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A Book Review: Critical insights into human trafficking in South Africa: A review of Philip Frankel’s 2023 analysis
Join us in congratulating our colleague Fabrice Niyonkuru for his book review published in the South African Journal of Science
https://doi.org/10.17159/sajs.2025/21334
Frankel (the book author) examines human trafficking as a crime against humanity and an obstacle to sustainable development, emphasising the need for collective efforts to combat it. The book effectively educates and mobilises the public in South Africa, positioning the country’s efforts within a global context
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OVGU at PRIO roundtable discussing crisis and deglobalization in the humaitarian sector
Two weeks ago, Professor Kristina Roepstorff along with other researchers and stakeholders gathered at PRIO for a collaborative discussion on what’s at stake when it comes to Humanitarian Aid.
This roundtable gathering has discussed humanitarian aid, development cooperation, migration governance and multilateralism which have long been declared to be ‘in crisis’, but are currently experiencing unprecedented systemic shocks.
Find the blogpost about this gathering in the Link
New Article: Breaking the Mould: Economic Utopias as Pathway to Peace
Our colleague Jonas Rusche has published his latest research article in
Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding https://doi.org/10.1080/17502977.2025.2485704
In this paper, he develops an anarchist utopian epistemology and presents one exemplary historical anarchist economic utopia in response to the body of literature that criticizes neoliberal economic policies without offering alternative economic policies.
Abstract of the Paper
Extensive research shows how neoliberal economic policies, enforced through international peacebuilding interventions, exacerbate inequality and undermine their intended goal of fostering peace. Yet, the same body of literature makes no concerted effort to develop alternative economic policies. In response, this article develops an anarchist utopian epistemology and presents one exemplary historical anarchist economic utopia. Highlighting three key elements of this economic utopia, namely workers’ self-management, abandonment of private property, and council federalization, as possible alternatives to neoliberal peacebuilding. By employing utopia, scholarship can develop a repository of possibilities, pluralizing options for post-conflict communities to design policy outside hegemonic capitalist orders.
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New Article: Internal Displacement and the Framing of InsURGENCY: A Predicate Analysis of Media Reporting on Boko Haram in Nigeria
Prof. Dr. Alexander Spencer, along with our colleague Emeka Okoye and Adegboyega Adedolapo Ola have published their latest research article in Alternatives: Global, Local, Political Journal https://doi.org/10.1177/03043754251330395
In this paper they explore the indirect connection between insurgency and internal displacement, specifically on the role of media reporting on insurgency.
Abstract of the Paper
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