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By Patrizia Faustini

Migration, hate speech and media ethics

Migration is not a crime. It is a practice as old as human civilization and a human right recognized in many international treaties. Since 2013 European media have intensively reported on the daily arrivals on Mediterranean shores, and the tone of much reporting has inflated the idea of migration as an emergency issue and a potential… Read more →←

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By Nikola Balvin

Youth engagement as a pathway to peace

Despite broad agreement that youth engagement is important to forging sustainable peace and development, young people are often not given the opportunity to participate in public discourse and decision-making. Absence of a youth voice makes it difficult to design policies and programmes that adequately respond to their needs,… Read more →←

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By Ann Sanson

Climate change, psychology and peace: Mitigating the impacts on children

Primatologist Jane Goodall has modified the proverb “We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children” to “… we are stealing it from our children”. She was referring to climate change, which has been described as the greatest health challenge of the 21st century (Costello et al., 2009), and will… Read more →←

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By Friedrich Affolter

Do social services contribute to peacebuilding?

Although its preamble mandates the United Nations to “… save succeeding generations from the scourge of war…”, peacebuilding discourse has traditionally paid little attention to the role social service providers can play in mitigating the drivers of conflict. Things began to change in 2009 when the UN Secretary General – in his… Read more →←

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Migration, hate speech and media ethics

Migration, hate speech and media ethics

Youth engagement as a pathway to peace

Youth engagement as a pathway to peace

Climate change, psychology and peace: Mitigating the impacts on children

Climate change, psychology and peace: Mitigating the impacts on children

Do social services contribute to peacebuilding?

Do social services contribute to peacebuilding?

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