Peace, justice and strong institutions

What happens when Europe’s own development failures mirror the inequalities it critiques elsewhere?Walking through the streets of Albania, whether for a coffee or during an ordinary car ride, one repeatedly encounters small children and teenage girls carrying babies, begging in...

Review of Egenligen är  Världen Full av Hopp. Trettiosex röster om Det solidariske motståndet mot den globala konservativa nationalisme. Edited by Olle Törnquist, Anna Sundström & Ulf Camesund, Korpen Publishers, Göteborg, Sweden 2025. (Actually, the World is Full of Hope....

Most Latin American countries are considered democracies with relatively high political freedom. However, this does not mean they all share the same democratic quality. As the European Parliamentary Research Service highlights, Chile ranks among the “most free and democratic countries,”...

The topic of migration has gained increased salience over the past decade, with anti-immigrant parties growing in popularity across the Global North, achieving significant electoral success. These movements have used their increased influence to push for stricter migration policies. Yet,...

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Central Asia is home to over 80 million people but is often overlooked and seen by many as a peripheral region. Central Asian countries also do not feature in classic academic works on authoritarianism around the world. A consortium of...

Many countries in the Global South have expanded their influence in recent decades, with nations outside the traditional West seeing a significant increase in their share of global GDP. Such a rise in economic power has allowed Global South actors...

Challenging the Development Paradigm For decades, international development efforts have been predominantly conceptualized and led by institutions based in the Global North. While these initiatives are often framed as benevolent endeavors aimed at alleviating poverty and improving living conditions in...

Far-right parties in the Global North have expanded their relevancy over the last 20 years, most recently achieving success in the United States following the reelection of Donald Trump. The rise of these movements has led scholars to increasingly research...

Danske forskere, der har arbejdet og forsket blandt oprindelige folk i Latinamerika, ser tegn på en ny anerkendelse i forskerkredse af disse folks traditioner og visdomOprindelige folk bærer på værdifuld viden, som er i fare for at gå tabt i...

What is your greatest fear? What is your greatest hope? These are the two questions that Copenhagen-based Danish artist Charlotte Haslund-Christensen asked women and men of different ages and occupations from seven countries: teachers, police officers, artists, religious leaders, among...

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The Syrian Civil War: Accountability, Ethics, and Memory The Syrian civil war, often referred to as the first "social media war," has fundamentally altered the way conflicts are documented, understood, and remembered. New media platforms have opened an unprecedented space...

“We make them tiny to be able to grab them because it is easier to have those things small so that in the future they might become a reality, like an amulet,” explained Daniel Gutiérrez, journalist at El Diario, a...

Riace is a small Italian town located on the Calabrian coast along the Ionian Sea. Historically, its fame is linked to the discovery of two magnificent Greek bronze statues from the 5th century BCE, found on the seabed off its...

Globalization has greatly changed modern societies, altering how we view space and time. This increasing interconnectedness has expanded social interactions and created a shared understanding of time and space, which in turn has shaped the way we study history, a...

Despite being one of the countries with the lowest carbon footprint per capita (0.21 vs 6.6 in DK),  Mozambique is one of the most vulnerable countries to climate change. Cyclones and floods have intensified in the past decades, devastating infrastructures,...

In April 2021, widespread protests erupted across Colombia due to dissatisfaction with a tax reform proposal, economic inequality, police violence, and limited public services. The demonstrations continued for weeks, met by the National Police and Mobile Anti-Riot Squad (ESMAD). Razon...

The 15th of April 2023 was a devastating and memorable dawn in the minds of the Sudanese people. A morning that unfolded with the shattering sounds of gunfire announcing a brewing and violent clash -between a paramilitary group known as...

The successful completion of last year’s ambitious project, “South Voices in Mainstream Danish Media”, has inspired DDRN to try to define a just as ambitious follow-up project. "South Voices in Danish Mainstream Media" was an ambitious project, which ran from...