Category: Analysis
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From resistance to intifada to recognition: the origins of an independent Palestinian state – podcast
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Gemma Ware, Host, The Conversation Weekly Podcast, The Conversation Rex Wholster via Shutterstock France, the UK and Canada are expected to become the first G7 countries to recognise the state of Palestine at the UN General Assembly in late September, where Australia will also announce its…
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Uganda has signed a deal with the US to take asylum seekers – what’s behind it and what’s at stake
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Africa (2) – By Franzisca Zanker, Senior researcher, Arnold Bergstraesser Institute A new deal to deport asylum seekers from the US to Uganda was announced in August 2025. The full agreement, already signed by the ambassadors of the two countries at the end of July, set out the terms…
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Why Egypt is not bowing to pressure to accept Palestinian refugees
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Rory McCarthy, Associate Professor in Politics and Islam, Durham University As the Israeli military advances its ground invasion of Gaza City, Egypt is coming under mounting pressure to accept a mass expulsion of Palestinians. The Israeli military has already confined Gaza’s 2.2 million Palestinians into a…
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Imagine a world without genocide
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By David Welch, Professor, Political Science; Research Chair, University of Waterloo An independent international commission of inquiry appointed by the United Nations Human Rights Council has released a report saying that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. Daniel Meron, Israel’s ambassador to the UN in Geneva, immediately…
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Children’s best interests should anchor Canada’s approach to their online privacy
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By David Philpott, Professor, Special Education, Memorial University of Newfoundland In 2025, the rapid rise of artificial intelligence access for the public at large also means growing concern about the mental health impact of screen time on children and their AI engagement. Concerns encompass the harvesting of…
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Zimbabwean artist Portia Zvavahera turns her prayers into paintings
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Africa – By Tinashe Mushakavanhu, Assistant Professor, Harvard University At the Boston waterfront sits the Institute of Contemporary Art, an architectural marvel that gleams against the harbour in a wealthy neighbourhood. My Uber driver, an African immigrant, remarks as I get out: “Be careful, this is an expensive area.”…
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Nigeria’s plastic waste could enrich the fashion industry: here’s how
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Africa – By Solaja Mayowa Oludele, Lecturing, Olabisi Onabanjo University On any street in Lagos, Abuja or Port Harcourt, you’ll find abandoned plastic bottles lying around. Each year, about 2.5 million tonnes of plastic waste are produced in Nigeria and much of it winds up in landfills or in…
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Travel as activism: 6 stories of Black women who refused to ‘stay put’ in apartheid South Africa
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Africa – By Janet Remmington, Research Associate, Humanities Research Centre (and African Literature Department, University of the Witwatersrand), University of York For black people living in South Africa during apartheid, simply moving around the country was a fraught activity, let alone crossing its borders. This was especially the case…
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A walk across Alaska’s Arctic sea ice brings to life the losses that appear in climate data
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (2) – By Alexandra Jahn, Associate Professor of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Arctic Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder The author’s view walking across Arctic sea ice off Utqiagvik, Alaska, in April 2025. Alexandra Jahn As I walked out onto the frozen Arctic water off Utqiagvik, Alaska, for the first…
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What international law says about Israel’s collective punishments against Palestinian civilians
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Leonie Fleischmann, Senior Lecturer in International Politics, City St George’s, University of London A recent episode on the West Bank when hundreds of Palestinian men were detained by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has highlighted the IDF’s tactic of “collective punishment”. This is defined as “a…