Marshall Beier

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I'm honored to appear in the Journal of International Political Theory in a series on "Global Crises and Utopian Hope." My article: "Children and their 'Right to be Heard': On a Child-Friendly Politics in an Age of Polycrisis." 

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Graduate Panel: Including Indigenous Nations in International Relations

Two participants will be selected and paired with an expert from the Indo-Pacific to discuss their work. This is an opportunity to gain mentorship in conference presentation and writing.

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How Human Conflict Accelerates Antimicrobial Resistance | ASM.org War and conflict accelerate antimicrobial resistance (AMR) due to the spread of infections and misuse of antibiotics. Addressing the challenges presented by AMR requires international coordination.

#DYK War zones are breeding grounds for drug-resistant infections. Gaza, Syria, Yemen, Ukraine: collapsed health systems + chaotic antibiotic use = antimicrobial resistance exploding. Militarism isn’t just killing people. It’s killing the medicines that could save them.

Rights education and the children’s university This article approaches children’s university programs as engaged forms of rights education allied with efforts toward democratic inclusion of children. To the extent they produce opportunities for...

"Rights Education and the Children's University," now published in vol. 24, no. 4 of the Journal of Human Rights. For those without institutional access, please contact me for the e-offprint link.

‘Put children’s rights at heart of UK law’, urge campaigners - CYP Now "Landmark moves" to bring England into line with Scotland and Wales on children’s rights are being urged by a coalition of 121 charities and organisations.

121 charities have urged the government to bring children's rights in England in line with Scotland & Wales.
The changes, in 2 proposed amendments to the Children’s Wellbeing & Schools Bill include placing a statutory duty on ministers to protect children’s rights.
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The school shooting industry is worth billions — and it keeps growing The effort to keep schools safe from mass shooters has ballooned into a multibillion-dollar industry. Companies are selling school districts assurance with high-tech products.

The effort to keep schools safe from mass shooters has ballooned into a multibillion-dollar industry. Companies are selling school districts assurance with high-tech products.

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Exhibits, Museums, and Historic Facilities This page provides details on exhibits, museums, historic facilities and public tours affiliated with the Department of Energy.

National Atomic Testing Museum (Las Vegas) rebranded as The Atomic Museum in 2022 and has been positioning itself as a Las Vegas attraction.

from banal militarism to "cute" militarism

McMaster Children and Youth University: Upcoming events

Announcing a new authorship policy at CJPH: Consideration of young people in research - Canadian Journal of Public Health Canadian Journal of Public Health -

Research WITH young people! CJPH @cjphrcsp.bsky.social now requires authors to describe how young people are involved in research that affects them. VOICE youth #JaynaLingLunny & faculty @memacdonald.bsky.social @francocarnevale.bsky.social promoted this policy! Our editorial doi.org/10.17269/s41...

Re-Imagining Childhood Grief: Children as Active Agents in a Transactional Process - Ceilidh Eaton Russell, Meg Chin, Georg Bollig, Cheryl-Anne Cait, Franco A. Carnevale, Jody Chrastek, Bianca Lavorgn... Bereavement during childhood impacts children’s wellbeing and biopsychosocial development. Research examining impacts and outcomes of childhood bereavement and ...

Children grieve too! In this paper, we contest views of children as immature, used to justify their exclusion from discussions about death. This exclusion breaches children’s participation rights. We propose a rethinking that recognizes young people as active moral agents. doi.org/10.1177/0030...

Convention on the Rights of the Child Find out about the world’s most widely ratified human rights treaty in history

Ratified by every UN member state except the US, though the US has signed it.

Children's Spaces With No Children Have we lost our very minds?

"This matters because children are themselves a vulnerable group, with few individual rights, and little autonomy. ... When we treat dislike for vulnerable humans as a personality quirk, a temperament issue...we set the stage for a society that abdicates its duty to care for the next generation."

Rights education and the children’s university This article approaches children’s university programs as engaged forms of rights education allied with efforts toward democratic inclusion of children. To the extent they produce opportunities for...

Newly published...

