The Misunderstood Campaign -A Project in the Democratic Education Network The Misunderstood Campaign is a project aiming to depolarise the narratives of migration here in the United Kingdom. Migration and identity are emotionally divided topics and define most of politics today across the world. Most people have a strong opinion about migration- they are typically...
The world around us is as complicated as it was never before: it consists of multiple layers and multiple actors; but most importantly, it is always changing. This paper will be discussing a specific part of a broader change of a vast region during 21st century – the Arab Spring. In this paper, I will...
Besides the excitement and eagerness to learn about Politics and International Relations, the constant reminder of starting university all seemed scary. Numerous questions flooded into my head; do I want to go to university? Where am I going to go? How am I going to get there? I studied at the same school and the...
Before joining the University of Westminster, I was a nervous wreck. Firstly, I had completely changed my mind over what I wanted to study and thus lost my place at my first choice university. This meant that I had to do some intense research to find something else – a place with a convenient location,...
Before I started University, I was scared, nervous and at the same time excited. As an international student, I didn’t know what to expect. Moving to a new country is already terrifying itself but starting a completely new life by myself away from everything I’ve ever known made me consider going back home several times...
University so far has been quite an extraordinary experience, three weeks in and you have lecturers who not only guide you but listen to you. They try to build a relationship with you to help students achieve their goals. It’s more than just a collection of buildings and classrooms, it is a culturally rich society,...
Last Thursday on October 11th, the Students for Free Tibet Society and the Centre for Study of Democracy in Westminster University invited poet-activist Tenzin Tsundue and Wangden Kyab, a senior researcher of the Tibet Watch Research Team to have a conversation with Professor Dibyesh Anand on human rights, politics, China and Tibet. The floor opens...
The End of the Global? is a DEN publication where leading from last year’s conference which was organized by the DEN students at the University of Westminster has all the papers put together in a book. The conference saw students from all across the world got togther to take part at a conference that was...
We had a very successful academic year where you enjoyed reading our blogs and writing for us. Inspired by this students at DEN came together to create a DEN Magazine. A project where an editorial team got together to collect articles, editorials, blogs and more from students of the University of Westminster along with all...
Recently students of University of Westminster from the Department of Politics and International Relations got a chance to visit the gorgeous city of Tbilisi in Georgia. A group of students along with Dr. Farhang Morady went to visit St. Andrew the First-Called Georgian University of the Patriarchate of Georgia (SANGU) along with Transparency International Georgia...
When our lecturer first told us to talk to each other and we only vaguely knew who he was referring to, I don’t think Lienus or I could have imagined that it would lead to the day when we met with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia. When we first started discussing the possibility...
“Not the American one.” This is the quantifier required when you tell people in the UK that you are going to Georgia. In fact, many people don’t even know there is a country called Georgia, despite the fact that it is only half the distance from the UK that the state of Georgia, USA is....