By Claire MacPherson Undergraduate Student According to the World Bank, agriculture makes up over 20 percent of Gross Domestic Product in Ghana, Cote d’Ivoire and Senegal, and over 40 percent in Togo, compared to a world average of three percent. Often the domestic sector comprises small family-owned farms which, since the spread of globalisation, have converted…
Month: February 2016
Read All About It (Or Not): The Trouble with the Turkish Press
By Kate Cyr Correspondent, Masters Student in Peace & Conflict Studies Istanbul’s 2013 Gezi Park protests unearthed muddy tales of corruption, bias, and authoritarianism that powerful conglomerates and the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) would have preferred buried indefinitely. The government received global scrutiny as anyone from students to grandmothers gathered in the streets…
Rising Youth: The Problem of Un- and Underemployment in the Middle East and North Africa
By Sarah Bliss Correspondent, Arabic and Economics Undergraduate Student Though many in the West see only the shining skyscrapers of Dubai and the oil fields of Saudi Arabia, the economic situation in much of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is characterised by a number of structural concerns, including the chronically high rate of…
Shaping Safety: How Architects Can Build a Stronger Peace
By Kate Cyr Correspondent, Master Student in Peace & Conflict Studies I take my home for granted. There, I said it. Chances are you do, too, if your conception of home – like mine – does not include worrying about the daily dangers of a civil war playing out on your doorstep; the mortar shelling that has…
