On how is democracy "fostered" by coffee shopsBy Benedikt Loula, GLOBUS Assistant Editor "Liberty will roll all the tyrants of the universe in the dust" reads one of the catchy slogans of the French Revolution. We, who are fortunate enough to breathe the air of freedom, can agree that trying to compress the general idea... Continue Reading →
By Alexandros Kassapis, GLOBUS Correspondent When Ioane Teitiota, a Kiribati national living in the South Tarawa Island since the 1970s, sought to claim asylum in New Zealand on the grounds of being a climate change refugee in 2014, the legal lacuna governing displacement due to climate change related events was painfully exposed. A refugee status... Continue Reading →
By Lucy Jordan, GLOBUS Deputy Editor At the dawn of the new decade, the stage was being readied for the 2020 US Presidential Election to set a different kind of precedent. The race was to be a first of its kind in US history: a climate election. Despite Trump’s administration having rolled back American environmental protections to near-skeletal form, as of 2020, two-thirds of the American electorate were... Continue Reading →
By Angelo Balagtas, GLOBUS Correspondent Since the outbreak of the Covid-19 (AKA Coronavirus) Pandemic, an article written by Supriya Garikipati and Uma Kambhampati has sparked a debate regarding the relationship between gender, leadership and the containment of covid: That is - as the article is titled - ‘Does Gender ‘Really’ Matter’ when it comes to... Continue Reading →
By Olivia Kline, GLOBUS Correspondent On 11th March 2020, The World Health Organisation (WHO), declared COVID-19 as a global pandemic, and in the months since, the virus has profoundly changed the shape of society. The effects to date include an alarming rate of deaths (over 1 million at the time writing), a decrease in productivity and... Continue Reading →
By Silia Tsigka, GLOBUS Correspondent The Covid-19 pandemic, the BLM protests, the enhanced crisis in Yemen, the oil spill in Mauritius, the alarming melting of the Greenland ice sheet, and many more incidents are only some examples of humanitarian and natural crises that have made 2020 possibly one of the most unfortunate years in recent... Continue Reading →
By Magdalena Breyer, GLOBUS Contributor Here at GLOBUS, we’re lucky to be in close collaboration with both academics and students from the Global Sustainable Development Department. It is therefore with much excitement that we are publishing a series of selected pieces from GSD’s 3rd Year module: ‘The Energy Trilemma’, convened by Dr Morakinyo Adetutu. The... Continue Reading →
By Agnes Lidbrink, GLOBUS Contributor Here at GLOBUS, we’re lucky to be in close collaboration with both academics and students from the Global Sustainable Development Department. It is therefore with much excitement that we are publishing a series of selected pieces from GSD’s 3rd Year module: ‘The Energy Trilemma’, convened by Dr Morakinyo Adetutu. The... Continue Reading →
By Benedikt Loula, GLOBUS Assistant Editor Here at GLOBUS, we openly advocate for innovative solutions intended to uphold the principle of sustainability. Although determination is a key ingredient in bringing about green reforms, the other indispensable factor is effectiveness. And where else can we, as students, be more effective than in our own environments? Our... Continue Reading →
By Finn Beckett-Hester, GLOBUS Correspondent As of the 1st of April 2019, the moment of writing, there are 858,371 recorded cases of Covid-19 leading to some 42,146 related deaths. The novel coronavirus which has taken the world by storm in recent months continues to spread rapidly with some 61,348 new cases on the 30th of March alone. Consequently, governments... Continue Reading →
By GLOBUS Correspondent, Emily Harros Millions of frustrated commuters, 8600 politically active tractors, hundreds of absent school children, and one bewildered language assistant: the political climate in Berlin has been heating up – but to what end? In this day-in-the-life account, I record my encounters with civil disobedience in Germany’s capital, thereby questioning its impact on people’s everyday lives and its effectiveness in the... Continue Reading →
By Silia Tsigka, GLOBUS Corresponsent With the UK now officially out of world's largest trading block, attention is turning towards what the alternatives will be. In this article, Silia Tsigska explores what leaked documents from US-UK trade talks could mean for our environment, and the efforts to protect it. The defeat of Jeremy Corbyn and... Continue Reading →
By Lucy Jordan, GLOBUS Deputy Editor From the start, COP25 was imbued in conflict. Originally set to take place in the Chilean capital, Santiago, President Sebastián Piñera was forced to cancel the conference due to outbursts of violent civil unrest. As a result, Spain took up the challenge of hosting the event, mere months ahead of its commencement. This meant that yet again the event was yielded... Continue Reading →
By Julie Boukobza Deau, GLOBUS Correspondent “Sanitation is more important than independence,” said Mahatma Gandhi in 1947 during one of his non-violent protests against the British rule. Already decades ago, Gandhi was aware of the fact that basic sanitation takes precedence in the normative realm of human rights. Seventy years later, access to proper sanitation... Continue Reading →
By Angelo Balagtas, GLOBUS Correspondent “Spratlys be turned into an international marine peace park so the countries will suspend all their territorial claims for 50 or 100 years and allow the reef to regrow and be the breeding ground of the fish” Supreme Court Senior Associate Justice Antonio Carpio, 2016 The Spratly Islands, an archipelago in... Continue Reading →
By Todd Olive, GLOBUS Editor in Chief Populism is a fact of life in our world today; back in 2017, it was even named Word of the Year by Cambridge Dictionary. The Donald, as near to a human embodiment of the word as is possible, is likely to shortly be exonerated by the US Senate... Continue Reading →
By Safiya Hassan, GLOBUS Correspondent The word Sahel comes from the Arabic ساحل, meaning ‘coast’, and is an apt name for an area which borders the Sahara Desert to the north, jungles to the south and spans the entire width of the African continent, from the Atlantic to the Red Sea. This region and the... Continue Reading →
By Lois Gilhooly, GLOBUS Correspondent Our public services in the UK have undergone some huge transformative changes over the past century. From being virtually non-existent pre-1945, to the birth of the NHS post-1945 and the complete erasure of the voluntary and private sector. But, by the 1980’s, things began to change; institutions in the public... Continue Reading →
Written by Braedie Atkins, GLOBUS Correspondent Recently, it has become difficult to ignore Australia’s distinct lack of commitment in regards to tackling climate change. During the most recent United Nations Climate Change conference, COP25, in Madrid, Australia was found to be lobbying to carry its credits across from the Kyoto Protocol, to contribute to its emission reduction targets for 2030... Continue Reading →
Todd Olive, Editor in Chief https://twitter.com/GretaThunberg/status/1210927616229826560 2019 has been a bleak year. Overshadowed by the IPCC's October 2018 Special Report on 1.5 Degrees, progress on sustainability in all of its forms has seemed hard to come by - or even going backwards. Protests in Hong Kong, originally about the region's right to self-govern, have evolved... Continue Reading →
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