{"id":5887,"date":"2023-03-31T12:49:23","date_gmt":"2023-03-31T12:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/?p=5887"},"modified":"2023-04-02T15:50:15","modified_gmt":"2023-04-02T15:50:15","slug":"march-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/2023\/03\/31\/march-roundup\/","title":{"rendered":"March RoundUp"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>War, Peace and Resistance<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>What would you do in a cyber crisis? POLIR Students attempted to answer this when they took part in the Atlantic Council Cyber 9\/12 Strategy Challenge. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics-international-relations\/news\/5876\/taking-on-the-cyber-9-12-strategy-challenge\">Did they crack the code?<\/a><\/li>\n<li>After the pandemic pause, the Model United Nations international conference had a revolutionary return. Kent MUN Society were amoung thousands of students at the Paris conference. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics-international-relations\/news\/5892\/model-united-nations-in-the-country-of-diplomacy\">Don&#8217;t veto this from your reading list.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Last year Pussy Riot brought a commotion to campus, and inspired our event at The Gulbenkian Arts Theatre exploring power and protest. <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/2023\/03\/10\/when-is-it-time-to-break-the-rules\/\">Do you know a Politics teacher who would like to bring their A level class?<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Democratic tensions in the Netherlands? <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/2023\/03\/31\/shocking-victory-for-farmers-party-in-dutch-elections\/\">Dutch POLIR student Ben van Broeckhuijen gives his breakdown on their recent elections.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Empowering Women<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Our politics students broke the sound barrier on BBC Radio this International Women&#8217;s Day discussing the hurdles women face in the world of politics.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics-international-relations\/news\/5847\/iwd-2023-young-women-in-politics\"> Listen up.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics-international-relations\/people\/3813\/zigomo-kuziwakwashe\">Dr Kuziwakwashe Zigomo<\/a> published her research into why Zimbabwe elects so few women. She delves into how intersectional barriers are overlooked. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/03057070.2022.2077018\">Make sure <em>you<\/em> don&#8217;t overlook this one!<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"mw-page-title-main\">Shadow Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury and POLIR <\/span>Alumna Abena Oppong Asare MP responded to this months budget on Channel 4 News &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Cp3K3emI4cy\/?hl=en-gb\">watch here.\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Political Professors<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>With technological advancement moving at an alarming rate, is it time to put the breaks on? Professor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics-international-relations\/people\/2599\/turner-ben\">Dr Ben Turner<\/a> &#8216;s new <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/2023\/03\/29\/returning-to-judgment-bernard-stiegler-and-continental-political-theory\/\">book<\/a> discusses the relationship between the political and the technological.<\/li>\n<li>Does a poll lead mean electoral success or labour-atory lunacy? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics-international-relations\/people\/512\/goodwin-matthew\">Professor Matthew Goodwin<\/a> discusses what Labour needs to focus on to end over a decade of Tory rule. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2023\/mar\/27\/labour-lose-election-three-hurdles-working-class-immigration\">See what you think.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>With the UK Government&#8217;s Rwanda policy in the headlines, what are the alternatives for refugees? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics-international-relations\/people\/522\/loizides-neophytos\">Professor Neophytos Loizides<\/a> has won a research grant to investigate forced displacement. <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/2023\/03\/30\/the-peaceful-return-of-victims-of-forced-displacement\/\">More information here.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>War, Peace and Resistance What would you do in a cyber crisis? POLIR Students attempted to answer this when they took part in the Atlantic &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/2023\/03\/31\/march-roundup\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80635,"featured_media":5938,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5887"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80635"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5887"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5961,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5887\/revisions\/5961"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}