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This piece is my reflection on my visit to the magical forest in the Kendeng Mountains, home to the Baduy people, an indigenous community in Indonesia. Here, life unfolds in harmony with nature guided by a set of customary rules...

By October 2025, according to OCHA, only 23% of the global humanitarian funding required for the previous year had been met. Behind this percentage lies a stark reality: millions of people affected by conflict, displacement, and climate-related disasters received less...

The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) has seen huge technological advancements across many different fields. In recent years, generative AI (GenAI) and large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, Grok, Claude and Google Gemini have risen in popularity, and seen significant...

History can be construed for political purposes, often to the detriment of marginalised groups who find themselves underrepresented in the mainstream narrative. The way history is written also determines which lessons are taken from past events. A politicised historiography risks...

Tid: 21.april 2026 kl. 19.30-21.30                              GRATIS ADGANG - Kom til debatarrangement med oplæg fra forskere: (1) Antropolog, Adjunkt Gabriel Antonio Brown, Institut for Engelsk, Germansk og Romansk, Centre for...

What is happening to Development Studies? Once conceived as a multidisciplinary field with its own identity, it increasingly resembles a space where researchers hold “double loyalties”: they belong to traditional disciplines but conduct research on development. In Sweden, this trend...

Definition I have an old, uncreative newsflash, but one that many in the field of sustainability seem to forget: sustainability is not only CO₂ emissions. Shocking, I know. But what is the definition of sustainability? It is actually pretty subjective....

Why Space Matters for Displaced Childhoods? According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), an estimated 117.3 million people were forcibly displaced worldwide by the end of 2023, including 47 million children under the age of 18. Millions...

How the TikTok Ban Sparked an Unexpected Digital Migration from the U.S. to China In January 2025, growing political debate in the United States over a possible ban on TikTok triggered strong reactions among many American users. Given TikTok’s scale,...