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It’s been another week of turmoil and unrest across the planet. The Conversation Canada is proud to be part of a global network that produces research-based analysis and smart explanatory journalism to help you understand our complex world.
For your weekend reading, we offer great reads on protests, global politics and conflicts, advice from a master on how to make fun of Nazis and … if you get through all that, a look at the role of women in that great fictional battle Game of Thrones.
Enjoy your weekend and we’ll be back in your Inbox on Monday.
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Weekend Reads on Conflict
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Russell Cobb, University of Alberta
A war of words among Cuba, Venezuela and the United States sounds a lot like a Cold War revival. A closer look at the conflict reveals a new generation of contradictions.
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Francis Dupuis-Déri, Université du Québec à Montréal
Retour sur les « black blocs », mouvement controversés souvent tenu seul responsable des chaos durant les manifestations publiques.
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James Hamill, University of Leicester
The twilight of Jacob Zuma's ruinous presidency coincides with growing revulsion at his misrule of South Africa. But, it's important that his erstwhile supporters acknowledge their complicity.
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Jose Antonio Gonzalez Zarandona, Deakin University; César Albarrán Torres, Swinburne University of Technology
The violence sparked by the removal of Confederate statues in the US shows the ideas that collect around historical monuments. Sometimes it's better to remove them; yet they can be an important way of remembering trauma.
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Juan Francisco Salazar, Western Sydney University
As Colombia seeks to rebuild after fifty years of armed conflict, an emerging conservationist movement is linking lasting peace to healthy habitats.
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Elisabet le Roux, Stellenbosch University
Shocking new findings show that even in conflict-affected countries where soldiers and rebel fighters are a daily danger to women, their husbands and boyfriends are the bigger threat.
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Kevin Hagopian, Pennsylvania State University
Chaplin's 1940 film 'The Great Dictator' mocks Hitler’s absurdity and overweening vanity, while highlighting Germany's psychological captivity to a political fraud.
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Raluca Radulescu, Bangor University
All men must die, so the young women have grown up to take control.
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