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Surprising results of research on counterterrorism: ‘Assumptions surrounding Trump may be wrong’ 27 March 2024
It was pouring rain when Alexander Gallo received his diploma from West Point Military Academy. A bad sign, people said back then. It was June 2001, t...
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FGGA in 2023: This was the year of our faculty 13 December 2023
2023 was another year full of highlights and special moments for the faculty of Governance and Global Affairs. Find out what the year was like in this...
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Fifteen years of Dual PhD Centre: ‘The programme is solid as a rock’ 05 December 2023
December marks the 15th anniversary of the Dual PhD Centre (DPC). Director Johannes Tromp and associate professor Mark Dechesne look back and ahead. D...
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‘Think what you want to do about international students before developing your housing policy’ 09 November 2023
Students used to live with a landlady or even with the professor whose course they were taking. Student accommodation has since become more profession...
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FGGA in 2022: This was the year for our Faculty 22 December 2022
We started this year as we ended it in 2021: in a lockdown. But the world continues to open up. We are occasionally allowed to go into the office and ...
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Being able to host international organisations by taking that extra step 22 November 2022
The number of international organisations has increased over the last decades. As has the number of cities interested in housing these organisations. ...
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Conversation leads to understanding: influence of peer-educators on thoughts about LHBT persons 09 September 2022
A peer educator intervention can give pupils more knowledge and awareness about their LGBT peers, and sometimes also a more positeve view. This is the...
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Video: Is the hypersonic rocket system the new super weapon? 01 June 2022
Missiles that travel at approximately six thousand kilometres per hour, up to 5 or 6 times the speed of sound. Has Russia used those against Ukraine a...
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No one knows if regulation makes the chemical industry safer 24 March 2022
The government spends millions regulating companies that work with large quantities of hazardous substances. But we don’t know whether this is making ...
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Wayfarers: Roma and Sinti’s bumpy ride through education 15 February 2022
Access to education for people from the lower socio-economic class has improved immensely in Europe from the 1950s onwards. Yet the Roma and Sinti wer...
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University historian Pieter Slaman: ‘I can point to valuable constants and experiments that went too far’ 18 January 2022
As University historian, Pieter Slaman researches the University’s past, but he’s equally interested in its present. ‘It’s useful to be familiar with ...
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Improving the prospects of at-risk youth 05 November 2021
How can mentors and social workers foster the vocational identity of at-risk youth and improve their prospects? This is the subject of Rineke Keijzer-...
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Jaap van den Herik receives royal distinction on his retirement 08 October 2021
Jaap van den Herik was appointed Officer in the Order of Orange Nassau on 8 October on his retirement as professor of Law and Information Technology.
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Kamaran Palani: ‘Completing my PhD at Leiden University is a dream of me and my deceased father’ 05 July 2021
Starting your PhD during two major crisis in your country; it happened to Kamaran Palani, PhD student at the Dual PhD Centre and ISGA who lives in Erb...
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Roméo Dallaire on “How a better world is possible”: Cooperation between Science and Practice 23 April 2021
Leiden University’s Institute for Security and Global Affairs and Dual PhD Centre jointly organize an online lecture on 23 April, 15.00 hrs by Cleveri...