Happy to share that my project, ‘Childhood and Public Memory: Place, Presence, and Everyday Pedagogies of Remembrance,’ has been funded by a SSHRC (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada) Insight Grant. Brief project description here: marshallbeier.com/research/

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🎉 Welcome to #EWIS2025 in Krakow!

Plenary time! 🤓
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Coffee and Connect - Kids in Museums This website requires Javascript for some parts to function properly. Your experience may vary.

Work in a museum in the Midlands?

Come along to Museum Development Midlands' free, online Coffee and Connect session on 9 July - our Head of Programmes Laura will share how to make your museum more welcoming & accessible to families using our Manifesto ⭐

Seeking contributions for a volume on gender & national security. Proposal for July 15 / FFP/WPS & Natsec, mainstreaming, gender backlash, theoretical reflections, country case studies, etc. all welcome.
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Girls, Power and International Development Girls, Power and International Development - Agency and Activism in the Global North and South; Drawing on focus groups with United Nations’ Girl Up members from the UK, US and Malawi, this book demon...

I am absolutely delighted to announce that my first book, Girls, Power and International Development: Agency and Activism in the Global North and South, was published last week with @brisunipress.bsky.social

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#WPSAdvice: Killer robots: a new frontier for Canada to advance WPS By Charlotte Akin, Programmes & Outreach Lead and Sasha Imbleau, Stop Killer Robots, with research contributions from Rosa Lee With more than 120 active armed conflicts raging globally, opportu…

“#Canada has the opportunity to once again take a leadership role in disarmament by actively supporting the negotiation of a legally binding treaty prohibiting and regulating the use of ‘killer robots’ or #AutonomousWeapons systems.”

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Miss Atomic Bomb: The woman, the mystery and the man who solved it Historian Robert Friedrichs became obsessed with uncovering the true identity of Miss Atomic Bomb, the showgirl in a 1957 promo photo wearing a mushroom cloud swimsuit who seemed to vanish from the pu...

One of the Las Vegas "Miss Atomic Bombs" has been identified!

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This was part of Las Vegas using the Nevada Nuclear Test Site as a tourism draw.

Gaza’s youngest influencer aged 11 among children killed by Israeli strikes Yaqeen Hammad offered tips for surviving in war zone and is one of dozens of minors who have died in recent attacks Eleven-year-old Yaqeen Hammad, Gaza’s youngest influencer, is among the dozens of children killed by Israel in recent strikes, as its forces intensify their military offensive across the Palestinian territory. Known for her bright smile and volunteering efforts, Yaqeen was killed on Friday night after Israeli forces shelled the al-Baraka area of Deir al-Balah in northern Gaza, amid intense fighting in the region. Continue reading...

Gaza’s youngest influencer aged 11 among children killed by Israeli strikes

Young people will be key to preventing the next pandemic Global health forums like the World Health Assembly, where the pandemic agreement was recently approved, need to fully incorporate the voices and expertise of young people in the Global South, where 9...

Global health forums like the World Health Assembly, where the pandemic agreement was recently approved, need to fully incorporate the voices and expertise of young people in the Global South, where 90 percent of the world’s 15- to 24-year-olds live.  

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Each looks to where we have come in the decade since and where work in this fast-growing area is or should be going. The first of these has just been published and the rest will follow in the coming days /2

Children, childhoods, and security studies: taking stock and thinking forward Published in Critical Studies on Security (Ahead of Print, 2025)

In 2015, Critical Studies on Security published a special issue on 'Children, Childhoods, and Security Studies'. For the tenth anniversary of the special issue, the journal's Interventions section is publishing a collection of short reflections /1

Just rereleased in paperback.
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World Congress on Family & Children's Rights. Children Caught in Conflict: Inspiring Positive Change. Conference: Cambridge, United Kingdom, 27 - 30 July 2025.

🗓️ The 9th World Congress on Family Law & #Children's Rights will take place in July 2025 and Damon Martin of
International Social Service Australia, an alum of our Landry Child Protection Professional Training program, will speak about international kinship care!

Register: tinyurl.com/2s4d523f

Campaigners sound alarm as European nations move to exit landmine ban Finland, Poland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania cite rising threats from Russia to justify once again using one of world’s most indiscriminate weapons

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