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On 22 September, David Mitchell was interviewed live about the significance of the Northen Ireland census results, which for the first time in Northern Ireland’s 100-year history, have recorded a higher proportion of Catholics than Protestants.

Registration is now open for the next in the ISE at 50 webinar series: Faiths in Changing Ireland: Belonging and Going Beyond which will take place on Thursday 6th October at 5pm. Prof Jude Lal Fernando will chair a panel including Prof Andrew Pierce and leaders of faith communities, for an exploration of the challenges and opportunities to institutionalised religions of emerging ways of believing and faith in a more secular and multi-religious Ireland. Follow the link to register.

Prof. Mitchell’s article surveys the historical loyalty of Unionism to the institution of Monarchy, and considers what could be learnt from the late Queen’s example when making the case for the electorate’s identification with the UK in the context of a future referenendum on Irish unity.

In traditional notions of international relations, nation-states formulate their foreign policies on the basis, almost exclusively, of national interest, and distinguish humanitarian aid as a separate endeavour categorized as philanthropy. This dichotomy often quarantines aid from foreign policy. In this blog post, Dong Jin Kim presents global health diplomacy as a conceptual framework to bridge the dichotomy between humanitarianism and international politics, introducing his recent International Affairs article on ‘Global health diplomacy and North Korea in the COVID-19 era’. Follow the link to read the post.