In December 2025, POMEPS convened a workshop at Aarhus University in Denmark, bringing together scholars to collectively interrogate these questions: what core concepts, theories, or hypotheses in Mid...

This introduction advances the concept of violent peacemaking to suggest ways that violence is constitutive of, rather than incidental to, liberal peacebuilding. It foregrounds three characteristic...

Addressing long-term consequences of solar transition.

This article introduces the concept of ‘vicarious impunity’ to describe how Western interveners, particularly through Security Force Assistance (SFA), distance themselves from the consequences of v...

This seminar examines whether the EU can transform its ambitions into coherent strategy, and what this means for future engagement with its neighbours to the south

The integration of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and algorithms into development aid and relief efforts has brought datafication processes to the f...

As a Yemeni journalist, I have found myself grappling not only with the challenges of reporting on the country, but also with the glaring inconsistencies in how the world perceives Yemen.