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  • Top 5 Dot-Mom Guest Contributor Posts in 2022

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    Dot-Mom  //  What You Are Reading  //  January 18, 2023  //  By Deekshita Ramanarayanan
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    In 2022, the Dot-Mom column published several pieces from expert guest authors from the greater maternal and reproductive health community. In our top read guest contributor piece of the year, Susie Jolly examined the role of colonialism in sexuality education globally. Jolly highlighted examples where sexual health knowledge is built on unethical medical research carried out on racialized people, such as the study of untreated syphilis among Black men in the United States. Sexuality educators, especially those placed in the Global North, have a responsibility to work to decolonize their work. Jolly suggests supporting resources led by marginalized people, critically examining colonialism’s influence in the understanding of sexuality, and shifting the dynamics of who decides on content to lend more weight to non-Western expertise and young people learning from their own experiences.

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  • Top 10 Posts of September and October 2022

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    What You Are Reading  //  December 16, 2022  //  By Abegail Anderson
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    In September and October’s top post, Susie Jolly captures how sex education is deeply enmeshed in the power dynamics and institutional norms established by lingering colonialist influences. “We should be outraged, but maybe not surprised at sexuality education’s colonialist connections, writes Jolly. “Sexuality and power are integrally connected at both individual and systems levels.” The author lays out three strategies to address the impact of sex education’s colonialist past and decolonize sex education: resources and reparations, changing sexuality education content, and changing who decides the content.

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  • Top 5 Posts of November 2022

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    What You Are Reading  //  December 13, 2022  //  By Claire Doyle
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    As the COP27 climate talks in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt fade from the headlines, governments are convening now at another COP in Montreal, Canada: The 15th Conference of the Parties (COP15) to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity. In the most-read post for November, Jesse Rodenbiker describes how China’s active leadership as COP15 president is crucial to achieving the meeting’s central aim: The adoption of a new set of global biodiversity targets. Yet China’s role in shepherding this international forum is not without complications. Rodenbiker observes that the country’s extensive protected area program—which could influence the nature of global conservation efforts—includes controversial practices that have displaced communities and reinforced inequality.

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  • Top 5 Posts of August 2022

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    What You Are Reading  //  September 30, 2022  //  By Amanda King
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    In August’s top post, Jiayi Zhou discusses an underexplored dimension of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine: Farmland and agriculture. While the negative impacts of the conflict on food security have become readily apparent, the geography of the war clearly shows that Russia currently occupies more than one-fifth of Ukrainian farmland. Zhou observes that Russia’s territorial ambitions are not only seen by its government as the preservation of an important natural resource, but also the extension of an overall Russian nationalism with broader implications for food security, environmental sustainability, and geopolitical ties.

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  • Top 5 Posts for July 2022

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    What You Are Reading  //  August 19, 2022  //  By Yiran Ning
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    July’s top post explored why water diplomats should revisit the realist perspective when interrogating leadership styles, cultural differences, and knowledge sharing involved in water disputes and cooperation. Over the past decade, diplomacy initiatives to address transboundary water conflicts have been frustratingly “power-shy,” write Sumit Vij, Jeroen Warner, Mark Zeitoun, and Christian Bréthaut. Multilateral institutions like the United Nations should instead address the power dynamics embedded in such disputes by engaging in track 2 (informal interaction between lower-ranking officers of both sides) or track 3 (facilitating interaction and understanding between communities) diplomacy.

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  • Top 5 Posts for June 2022

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    What You Are Reading  //  July 18, 2022  //  By Abegail Anderson
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    From climate change to COVID-19 and the war in Ukraine, the world is a landscape of increasing instability. Book-ending the Top 5 posts of June are two articles that explore different aspects of these converging risks. In the top post for June, Steven Gale and Mat Burrows write that globally, younger generations are becoming increasingly disengaged and discontent with their democratic governments, civil society, and institutions. Youth disillusionment is not a result of ignorance to current affairs, but rather a lack of faith in democratic institutions to address today’s most pressing global issues. Tackling youth disillusionment, suggest Gale and Burrows, begins with examining youth engagement trends and placing it at the top of the agenda.

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  • Top 5 Posts for May 2022

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    What You Are Reading  //  June 28, 2022  //  By Claire Doyle
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    In Iraq, climate change is adding stress to an already precarious situation. Weak public services,  growing unemployment, fossil fuel-related environmental and health hazards, and other factors have generated high levels of social vulnerability and contributed to recent protests. In the top post for May, Dylan O’Driscoll and Shivan Fazil write about how, against this fragile backdrop, insecurity is heightened by increasingly deadly flash floods and more frequent dust storms that pose a public health threat.

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  • Top 5 Posts for April 2022

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    What You Are Reading  //  May 20, 2022  //  By Claire Doyle

    7005597459_e47d4ca492_cAs the world reels from the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the pandemic, climate shocks, and other crises, strategic future planning is more important than ever. In April’s most-read article, Steven Gale points to a source of hope in the suite of inclusive, “future-forward” initiatives that are unfolding under UN leadership, from risk reporting to impact assessments and youth engagement. These activities, encompassed by the UN’s Our Common Agenda, represent a global collaborative effort to map future risks and identify policy options in service of long-term well-being for people and the planet.

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