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SUMMARY:Russia-Ukraine Dialogues: The Future of China-Russia Relations
DESCRIPTION:Register to attend via Zoom\nThis panel discussion welcomes experts to discuss the evolving relationship between China and Russia. Panelists will discuss the status of China-Russia diplomatic relations\, economic and diplomatic lessons learned from the war\, and impacts on the People’s Liberation Army’s military strategy. \nSpeakers: \nLukas Fiala is a PhD International Relations candidate at LSE\, researching China’s defence industry\, military strategy and emerging security relationships with countries in the Global South. He is also the Project Coordinator of China Foresight\, the China-focused research programme at LSE IDEAS. \nDr Björn Alexander Düben is an Assistant Professor at the School of International and Public Affairs at Jilin University. He analyses China’s reaction to\, and motivation in implicitly supporting\, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine\, even as Putin’s strategic blunder becomes increasingly difficult to deal with. \nDr Yu Jie is senior research fellow on China at Chatham House\, focusing on the decision-making process of Chinese foreign policy as well as China’s economic diplomacy. She frequently comments in major media outlets such as BBC News and the Financial Times; and regularly briefs senior policy practitioners from the G7 member governments\, the Silk Road Fund in Beijing. Yu Jie was previously head of China Foresight at LSE IDEAS and remains as an associate fellow with LSE IDEAS. \nChair: Leon Hartwell is the Senior Advisor for the Central and South Eastern European Programme at LSE IDEAS and a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA) in Washington DC. His research interests include conflict resolution\, genocide\, transitional justice\, diplomacy\, democracy\, and the Western Balkans. \n  \nThis event is part of the Russia-Ukraine Dialogues series. Given the recent escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian war (24 February 2022)\, the conflict continues to be fluid and requires cross-disciplinary analysis. Weekly panels on Tuesdays bring together in-house and external experts to report on and discuss the war’s impacts on various global issues. \nFrom the 1st of November 2022\, the LSE IDEAS Russia-Ukraine Dialogues is part-funded by PeaceRep (the Peace and Conflict Resolution Evidence Platform)\, an international research project rethinking peace and transition processes in light of changing conflict dynamics led by the University of Edinburgh Law School.
URL:https://peacerep.org/event/russia-ukraine-dialogues-future-china-russia-relations/
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SUMMARY:GMU Carter School's Method Mondays: PA-X Peace Agreements Database and PeaceRep
DESCRIPTION:Event time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM EDT (UTC-4) \nMethod Mondays: PA-X Peace Agreements Database and PeaceRep\n\nRSVP via Eventbrite\n\nFeaturing guest speaker Dr Sanja Badanjak\, Chancellor’s Fellow in Global Challenges at the University of Edinburgh’s School of Law and Data Manager for PA-X Peace Agreements Database and Dataset. \nJoin online to learn about PA-X Peace Agreements Database and PeaceRep’s approaches to studying peace processes. \nThe Peace and Conflict Resolution Evidence Platform (PeaceRep) consortium is working on a variety of research projects related to better understanding the key features and prospects of contemporary peace and transition processes. At the heart of the programme is the PA-X Peace Agreement Database and Dataset\, the largest fully digitised and searchable English-language database of peace agreements\, which also features a human-coded dataset of peace agreement provisions and a corpus of agreement texts. This talk will present PA-X and related data resources\, discussing the PeaceRep approach to data collection\, and the text-as-data methodologies we rely on to better understand how processes of post-war political and institutional change can take place. \nThe Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution (George Mason University) host Method Mondays online via Zoom.
