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Del 1: Hvor og hvordan skal man bo og leve i fremtidens Grønland?

Nedenfor kan du læse del 1 af de to kronikker, som i December 2024 blev bragt i den grønlandske avis Sermitsiaq.

Del 2: Hvor og hvordan skal man bo og leve i fremtidens Grønland?

Nedenfor kan du læse del 2 af de to kronikker, som i December 2024 blev bragt i den grønlandske avis Sermitsiaq.

Gabriëlle La Croix’s Semester Abroad in Pittsburgh, USA

ITSS PhD Fellow, Gabriëlle La Croix, is coming to the end of her semester at the University of Pittsburgh. Find out what she's been up to!

Leveraging Social Media and Crowdsourcing in Disaster Management Processes in Europe

From the report's executive summary: In a changing technological landscape to address disasters, and with increasing diversity of stakeholders in disaster risk management, we need to develop new pathways of using…

Fighting for Biodiversity in Africa

In an article published in Danish Journal Udenrigs, Associate Professor Stig Jensen, details the fight for biodiversity in Africa. With an increasing threat of extinction to multiple animal species on the continent,…

COP28 - Africa

In a recent episode of Danish Radio P1 Orientering Udsyn, Associate Professor Stig Jensen talks about the first African Climate Summit and Africa’s position related to the COP 28 meeting. The African agenda focusing on…

Critique of Denmark's Poor Listening Skills Towards Africa's Climate Goals

In an article for Altinget, Associate Professor Stig Jensen together with Rune Larsen, points out the hypocrisy of Denmark’s climate initiatives. Minister for Development Cooperation and Global Climate Policy, Dan…

Dissemination and Outreach Workshop Report is now available

Stakeholders, including researchers, community leaders, local political interest groups, and planners, discussed the project's findings

Danish cattle veterinarians' perspectives on antimicrobial use: Contextual and individual influencing factors

Associate professor Carsten Strøby Jensen has contributed to the article ‘Danish cattle veterinarians' perspectives on antimicrobial use: Contextual and individual influencing factors’, published in the US Journal of…

Atreyee Sen is featured in a recently published ethnographic volume on disappearance

CGC researcher, Atreyee Sen, has authored a chapter in a recently published book on disappearance in different social, cultural and political contexts.

Extreme poverty rendering Madagascar vulnerable to underreported extreme heat would not have occurred without climate change

Researchers Nick Baumgart and Emmanuel Raju from COPE and the School of Global Health join their peers in this new study (featured on the Guardian) titled "Extreme poverty rendering Madagascar highly vulnerable to…

The influence of cash assistance on the localisation agenda in Kenya’s humanitarian sector

Pablo V. Holm-Nielsen, Peter Furu and Emmanuel Raju from COPE and the School of Global Health have published a paper in Jàmbá - Journal of Disaster Risk Studies titled: The influence of cash assistance on the…

Call for Papers: Special Issue of the Nordic Journal of African Studies

There is an increase in technological consent forms, in research institutions in both Africa and the Nordics. It is often explained in complex legal terms and presented in written form. This increase in informed consent…

The Resilience of Africa's Democracies and the Their Military Coups

Associate Professor, Stig Jensen, has recently been in the media to discuss the ongoing military coups that many African counties are experiencing. He explains that many citizens in the countries in Africa that have…

New research: Fivefold increase in the melting of Greenland's glaciers over the last 20 years

In the largest survey of its kind ever conducted, using both satellite imagery and old aerial photos from the Danish National Archives, researchers from the University of Copenhagen firmly establish that Greenland’s…

Rikke Haugegaard publishes article in new military academic journal

CGC's Rikke Haugegaard has recently published an article in the new academic journal Inter Populum: The Journal of Irregular Warfare and Special Operations.

PRIVACY-researcher Asta Mønsted contributed to the Venice Biennale of Architecture

This year’s Venice Biennale of Architecture opened in May and is running until the end of November. On October 12 archaeologist and postdoctoral researcher at PRIVACY, Asta Mønsted contributed to a workshop in the Nordi…

Visiting PhD Researcher Leonie Jegen at CERTIZENS in Copenhagen

Get to know CERTIZENS' new guest researcher and learn how her PhD work relates to citizenship certification in African contexts.

Book Symposium: Pentecostalism and Politics

Director and Associate Professor Karen Lauterbach contributes to Contending Modernities’ book symposium (Symposium on Pastoral Power Clerical State Archives | Contending Modernities) on Ebenezer Obadare’s book Pastoral…

Photo exhibition – ‘Old Parks, New Futures'

In September 2023, Director and Associate Professor Karen Lauterbach, participated in the final event and photo exhibition of the British Academy funded project ‘Old Parks, New Futures’. The project has run for over two…

Visiting Researcher Leonie Jegen

Leonie Jegen is a visiting researcher at CAS in October and November 2023, linked to the CERTIZENS Research Project (https://teol.ku.dk/english/dept/certizens-certifications-of-citizenship-in-africa/). She is a doctoral…

NEEDS Conference 2023

The NEEDS conference aims to explore the status quo and to foster new approaches to disaster research and management.

Workshop Call: CERTIZENS East Africa Regional Workshop 15-17 January 2024

The CERTIZENS Research Project invites submissions for a workshop in Kampala, Uganda from 15-17 January 2024 on Changing ID Systems in East Africa

Borderland Field Course 2023

Watch the video from the 2023 edition of the Field Summer Course Borderland: Critical Approaches to Field Research in the Global South.