New Voices in Cultural Relations - Read the winning dissertations

In June we announced the winner and special commendations for our New Voices in Cultural Relations Prize 2024. This brand new joint BISA and British Council prize is for a Master’s dissertation which provides new scholarly insight and/or offers a new policy direction that makes an original contribution to international relations.

We are now pleased to report that the winning essays have been published on the British Council’s website:

The politics of expendability: decolonial reflections on the state of climate justice at COP27 - Winning dissertation of the New Voices in Cultural Relations competition. This essay examines the policy outcomes of the twenty-seventh Conference of the Parties (COP27).

Discrimination in Europe from a Black European perspective: a framework for inclusion and anti-discrimination based on qualitative expert interviews with Black politicians in Europe - New Voices in Cultural Relations special commendation essay investigating the phenomenon of Afrophobia/Anti-Black racism in Europe.

Coloniality, neo-orientalism, culture, and death: why it is time to move away from the ‘war on terror’ narrative - New Voices in Cultural Relations special commendation essay examining and challenging the narrative of the West’s ‘War on Terror’.

Dynamics of 21st-century anti-coup resistance in Myanmar: triangle model of resistance in Myanmar - New Voices in Cultural Relations special commendation essay exploring the resistance movement against the military coup in Myanmar.

Navigating the chemical weapons taboo: Russia’s response to the OPCW investigations in Syria, 2013–2022 - New Voices in Cultural Relations special commendation essay examining Russia’s response to investigations into the use of chemical weapons in Syria and the role of information warfare.