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On the job market with a Leiden degree26 January 2017Every year around 3,900 master's students sign their name in Leiden's famous 'Sweat Room' when they graduate. What do they do after that? Five young a...
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Unique insight into origin of Hofstad group24 January 2017The Hofstad group is known mainly because of Mohammed B., the murderer of Theo van Gogh. PhD candidate Bart Schuurman examined this Dutch jihadist gr...
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Our economists in The Hague - research and teaching17 January 2017The Department of Economics at Leiden Law School teaches courses in both Leiden and The Hague to more than 1700 students.
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ISGA launches Journal of Security and Global Affairs16 December 2016The Institute of Security and Global Affairs (ISGA) has launched its first own scientific journal. The Journal of Security and Global Affairs (SGA) wi...
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The pathways of music improvisers12 December 2016Improvisers in experimental music do not record their music in a conventional score, but in ever-changing 'tactile pathways'. This is the proposition ...
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"The key to success is to dare to break the rules"12 December 2016“To change the world, you do not need everybody. You only need one. So, will you be the one? That’s the question.” Saturday December 3rd, Nobel Laurea...
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Grant for research on murder and manslaughter in the Netherlands06 December 2016’25 years of fatal violence’, a collaboration of dr. Marieke Liem and prof.dr.Lenneke Alink about murder and manslaughter in the Netherlands, has rece...
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The magic of projection06 December 2016Video projections in contemporary art are convincing not because they depict reality, but because they show new possibilities within that reality. Art...
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Predictive policing wins group presentation in CSM elective Governance of crime and social disorder02 December 2016If you know a crime is about to occur, should you be able to prevent it before it has even happened? This was one of the questions that was posed in l...
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Political Science launches new bachelor’s specialisation in The Hague30 November 2016In September 2017 the Institute of Political Science (Leiden University) will launch a new bachelor’s specialisation: International Relations and Orga...
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Mobiles can help prevent famine11 November 2016The World Food Programme (WFP) uses mobile technology to predict potential famine more rapidly. Leiden University's Centre for Innovation is developin...
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Who sets the security agenda?24 October 2016Leiden University is organising two international conferences on security from 7 to 10 November in The Hague. Power relations, negotiating with extrem...
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'Peace: you just have to do it'27 September 2016Who doesn’t want peace? Yet we don’t always appreciate how fragile it really is. This is why Leiden University was a co-organiser of the Just Peace Fe...
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Nuclear bunker under location Wijnhaven13 September 2016Various ministries started building nuclear bunkers in the seventies to shield themselves from a possible nuclear attack from the East. One of these n...
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UNconference The Hague: Change for peace30 August 2016What are you going to do for peace and justice? What will your contribution be to achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals? And who or what do y...