54- Coup in Myanmar, Seven Months Later
Just over seven months ago, on February 1st, 2021, the world witnessed a shockingly audacious military coup in Myanmar, in which the democratically elected National League for Democracy was deposed. S...
9 Sep 202144min
53- Taliban Takeover: What Happened?
The past week has been a shock for Afghanistan and the world watching. In a matter of days, the Taliban took over regional capitals one by one, entering Kabul on Sunday, August 15. How could this have...
17 Aug 202119min
52- Mixing Methods Without Making a Mess (Part 2)
In the second of this two-parter, Jørgen Carling shares his tips for employing mixed methods in research.Related materialJørgen has made an overview of mixed methods examples in his own work, availabl...
14 Aug 202138min
51- Mixing Methods Without Making a Mess (Part 1)
Research methods inform how knowledge is gained. The methods a researcher uses are often at the core of how they think about the world. Increasingly, some researchers have tried mixing methods. But th...
13 Aug 202129min
Repost: 35- Can Research Tell Us How to Talk About Racism?
In the last few weeks a familiar subject matter has dominated headlines again: is structural racism an issue in the UK, Norway, France, and many other countries? Is this term, which is often situated ...
5 Aug 202141min
Repost: 42- Justice in Uganda
Justice after a conflict is often part of peacebuilding, and can be an important part of addressing victims’ experiences. These post-conflict processes are called “transitional justice” and are well-s...
29 Jul 202130min
50- Ten Years After 22 of July: Memory and Memorialization
Today marks the 10th anniversary of the bombing of the Oslo government quarters and the massacre on Utøya by terrorist Anders Behring Breivik. On the 22nd of July 2011, 77 people died, many more were ...
22 Jul 202143min
Repost: 19- Humans and War: Is It in Our Evolution?
Have humans evolved psychological adaptations to war? That's what Henrikas Bartusevičius will look at in his cutting-edge research project "Adapted to War", funded by the European Research Council and...
15 Jul 202122min
