by Talking Humanities | Oct 8, 2019 | Features, Human Rights, Politics & Law
Professor Keith Somerville reports on a trip to Damaraland in Namibia, where drought and rising temperatures threatens thousands of people and domestic animals but has created “opportunities for lions to thrive”. Driving through a series of communal conservancies in...
by Talking Humanities | Apr 25, 2019 | Analysis & Comment, Features, History & Classics, Human Rights, Politics & Law
This year marks the 70th anniversary of the founding of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies. And over those years it has grown and flourished to develop the link between policy and practice, writes Dr Sue Onslow, the institute’s deputy director. The Institute of...
by Talking Humanities | Dec 17, 2018 | Digital, Features, Human Rights, Politics & Law
A combination of fragile democracies, autocratic regimes and weak civil societies has put internet access and social media in Africa at serious risk, says Martin Plaut, a senior research fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, part of the School of Advanced...
by Talking Humanities | Nov 8, 2016 | History & Classics, Human Rights, Politics & Law, Publications
Hopes were high in May 1991 when the Eritrean People’s Liberation Front (EPLF) captured the Eritrean capital, Asmara, and helped the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) overthrow Mengistu Haile Mariam, the Ethiopian military dictator. It was thought that the...
by Talking Humanities | Jul 26, 2016 | Analysis & Comment, Features, Politics & Law, Republished
Image: African bush elephant skull, © JimJones1971 at English Wikipedia Professor Keith Somerville Ivory and elephants have for decades been very emotive topics among conservationists, wildlife departments and NGOs in states which have elephant populations and in...