URL:https://peacerep.org/event/gmu-carter-school-method-mondays-peacerep/
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SUMMARY:Carnall Peace Award Lecture: Global Peace and Security after Ukraine
DESCRIPTION:Hosted by Peace & Justice (Scotland). Take part in the event either online or in-person. \nREGISTER TO ATTEND\nWednesday 21 September is United Nations International Peace Day\, marked this year by a lecture from the recipient of the Carnall Peace Award for 2022\, Professor Paul Rogers. \nProfessor Rogers is Emeritus Professor of Peace Studies and International Relations at Bradford University and is a regular commentator on global security issues in both the national and international media. \nHe will present his lecture\, “Global Peace and Security After Ukraine”\, at 18:30 at the Augustine United Church in Edinburgh. \nThe lecture will be followed at 19:15 by a panel discussion and Q and A with Professor Rogers\, who will be joined by: \nYurii Sheliazhenko\, executive secretary of the Ukrainian Pacifist Movement and Board member of World Beyond War (on zoom from Kyiv) and \nVijay Prashad\, Director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research\, Editor of Leftworld Books and a fellow at Renmin University of China. (on zoom from Chile). \nThe Q and A will be moderated by Professor Christine Bell\, co-director of the Global Justice Academy and director of PeaceRep at the University of Edinburgh. \nThe discussion will focus on the geopolitical implications of the crisis in Ukraine. \n“In a world where war in Europe creates hunger in Africa\, where a pandemic can circle the globe in days and reverberate for years\, where emissions anywhere mean rising sea levels everywhere\, the threat to our collective prosperity from a breakdown in global cooperation cannot be overstated. … The root cause of what we face today is the war. And it is the war that must end.” \n– Kristaline Georgieva\, International Monetary Fund Managing Director\, April 2022 \nImage Credit: Drazen Nesic on Pixnio.
URL:https://peacerep.org/event/carnall-peace-award-lecture-global-peace-and-security-after-ukraine/
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SUMMARY:Peace Talks Webinar - Chinese approaches to conflict management: Lessons for ongoing conflicts in near and far abroad
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday 14 June 2022\n12:30 – 13:30 BST \nRegister to attend via Zoom\nChina’s vision of addressing violent conflicts and security challenges differs substantially from those of Western countries. China seeks stability\, rather than peace; and China’s economic development\, and connectivity and trade needs drive their engagement in conflict and post-conflict settings. \nWhat lessons does this approach hold for contemporary conflicts\, from Myanmar to the Horn of Africa and Ukraine? Speakers will present findings from recent PeaceRep reports on Chinese approaches to conflict management and what lessons these hold for contemporary conflicts\, from Myanmar to the Horn of Africa and Ukraine. Followed by Q&A. \nConfirmed presenters include Bernardo Mariani (independent consultant) and Monalisa Adhikari (PeaceRep research). \nThe speakers will discuss findings from recent Global Transitions reports: \n• China’s Engagement in Conflict and Post-Conflict Settings: The Quest for Stability (Bernardo Mariani) \n• “Asian” Approaches to Peacebuilding?: Modalities\, Convergences\, and Differences in India\, Japan and China’s Approach to Supporting Peace Processes (Monalisa Adhikari) \nAbout the Global Transitions Series: \nPeaceRep’s Global Transitions Series looks at fragmentations in the global order and how these impact peace and transition settlements. It explores why and how different third-party actors – state\, intergovernmental\, and non-governmental – intervene in conflicts\, and how they see themselves contributing to reduction of conflict and risks of conflict relapse. The series critically assesses the growth and diversification of global and regional responses to contemporary conflicts. It also asks how local actors are navigating this multiplicity of mediators and peacebuilders and how this is shaping conflict outcomes and post-conflict governance.
