New report predicts a heavy toll from Nigeria to the US – and comes on top of existing impacts of the climate crisis

Bosnian ​Serb general ‌Ratko Mladic, who ​was serving ​a life sentence ⁠for ​genocide in ​the bloody 1992-95 war ​in ​Bosnia, has died ‌in ⁠the United Nations detention centre ​in ​The ⁠Hague, Belgrad...

It isn’t an exaggeration to say that we are living under a kind of house arrest, unable to go out, with an oppressive...

Activists say clamp down on period products to target insurgents is gender-based violence and violates rights

Tensions linger as evacuees await clarity on the ceasefire’s terms before risking a return to war-torn villages.

The mere act of bombing Iran will not by itself create a stable regime.

Drop the race and gender material from your course and the Plato readings, or teach a different course. You have a day to decide. That's a paraphrase of what Martin Peterson, professor of philosophy a...

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BOWING to reality, the French government has abandoned plans to hold a referendum on March 15 to consider a new political statute.

Unless urgent action is taken life will be fundamentally altered for the ancient communities who live on its banks

Gender, Peace, and Power-Sharing examines the rise of two powerful norms in international conflict resolution and post-conflict governance: power-sharing as ...

Many developments during the past year have given rise to a host of crucial questions about the future of Syria and the Syrian people. To explore them, the Project on Middle East Political Science (PO...

Gender-based violence in politics has democratic costs, diminishing diverse voices and expertise in public office.

Policy Brief Series November 21, 2025, marks 30 years since an agreement to end the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina was reached. The Dayton Agreement established an uneasy peace as well as a complex con...

A Brandon University panel discussion on bail reform will give people a chance to hear directly from experts who are working in or studying the system, BU chair and professor of political science…

Bosnia’s Serb entity names an interim president after separatist Milorad Dodik is barred from politics by a state court.

In its final report to Brandon University over the failure of the “Renew BU” Enterprise Resource Planning implementation project with Florida-based computer firm Anthology, BDO Canada pointed to…

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The POMEPS Spring Virtual Research Workshop convenes online discussions of groups of three thematically linked journal article-length papers focusing on topics/cases in the MENA region. To provide fee...

After half a century of research, the literature on institutional design for ethnic conflict management is still in search of a scientific consensus. This article argues that underlying conceptual ...

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This webinar launches the Special Issue on Conflict and Peace: The Cultural Dimension, published by Nationalism and Ethnic Politics in June 2025.