MIL-OSI Global: Howard Thurman – the Baptist minister who had a deep influence on MLK
Source: The Conversation – USA – By Paul Harvey, Professor of American History, University of Colorado For most African-Americans who grew up with the legacy of segregation and violence, making space for introspection was difficult. Martin Luther King Jr., however, learned to integrate spiritual growth with social transformation – a practice that sustained him during […]
Read More →MIL-OSI Global: A teen scientist helped me discover tons of golf balls polluting the ocean
Source: The Conversation – USA – By Matthew Savoca, Postdoctoral researcher, Stanford University Plastic pollution in the world’s oceans has become a global environmental crisis. Many people have seen images that seem to capture it, such as beaches carpeted with plastic trash or a seahorse gripping a cotton swab with its tail. As a scientist […]
Read More →MIL-OSI Global: Treaty of Versailles began the modern era of multilateralism – 100 years on, is a new world older emerging?
Source: The Conversation – UK – By Dan Plesch, Director of the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy, SOAS, University of London “Rubbish in, rubbish out” – it’s as true of international organisations as it is of computers. And it’s an aphorism worth keeping in mind as we think of the Paris Peace Conference which […]
Read More →MIL-OSI Global: Mary Queen of Scots: don’t worry about movie accuracy, historians can’t agree on who she really was either
Source: The Conversation – UK – By Steven Reid, Senior Lecturer, Scottish History, University of Glasgow The story of Mary Queen of Scots, packed as it is with drama and tragedy, has always been a favourite of film makers. As far back as 1895, Thomas Edison made The Execution of Mary Stuart, a short film […]
Read More →MIL-OSI Global: Poland’s wild boar targeted in pointless cull that could actually spread swine fever
Source: The Conversation – UK – By Marianna Szczygielska, Postdoctoral Fellow, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science Most of Poland’s wild boars are being culled to stop the spread of African swine fever, a deadly viral disease that endangers farm pigs. The Polish Hunting Association was mandated to organise large-scale hunts to kill […]
Read More →MIL-OSI Global: Brexit: how a third-party mediator could break the parliamentary impasse
Source: The Conversation – UK – By Feargal Cochrane, Professor of International Conflict Analysis, School of Politics and International Relations, University of Kent With Theresa May’s failure to pass the withdrawal agreement in the House of Commons, Brexit has entered a phase common to many intractable conflicts in world politics. There is now a three-way […]
Read More →MIL-OSI Global: How Britain’s Ministry of Defence is playing for time (and money) in a dangerous world
Source: The Conversation – UK – By David Blagden, Lecturer in International Security and Strategy, University of Exeter In December 2018, just before policymakers and pundits escaped their besieged bunkers for Christmas, the UK government published the long-awaited final report on its Modernising Defence Programme. This programme was meant to update the military commitments made […]
Read More →MIL-OSI Global: America’s public schools seldom bring rich and poor together – and MLK would disapprove
Source: The Conversation – USA – By Jack Schneider, Assistant Professor of Education, University of Massachusetts Lowell Five decades after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., many carry on his legacy through the struggle for racially integrated schools. Yet as King put it in a 1968 speech, the deeper struggle was “for genuine equality, […]
Read More →MIL-OSI Global: Martin Luther King Jr., union man
Source: The Conversation – USA – By Peter Cole, Professor of History, Western Illinois University If Martin Luther King Jr. still lived, he’d probably tell people to join unions. King understood racial equality was inextricably linked to economics. He asked, “What good does it do to be able to eat at a lunch counter if […]
Read More →MIL-OSI Global: Why the era of Chinese football clubs splashing big money on international stars is over
Source: The Conversation – UK – By Simon Chadwick, Professor of Sports Enterprise, University of Salford Football fans love a rumour. With the transfer window in various parts of the world currently open for players to switch clubs, this means click-bait stories are currently cluttering the world’s media outlets. None more so than the “Arnautovic […]
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