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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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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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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Jenna Murray de López
Read Jenna's blog, 'birth rites anthro'.
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Recent posts
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Syria: the mission and the alternatives
Dan Smith
18 April 2018
On Saturday 7 April came reports that chemical weapons (CW) were used in Douma, Syria. In the very early hours of Saturday 14 April the US, France and the UK launched 105 cruise and air-to-surface missiles against a CW research … Continue reading →
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Where are the peace missiles for Syria?
Roger Mac Ginty
12 April 2018
The toxic-macho exchange of statements and tweets over the dead body of Syria is a dreadful indictment of the failure of global governance. What is particularly disappointing is that the threats of violence (on top of the violence already inflicted by Russia, the US, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Iran and particularly the Syrian regime) are not […]
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The Good Friday Agreement – 20 years on
Roger Mac Ginty
11 April 2018
It is easy to be cynical twenty years after the Good Friday Agreement was reached. There has been very limited reconciliation between the two main communities. The power-sharing government collapsed over a year ago and there is little sign of it being restored. The reason for its collapse is that the two main political parties […]
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In light of the election victory of Victor Urbán: Post-socialist politics of solidarity revisited
Tanja Müller
9 April 2018
In February 2008 I was invited to a curious event in Olomouc, in the Czech Republic. The event, entitled The relevance of research institutions to development cooperation, brought together academics from key institutions where Development Studies as a subject was … Continue reading →
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Impressions from Moscow – MCIS 2018
Dan Smith
9 April 2018
The seventh Moscow Conference on International Security (MCIS) was on Wednesday 4 and Thursday 5 April. Listening to the speeches and chatting with various people during and after it, my first thoughts concern three related issues: the growing confidence of Russian … Continue reading →
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