Category: Features

This platform will host feature pieces, authoring opinion and editorial, new research and profiling our 1325 Fellows and Festival speakers over the coming months, as well as hosting work from our Beyond Writing competition winners and BB Question Time young journalists here too. Keep an eye on our social media channels for updated opportunities and thematic calls for submissions, coming soon!

Beyond Borders experts and researchers work around our core themes of cultural dialogue, women and conflict resolution, peacebuilding and rule of law. Browse by theme below, or else see the press archive below, including press interviews with Valerie Plame, Carles Puigdemont and our Founder Mark Muller amongst many others.

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Beyond Writing Competition Announcement

Wednesday 1st May 2019

On Behalf of the Judges It has been a huge pleasure to judge the Beyond Borders’ 2019 competition on the theme of inspirational women. The entries came from...

Beyond Writing Competition Round I

Friday 8th March 2019

Time to get writing! We are looking for submissions of 1,000 words or less for our creative writing competition, Beyond Writing. Our first theme is Inspirational Women!

Scotland’s Marriage of Inconvenience

Tuesday 19th February 2019

When the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union in 2016, two-thirds of voters in Scotland—across every single district—voted to remain. Now, as Brexit looms, many experts expect Scotland to forge a more distinct role on the global stage—one that could lead it to independence.

Madeleine Habib: CommonSpace speaks to the activist captain who tried to break the Gaza blockade

Monday 3rd September 2018

CommonSpace speaks to Madeleine Habib, the skipper who sailed the first all-women mission to Gaza and faced down the Israeli army with tea and biscuits .

Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont arrives in Scotland to talk about independence

Saturday 25th August 2018

The exiled former president of Catalonia, Carles Puigdemont, unexpectedly arrived in Scotland last night with plans to highlight the issue of Catalan independence.

The Realities of Modern Slavery: Spotlight, Lisa Kristine

Wednesday 1st August 2018

By 2018, slavery is illegal in every country, yet there are an estimated 46 million slaves worldwide. Despite this dystopian reality, for many, the idea of modern slavery...

Edinburgh showing for New York Times prize-winning press photos

Wednesday 1st August 2018

A young girl peers out from a line of women waiting for food and water in Mosul, a crowd gathers to watch a cockfight in Cuba, and an...

Innerleithen gearing up for International Festival

Monday 23rd July 2018

Former CIA operative Valerie Plame, historian William Dalrymple and authors Magnus Linklater, Richard Holloway and Stuart Kelly will be among the headliners at Traquair House on August 25 and 26.

Mark Muller: ‘For diplomacy to work you need to understand the different perspectives that global and local players have’

Tuesday 17th July 2018

As the Beyond Borders International Festival heads into its eighth year, the stakes are seemingly higher than ever.

Using Culture and Scotland’s Soft Power to Help to Resolve Conflict in the 21st Century

Friday 24th November 2017

Mark Muller Stuart QC recently gave a speech at the RSA Conference in Edinburgh on November 24th 2017 on Scotand’s Culture and Soft Power in relation to 21st...

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