One of DEN’s aims is to develop a link to our local schools, colleges and communities. We have established links to the Capital City College Group and Leyton Sixth Form College. The students and staff from the colleges and schools have attended DEN’s meeting, and annual conference and write for our online magazine.
Currently, underway is the Department of Politics and International Relations first ever international student conference. Not only is this special on its own but aside from a little supervision, this conference has been predominantly organised by DEN undergraduate student volunteers We took aside Dr Farhang Morady, Principal Lecturer in International Relations and Development, and Dr Dibyesh...
AN OPEN CALL You are invited to participate in the Westminster Global Challenge, an international student conference organised by the Department of Politics and International Relations (DPIR) at the University of Westminster in partnership with the recently founded Democratic Education Network (DEN) within DPIR. This is your chance to be a part of something...
On January 21, 2017 Mr Machesetsa Mofomobe was rested by the police in Lesotho’s capital, Maseru. Mofomobe is the outspoken Publicity Secretary of the Basotho National Party (BNP) which is one of the opposition parties in Lesotho. The detention is purported to be in connection with the botched opposition march that called for the opening...
The extent to which technology and the internet have revolutionized our social structures is immeasurably evident. In the last few decades, technology has lost its old fashioned connotation as complex, impersonal machines and have instead become devices which deliver real and palpable features to the masses. The internet, in turn, provides endless sources of fun...
High-heeled shoes are synonyms with women’s fashion and femininity. They have, along with other styles of clothes, make-up, and more transformed throughout history. These ideals of beauty range from styles of clothing to the more sever; like Chinese foot binding, neck rings, and even Kardashian inspired butt implants. The first heeled shoe is believed to...
Lesotho has been experiencing a new political predicament. Following the announcement of the Democratic Congress (DC) to secede from the seven-party coalition government, the country is under a minority government led by Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili. The DC announced its withdrawal from the government on Thursday 10th November 2016 and had called for the formation...
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Thousands of pulsating posters colored London’s night sky during what is beginning to seem like the compulsory bi-weekly protest. However, Monday’s demonstration was a phenomenon of civic engagement, as it was first dreamed up by Owen Jones just three days prior to the event. The sense of urgency was evident in its name as it...
While asking myself where to start respectively what to write about the two-week experience in Hanoi I realized that I ought to begin by stating; No, Hanoi the capital city of the socialist republic of Vietnam is nothing as I imagined. I doubt that one page could sum up all the self- generated perceptions I...
It is probably a defense mechanism but I had not spent much time last week thinking in depth about Donald Trump’s presidency. However, on January 20th, in a random pub in London there he was back on the television screen, in all his superiority complex glory. He could no longer be ignored or stay away...
It was a usual cold and wet day in London today but that did not stop the Congolese to come out and protest against President Joseph Kabila. President Kabila was supposed to step down at midnight on Monday as his second and final term as the President ended but he did not, leading to widespread...
Berlin attack: 9 Dead 50 Injured, read my phone notification but no major shock wave swept through me. I am not surprised; I am concerned, especially because a good friend of mine is there, so I check her Snapchat to know where in the world she is. I had once mentioned last year on a...