URL:https://peacerep.org/event/chinese-approaches-to-conflict-management-lessons-for-ongoing-conflicts-in-near-and-far-abroad/
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SUMMARY:Global Fragmentation and Peacemaking: Lessons from Non-Western Powers and their Conflict Management
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday 7 June \n16:00 – 17:30 BST \nMacClaren Stuart Room\, Old College\, The University of Edinburgh \nRegister to attend\nHosted by the the PeaceRep consortium and the Scottish Council of Global Affairs (SCGA)\, this panel will present findings of a multi-partner PeaceRep project on global fragmentations of peace approaches\, funded by the Foreign\, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO). \nThe Global Transitions project – spearheaded by Edinburgh and St Andrews universities\, both partners in SCGA – is exploring motivations and approaches of non-Western interveners and how their approaches ‘land’ on the ground in select countries. A growing selection of findings from the project is published under a new series Global Transitions. \nThe event will feature regional and thematic experts working on the Global Transitions project. They will share key findings and policy recommendations from their ongoing work\, with plenty of opportunity for discussion and questions. \nThis panel event will be followed by a drinks reception. \nMore about the Global Transitions project: \nThe management of conflict and political transitions today is starkly different from what existed a decade or two ago. We are seeing dramatic changes in conflict dynamics and an infusion of new approaches by a more diverse set of actors. \n\nIn Syria\, the Geneva peace talks conducted under the auspices of the United Nations\, have been supplemented by Astana talks\, sponsored by Russia\, Turkey\, and Iran.\nIn Sudan\, the influence of the Troika – Norway\, the United Kingdom\, and the United States – which played pivotal roles in the Darfur conflict since 2003 and in the 2005 peace agreement leading to the independence of South Sudan\, has waned. The two neighbours – Egypt and Ethiopia – and the Gulf states are emerging as the main actors in Sudan’s current transition.\nIn April 2022\, President Macron announced the withdrawal of French troops supporting political transition in Mali. French priorities were deemed incompatible with those of the Mali military government in place since 2020. Soon after\, Mali authorities invited the Russian company Wagner to help in their fight against the jihadist groups. A couple of years earlier\, a similar story unfolded in the Central African Republic.\nIn Myanmar\, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations is the main mediator\, and China’s influence in conflict management is central.\nWho will emerge as the dominant mediator in Ukraine remains to be seen\, but several non-Western powers\, including Turkey\, are seen as pivotal in ensuring a successful process.\n\nThe era of liberal dominance in peace and transition management is unequivocally over. A new tapestry of international interveners mean that peace and transition processes have fractured forms of intervention that reflect a fracturing of the global order. These changes raise important questions about how approaches to peace and the nature of the global order are changing in the present\, and how they might look in the future. \n\nHow are we seeing the tapestry of international actors involved in peacemaking and peacebuilding change?\nAre new actors proposing new models of peacemaking and peacebuilding? How do these models fit with the prevailing liberal one?\nHow is the fractured nature of interventions in peace processes changing the prospects for peace and the peace settlements that emerge?\nWhat motivates non-Western interveners in their peacemaking activities?\nWhat differences can we see between regional and global interveners?\nHow are local actors navigating this new landscape\, and how is this shaping conflict outcomes and post-conflict governance?\nWhat influence do these developments have on the global international institutions and liberal norms that have underpinned the post-Cold War order?\n\nRead the full Global Transitions publications series.
URL:https://peacerep.org/event/global-fragmentation-and-peacemaking-lessons-from-non-western-powers/
LOCATION:University of Edinburgh
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SUMMARY:Peace Talks Webinar - Russian & Turkish approaches to Conflict Management: Lessons for Ukraine
DESCRIPTION:Hosted online via Zoom \nRegister to attend\nJoin PeaceRep\, London School of Economics\, and the University of St Andrews for this lunchtime webinar. Speakers will present findings from two recent PeaceRep reports on Russian and Turkish approaches to conflict management and what lessons these hold for Ukraine\, followed by Q&A.  \nConfirmed presenters include Bernardo Mariani (independent consultant) and Spyros Sofos (LSE).  \nThe speakers will discuss findings from recent Global Transitions reports: \n\nRussia’s Engagement in Conflict and Post-Conflict Settings: Growing Geopolitical Ambitions and “Peace by Force” by Bernardo Mariani\n\n\nPeacebuilding in Turbulent Times: Turkey in MENA and Africa (Global Transitions Series) by Spyros Sofos\n\nAbout the Global Transitions Series: \nPeaceRep’s Global Transitions Series looks at fragmentations in the global order and how these impact peace and transition settlements. It explores why and how different third-party actors – state\, intergovernmental\, and non-governmental – intervene in conflicts\, and how they see themselves contributing to reduction of conflict and risks of conflict relapse. The series critically assesses the growth and diversification of global and regional responses to contemporary conflicts. It also asks how local actors are navigating this multiplicity of mediators and peacebuilders and how this is shaping conflict outcomes and post-conflict governance. Find out more about this series. \nQuestions? Get in touch via email: info@peacerep.org
