India Philanthropy Alliance, a coalition of 14 U.S. nonprofits that fund development and humanitarian projects in India, is coordinating the event
The Conversation / 12 Feb, 2023
How to unlock your creativity – even if you see yourself as a conventional thinker
Everyday examples of creativity are plentiful: combining leftover food to make a tasty new dish, coming up with a new way to accomplish chores, mixing old outfits to create a new look
The Conversation / 12 Feb, 2023
Turkey-Syria earthquake: why it is so difficult to get rescue and relief to where it is most needed
Ovgun Ahmet Ercan, a Turkish earthquake expert, told The Economist he had estimated that 180,000 people or more may be trapped under the rubble, nearly all of them dead
The Conversation / 11 Feb, 2023
Why has the West given billions in military aid to Ukraine, but virtually ignored Myanmar?
Author: Nicholas Farrelly is Professor and Head of Social Sciences at University of Tasmania, and Adam Simpson is Senior Lecturer, International Studies at University of South Australia. Two years after Myanmar’s coup on February 1 2021, the country’s large
The Conversation / 09 Feb, 2023
Turkey-Syria earthquake: a seismologist explains what just happened
At least 2,000 people are thought to have died across the two countries, and there are reports of damage to gas pipelines leading to fires
The Conversation / 07 Feb, 2023
Myanmar: Two years after the military seized power the country is mired in a bloody civil war – but there are grounds for optimism
The authors write that there is a major humanitarian and growing environmental crisis in the UN-designated “least developed country” and yet outside of the country, the situation’s complexities are barely grasped
The Conversation / 01 Feb, 2023
Beirut port disaster: former Lebanon prime minister charged with homicide
Beirut: The explosion in August 2020, which happened in a massive silo in the port of Beirut containing a large amount of the fertiliser ammonium nitrate which had been stored there since 2014, killed 218 people and devastated parts
The Conversation / 29 Jan, 2023
