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"The key to success is to dare to break the rules"12 December 2016
“To change the world, you do not need everybody. You only need one. So, will you be the one? That’s the question.” Saturday December 3rd, Nobel Laurea...
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Grant for research on murder and manslaughter in the Netherlands06 December 2016
’25 years of fatal violence’, a collaboration of dr. Marieke Liem and prof.dr.Lenneke Alink about murder and manslaughter in the Netherlands, has rece...
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The magic of projection06 December 2016
Video projections in contemporary art are convincing not because they depict reality, but because they show new possibilities within that reality. Art...
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Predictive policing wins group presentation in CSM elective Governance of crime and social disorder02 December 2016
If you know a crime is about to occur, should you be able to prevent it before it has even happened? This was one of the questions that was posed in l...
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Political Science launches new bachelor’s specialisation in The Hague30 November 2016
In September 2017 the Institute of Political Science (Leiden University) will launch a new bachelor’s specialisation: International Relations and Orga...
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Mobiles can help prevent famine11 November 2016
The World Food Programme (WFP) uses mobile technology to predict potential famine more rapidly. Leiden University's Centre for Innovation is developin...
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Who sets the security agenda?24 October 2016
Leiden University is organising two international conferences on security from 7 to 10 November in The Hague. Power relations, negotiating with extrem...
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'Peace: you just have to do it'27 September 2016
Who doesn’t want peace? Yet we don’t always appreciate how fragile it really is. This is why Leiden University was a co-organiser of the Just Peace Fe...
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Nuclear bunker under location Wijnhaven13 September 2016
Various ministries started building nuclear bunkers in the seventies to shield themselves from a possible nuclear attack from the East. One of these n...
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UNconference The Hague: Change for peace30 August 2016
What are you going to do for peace and justice? What will your contribution be to achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals? And who or what do y...
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HOPping in The Hague: introduction week for students in The Hague23 August 2016
Kitesurfing, colonising the Binnenhof and most important of all - meeting fellow students. More then 700 students of Leiden University in The Hague ge...
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The Hague Meets Geneva: Dialogue between the ICC and Human Rights Actors17 June 2016
On 3 June 2016, Prof. Carsten Stahn participated in a Panel at the Graduate Institute on International and Development Studies in Geneva on accountab...
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The new studying15 June 2016
Earlier a few pictures of the new Wijnhaven complex under construction were posted. But what are the changes for the students who will find their hom...
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Hague campus to become international academic centre09 June 2016
Within the next five years, Leiden University wants its campus in The Hague to become a leading international academic centre with research and teachi...
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Short Update on the Wijnhaven Complex04 April 2016
The building is far from finished, but the former ministry of Internal Affairs is looking more and more like the Academic building for the locations o...