URL:https://peacerep.org/event/peace-talks-webinar-russian-turkish-approaches-ukraine/
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SUMMARY:From Federalism to Hypercentralization: Decentralization in Syrian Constitutions in their Historical Context (LSE Seminar)
DESCRIPTION:From Federalism to Hypercentralization: Decentralization in Syrian Constitutions in their Historical Context \nFriday 20 May\, 17:00 BST \nThis hybrid event will be hosted in person in London. For those who cannot attend the in-person event are welcome to join us online via Zoom by registering on the following link:  \nhttps://lse.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ba8TjwsTQf2eh9mGDojnlw \nThroughout its 100 years of constitutional history the Syrian constitutions adopted dramatically different approaches to decentralizations. But what context shaped these choices and what are the implications on the recent debate on this issue? \nIn this event\, the speakers will discuss how Syrian constitutions handled decentralization and local governance since 1920 draft constitution up to the current 2012 constitution\, investigating the political\, social\, and economic motives that led to the chosen approach in each of these constitutions. They will focus on the three dimensions of decentralization: political\, administrative and economic\, and also discuss how the decentralization arrangements handled the delicate question of the representation of the minorities. \nThis event comes in the context of launching a research paper that researchers have published “From Federalism to Hypercentralization: Decentralization in Syrian Constitutions in their Historical Context”. \nThe Arabic version of the paper is available through: https://eprints.lse.ac.uk/115101/ \nThe full English version will be available soon. \nChair:    \nProf. Mary Kaldor is a Professor Emeritus of Global Governance and Director of the Conflict Research Programme at The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). \nSpeakers:  \nDr. Rim Turkmani is the Principal Investigator of the  “Legitimacy and Citizenship in the Arab World” programme and the research director of the Conflict Research Programme – Syria Team at London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). \nDr. Zedoun Alzoubi is a Syrian researcher and expert in governance and local administration. \nMazen Gharibah is a Syrian researcher at the Legitimacy and Citizenship in the Arab World programme and Conflict Research Programme at LSE. \n 
URL:https://peacerep.org/event/lse-event-from-federalism-to-hypercentralization/
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SUMMARY:Humanitarianism and Covid-19: Structural dilemmas\, fault lines\, new perspectives
DESCRIPTION:Register to attend\n\nThis webinar launches the new IDS Bulletin: Humanitarianism and Covid-19: Structural Dilemmas\, Fault Lines\, and New Perspectives\, This issue includes an article authored by PeaceRep researcher Juline Beaujouan\, titled ‘The Covid-19 Pandemic and Alternative Governance Systems in Idlib’. \nThe unprecedented threat posed by the Covid-19 pandemic has presented a crisis for the international humanitarian system. At a time when the number of people in need of assistance has drastically expanded\, humanitarian funding has been cut as countries focus on their domestic economies. International travel bans and lockdowns have impeded humanitarian access\, constraining conventional humanitarian response mechanisms and processes. \nEvery crisis presents an opportunity to rethink policy\, practice\, and research\, and this issue of the IDS Bulletin investigates how the pandemic has exposed failings but also generated new opportunities and challenges in the humanitarian system\, especially within the localisation agenda. Across four major themes\, the articles in this Bulletin discuss the multifaceted nature of the pandemic and its impacts. As much a socioeconomic crisis as a public health crisis\, it has deepened structural inequalities and highlighted population-specific vulnerabilities. \nThe Bulletin emphasises how responses to the pandemic have converged with a weakening of protection regimes for displaced people including asylum seekers and refugees. Furthermore\, it shows that the pandemic has presented an extraordinary crisis for the international humanitarian system\, highlighting the failures of states and international humanitarian actors to provide needed assistance. Conversely\, and most importantly\, it argues that with the partial absence of state or international humanitarian responses\, the pandemic has given unanticipated impetus to everyday forms of humanitarianism practised by and within local communities. \nThis issue of the IDS Bulletin also offers a salutary message about the future for humanitarianism in further crises – have responses to the pandemic offered a foreboding about increased forms of detachment\, a low level of concern\, and a weakening of international solidarities?
