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Abstract: The decision of the indigenous Batwa to reoccupy parts of eastern DRC’s Kahuzi-Biega National Park by force shocked many outside observers. They were further shocked when the Batwa started to ally with rebel groups, traders, and illegal timber cutters in order to exploit part of the ancestral forest they had been forced to leave decades prior. In a recently-published article in the Journal of Peasant Studies, Fergus Simpson and Sara Geenen show why the Batwa’s decision to return to the park should in fact come as anything but a surprise.

ik kijk niet alleen uit naar een eerste terras of naar de uitnodiging om eindelijk gevaccineerd te worden. Ik kijk minstens even hard uit naar voorstellen voor een wereld na corona', schrijft socioloog Dirk Geldof. ispartof: Knack Magazine status: published

Geloof jij dat bijvoorbeeld mensen met een diepe verstandelijke beperking jou kunnen vertellen wat zij denken en voelen? Onderzoeker Leni Van Goidsenhoven toont met het boek en de tentoonstelling ‘Ongehoord’ hoe kwetsbare mensen via dans, theater, poëzie of eenvoudigweg schommelen, kijken naar zichzelf en hun omgeving. status: published

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Abstract: Re-Act by design is the theme of an annual series of international workshop weeks for master students architecture, interior architecture, product development, heritage studies, urban and regional development, of the faculty of design sciences at the university of Antwerp. The capping of the Antwerp ring road creates new opportunities. On the one hand it offers an answer to the supralocal problem of traffic flow around and through Antwerp, on the other hand, at local level it offers the adjacent neighborhoods a new place for urban life. For both levels, the supralocal and the local, conceptual design proposals have been made. What has not or insufficiently been done yet, is to develop ideas about the quality of urban life during the time of construction, which can be estimated at 10 to 15 years – the duration in which a child becomes a youngster and a youngster adult. IDW2021 looks for options to turn this timespan into a meaningful meantime for the creation of a better future for this area and its inhabitants?

Abstract: On January 1, 2021, the European Conflict Minerals Act came into force. It aims to regulate the trade in four minerals—tin, tantalum, tungsten, and gold, also known as 3TG—that are often sourced from conflict-affected countries where the profits may allow armed groups to finance their activities. The regulation aims to break the link between minerals and conflict by ensuring that European Union (EU)-based companies only import minerals from conflict-free sources. If companies import minerals from conflict regions, the law requires them to report where the minerals were mined, the location of processing and trade, and the taxes and fees that were paid. The legislation is expected to discourage 3TG importers from sourcing from artisanal mining sites in countries such as the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) either because they are associated with conflict, or because they are too informally organized to meet the reporting obligations. If that happens, this conflict minerals legislation will shoot at the wrong target. Again