Category: English
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The Conversation’s Curious Kids wins best kids podcast at British Podcast Awards
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Gemma Ware, Head of Audio, The Conversation UK, The Conversation Host Eloise Stevens celebrating The Conversation’s Curious Kids win at the British Podcast Awards Gemma Ware, CC BY-ND We’re delighted that the Conversation’s Curious Kids podcast won the Gold award in the Kids category at the…
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Haiti is enlisting the help of mercenaries in its battle against gang violence
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Nicolas Forsans, Professor of Management and Co-director of the Centre for Latin American & Caribbean Studies, University of Essex When state institutions crumble under the weight of chaos, desperate governments sometimes turn to controversial solutions. In Haiti, where gang violence has transformed the capital, Port-au-Prince, into…
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Sexual harassment, hostility… unforeseen consequences of the ‘customer is king’ mentality
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – France – By Gordon M. Sayre, Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior, EM Lyon Business School Service workers may pay a price for the “customer is king” mentality: power imbalance and increased exposure to sexual harassment and hostility. John Michael Wilyat/Unsplash, CC BY Corporate websites, training manuals, and interviews with business leaders…
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Tanzania’s Samia Hassan has ushered in a new era of authoritarianism: here’s how
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Africa (2) – By Dan Paget, Assistant professor, University of Sussex Tanzania President Samia Suluhu Hassan. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY As Tanzania’s national elections approach, a familiar humdrum of coverage has emerged. It goes like this. In its crackdowns, censorship and harassment of the opposition, Tanzania is becoming increasingly…
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Boko Haram on the rise again in Nigeria: how it’s survived and how to weaken it
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Africa (2) – By Saheed Babajide Owonikoko, Researcher, Centre for Peace and Security Studies, Modibbo Adama University of Technology Abubakar Shekau, the erstwhile leader of the terrorist group Jama’at Ahl al-Sunna li al-Da’wa wa al-Jihad (JAS), died in 2021. The west African group, also known as Boko Haram, then…
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Conflict at the drugstore: When pharmacists’ and patients’ values collide
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (3) – By Elizabeth Chiarello, Associate Professor of Sociology, Washington University in St. Louis Pharmacists see themselves as vital gatekeepers – but at times, some critics treat them as physicians’ sidekicks. Witthaya Prasongsin/Moment via Getty Images Imagine walking into your pharmacy, handing over your prescription and having it…
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More than a quarter of Canadian teens have experienced sexual violence online
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Charlotte Nau, PhD Candidate in Media Studies, Western University Technology-facilitated sexual violence includes harmful practices such as sexual name-calling, rumour spreading, non-consensual distribution of nudes, and other forms of sexual harassment. (imgix/Unsplash), CC BY Law enforcement agencies across Canada are sounding the alarm over a rise…
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We surveyed British MPs – most don’t know how urgent climate action is
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By John Kenny, Research Fellow (Public Engagement with Climate Change), School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia To keep global warming below 1.5°C, greenhouse gas emissions had to peak no later than 2025. That was a key finding of the IPCC’s most recent major report on…
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Conflict at the counter: When pharmacists’ and patients’ values collide
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (3) – By Elizabeth Chiarello, Associate Professor of Sociology, Washington University in St. Louis Pharmacists see themselves as vital gatekeepers – but at times, some critics treat them as physicians’ sidekicks. Witthaya Prasongsin/Moment via Getty Images Imagine walking into your pharmacy, handing over your prescription and having it…
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Watchdog journalism’s future may lie in the work of independent reporters like Pablo Torre
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (2) – By Alex Volonte, Graduate Research and Teaching Assistant in Journalism, University of Florida As traditional media outlets struggle to hold power to account, citizen watchdogs can still make a splash. Man_Half-tube/DigitalVision Vectors via Getty Images In September 2025, podcaster Pablo Torre published an investigation alleging that…