Sophie Kubik

I am an MPhil student in Political Theory studying the nature of, and justification for, equality as a political and social value. My dissertation will examine Hannah Arendt's conception of equality as a commitment in conversation with Black Feminist perspectives from Bernice Johnson Reagon and Barbara Smith, among others.

Conrad Kunadu

I am a DPhil Candidate in International Relations at Balliol College, University of Oxford. My primary research interest is the intersection of emerging technologies and (inter)national security, with a particular focus on biotechnologies and bioweapons. I am also interested in the governance of nuclear weapons, artificial intelligence, and other emerging technologies; international cooperation and security studies; as well as biosecurity and pandemic preparedness.

In Discussion: Ali Maisam Nazary, National Resistance Front of Afghanistan

Ali Maisam Nazary is the Head of Foreign Relations of the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan (NRF), assuming the position after the establishment of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan in 2021. The NRF, also known as the Second Resistance, is a military alliance of former Northern Alliance members and other anti-Taliban fighters loyal to the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. Before assuming this position, Mr Nazary worked as a liaison between various resistance groups and international organizations, facilitating aid and support to those fighting against the Taliban.

Rethinking urban resistance as sites for rebuilding differential solidarities

Citizens' movements resisting an authoritarian, unjust and high-handed states have faced immense coercion and police violence across the globe. State narratives of these protests term them as 'dissenting', 'anti-national' and 'anti-people'. Most protests fizzle away due to policing, surveillance, and state-action or fall into than the trap of 'state-media constructed narratives' posing one community against the other. In such times how can scholars, citizen-activists, and people start a process of negation of such allegations through a process of initiation of re-building solidarity.

OPHI IIEP GWU Seminar Series: Global MPI

This year’s report Unstacking global poverty: Data for high-impact action, produced in partnership with the United Nations Development Programme Human Development Report Office (UNDP HDRO), presents a compact update on the state of the world’s multidimensional poverty. It compiles data across 110 developing countries covering 6.1 billion people and accounting for 92% of the population in developing countries.

‘Sustainability transition for all and for good? The European Green Deal and the European Commission’s narrative power’

The European Green Deal has paved the way to a ground-breaking EU agenda for climate neutrality and just transition, while at the same time triggering an extensive debate about how feasible, solid and coherent the new policy strategy is, and which factors are crucial for the whole legislative dossier to pass through the decision-making process successfully. The presented research investigates the European Commission’s role and leadership style in this process by conducting an in-depth analysis of the Commission’s political narrative and the power dimension therein.
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