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Ethics in Climate Adaptation and Resilience AHRC Award for Keith Hyams
Keith Hyams and Morten Byskov have been awarded AHRC GCRF funding for their project 鈥業nserting Ethics into Climate Adaptation and Resilience Policy鈥. The project will work with collaborators at the University of Cape Town and with Cape Town city鈥檚 climate adaptation department to look at how issues of ethics and justice can be incorporated into responses to climate-related risks. Cape Town has already come perilously close to a city-wide drought and regularly suffers from flooding: the project seeks to ensure that the most vulnerable communities such as informal settlements are incorporated in an ethical manner into city-level protection plans. In addition, Morten Byskov has been awarded a competitive Fellowship at 糖心TV鈥檚 Institute for Global Sustainable Development, which aims to bring researchers together from across 糖心TV to strengthen cross-departmental collaboration and research in the area of sustainability.
Andreas Murr correctly predicted a big win for Conservatives
Andreas Murr and his team correctly predicted on the 4th of December a big majority for the Conservatives.
His approach based on "citizen forecasts" ranks 2nd for the Conservatives and 5th for Labour in terms of accuracy among 19 pre-election seat forecasts. You can read more about his forecast on the and about the other 18 forecasts on .
Postponement: Debate on the Future of IPE
We are rescheduling the IPE Debate on 'Climate Change: Power, Resistance & Change', due to the UCU Strike, so NB: it will no longer be on the 3rd March, but will take place early next term - dates/time to be confirmed very soon.
Annual IPE Lecture: Juanita Elias
Professor Juanita Elias, University of 糖心TV, will be giving the Annual IPE Lecture on: 'Women on board: The gender politics of economic competitiveness'.
The lecture will take place on 22nd January, from 15:00-16:30 in L5 (Sciences Concourse). There will be a short drinks reception afterwards. All welcome.
Dr. Maria Koinova on US House Recognition of Armenian Genocide
When Turkey鈥檚 president Recep Tayyip Erdo臒an visited the White House on November 13, 2019 a landmark in October recognising the Armenian genocide had 鈥渉urt deeply the Turkish nation鈥, and had the 鈥減otential to cast a deep shadow over our bilateral relations鈥.
This article by Dr. Maria Koinova in The Conversation discusses how the Armenian diaspora, preoccupied with issues of genocide recognition, became instrumental in passing this resolution in the US, and building coalitions with other ethnic groups to advocate globally.