URL:https://peacerep.org/event/humanitarianism-and-covid-19-structural-dilemmas-fault-lines-and-new-perspectives-ids-bulletin-launch-event/
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SUMMARY:Art as a Tool for Peace Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:Art Exhibition at Edinburgh Law School\, Old College\, South Bridge\, Edinburgh EH8 9YL \nPeaceRep 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\, offering a glimpse into everyday life in some of the world’s most protracted conflicts. View the collections in the Edinburgh Law School cafe throughout summer 2022. \nAbout the Exhibition\nThe exhibition features a series of paintings created by a group of young Syrian artists called the Blue Team (Fariq Azraq in Arabic)\, who have collaborated to illustrate life in opposition-held areas of Syria during the Covid-19 pandemic. Earlier in 2021\, the artists produced two exhibitions in Syria – combining art\, music\, and activities – that offer powerful insights into the daily lives of Syrian displaced and ethnic minorities\, and demonstrate how art can bring people together and act as a tool for local peace. Now in Scotland for the first time\, this exhibition is an opportunity to view the paintings and hear the stories of these extraordinary young people. \nThe exhibition also features the work of award-winning Yemeni artist Shatha Altowai\, an IASH Artist Protection Fund Fellow. In “The White Canvas”\, Shatha addresses issues that she has experienced and observed throughout her life in Yemen\, specifically focussing on the last seven years since the eruption of the current war. She aims to highlight the lifestyles of Yemeni families living through the war\, their solidarity\, and how they seek to overcome the lack of basic necessities\, such as food\, water\, electricity\, fuel and security. Her work conveys the contradictory emotions of strength and fear that Yemeni families grapple with as part of their everyday experience. \nTogether these two sets of paintings offer a unique perspective on life in conflict zones\, and on the power of art to bring people together and contribute to local peace. \nView The Blue Team’s collection and Shatha Altowai’s The Family Series. \nAbout the Project\nThis exhibition is part of a research project supported by the FCDO-funded Covid Collective Research Platform\, and forms part of PeaceRep’s work on the nexus between the Covid-19 pandemic\, peace and conflict and the interplay between several layers of crises. In Syria\, PeaceRep Research Fellow Dr. Juline Beaujouan and two of her colleagues – Abdulah El hafi and Eyas Ghreiz – built on collaborations with local communities in opposition-held areas in the northwest of the country to investigate the shifting role of local civil society during the pandemic. \nFurther Reading\nArt as a tool for local peace: Reflections of young artists in Syrian opposition-held areas \nYoung artists illustrate life in Syrian opposition-held areas \nShatha Altowai \nThe Blue Team
URL:https://peacerep.org/event/art-as-a-tool-for-peace-exhibition/
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SUMMARY:Ceasefire Monitoring: Developments and Complexities
DESCRIPTION: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’. \nRegister here \nCeasefire monitoring can help facilitate transitions from war to peace. This Accord Spotlight looks at ways to provide more effective support for implementing ceasefires\, and ideas for ‘what works’ in ceasefire monitoring. Spotlight authors Cate Buchanan and Govinda Clayton will discuss key findings from the report\, including on civilian and civil society involvement in monitoring\, and the use of technology. \nThe event\, co-hosted with the Mediation Support Network\, will also feature reflections from other key contributors to previous PSRP workshops on Afghanistan\, Yemen\, Colombia including: \n\nA. Heather Coyne – Chief\, SSR Team\, UN Office of the Special Envoy of the Secretary General\nJuanita Millan Hernandez – Former Adviser to the High Commissioner for Peace in Colombia\, Member of United Nations Mediation Standby Team\nJulian Hottinger – Senior Mediator\, Human Security Division (HSD) of the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA)\n\nAn open discussion will follow. \nEvent chaired by Sanja Badanjak\, Chancellor’s Fellow in Global Challenges – University of Edinburgh. \nRegister here
URL:https://peacerep.org/event/ceasefire-monitoring-developments-and-complexities/
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SUMMARY:Covid\, Emergencies and Transitions: The Impact of Emergency Law Responses to Covid-19 in Fragile Settings
DESCRIPTION:Part of the Stockholm Forum on Peace and Development 2021\, organised by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). \nThe coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic has reinforced or compounded conflict\, human rights violations\, disinformation efforts\, gender inequality and societal fractures. The emerging post-pandemic world risks being more violent and less democratic. Geopolitical tensions and unilateral action have increased\, while the need for collective action has become clearer than ever. The 2021 Stockholm Forum will explore novel approaches and solutions to promoting peace in the age of compound political\, social\, economic and environmental risks reinforced by Covid-19. \nEmergency 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. \nThe panel discussion will be hosted by International IDEA\, Edinburgh Centre for Constitutional Law\, and the Political Settlements Research Programme. \nHow have emergency law responses been adopted in fragile and conflict-affected settings? What has been the impact of the pandemic and emergency powers\, if adopted\, on: \n• Conflict dynamics \n• Scheduling and conducting of elections \n• Functioning of transitional state institutions \n• Inter-group dynamics in situations of deep division\, notably between the centre and the periphery. What factors may have been key in defining the type of impact that different countries and/or substate entities have suffered as a consequence of the pandemic and the resulting emergency law response? What are the implications for policy makers and peacebuilders? \nModerator: Prof. Tom Ginsburg\, University of Chicago \nSpeakers: \n\nDr. Sean Molloy\, Northumbria Law School\nProf. Fionnuala Ní Aoláin\, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Counter-Terrorism\nDr. Adem Abebe\, International IDEA\nDr. Sonia Vohito\, Human Rights Activist\n\nRegister now. \nTo learn more\, this recent blog post gives some background and suggests four key areas of concern in the way emergency law responses might undermine transitions: Emergency Law Responses and Conflict-Affected States in Transition \nRegister for the Stockholm Forum on Peace and Development.
