Articles about 'conflict'

Ongoing war in Gaza will set children and young people’s education back by up to 5 years, report suggests.

Broadcaster and PhD student Dr Saleyha Ahsan, co-convenor of the CRASSH ‘Healthcare in Conflict’ research network, will chair a panel discussion about healthcare workers and journalists in conflict zones following a film screening of her 2003 feature-length documentary, Article 17- Doctors in Palestine, in The challenges of delivering healthcare and telling the story in a war zone takes place on 21st March.

The conflict in Syria has left the country’s higher education system “fragmented and broken”, with universities suffering politicisation, militarisation and human rights violations including disappearances and murder, according to researchers from the University of Cambridge and Syrian academics in exile.

In the tumultuous upheaval of the English Civil War, Royalist castles under siege used ‘pop-up’ mints to make coins to pay their soldiers. A unique display at the Fitzwilliam Museum tells the centuries-old story of emergency currency made from gold, silver and compressed prayer books.

As new estimates of death toll for health workers are published, experts say the deliberate and systematic attacks on the healthcare infrastructure in Syria – primarily by government forces – expose shortcomings in international responses to health needs in conflict.   

Research by an expert in peacebuilding shows how international ideas, practices and language of conflict resolution are transformed when they meet African “realities and politics on the ground”.

How do former Lord’s Resistance Army soldiers – men, women and children who have used the Bible as a weapon of war – learn to reread the scriptures once they return home? This is the puzzle facing researchers from Uganda and Cambridge.

After four years of escalating civil conflict, a truce has unexpectedly arisen in Mozambique. But what are the chances of this ceasefire lasting, asks Justin Pearce, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in Politics and International Studies & Research Associate of St John's College.

Mark de Rond (Cambridge Judge Business School) discusses how exposure to terrible events may only tell part of the complex story of post-traumatic stress disorder.

Justin Pearce (Department of Politics and International Studies) discusses the historical roots of the current conflict in Mozambique.