The LIDN Weekly Roundup #65
The upcoming US presidential election is one of the most consequential in history. As onlookers struggle to predict what either a second Trump term, or a Biden win, might mean for creaking US democracy, and protests against police brutality and racism continue nationwide, the LIDN Weekly Update this week examines the theme of conflict.
With fears escalating of the potential for widespread violent conflict across the US in November, the Political Violence at a Glance blog provides a timely reminder on the imperative for a sustained nonviolent mobilization at the community level, even in the face of violent challenge.
The LSE Department of International Development is contemplating increasingly authoritarian government tendencies worldwide and the interlinkages with responses to Covid-19 in an upcoming webinar. What might this mean for the future of a progressive civil society?
With tensions once again rising between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the contested region of Nagorno-Karabakh, Jacobin provides some useful historical background to this bloody and intractable conflict.
The 2020 Nobel Peace Prize was this week awarded to the World Food Programme. Oslo’s Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) has released an interesting podcast examining the links between food insecurity and conflict. Was the prize awarded to the WFP for purely humanitarian reasons? Or might there be political motivations at play?
Food insecurity is just one of the many avoidable crises impacting Yemen. With the country’s civil war now in its sixth year and showing few signs of abating and a health system on the brink of collapse from the first wave of Covid-19, The New Humanitarian brings us an insight into the many overlapping crises comprising the world’s ‘forgotten war’.
