"Freedom to Think: The Long Struggle to Liberate our Minds", by Susie Alegre, out on 7th April
Freedom to Think: The Long Struggle to Liberate our Minds draws on TPP Associate Susie Alegre’s 25 years as an international lawyer working on human rights and the rule of law internationally. It explores the ways that the law responds to threats to our freedom of thought with examples of responses to propaganda in Rwanda and Myanmar, the manipulation of voters in electoral processes, the power of disinformation and the use of technology in criminal justice processes in India and the UK. Highlighting the risks of developments in technology, AI and neuroscience for our inner freedom, the book is a timely call to remember why human rights matter to all of us and what we need to do to make them effective.
Political economy analysis for climate action - new course launched starting October 2024
The Policy Practice is delighted to be re-running the popular online course on Political Economy Analysis for Climate Action. This course explains how political economy analysis can be used to understand the challenge of action on climate change and to design more effective interventions. The course will consist of eight, 2-hour online sessions from 4 October to 12 November 2024. For more information and to register please click below or see our flyer here.
The political economy of energy transitions in Ghana, Zambia and Vietnam - Policy Brief 17
Written by Sam Bickersteth with Neil McCulloch and Meron Tesfamichael, this policy brief draws out some of the common constraints hindering the energy transition in Ghana, Zambia, and Vietnam and many other countries in the Global South. It also shows how political economy analysis can help to identify politically feasible pathways of change in each country demonstrating the importance of such analysis as an essential tool to understand energy transition.
Media support: aid funding does not match donor rhetoric
Laure-Hélène Piron (TPP Director) presented her analysis of official development assistance to media and the information environment to the Governance Network of the OECD Development Assistance Committee on 6 March 2024.
The draft report shows that the rhetoric of governments which support freedom of expression and condemn disinformation is not matched by sufficient funding. And too little directly goes to local media organisations.