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In recent years, comprehensive peace agreements have reduced in frequency, and international mediation initiatives have become ‘disaggregated’ focused on brokering localised, sub-state dialogue processes, with issue-specific discussions, alongside attempts at national-level processes. This article focuses on three aspects of this shift: it (a) proposes disaggregated mediation as a conceptual framework to understand these processes, (b) outlines drivers of disaggregated mediation and (c) consi...

One of the most pressing challenges facing languages practitioners in Scotland’s schools is the difficulty of supporting learner motivation to study languages and maintain uptake in the Senior Phase. This article reviews a research-led project, ‘Remembering Empire’, and suggests that Interdisciplinary Learning (IDL) may offer a means to generate increased learner interest in language-learning. As one of the four Contexts of Curriculum for Excellence (CfE), Interdisciplinary Learning (IDL) is ...

'First paragraph' The launch of the Paris Agreement’s enhanced transparency framework (ETF) in 2024 has been heralded with much fanfare. At the latest meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Baku, Azerbaijan, slogans calling for all countries to engage in a timely manner with the ETF were plastered all over the venue.

The concept of « model organisms » is being revisited in the light of the latest advances in multi-omics technologies that can now capture the full range of molecular events that occur over time, regardless of the organism studied. Classic, well-studied models, such as Escherichia coli, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, to name a few, have long been valuable for hypothesis testing, reproducibility, and sharing common platforms among researchers. However, they are not suitable for all types of researc...