How can social network analysis help in understanding resilience to global environmental changes in the isolated mountain and Arctic island communities?
What is the role of large-scale extractive investments in the achievement of Sustainable Development Goals and their contradictory dynamics?
What are the opportunities and limits of bilateral talks between Switzerland and Europe? Could a single framework agreement bring together the existing treaties?
What are the effects of market incentives made by public financial institutions on worker organisations and social dialogue according to ILO key labour standards?
What visions, concepts, and methods do the different actors have to actively support the transformation of camps/camp-like settings from temporary emerging solutions to permanent structures?
What should be the essential elements of evidence-based policy interventions aimed at curbing the circulation of military-style rifles and promoting regional security in Latin America?
What are the barriers and opportunities for compost-based urban farming and gardening in Dschang, Cameroon and Lausanne, Switzerland?
Which types of international environmental cooperation are likely to have long-term prospects in democracies and which will not?
What are the major factors shaping, preventing or enhancing human rights-based approaches in the world heritage system?
When and how does increasing market power translate into regulatory power to shape the rules of international trade?
What are the effects of the financialisation of the commodity trading on local lives and what are the policy recommendations to be drawn for Swiss and international regulatory actors?
To what extent does violence against civilians by armed actors increase the risk of conflict escalation and civil war?
What are the effectiveness and the impact of public-private partnerships for advancing the Sustainable Development Goals?
How can new institutional arrangements help reconcile livelihood-relevant factors of local populations with the UN program for Reducing Emissions for Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD)?
Why, when and how do refugees engage in transactional sex across genders and what are the sexual and reproductive health and mental health consequences of refugees involved in transactional sex?
How is the plurality of urban cultural heritage perceived and how is it taken into account in the urban development in Beijing, Mexico and Rome?
What are the driving factors behind the (lack) of response of the health sector to violence against women and girls in Tirana, Albania and Minas Gerais, Brazil?
What are the effects of different types of trade policy measures on global food price volatility and what local, alternative measures can be adopted to foster food security in volatile global markets?
How central were discourses around science and equity throughout the GST process and how diverse were they?
How can psychological knowledge help legal professionals in their work with victims in the context of the Cambodian trials?
What are the biodiversity data needs of international organizations, governments, civil society and business?
To what extent do institutional reforms and participation mechanism increase the external stakeholder input in formal and informal governance arrangements?
What are the experiences of recently arrived Afghans in Europe and how is the understanding of home, belonging and the ‘self ‘shaped by gender? How does this understanding affect their capacity and willingness to engage with development in Afghanistan?
What are the roles played by migrant organisations in the context of transnational Senegalese migration, integration and development?
What are the political gains from trade agreements and what is their economic value in turn?
To what extent does violence against civilians by armed actors increase the risk of conflict escalation and civil war?
How can raising awareness, better prevention and treatment help individuals suffering from Noma, the “neglected disease”?
What are the effects of cross-border refugee flows and the possible spread of conflicts in host countries taking into account ethnical linkages?