Mobilising academics: an endeavour taken from the start “How can academics uphold the principles of humanity in armed conflict?” – a question that could be met with some scepticism. The ICRC, however, has been answering this question since it was created in 1863. In...
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Brexit: a Bright Spot among Clouds
After months of ironclad refusal to reopen negotiations, the EU had to admit that its solution to prevent to hard border between Ireland and Northern Ireland – the infamous backstop provision to seal off, if needed, the Irish island from British mainland – would...
International Summitry: Innovation at the G7
In 2018 at La Malbaie in Quebec, Canada, the G7 meeting ended with the spectacular last-minute withdrawal of US President Trump’s support for the carefully negotiated joint declaration. In 2019 in Biarritz, France, the US President not only supported the joint...
Is the Paris Agreement adequate for the climate emergency?
Celebrated as one of the greatest successes in multilateral negotiations, the Paris Agreement was adopted in 2015, entered into force in 2016 and adopted rules and modalities for its implementation in 2018. The agreement is expected to be fully operational in 2020,...
Matteo Salvini: décryptage de la méthode du capitaine
A la suite d’une controverse concernant les migrants entrant en Italie, le professeur Davide Rodogno explore les méthodes de direction du politicien italien Matteo Salvini et sa transmission des sentiments de racisme et de xénophobie à travers des réseaux sociaux....
Gift Exchange: The Ongoing Relevance of Mauss’s Concepts?
Grégoire Mallard’s book makes three major interventions. The first one looks at the classical anthropological concept of the “gift” (or in French, the système de prestations réciproques) developed by Marcel Mauss in his famous essay, a concept that has since been...
« Médiation », « négociation » ou « bons offices » ? Qu’en est-il ?
Les termes peuvent prêter à confusion…En janvier 2019, lors d’un cours dans le cadre de la Formation continue de l’Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement, nous avons découvert à titre d’exemple ces extraits dans la presse du jour : (Reuters)...
From Bad to Worse
Divorces often turn sour and Brexit – the withdrawal of the United Kingdom (UK) from the European Union (EU) – is, unfortunately, a case in point. Initiated by a referendum that was an electoral promise of the British Conservative Party to address an enduring internal...
Negotiator of the Future: Bringing Data Science a Step Closer to Negotiations
What was once known as knowledge is power has now become data is power. It’s enough to say that about 90% of the available data has been created only in the last two years. Back in the day, Gutenberg’s printing press hastened the pace at which knowledge was produced....
Sleepwalking into Catastrophe: Key Wake-up Prescriptions
Despite increasing scientific evidence of worsening environmental degradation and continuing climate change, actions to address them have remained largely insufficient to “smoothly” change course to a sustainable future. For too many individuals, organisations and...
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