Our blogs
HCRI's staff and students publish news and opinion pieces via a number of blogs.
Staff blogs
Our academic staff also publish content related to their research interests on their personal blogs.
Please note, the views and opinions expressed in these blogs are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the position of the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute or The University of Manchester.
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Bertrand Taithe
Read Bertrand’s blog on humanitarian history.
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Billy Haworth
Visit Billy's website.
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Dan Smith
Read Dan’s analysis and commentary on world issues.
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Eleanor Davey
Read Eleanor’s blog on humanitarian history.
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Jenna Murray de López
Read Jenna's blog, 'birth rites anthro'.
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Mukesh Kapila
Visit Mukesh's website.
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Roger Mac Ginty
Read Roger's blog on peace, conflict and international relations.
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Tanja Müller
Read Tanja's blog, 'aspiration and revolution'.
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Recent posts
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‘Eritrea is moving backwards in many ways, but I will stay’: An alternative reading of personal experiences in Eritrea’s system of higher education
Tanja Müller
13 August 2019
Last week a new Human Rights Watch Report on Eritrea came out, or, more specifically, a report on how indefinite conscription or national service restricts rights to education for young people. To anybody who knows Eritrea or Eritreans, the interview … Continue reading →
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Call for Papers – Special Issue of Peacebuilding Journal
Roger Mac Ginty
10 July 2019
Peace in an age of power The editors of Peacebuilding are commissioning a Special Issue on peace and power. Much recent critical academic work in Peace and Conflict Studies has concentrated on the agential aspects of peace but has somewhat neglected structural issues and the different types of power that are an obstacle to peace. […]
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The Two-Percent and the Hundred-Percent – Eritrean global networks and their discontents
Tanja Müller
18 June 2019
On a late morning in May 2019 a fancy tour bus stops in front of a new laboratory building in Mai Nefhi, a higher education campus a short ride from the Eritrean capital Asmara. A group of young, fashionably-dressed diaspora … Continue reading →
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SIPRI Yearbook 2019: Nuclear weapons and other key trends
Dan Smith
17 June 2019
The SIPRI Yearbook 2019 is now available on line. It registers key data in the world of peace and security in 2018 and establishes some of the basic indicators that let us track and assess the trends. It is not … Continue reading →
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Imposter syndrome and how I sort of got over it
Roger Mac Ginty
6 June 2019
I remember being at the British International Studies Association conference many years ago and some bigwig in International Relations introduced another bigwig with the words ‘And if you don’t know who our plenary speaker is, then you probably are at the wrong conference.’ I didn’t know who the plenary speaker was – other than an […]
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