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January 25, 2021 The new Gender and the Security Sector (GSS) Lab is using an interdisciplinary, social scientific approach to study the role of gender in security forces – including police, military and peacekeeping forces. Launched Jan. 4 by Sabrina Karim, the Hardis Family Assistant Professor of government in the College of Arts and Sciences, the lab applies a comprehensive framework, developed by Karim with a previous grant, to assess barriers to women’s meaningful participation in United Nations peacekeeping operations. The framework can be adapted and applied to study other barriers...

Audio: Listen to this article. Available only to New Atlantis and Apple News+ subscribers. America’s nuclear energy situation is a microcosm of the nation’s broader political dysfunction. We are at an impasse, and the debate around nuclear energy is highly polarized, even contemptuous. This political deadlock ensures that a widely disliked status quo carries on unabated. Depending on one’s politics, Americans are left either with outdated reactors and an unrealized potential for a high-energy but climate-friendly society, or are stuck taking care of ticking time bombs churning out anot...

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Publications Downloads Authors' note:  Thanks to Georgina Sinclair, Feargal Cochrane, and Tim French for their help with this briefing (all mistakes are the authors’ own). In the first half of 2020, the Oxford Research Group (ORG) held a series of four face-to-face and online roundtables to understand the risks and challenges remote warfare could present over the next five years and how the Integrated Review could address them. Three key questions emerged:   How should the UK respond to threats? How should the UK measure the success of military interventions? This briefing seeks to addres...

December 18, 2020 Grace Kapatuka- Mana 5 Comments President Lazarus Chakwera has advised Malawi Defence Force (MDF) soldiers to be apolitical when discharging their duties, so that they continue to be accorded the respect they deserve. Graduating officers cadets march pass President Lazarus Chakwera at MAFCO on Friday(C) Govati Nyirenda Best Officer Cadet Fiskani Nyirenda being presented with an honor by President Lazuras Chakwera on Friday at MAFCO in Salima.(C) Govati Nyirenda President Lazarus Chakwera interacts with the former fisrt couple of Joyce and Richard Banda at MAFCO.(C) Go...