by Dr Paul Reilly, Senior Lecturer in Social Media & Digital Society Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) Assistant Chief Constable Jonathan Roberts characterised the disorder in Northern Ireland over the past few weeks as being ‘at a scale not seen for years’. Police sources have ruled out the involvement…

By Dr Paul Reilly As far back as the late sixties, Johan Galtung, Founder of the International Peace Research Institute in Oslo predicted that the rapid growth of media technologies would favour associative peace building approaches, which increase contact between warring parties, rather than dissociative ones that kept them apart…

by Dr Caroline Hart, School of Education at the University of Sheffield ‘It’s important to remain hopeful and to create spaces for dialogue about how we not only help children to survive and recover from the Covid-19 pandemic but also how we engage them in meaningful dialogue, decision-making and action…

by Dr Paul Reilly On 6 January, four people lost their lives after rioters stormed the US Capitol Building in an ultimately unsuccessful bid to disrupt the certification of Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 US Presidential Election. Millions across the globe watched as Trump supporters smashed windows, looted the…

by student Chi Linh Doan Tran It is indisputable that the significance of economic growth in Asia attaches to the region’s key developments such as in health, education and other welfare for children who are between 0 and 8 years old. …

by student Matthew Rees July 2019 was recently confirmed as the hottest recorded month of all time. …

by Megan Boyce On the 4th December 2019, I was fortunate to have been positioned as rapporteur for the invitation only ‘High-level meeting of Parliamentarians and Ministers/Vice-Ministers for Early Childhood Development (ECD)’. …

by Ceri Simpson, second year student at the University of Sheffield Economic growth is placed 8th on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, above climate action, reducing inequalities and creating sustainable cities and communities. …

by Jorge Solozabal Zapata — ARNEC Conference 2019, Hanoi, Vietnam 4–6 December 2019 “It is not only the right thing to do but it is the smart way to act”. …