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The Dutch have historically had the happiest children and teens in the industrialised world, according to repeated Unicef studies measuring their material well-being, life-satisfaction, health and safety, and academic and social skills.
But as the Covid-19 pandemic exacerbates inequalities across the board, Dutch youth are also suffering, if not on the macro statistical level, then certainly as individuals.
‘I am really worried when I look at the numbers,’ says Loes Keijsers
, professor of Clinical Child and Family Studies at Erasmus University Rotterdam, of the increase in mental health crises and mental healthcare in general during the pandemic. ‘Children are doing incredibly bad. We know that Dutch kids are quite happy in international studies that measure life satisfaction, so we are shocked by the numbers.’
11 February 2021 - School of Law
The Wits School of Law and International Institute of Social Studies invite applications from prospective, joint PhD applicants on a range of topics.
The Wits School of Law and the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) of Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands, invites applications from prospective, joint PhD applicants on a range of topics in international law, society and development such as:
Critical, development-oriented aspects of trade and investment
Socio-economic deprivation and inequalities
Gender, law and development
Health and the environment
The ISS-Wits joint programme forms part of the ISS research group on Governance, Law and Social Justice (GLSJ) and the ISS Research Programme on Global Development and Social Justice. Research performed by members of the research group combine multiple academic disciplines in order to explore how and to what extent governance arrangements help or hinder the achievement of devel
Wahedi on American Muslims & Constitutional Democracy
Sohail Wahedi (Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR), Erasmus School of Law) has posted American Muslims: The Untouchables of American Constitutional Democracy? (Idaho Law Review, Vol. 56, 2020, pp. 305-321) on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
This article is about the future of Muslims in the American constitutional democracy. How this future will look like depends highly on how the dominant majority as well as those sitting in the political, executive and judicial branches of power will deal with the emergence of Islamophobia. This article explores the roots of American fear of Muslims and their faith and reflects on what Islamophobia and its reinforcement bring for the future of American democracy. This article contends that the American anxiety about Islam will create huge disparities and advance a political agenda tainted with animus toward Muslims. This insidious dis-invitation to Muslims to participate in the American democrac
Jan 20, 2021
In a new study, researchers have identified a strong sign of fibbing: mimicking the body language of the person they’re lying to. “A liar and a copycat,” the title of the new study now published in the Royal Society’s Open Science journal, could later lead to applications of the theory in criminal justice, New Scientist reported on Friday.
“Liars often deliberately change their behavior into a way they think truth-tellers behave, but this particular copycat behavior is something they wouldn’t even try to manipulate because they don’t realize they’re doing it,” said Sophie Van Der Zee, researcher at Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands. “That could make it an interesting cue for detecting deceit,” she told New Scientist.