URL:https://peacerep.org/event/covid-emergencies-and-transitions-the-impact-of-emergency-law-responses-to-covid-19-in-fragile-settings/
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: The Humanitarian Civilian
DESCRIPTION: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. \nHosted by the Edinburgh Centre for International and Global Law (ECIGL) and PSRP\, with co-host the Oxford Institute for Ethics\, Law and Armed Conflict. With commentary from Frederic Megret (McGill) and Helen Kinsella (Minesota). \nRegister here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScp0tzJHEbjinHGA-jZeV3-C1pKy8zV3Po7zZOGTZoT3Ox_Mw/viewform \nSpeakers\nRebecca Sutton is a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow at Edinburgh Law School\, where she conducts research on the role of emotions in international humanitarian law and leads a ‘participatory action research’ project with displaced Rohingya youth in Cox’s Bazar. Before joining Edinburgh Law School\, Rebecca was a Postdoctoral Researcher on the ERC-funded Individualization of War project; she was based at the Institute for Ethics\, Law and Armed Conflict (ELAC) at the University of Oxford. Rebecca also completed a postdoc in the Faculty of Law at McGill University\, with the support of a grant from the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). As a Trudeau Scholar and SSHRC Scholar\, Rebecca earned a PhD in International Law from the London School of Economics in 2018. Her doctorate on the humanitarian figure\, which was based on field research in South Sudan and at civil-military trainings\, eventually became The Humanitarian Civilian. \nHelen M. Kinsella is Associate Professor of Political Science & Law\, and Affiliate Faculty of Department of Gender\, Women & Sexuality Studies\, the Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs\, the Human Rights Center\, and the Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change. Her research focuses on the theorization of gender and armed conflict. She is currently working on a manuscript entitled “War Fatigue: On Not Being Able to Sleep”. She is the author of The Image before the Weapon: A Critical History of the Distinction between Combatant and Civilian (Cornell University Press) which won the 2012 Sussex International Theory Prize and received an Honorable Mention for the 2012 Joseph S. Lepgold Book Prize (Georgetown University). Her work has also appeared in journals such as International Studies Quarterly\, Review of International Studies\, International Theory\, Political Theory\, Political Power and Social Theory\, Feminist Review\, among others. Helen’s main interests lie in International humanitarian law; international norms and institutions; international security; gender and armed conflict; international relations theories; contemporary political thought; feminist theories \nFrédéric Mégret is a Professor of Law and a William Dawson Scholar at McGill University. He held the Canada Research Chair on the Law of Human Rights and Legal Pluralism from 2006 to 2015. He was promoted to full professor in 2019. He was named co-director of the Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism in 2021. Professor Mégret is currently co-authoring a book on Diasporas and International Law with Larissa van den Herik (Leiden University). He is the co-editor with Philip Alston of The United Nations and Human Rights: A Critical Appraisal (Oxford University Press\, 2020); with Immi Tallgren of The Dawn of a Discipline: International Criminal Justice and its Early Exponents (Cambridge University Press\, 2020)\, and\, with Kevin Jon Heller\, Sarah Nouwen\, Jens David Ohlin and Darryl Robinson of The Oxford Handbook of International Criminal Law. Professor Mégret’s interests lie in international criminal justice\, international human rights law\, international humanitarian law\, the law of international organizations\, transitional justice\, criminal law\, and general international law.
