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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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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Covid, conflict, climate – and our crying need to be more resilient
Dan Smith
27 March 2020
Covid-19 has implications not only for health, well-being and prosperity but also for security and peace. The impact of the virus on war torn societies could be devastating, whether the scene is of massive physical destruction as in Syria, or … Continue reading →
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Solidarity in the times of COVID-19 or: the misnomer of ‘social distancing’ (when the issue is physical contact)
Tanja Müller
19 March 2020
As a traveller who lives between the UK and mainland Europe, now being in a half-locked down Berlin, I can see the myriad ways in which the Corona virus will accelerate changes to lifestyle and biographies – changes that were … Continue reading →
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Unhappy performatives of statehood: What we can learn from Austin about the disfunctionality of Eritrean politics
Tanja Müller
6 March 2020
Sometimes things come back in circles in unexpected ways: I started my university career as a Masters student at the Freie Universität Berlin in West-Berlin in 1980s. The wall was still up and West-Berlin was a laboratory for alternative life-styles. … Continue reading →
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Somalia – a difficult climate for peacebuilding
Dan Smith
25 February 2020
Somalia is showing encouraging signs of emerging from three decades of chaos and mayhem that themselves followed two decades of dictatorship and one of civil war. Problems abound still and there are over 5 million people in the country who … Continue reading →
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The Trump administration on Israel and Palestine: is it a new peace plan?
Dan Smith
4 February 2020
We live in troubled and troubling times. Though we can, if we look, find reasons for optimism, many indicators are pointing in the wrong direction – more armed conflicts, more military spending, more arms trading. Worse, this unfolds against a … Continue reading →
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