“Voices of the Amazon” is the name of a series that brings together eleven accounts telling the story of the age-old connection between indigenous peoples and what they call “the spirits of the jungle”, along with the threats that put at risk their knowledge and the safekeeping of this place, […]
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Covid facilitates the impunity of sexual violence
Sexual violence during conflicts is a cruel tactic of war, torture, terror and repression, that reverberates from generation to generation and threatens both human and international safety. Because of the Covid-19 pandemic, survivors of sexual abuse during conflicts face new challenges when reporting crimes and accessing support services, warned […]
The mind of a conservative
George Berkeley is best known today as the eighteenth-century thinker who wrote “A treatise concerning the principles of human knowledge”. Sean Sheehan He argued that material reality only exists as mental states in the mind. What we think of as reality – the stuff of the world, like […]
Is unconscious bias, itself biased?
A doubled-edged sword? It is currently de rigeur to believe that people are largely driven by their unconscious, especially in their racist, gender and other beliefs that are not currently respectable. Nigel Pocock Yet this a two-edged sword, and one that could bounce back onto the person wielding […]
Laziness
My daughter has been working from home throughout the pandemic. While this has not adversely affected her productivity, she has noticed the slippage in work-life balance. Steve Latham There is now no distinction between work-space and overall life. While still doing a good job, she has therefore developed […]















