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...Community. South Africans were called on to play a key role in a number of areas. Two stand out: conflict management in, for example, Burundi, DRC, Lesotho, Ivory Coast and Zimbabwe. And as the “bridge-builder” between the West and Africa. It also twice took a seat on the United Nations Security Council and was part of initiatives such as the India Brazil South Africa...

...communities. More recently, since 2015 the UK National Union of Students has been running two campaigns, ‘Why is my curriculum white’ and #LiberateMyDegree, to examine the issue of decolonisation. ‘Decolonising the university’ So, what does it mean to decolonise a university? A university is a complicated ecosystem including a history, an identity, and a sense of...

...community and engagement though of course, the details vary at different ages, in different cultures. One thing that stands out is that this FACE principle seems to apply right across the life course. The updated World Happiness Report reflects on many of the same issues and it is great to see so much convergence of academic thought as schools, governments and NGOs start...

...communities. The suggestion of an open box for people to write in whatever gender term they use themselves would be one solution to such issues. However a list of categories probably lends itself more easily to data analysis. This could potentially be useful if Facebook were able to release figures of the numbers of people who are identifying in each way for the reasons...

...Communications Act 2003, which criminalises offensive speech. Equally, perhaps he might care to clarify how exactly the further expansion of mass surveillance in the UK is supposed stop known terrorists committing murder. After all, we already have mass surveillance in the UK, as a cursory search for “Snowden”, “Tempora”, “OpticNerve” or “DRIPA” will make...

...community. This has led the government to take action to criminalise the possession and supply of legal highs last year, but there remains an interesting debate regarding whether prohibition is the best way to tackle the misuse of drugs. This brief article gives an overview of the law on drugs, explores the new legislation which prohibits the sale of legal highs and...