Ensuring Cooperation for Central Asia’s Water Woes
1st Place, High School Essay Contest 2022 On April 28, 2021, border personnel from Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan fired on each other, marking the beginning of a bor...
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Allies First, Deals Second: An Analysis of the Iran Deal
From the onset of the Biden presidency, the administration has promised the American people a renewed agreement, or “Iran Deal,” to cull nuclear proliferation b...
Are Protests Effective?: Examining the Impact of Protests Against Gender-Based Violence on Legislation in Nigeria
1. INTRODUCTION On May 28, 2020, Vera Uwalia Omosuwa, a 22-year-old college student in Edo State, Nigeria was raped and sexually assaulted while studying in a c...
The Zapatista Army: A Feminist Revolution Existing within the Patriarchy
Carlos Salinas de Gortari, Mexico’s President from 1988 to 1994, was seated comfortably with close family and friends at a resort in Huatulco, Oaxaca the evenin...
Paratexts and Plurality: Mediation in Nnedi Okorafor’s Lagoon
TO THE DIVERSE AND DYNAMIC PEOPLE OF LAGOS, NIGERIA—ANIMALS, PLANT, AND SPIRIT These are the opening words of Nnedi Okorafor’s Lagoon (2014) and the dedication ...
Japanese Culture and Government: How Culture Influences Politics, Governance, and Priorities
3rd Place, High School Essay Contest 2021 臭い物に蓋 — Put a lid on what smells bad. This Japanese saying reflects the nation’s culture of desiring to melt...
Hope In a Whirlwind of Adversity: Rio De Janeiro’s Favelas
1st Place High School Essay Contest 2021 Along the alleys and narrow streets that line Rio de Janeiro’s favelas, the informal settlements whose distinctive red ...
Secularism, Separatism, and Silencing: How Islamophobia is Codified in the Name of ‘Laïcité’
The French word, ‘laïcité’, represents the constitutional principle of secularism in France. The model of separating religion from public life has long been a c...
Grassroots Medical Humanitarianism: Locally-led NGOs in Gaza, Humanitarianism’s Critics, and Agency
This piece was published in the Spring Issue Print Edition (Volume 11) Introduction Humanitarianism has been often lauded as a form of compassion, solidarity, a...
The Prospect of Radically Inclusive Love in Latin America
While holding Cuba’s first LGBTQ+ friendly mass, Alexya Salvador, a Brazilian transgender pastor, proclaimed God’s love to be radically inclusive. [1] Her words...