URL:https://peacerep.org/event/book-launch-the-humanitarian-civilian/
CATEGORIES:Public Event
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SUMMARY:Channeling Local Realities – Civil Society and Power Structures in Syria\, Yemen and Libya
DESCRIPTION:How can civil society best contribute to conflict management in the world’s most fragile and conflict-affected settings\, despite (or thanks to) an ongoing pandemic? Whilst already active in Yemen and Libya’s fragile contexts\, the Civil Society Platform for Peacebuilding and Statebuilding (CSPPS) expands its scope of work to Syria in collaboration with the Political Settlements Research Programme (PSRP) of the University of Edinburgh over the course of 2021. \nCan COVID-19 be seen as a tool of conflict or opportunity for peace in these contexts? How does one manage and build peace as civil society actors in countries with fragile and/or fragmented institutions and unsafe power structures? This session offers an opportunity for peer exchange among local peacebuilding practitioners and researchers in Syria\, Libya and Yemen\, sharing best practices and challenges met in their efforts for peace and sustainable development. \nView full event details. \nHosted by the Civil Society Platform for Peacebuilding and Statebuilding (CSPPS)\, the Covid Collective\, and the Political Settlements Research Programme at the University of Edinburgh as part of the FriEnt Peacebuilding Forum. \nSpeakers\nAbdullah El Hafi: Local Administrations Council Unit (LACO)\, Syria\nDr. Juline Beaujouan: Political Settlements Research Programme (PSRP)\, Edinburgh\nEyas Ghreiz: Researcher and consultant\, Syria\nMaged Sultan: Youth Without Borders Organization for Development (YWBOD)\, Yemen\nZorgh Madi: Tamazight Women’s Movement\, Libya \nModerator\nPeter van Sluijs: Civil Society Platform for Peacebuilding and Statebuilding (CSPPS)
URL:https://peacerep.org/event/channeling-local-realities-civil-society-and-power-structures-in-syria-yemen-and-libya/
CATEGORIES:Public Event
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SUMMARY:Book Talk on ‘African Peace - Regional Norms from the OAU to the AU’
DESCRIPTION:The Edinburgh Centre for Constitutional Law presents: \nBook Talk on ‘African Peace – Regional Norms from the OAU to the AU’\nSpeaker: Dr Kathryn Nash\, Chancellor’s Fellow\, Edinburgh Law School \nDiscussant: Dr Sara Dorman\, Senior Lecturer in Politics and IR\, University of Edinburgh \nAbout the event\nAfrican 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? \nAbout the speaker\nDr Kathryn Nash is a Chancellor’s Fellow at the University of Edinburgh Law School. She completed her PhD at SOAS University of London. Her research focuses on norms\, the role of regions in the international community\, and peace and security issues. Prior to beginning her PhD\, Dr Nash worked for the U.S. Department of State in the Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations. She has a Master’s degree in conflict resolution from Georgetown University and a Bachelor’s degree from the George Washington University in International relations. \nEvent Link\nRegister on Zoom
URL:https://peacerep.org/event/book-talk-on-african-peace-regional-norms-from-the-oau-to-the-au/
CATEGORIES:Public Event
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Visions of African Unity
DESCRIPTION:The Decolonisation Group invites you to the book launch for Visions of African Unity\, as edited by Frank Gerits and Matteo Grilli. \nVisions of African Unity\, edited by Frank Gerits and Matteo Grilli\, explores the historiography of various African unification and Pan-African projects. This includes the Organisation of African Unity (OAU)\, and their impact on the Cold War and liberation struggles. \nThe book gathers perspectives from a diverse range of scholars across disciplines\, including history\, law and international relations\, and considers the sometimes conflicting ideals behind projects aimed at unification. The book includes a chapter by PSRP’s Dr Kathryn Nash: Embracing State Security: The Peace and Security Norms and Structures of the Organisation of African Unity 1963-1993 \nRegister on Eventbrite. \n 
URL:https://peacerep.org/event/book-launch-visions-of-african-unity/
CATEGORIES:Public Event
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SUMMARY:Expanding Prospects of IT in India and Abroad
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Devanjan Bhattacharya will give a talk to LN-TECHINFO on Expanding Prospects of IT in India and Abroad. \nDevanjan is a Train@Ed Postdoctoral Fellow with the Political Settlements Research Programme\, focusing on collaborative map visualisations for participation and mediation in peace processes. Devanjan holds a PhD and Masters degree in Geomatics Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology. His research interests include geospatial data analytics\, digital mapping\, smart cities applications\, spatial data infrastructure\, internet of things\, and artificial intelligence in geoinformatics. \nRegister now
