Humanitarian Help and Refugees: De-Bordering Solidarity as a Contentious Issue

A Precarious Solidarity Between Christian Democratic & Social Democratic Understandings of Solidarity Concerning Re- allocation of Refugees

Segregating GM crops: why a contentious ’risk’ issue in Europe?

Since the Europe-wide ‘risk’ controversy over GM crops in the late 1990s, an extra issue has emerged: the prospect that GM material would become inadvertently mixed with non-GM products, which consequently may require a ‘GM’ label under EU law. The stakes for segregating non-GM crops were framed in contending ways. Agbiotech proponents sought to licence a biotechnologised nature as an eco-effic...

Syrian refugees desperately need our help.

Contentious Issues, Early Warning, and Issue Management: The Issue Correlates of War (ICOW) Project

Compilation of data on conflict within or between states has increased greatly since the Cold War ended. Yet almost all of this work has focused on episodes where military force has been threatened or used, and often on episodes that have produced numerous fatalities. This paper calls for a more systematic focus on contentious issues independent from knowledge of the threat or use of military f...

Three Approaches to Gender in Humanitarian Aid Findings from a Study of Humanitarian Aid to Refugees in Thailand and Bangladesh