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Environmental Activism or Environmental Extremism
Introduction Several peaceful protest organisations including Extinction Rebellion (XR), Greenpeace and Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament have all recently been included in police counter-terror documents and been labelled as ‘key threats’ (Grierson and Scott: 2020). Although it has been said that the document was designed to help de-radicalisation efforts, the inclusion of such environmental and pacifist […]

Does COVID-19 affect everyone the same?
As IARS promotes equal rights for all, we wanted to assess how apart from a public health crisis, the coronavirus outbreak brings into the spotlight the inequalities and the social crisis we have been undergoing for years.

OPEN CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
IARS is organizing a writing competition as part of the Community Outreach to contribute to the intellectual outputs of the Youth Empowerment and Innovation Project (YEIP). We are interested in broadcasting European voices of young people, focusing on the topics that matter to them. YEIP aims to tackle radicalisation through youth empowerment and social inclusion. […]

Survey of youth NGOs and networks in Europe is now open
The survey is being carried out by Ecorys, an independent research organisation, on behalf of the European Commission. It forms part of a study on the changing landscape of youth representation in the EU (EAC/17/2019). The aims are: to map EU youth NGOs and networks to assess the contribution and impact of EU funding to […]

EUROPEAN YOUTH LEADING THE WAY FOR EMPLOYMENT & EDUCATION
International youth conference to be held by the IARS International Institute at Lewisham College on the 16th and 17th July. The conference shall bring together young people with European and British key decision makers, academics, teachers, policymakers and youth agencies to tackle the issues of opportunity and enterprise, whilst equipping young participants with the skills […]