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Brandon Hamber

An analysis of trends in global political, social and cultural life and its relevance to South Africa. Brandon Hamber is a South African living in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He is Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies and Director of INCORE at the University of Ulster, an associate site of the United Nations University. mail@brandonhamber.com

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With great power comes great obfuscation

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“With great power comes great responsibility” is one of those lines that, despite being uttered in a Spiderman movie, will linger on in social consciousness.

By: Brandon Hamber

26 Feb 10

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The big freeze and the politics of avoidance

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Ireland is a temperate place by European standards. It does not suffer from the extremes (in weather, that is) seen in other Northern climes. In winter, the average temperature is 5 oC; in summer, it is 15 oC. This beats the –40 oC you get in...

By: Brandon Hamber

15 Jan 10

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Bloodsucking is  all the rage

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The world seems hooked on vampires – Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Blade the Vampire Executioner, Tom Cruise the Sultry Vampire, and the recent teenage angst-filled vampires in Twilight. I even admit to being slightly addicted to the stylised yet...

By: Brandon Hamber

13 Nov 09

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Cheating is now  prevalent in many spheres of life

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I have been thinking a lot about cheating recently – not the extramarital kind, that is, but rather the act of breaking or bending the rules to have an unfair advantage over others or to beat rivals.

By: Brandon Hamber

09 Oct 09

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Give the gift of dignity, not column inches

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One of the sad realities of the world is that, once a newspaper story breaks, it is impossible to stop its spread. The story of 18-year-old South African athlete Caster Semenya is a case in point.

By: Brandon Hamber

11 Sep 09

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Use opportunity  offered by rubbish

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Research by the UK’s Institute for Public Policy Research has found that, in Ireland and the UK, the average person creates over 869 kg and over 603 kg of rubbish a year respectively. To deal with this, households in the UK and Ireland are...

By: Brandon Hamber

21 Aug 09

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Belfast and Johannesburg: peas in a racist pod?

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I long to live in a society where there is no racism but, living between Belfast and Johannesburg, this is impossible.

By: Brandon Hamber

10 Jul 09

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Where were you when the UK government imploded?

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There is probably not a reader of this column who has not been part of a ‘where were you when?’ conversation. Where were you when Nelson Mandela walked free? When Princess Diana died? When the Twin Towers crumbled?

By: Brandon Hamber

12 Jun 09

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