The Trolley Problem and COVID-19
What do we do when we face the trolley problem in real-time, due to COVID-19?
The Graduate Press – La Gazette de la Paix
The independent student publication of the Geneva Graduate Institute
What do we do when we face the trolley problem in real-time, due to COVID-19?
Since the beginning of the last decade, when millions of people rose-up in revolutions against corruption and dictatorship across the Middle East, demanding their legitimate human rights, there was a widespread atmosphere of optimism and excitement for fundamental reforms. However, regretfully, these hopes soon faded away.
Discrimination, racialization, and transnational social movements are intricately layered within each context they manifest in — the Institute is no different.
The Rohingya Refugees carry with them a painful history of oppression from ethnic cleansing, and continue to be a persecuted minority. How do the Burmese government and the Tatmadaw sustain and push the representation of the Rohingyas being ‘illegal immigrants’?
Dans cet article, David Rochat revient sur les réactions suite au meurtre de George Floyd, afin de soulever des interrogations concernant l’emploi de la notion de “diversité” à l’Institut, et plus particulièrement par GISA. Il plaide également en faveur de plus de sollicitations médiatiques, déclarations politiques et réflexions académiques capables d’embrasser et d’interroger le racisme dans sa complexité transnationale.
How do you say ‘gaslighting’ in French?
The path to a healthier diplomatic engagement may lie in strengthening the professional service of the flailing State Department.
Moments of revolution have sprung in various points of 2019, which has now been long gone. What might we learn from these events in the face of what could be a new global order?
Constraining student spaces and limited research perspectives are issues that have yet to be tackled in the Institute. This anonymous submission aims to drive the debate on these matters forward — all in the hopes of finding ways to make it better.
Profit is intoxicating and it sedates our instincts, but it’s not too late to kick the habit.





