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👋 Join us in welcoming the 2026-2027 batch to ISS!

Our Orientation Week has concluded and a new academic year has begun. This year, particularly, brings some exciting first to celebrate.

📕 Our students are the first to embark on our renewed one-year MA in Development Studies programme, starting an intensive year of learning, exchange and growth at ISS.

📗 We’re also thrilled to welcome the first cohort of Societies in Crisis: Humanitarian Action and Policy Responses, our new MSc programme offered jointly with The Hague Humanitarian Studies Centre and Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences (ESSB). The programme brings together perspectives from across disciplines to explore how societies experience and respond to crises.

📘 We also welcome our new Erasmus Mundus Masters Program in Public Policy - Mundus MAPP students, beginning the first year of their two-year international journey in public policy here at ISS.

With 23 nationalities represented across our new cohort of students, we’re looking forward to the perspectives, conversations and connections they will bring to our community.

Here’s to a year of learning, new experiences and making The Hague feel like home!

#ISSErasmus #ErasmusUniversity #DevelopmentStudies by @iss_erasmus

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🧩 Customize your MA experience with a wide range of electives

Our renewed MA in Development Studies is built around flexibility and choice, so you can shape your academic journey around your goals.

Think of it like a puzzle: each elective is a piece that helps you build a study path that fits your interests, research and career ambitions.

Not sure where to start? We’ve put together suggested elective pathways to help you see how the pieces can come together:

🟠 Social Innovation Pathway
🟡 Development Economics Pathway
🟢 Environment Pathway
🔵 Politics and Governance Pathway
🟣 Social Justice Pathway

Prefer to mix and match? You can also create your own combination. It’s your picture to complete.

🔗 Hit the link in bio to learn more in our programme overview!

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📚 Now open: applications for our renewed MA in Development Studies

Curious about why global issues unfold the way they do and whose ideas shape them?

This programme by the ISS, part of Erasmus University Rotterdam, is built for people who want to dig deeper, question confidently and understand complexity from multiple perspectives.

Here’s what you can expect:

✅ A one-year programme
✅ Flexibility to shape your study path with electives
✅ A hands-on, theory-grounded approach
✅ Small, interactive classes in an international environment

Ready to explore the forces shaping societies – with the tools to analyse them?

🔗 Begin your application by tapping the link in our bio!

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The International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) extends its warmest congratulations to Navi Pillay on being awarded the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize!

From challenging apartheid in South Africa to shaping international justice on the world stage, Pillay has dedicated her career to defending human rights and advancing the rule of law.

Her journey began in Durban, South Africa, where she established her own law firm in 1967 and defended anti-apartheid activists. She later served as a judge and President of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, helping establish landmark legal precedents on sexual violence as a crime under international law.

Her commitment to justice continued through her work at the International Criminal Court, as UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, and as a judge at the International Court of Justice.

In 2016, Erasmus University Rotterdam awarded Pillay an honorary doctorate, presented by honorary promotors ISS Professor Karin Arts and Professor Kristin Henrard, in recognition of her contributions to human rights and international justice. During her visit, she also shared her knowledge and experience with Erasmus University and ISS students in a masterclass on human rights and law.

Throughout her remarkable career, Pillay has demonstrated the courage and integrity required to uphold international justice, even in the face of adversity.

Photos: Michelle Muus, R. Keus

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Meet Anastasia, our Student Welfare Officer at ISS! 👋

Always here to support our students and their well-being throughout their journey at ISS. ❤️

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#ISSErasmus #PeopleOfISS #CampusLife by @iss_erasmus

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🎓 ISS is heading to Indonesia for EHEF 2026!

Thinking about studying at ISS in The Hague? Come meet us at @ehef.id's European Higher Education Fair in Jakarta and discover our programmes, student experience and what studying at ISS could look like.

✅ 7–8 November 2026
✅ 11:00–17:00 JKT
✅ Catur Dharma Hall, Menara Astra, Jakarta

Here is your personal e-vite from our recruitment advisor, Darren Baradhan! 🎥

🔗 Register for the fair by tapping the link in bio!

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📚 What questions about the world keep you curious?

From inequality and migration to climate, governance and social justice, development is shaped by complex forces that cross borders, institutions and communities.

At the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), part of @erasmusuni, the MA in Development Studies gives you the space to explore these complexities critically, learn from diverse perspectives and shape a study path around the questions that matter to you.

Thinking about your next step? 💡

Applications for the MA in Development Studies are OPEN!

🔗 Discover the programme and application process by tapping the link in bio!

