Climate change is one of the central challenges of our era and increasingly acknowledged as a public health urgency. There is some prominent evidence that proves global climate change will have aggressive effects on human health, especially among the deprived communities of developing countries like Bangladesh. Being one of the hotspots for climate change, Bangladesh…Read More
Net Neutrality: Why it is Important in Communication Rights
In yet another Trump Administration campaign to undermine strides made during the Obama era, US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is putting to vote a repeal on Net Neutrality. This is a possible breach on democracy1, as American’s voted against the repeal. Citing fake news, POTUS decided to move forward with the move initiated by FCC…Read More
Conflict of Interests: How the Fossil Fuel Industry & Corporate Lobbyists Delay Climate Action
There is presently a crazed argument ongoing about the necessity to prevent Business and industry non-governmental organizations (BINGOs) representing Big Oil from disproportionately & wrongly manipulating, slowing and watering down climate policy and climate negotiations. OPEC countries and the fossil fuel corporates they often represent make gigantic returns from oil revenue and they employ enough…Read More
Johan Gatlung’s Peace and Violence Concept context of Liberian Civil War
Human beings live in a society that has developed certain norms and standards on the basis of consensus of community. These standards are based on values and cultural sensitivity of community that have been in vogue for years. Ordinary members of society abide by normal standards of society. Sometimes social structure is not impervious to…Read More
Religious and Cultural Intolerance against minority: Muslim in Europe
Religious and Cultural Intolerance against minority groups is very prevalent everywhere in the world to a various extent. Europe would be one among many. As it wants to promote unitary or homogeneity and they try to oppose the differences in any terms cultural, religious, and linguistic or any other differences. As result of such unilateralism…Read More
Politics Goes Popular: The Power of Satire
International relations and popular culture As an academic discipline, International Relations (IR) operates with a very constricted notion of what defines politics, what politics should be, who political actors are, and where politics takes place. It is generally consigned to formal institutions, constituted of governments and the relations among them, and other organizational structures such…Read More
On the Urge for High Ambition to Achieve Climate Justice: From the Perspectives of Diplomacy, Science & Law
Climate justice is an ethical and political argument. It forces us to understand the challenges faced by the people and communities who are the most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. This is an injustice when the people who have contributed least to the roots of climate change suffer most. It can only be…Read More
Lebanon’s Potential Plunge into Middle East Quagmire
Lebanon is a tiny country surrounded by bigger and more powerful neighbors. There is civil war right next door while another boiling pot is waiting to spill over from the south. It is a victim of its own geography. The Cold War in the Middle East between the two regional powers is threatening to reach…Read More
Racism Vs Globalization: a Matter of concern
Introduction: Race and globalization both are as old as mankind. The idea of race popularized through the social practice of divide and rule. In globalization also we can find this idea of divide and rule through the economic status of the country. But the economically developed countries like America and European countries are home to…Read More
Is Internet A Human Right? Africa Said No
Internet Shutdowns have plagued the African digital medium this year. Congo DR, Gambia, Cameroon, and Ethiopia are a couple of countries that restricted the use of the internet for political reasons earlier in 2017. This is just after 30 out of 54 African countries violated digital rights in 2016, 11 of these States were involved…Read More