Syrian and Iraqi Refugees – via Wikimedia Commons
By Vanessa Thevathasan
With curtains closed on 2015, it’s time to look back at a year defined by political instability, violence and mass displacement of the likes not seen since the Second World War.
Old, familiar conflicts continued apace last year in countries like Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, …
Royal Australian Navy Frigate HMAS Anzac alongside a dhow – US NAVY via Wikimedia Commons
This post follows on from Part I to look at long-term and geographically dispersed Australian maritime strategies.
The importance of China
In East Asian regional security analyses, emphasis is often placed on the Malacca Strait between Malaysia and Indonesia as the main …
A young Syrian migrant girl is held by her mother next to railroad tracks where migrants wait to cross into Macedonia Sept. 2, in Idomeni, Greece. The number of people leaving their homes in war torn countries such as Syria, marks the largest migration of people since World War II. (Win McNamee/Getty Images – …
The food industry plays a big part in our planet’s future. Photo by Kate Holt/AusAID via Wikimedia Commons
The topic of world hunger is another entry in the long list of problems we are currently facing. Tackling it has been a priority for many governments and global organisations for a long time, yet we are …
Balogun market; the biggest market in west Africa
As oil price continues to drop, Nigeria is still struggling to stabilize the economy and could turn to biggest contributed to the GDP; agriculture to rescue the economy.Despite the dependency on oil, Nigeria is fundamentally an agricultural country, at least in terms of the population working on the …
Classroom for 80 students in Ogun State, Nigeria
The Millennium Development Goals (MDG) is by nature progressive, to be built upon and scaled up. As 2015 draws close to an end, development experts globally are exploring new sets of goals. A more suitable approach may be tackling the challenges discovered and scaling up on MDG …
Wounded civilians arrive at a hospital in Aleppo. Photo source: Voice of America News: Scott Bob reports from Aleppo, Syria via Wikimedia Commons
It seems that not a day goes by without news of fresh tragedy in Syria. Reports have emerged that Islamic State may have been responsible for chemical weapons attacks, two years after …
Barack Obama and Vladmir Putin at the G8 Summit (2013) – Pete Souza via Wikimedia Commons
In this article we seek to examine the causes and consequences of why Ukraine has erupted into a civil war which is torn by identity politics in Crimea. There is one significant factor that must be examined: diplomacy. More …
Garbage Piles. Flickr Creative Commons
March 14, 2005. One million Lebanese – a quarter of the population – turned Martyr’s Square into the boldest most hopeful gathering the country had ever seen. And since, nothing. Yet, it was not that circumstances were lacking, far from it. Far from being routine and satisfactory, Lebanon’s national politics …
“Disability is a natural part of human experience that in no way diminishes a person’s right to participate fully in all aspects of life” [Schalock, p. 211]
Over recent years, major epidemics such as HIV/AIDS, Ebola and MERS have gained major media coverage and policy attention, to the extent that they are no longer …
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