Society & Culture

India’s Climate Pathway: NDCs, Green Economy, and Global Leadership

Authors: Mudita Chaturvedi and Divya Malhotra* India’s NDCs and Climate Diplomacy: India’s Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), submitted in August 2022, underscore its dual commitment to...

Correcting a silent injustice: ensuring every birth and death is recorded and every life is counted

Ten years ago, countries across Asia and the Pacific united to correct a silent injustice: millions of people were being born and dying without...

An Introduction To Identity In The South African Context

Today, we as individuals are continually engaged in evolution, involving ourselves in relationships and cannot exist in isolation from the world, from modern society,...

The Spoiled Identity

The drug addict has a wounded brain. There has been some or partial damage and injury to the brain, henceforth brain damage occurs. There...

Ocean Summit, Small Island and Archipelagic nations revisiting the spirit of Belgrade of 1961

Between honour and necessity is to address the 2025 Ocean Congress in Nice. It comes at brewing times of fragilities and re-alignments (when the...

Bastardization of Art: AI Colonialism in a Form of Ghiblification

Recently, in late March 2025, social media platforms are being bombarded with tons of animated pictures that are created with OpenAI's image generator, powered...

Militant Democracy: When Democracies Defend Themselves

In the minds of liberals, democracy is a society that is open, tolerant, and diverse. However, history demonstrates that the most tolerant regimes occasionally...

For the Drug Addict in the Northern Areas of Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth)

We are living in a Renaissance, the African Renaissance. Attachment to the anticipation for the future arises from having high levels of a false...

Beyond the Binary: Gender Roles and the Diplomacy of Open Minds

The Personal and the Spiritual In a world that is increasingly interconnected, how we understand and respond to gender roles is more than a cultural...

Mimicking Empathy and Virtual Conversations: Benefiting AI Chatbots in Borderline Personality Disorder Recovery

Artificial intelligence (AI) is taking an increasingly large role in our daily lives. AI can be used to form exercise schedules, give food recommendations,...

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