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📢 Calling all Turkish professionals interested in pursuing an MA in Development Studies!

The Jean Monnet Fellowships Programme offers eligible professionals working in the public, private and NGO sectors in Türkiye the opportunity to pursue postgraduate study in an EU Member State for up to 12 months.

ISS is proud to welcome Jean Monnet Fellows to our MA in Development Studies, where you can deepen your expertise and gain an international perspective on today’s most pressing development challenges.

Ready to take the next step in your academic and professional journey?

🎓 Deadline to apply: 27 October 2026

🔗 Learn more about the fellowship by tapping the link in bio!

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🔊 EPISODE 6 OUT NOW!

Join us for the final episode of the second season of 'The Good Humanitarian' as we explore 'The Cost of Doing Good'.

What happens when a humanitarian organisation does not simply respond to a crisis, but becomes embedded in everyday life? And what does it mean when that organisation is politically targeted, defunded and presented as replaceable? This episode looks at the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) and the consequences of attempts to actively dismantle it in Palestine.

💬 Guest Roland Friedrich, Director of UNRWA in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem joins us for the sixth and final episode: 'The humanitarians that run a country'. Roland will talk us through the cost of Palestine - the cost of doing good when responsibility is endlessly postponed.

We would also like to know from you, our listeners: What makes a 'good' humanitarian? Leave a comment below or on our podcasting channels. ✍

Co-hosts: Thomas Ansell and Sarah Njoroge
Production: Saleem Salameh and Gabriela Anderson

🎧 You can listen to Episode 6 by tapping the link in bio!

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🧩 What made the AI boom possible?

Generative AI can feel like it arrived almost overnight. But look beneath the technology and a much longer story begins to emerge.

The finale of The Ontology Lab Spinoza Series, hosted by the Crisis, Politics and Law Academic Team, is live!

In this episode, Karim Knio is joined by PhD researcher Andrew Dryhurst to trace that story from the rise of the World Wide Web in the 1990s and the development of graphics processing units, through the era of big data, to today’s generative AI boom and the growing concentration of digital infrastructure.

Along the way, they explore a striking paradox: how did dreams of a freer, more decentralized internet become entangled with some of the most concentrated technological infrastructures in the world?

Take out your headphones. For the final time this series, we’re making room for complexity!

🎧 Listen to the series finale, The Rise of AI by tapping the link in bio!

If you've been listening in on this pilot series, let us know what you think below!

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🔊 Episode #5 is OUT NOW!

Join us for the next episode of 'The Good Humanitarian' podcast in collaboration with The Hague Humanitarian Studies Centre!

You’ve probably heard of the Geneva Conventions: laws meant to govern war, protect civilians and shield doctors, journalists and aid workers. These and other laws are also meant to make sure that when the worst crimes happen, someone is held responsible. But what happens when those laws are ignored, delayed or applied selectively?

In this episode, guests Thandiwe Matthews, PhD (University of the Witwatersrand) and Gabrielė Chlevickaitė (T.M.C. Asser Instituut) join us for the fifth episode: 'The International Criminal Court is waiting for you'. The guests and co-hosts guide us through the debate on the cost of doing nothing.

We would also like to know from you, our listeners: What makes a 'good' humanitarian? Leave a comment below or on our podcasting channels.

Co-hosts: Thomas Ansell and Sarah Njoroge
Production: Saleem Salameh and Gabriela Anderson

🎧 You can listen to episode 5 by tapping the link in bio!

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🧩 What makes resistance endure?

Some social movements flare up and disappear. Others survive for years, or even decades, changing shape as the world around them changes. So what keeps people resisting?

Join us again in The Ontology Lab, a new podcast hosted by the Crisis, Politics and Law Academic Team at ISS. On the International Day of Democracy, we’re thinking about democracy beyond the ballot box and about the people who keep organizing, resisting and pushing for change.

In Episode 3, ISS Associate Professor Karim Knio is joined by PhD researcher Margaux Schulz to explore one of France’s longest-running social movements: the struggle around Notre-Dame-des-Landes and the Zone to Defend (ZAD).

Beginning in the 1970s with opposition to plans for a new airport, the movement grew, transformed and persisted. Even when the airport project was abandoned in 2018, the movement did not simply disappear. Why?

From occupation as a form of resistance to the ways tactics and struggles travel across movements, Karim and Margaux turn to Spinoza and critical realism to ask what enables collective resistance not simply to survive but to persevere.

Get your headphones – we’re making room for complexity.

🎧 Listen to Episode 3 of The Ontology Lab by tapping the link in bio!

Photo: Léodras / Wikimedia Commons
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