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  • PeaceTech and Data4peace: What are we learning?

    Online

    This introductory event will draw on PSRP’s work and partnership to offer key insights and learnings from the PeaceTech team at the University of Edinburgh, including:

    What is PeaceTech? How can technology help facilitate inclusive peace, and what is the new potential regarding data analysis?
    Data on peace processes: What are the new possibilities for data collection, analysis, and connectivity: what can we do with data on peace and conflict now that we couldn’t do 10 years ago?
    What types of interdisciplinary and research-practice-tech teams are needed to produce effective PeaceTech projects?
    What lessons have we learned about designing an effective collaborative PeaceTech project in the ‘data’ space?

  • Conflict, Peace, & Covid-19 in the Middle East

    Online

    This event will offer insights into how Covid-19 is affecting peace and conflict trends in the Middle East, particularly around issues of trust and social cohesion and how local actors are shaping the response to the pandemic.

  • Covid-19: An Opportunity for Regional Integration?

    Jointly held by al-Sabah Programme, Gulf Studies Center, Political Settlements Research Programme and Open Think
    Tank, this event will examine regional responses to Covid-19 in the Middle East and Africa, and explore whether Covid-19 is a tool of conflict or opportunity for rapprochement.

  • Global Ungovernance

    Online

    This event will explore the concept of ungovernance in peacebuilding and transitional justice: how un-governance works, what it is good for, its potential downsides, and its implications for programs of institutional change.

  • Regional Responses to Covid-19

    This event will examine the role of regional organisations in Africa and Latin America in responding to the pandemic.

  • Book Launch: African Peace by Dr. Kathryn Nash

    The Conflict Resolution Program at Georgetown University is proud to host a discussion of Dr. Kathryn Nash's newly published African Peace: Regional norms from the Organization of African Unity to the African Union (Manchester University Press 2021). The talk will be moderated by Dr. Lise Howard.

  • Militarized masculinity and the paradox of restraint: mechanisms of social control under modern authoritarianism

    The twenty-first century is marked by the rise of new forms of authoritarianism, many of which are characterized by the ‘paradox of restraint’, in which reforms compliant with the rule of law are used to unshackle the ruler's arbitrary power. Despite a proliferation of scholarly studies on this topic, we still have limited understanding of how national-level authoritarian power reaches ordinary citizens in these contexts. This article identifies the performance of militarized masculinities as an understudied mechanism that does so.

  • Book Launch: Visions of African Unity

    The Decolonisation Group invites you to the book launch for Visions of African Unity, as edited by Frank Gerits and Matteo Grilli.

  • Book Talk on ‘African Peace – Regional Norms from the OAU to the AU’

    African regional organizations have played leading roles in constructing collective conflict management rules for the continent, but these rules or norms have not been static. Currently, the African Union (AU) deploys monitors, authorizes peace support operations, and actively engages to resolve internal conflicts. Just a few decades ago, these actions would have been deeply controversial under the Organization of African Unity (OAU). What changed to allow for this transformation in the way the African regional organization approaches peace and security?

  • Book Launch: The Humanitarian Civilian

    Join us to celebrate the launch of 'The Humanitarian Civilian: How the Idea of Distinction Circulates Within and Beyond International Humanitarian Law' by Dr Rebecca Sutton

  • Covid, Emergencies and Transitions: The Impact of Emergency Law Responses to Covid-19 in Fragile Settings

    Emergency law responses to Covid-19 have affected peace and transition processes in predictable and unpredictable ways, and this session looks at the consequences for levels of violent conflict and democratic consolidation. The discussion will be around the results of practice-based research with opportunities for the audience to participate with questions and interactive tools. Featuring the Edinburgh Centre for Constitutional Law, International IDEA, and the Political Settlements Research Programme at the University of Edinburgh.

  • Ceasefire Monitoring: Developments and Complexities

    Conciliation Resources and the Political Settlements Research Programme (PSRP) in conjunction with the Mediation Support Network are hosting an online event to support the launch of our new Accord Spotlight publication, ‘Ceasefire Monitoring: Developments and Complexities’.

  • Art as a Tool for Peace Exhibition

    Art Exhibition at Edinburgh Law School, Old College, South Bridge, Edinburgh EH8 9YL PeaceRep and the Global Justice Academy are proud to announce a new art exhibition highlighting the role of art as a tool for local peace. This powerful exhibition brings together a series of works by young artists from across Syria and Yemen,Read More