Lebanon is a small but ethnically diverse country located on the eastern coast of Mediterranean. During the past two decades, Lebanon has undergone turbulent times including civil war, military intervention, Israeli occupation, economic crisis, internal conflicts (Winslow, 2012). During the period of civil war, 1975–90, Lebanon was severely attacked by the violence that pervaded the country. Its economic and infrastructural …

Yemen’s civil war has been ongoing since 2015, with an estimated death toll as high as 100,000 including more than 12,000 civilian deaths (Magdy, 2019). It has now been recognised as the worst humanitarian crisis globally with over 20 million people in Yemen facing food insecurity and 14 million requiring some form of urgent humanitarian assistance (UNHCR, 2019). However, the …

The use of cryptocurrencies has exploded in recent times, from Bitcoin to Ethereum there is today a fairly wide range of options of these types of currencies, which it has been speculated, may bring major changes to the use and ownership of money. The cryptocurrency that has attracted a significant amount of attention is the new electronic Chinese yuan (e-CNY), …

The Horn of Africa is currently being the stage of a high-stakes power struggle between a local faction in the Tigray region and the current Ethiopian government. The articulations in Ethiopian society are characterized by several ethnic groups who, throughout time, have engaged in cooperation and conflict with each other, and the people in the Tigray have been active members …

Facial recognition technology is one of the most controversial topics, which we are currently facing as a society, particularly due to the wide range of applications that it has, like surveillance, and also for the implications that it has for society and the negative consequences that misused facial recognition technology could have (Ovide, 2020). This controversy of facial recognition has …

Recently Russian President Vladimir Putin stated in St. Petersburg that the work on the first line of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline across the Baltic Sea had been completed, as he pointed out that “today … the pipe-laying work of the first Nord Stream 2 (NS2) line was successfully finished. Work on the second line is ongoing” (DW, 2021). …

Recently the United Kingdom and Australia were able to broker an “agreement in principle” for a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the two countries. This “agreement in principle” was published on the 17th of June and is regarded as a crucial step, particularly for the UK, as it is its first major FTA agreement since Brexit was completed and Britain …

Ethiopia is once again in the grip of renewed violence, with a recent government attack on a market resulting in the deaths of at least 64 civilians. This is a country that has always been at the heart of global humanitarian concerns, and the events of this week are not about to change that. Ethiopia is divided into ten regional …

As renewable energy sources tend to regularly dominate the headlines in Western mainstream media, nuclear power remains all too often neglected in international relations. Especially since lobbyists and policymakers seems obsessed with the idea to replace all traditional sources of energy with renewables, in other parts of the world nuclear energy is actively encouraged to take over the gap left …

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is no longer an imaginary future, instead it has embraced our everyday life. Together with massive technological transformation, developments in artificial intelligence are challenging traditional perspectives, boundaries, methods and are promising enhanced efficiency and effectiveness in the different fields (United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute, Artificial Intelligence Collection 2020). There are numerous definitions of Artificial …