Resilience has, in the past four decades, been a term increasingly employed throughout a number of sciences: psychology and ecology, most prominently. Increasingly one finds it in political science, ...

Global risks of zoonotic disease are high on policy agendas. Increasingly, Africa is seen as a ‘hotspot’, with likely disease spillovers from animals to humans. This paper explores the social dynamics ...

Gender roles are changing. Women have greater independence and can manage their own land and finances. This has implications for how farms are run, who can accumulate and the relationship between ...

Earlier this year in Egypt, the Coptic Cultural Heritage Protection and Revival Conference, held as part of the IDS-led Middle East Culture Conservation Collective, brought together partners from ...

Two new books celebrate and document the work by young people to preserve and revive Syrian Christian heritage across Syria today and Coptic Christian heritage across Egypt. Christian inscriptions in ...

Attempts at strengthening democracy have focused too much on building institutions such as the judiciary and electoral systems. While these are all necessary for a healthy democracy, these attempts ...

The film foregrounds a gamut of human emotions, all personified as animated characters who live inside the main character’s ...

Climate change is expected to increase the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events, which are creating significant uncertainties for local communities as well as private and public agencies ...