News overview

Children in Surinam learn about the Sustainable Development Goals during a session of the Children's University.

Climate change, droughts and war have led to unprecedented global wheat shortages. What are the risks and what role can the Netherlands play?

At a workshop in Bulange, Uganda, held in August 2021 the focus was on how to engage youth in protecting, preserving, and promoting World Heritage.

Dr Karin Astrid Siegmann engages with the puzzling reinterpretation of certification as a reward for workers’ commitment rather than for management's compliance

PhD researcher Hao Zhang joins other researchers in this webinar which analyzes the main findings of a special issue of Politics and Governance

In these two recorded discussions, Dr Daphina Misiedjan talks about environmental justice, how it is unequally accessible and how to remedy that.

Eliza Ngutuku wins the 2022 Research Prize for her dissertation 'Rhizomatic Cartographies of Children’s Lived Experience of Poverty and Vulnerability in Siaya'

Keynote speakers Peter van Bergeijk and Larissa van den Herik consider the use of sanctions as a tool to deal with international crises.

On 12 May 2022, Delphin Ntanyoma successfully defended his thesis investigating why individual combatants engage and disengage with armed groups in Eastern DRC

The recent coups d’état in Africa threaten the political stability and democratization trends achieved in the past decade in the post-independence era.