@cgebelfast.bsky.social has just published its 2025 Annual Report with an overview of our activities over the past year. Check it out at: www.centreforglobaleducation.com/sites/defaul...

cgebelfast.bsky.social is inviting contributions to Issue 44 of our journal, Policy and Practice: A Development Education Review on the theme “Development and the Uses and Abuses of Knowledge". The deadline for abstracts is 4 September 2026. www.developmenteducationreview.com/submission-g...

A Belfast protest against the ongoing genocide in Gaza, approaching its third anniversary. 152 Palestinians were killed by Israeli occupation forces in Gaza in July, the highest monthly toll this year. #stopthegenocidesofpalestinians

Dr Hussam Abu Safiya is at grave risk of imminent death from months of torture in an Israeli dungeon. He told his lawyer “They brought me here to kill me. I don’t see myself surviving". Please support Amnesty International calls for his immediate release www.amnesty.org/en/petition/...

Release Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya!

Act now to free Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya!

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Belfast says "no to racism" at a huge public demonstration today in solidarity with our neighbours in the minority ethnic communities who have suffered racist violence this week. Yes to solidarity, no to racism and fascism.

Racist mobs visited terrible violence, fear and intimidation on minority communities in Belfast overnight. United Against Racism has organised a rally on Saturday as a public demonstration of opposition to racist progroms. Assemble at 1.00pm, Belfast City Hall.

Find attached a report on a webinar titled “Pedagogical Responses to the Meta Crisis: The Role of Development Education”. It debated the content of Issue 42 of the @cgebelfast.bsky.social journal Policy & Practice: A Development Education Review. www.centreforglobaleducation.com/sites/defaul...

Check out the June newsletter from @cgebelfast.bsky.social with an update on current and upcoming activities and news from around the global education and international development sectors. bit.ly/3PYMBvd

Episode 4 of the cgebelfast.bsky.social's podcast "Reimagining Development" is an interview with Tom McDonnell, co-Director of the Nevin Institute. He sets out the the economic, social and democratic case for a tax on extreme wealth in Ireland. Available at open.spotify.com/episode/6mxu...

"The war on Iran has not only ended in a humiliating defeat for the United States, but resulted in a dramatic shift in the balance of power in the Middle East and the Global South." Chris Hedges substack chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-rise-o...

The Rise of the Global South

The war on Iran has not only ended in a humiliating defeat for the United States, but resulted in a dramatic shift in the balance of power in the Middle East and the Global South.

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Cuba is being punished by the Trump administration for pursuing a socialist path to development - @cgebelfast.buesky.social's letter to today's @irishtimes.com

The paperback edition of Global Education in Ireland: Critical Histories and Future Directions edited by Eilish Dillon, Niamh Gaynor, Gerard McCann and I, has just been published by Bloomsbury Academic and available to order at: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/global-ed...

Episode 3 of Episode 4 of the Centre for Global Education's podcast "Reimagining Development" is an interview with Dessie Donnelly from the Rabble Co-operative on monitoring far-right activity online. Available at open.spotify.com/episode/77Df...

More Israeli piracy in international waters, this time off the coast of Cyprus, as humanitarian vessels bound for Gaza with much needed aid are intercepted and boarded. www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/5/...

Israeli forces intercept Gaza-bound aid flotilla off Cyprus

More than 50 vessels departed from the Turkish port city of Marmaris last week.

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National demonstration for Palestine tomorrow in Dublin to commemorate the 78th year of the ongoing Israeli Nakba in Gaza and the occupied West Bank. Assemble at 1.00pm in the Garden of Remembrance.

A workplace day of action for Palestine was observed by health workers affiliated to Unison today at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast.

@cgebelfast.bsky.social and @comhlamh.bsky.social have organised a webinar on Wednesday, 27 May to debate Issue 42 of Policy and Practice on the theme: "Pedagogical Responses to the Meta Crisis". Register with Eventbrite at: www.eventbrite.ie/e/pedagogica...

@cgebelfast.bsky.social is one of 90 civil society organisations to have signed a statement calling on the European Union to suspend the EU-Israel Association Agreement, ban trade with illegal Israeli settlements and halt all arms transfers to Israel. www.cidse.org/2026/04/16/o...

Open letter: 90+ organisations demand suspension of EU-Israel Association Agreement

ENGLISH PDF GERMAN PDF SIGNATORIES In response to violations of international humanitarian law by Israeli authorities in Palestine and Lebanon, over 90 human rights and humanitarian organisa...

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Check out the May newsletter from the Centre for Global Education with an update on our current activities. bit.ly/4d01One

More piracy by Israel in international waters as 22 boats that are part of the 58 vessel Global Sumud Flotilla to Gaza have been illegally intercepted and 175 activists detained. A humanitarian fleet to Gaza is illegally intercepted once again. www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/...

Israeli forces raid Global Sumud Flotilla boats in international waters

Twenty-two out of 58 vessels were captured by Israel near Crete, as flotilla aims to deliver aid to Gaza under blockade.

aljazeera.com

The May Day Rally in Belfast will be held this Saturday, 2 May. Assemble at 11.30am, Writer's Square.

Episode 2 of @cgebelfast.bsky.social's podcast, ‘Reimagining Development’, is an interview with Prof. Alfredo Saad Filho from Queen’s University Belfast. He unpacks neoliberal economics and its role in fermenting the slide toward fascism across the world. open.spotify.com/episode/3Wxl...

Centre for Global Education has recorded new episodes of our podcast, Reimagining Development. Episode 1 of our 3rd series is an interview with Rebecca Heslin, a clinical psychologist and activist, about the psychology of activism and Palestinian solidarity. open.spotify.com/episode/2xs9...

Trump’s oil embargo of Cuba is really designed to unravel six decades of a socialised model of development premised on meeting social need rather than profit and greed. A new piece for @officialznet.bsky.social znetwork.org/znetarticle/...

Cuba’s Real Threat to the United States is a Socialised Model of Development

On 29 January, Donald Trump published an Executive Order in which he described Cuba as “an unusual and extraordinary threat” to the United States and

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Issue 42 of the @cgebelfast.bsky.social journal, Policy and Practice, has just been published on the theme "Pedagogical Responses to the Meta Crisis: The Role of Development Education". Please share with colleagues and students. @comhlamh.bsky.social www.developmenteducationreview.com

Gaza was just the beginning. The "Gaza Playbook" has now been deployed in Lebanon where Israel has launched genocidal violence that has killed 1,100 people and displaced more than one million. @stephenmccloskey.bsky.social's letter to this morning's Irish Times.

Gaza was just the beginning. The "Gaza Playbook" has now been deployed in Lebanon where Israel has launched genocidal violence that has killed 1,100 people and displaced more than one million. @cgebelfast.bsky.social's letter to this morning's Irish Times.