Research Fellowship Professor Karen Morrow (Environmental Law) is undertaking a two-month research fellowship at the New Institute in Hamburg as part of an international, interdisciplinary team working on the Governing the Planetary Commons: A Focus on the Amazon programme. The project seeks to address the need to better fit international governance structures and practice to the biophysical realities of the Earth System, as represented by the planetary commons. We now understand that the resilience of the planetary life support system, upon which humanity depends, is faced with the multiple threats of the poly-crisis where interlinked problems such as climate change, biodiversity loss, pollution and more operate on a truly global scale. While the poly-crisis threatens humanity as a whole, people are not equally implicated in causing it and do not experience its impacts equally, with those least responsible for the problems we face often most exposed to their impacts. It is increasingly apparent that the legal and political mechanisms which are available to address the poly-crisis in international law and policy are not up to the task. New thinking is urgently needed on how we can develop just governance to safeguard people and planet, and the project will interrogate how this might be done, focusing on the Amazon, one of the great planetary commons. Karen will bring her expertise on ecofeminism, which draws on the shared exploitation of the natural world and non-privileged people, its impacts and how it might be addressed to the programme.
Cyber Threats Research Centre (CYTREC)
TASM Conference
The 2024 Terrorism and Social Media Conference will take place at Swansea University’s Bay campus on 18-19 June. The conference will bring together more than 250 delegates from a variety of sectors including academia, government, law enforcement, civil society and the tech sector. The sessions will include workshops delivered by Meta, TikTok, the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism, Tech Against Terrorism and the Meta Oversight Board, as well as presentations delivered by researchers from 16 different countries worldwide
Social & Humanitarian Award
Dr Lella Nouri was a winner of the Social & Humanitarian Award at the 2023 Ethnic Minority Welsh Women Achievement Association. Working with the Legal Innovation Lab Wales, Lella has developed the StreetSnap app, an innovative technological solution allowing local councils and their partners to better record, utilise and remove hateful graffiti and visual representations of hate throughout their boroughs. The app allows users (from council officials to police community support officers and integrated partners) to track potential areas of higher hate crime and incidences of extremism effectively and efficiently within their communities. StreetSnap enables councils to communicate with ease across departments, teams and partners as well as better allocate resources and funds into areas where issues are identified to ensure public safety and to support community cohesion.
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