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Book Talk: Redefining Ceasefires
September 14, 2023 @ 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm

Join PeaceRep and Marika Sosnowski for a talk on her new book, Redefining Ceasefires: Wartime Order and Statebuilding in Syria.

When: Thursday 14 September, 2:30 – 4:00pm
Where: Moot Court Room, Edinburgh Law School, South Bridge, Edinburgh EH8 9YL
Since 2012, ceasefires have been used in Syria to halt violence and facilitate peace agreements. However, in a new book, Marika Sosnowski argues that a ceasefire is rarely ever just a “cease fire”. Instead, she demonstrates that ceasefires are not only military tactics but are also tools of wartime order and statebuilding.
Drawing from the PA-X dataset, rare primary documents and first-hand interviews with over eighty Syrians and other experts, in this talk, Marika draws from the book’s findings to present an innovative typology of ceasefires as a way to think through a range of heretofore underexamined impacts ceasefires can have on areas like rebel/local governance, citizenship and property rights, humanitarian access and economic networks. The categories of the typology will be illustrated with examples of ceasefires from arguably the most critical conflict of our time, the Syrian civil war.
Read more about the book: Redefining Ceasefires: Wartime Order and Statebuilding in Syria
Speakers
- Laura Wise, PeaceRep Research Fellow and Programme Coordinator
- Kasia Houghton, ESRC Doctoral Researcher, University of St Andrews
- Mohamad Alashmar, Doctoral Researcher & Fellow at the Centre for Syrian Studies, University of St Andrews
About the Author
Marika Sosnowski is an Australian-qualified lawyer, a Research Associate at the German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA) in Hamburg and a Postdoctoral Fellow at Melbourne Law School. Her research is firmly interdisciplinary straddling international law, socio-legal studies and politics. Her primary interests are in the fields of governance and legal systems with a geographical focus on Syria.
About PeaceRep
PeaceRep is a research consortium based at The University of Edinburgh Law School. Our research is re-thinking peace and transition processes in the light of changing conflict dynamics, changing demands of inclusion, and changes in patterns of global intervention in conflict and peace/mediation/transition management processes.
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