URL:https://peacerep.org/event/expanding-prospects-of-it-in-india-and-abroad/
CATEGORIES:Public Event
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SUMMARY:Militarized masculinity and the paradox of restraint: mechanisms of social control under modern authoritarianism
DESCRIPTION:The Edinburgh Centre for Constitutional Law presents \nMilitarized masculinity and the paradox of restraint: mechanisms of social control under modern authoritarianism \nSpeaker: Rebecca Tapscott\, Ambizione fellow and lecturer at the Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy at the Graduate Institute in Geneva \nDiscussants: \n\nProfessor Christine Bell\, Professor of Constitutional Law\, Edinburgh Law School\nDr Philipp Schulz\, Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute of Intercultural & International Studies\, University of Bremen\n\nAbstract: 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. It offers two main contributions: first\, it highlights how performances of militarized masculinities enact the paradox of restraint through gendered idioms\, thereby magnifying the ambiguities of modern authoritarianism and diffusing them at a local level. Second\, it recasts the conceptual utility of militarized masculinities\, showing that the concept’s inherent tensions between ordered discipline and unaccountable violence produce and project authoritarian power\, giving militarized masculinities special potency as a mode of social discipline in these contexts. The article draws on feminist International Relations\, employing grounded ethnographic research to illustrate how national-level power circulates locally. To do so\, it first illustrates the relationship between the paradox of restraint and militarized masculinities using the cases of Putin’s Russia and Duterte’s Philippines. It then turns to an in-depth case study of a local dispute between soldiers and civilians in Museveni’s Uganda to trace how gendered local encounters facilitate the transmission of national-level authoritarian power into the lives of ordinary people. \nAbout the Speaker: Rebecca Tapscott is an Ambizione fellow and lecturer at the Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy at the Graduate Institute in Geneva. She is also a visiting fellow at the Firoz Lalji Centre on Africa at the London School of Economics\, as well as at the Department Politics and International Relations at the University of Edinburgh. Her work has appeared in journals including International Affairs\, African Affairs\, and Development and Change\, and has won international recognition\, including receiving the 2017 International Studies Association’s Carl Beck Award for new perspectives on emergent international concerns. Her book\, Arbitrary States: Social Control and Modern Authoritarianism in Museveni’s Uganda\, is forthcoming with Oxford University Press (May 2021). \nThis event is free and open to all but registration is required (link below). \nRegister on Zoom\nImage credit: Photo by Bao Menglong on Unsplash
URL:https://peacerep.org/event/militarized-masculinity-and-the-paradox-of-restraint-mechanisms-of-social-control-under-modern-authoritarianism/
CATEGORIES:Academic Event
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: African Peace by Dr. Kathryn Nash
DESCRIPTION: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. \nRegister on Eventbrite. \nAbout African Peace: Regional norms from the Organization of African Unity to the African Union\nAfrican 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? \nAfrican peace examines why the OAU chose norms in 1963 that prioritized state security and led to a policy of strict non-interference – even in the face of destabilizing violence – and why the AU chose very different norms leading to a disparate conflict management policy in the early 2000s. Even if the AU’s capacity to respond to conflict is still developing\, this new policy has made the region more willing and capable of responding to violence. Nash argues that norm creation largely happened within the African context\, and international pressure was not a determinant factor in their evolution. The role of regions in the international order\, particularly the African region\, has been under-theorized and under-acknowledged\, and this book adds to an emerging literature that explores the role of regional organizations in the Global South in creating and promoting norms based on their own experiences and for their own purposes. \nAbout Dr. Kathryn Nash\nDr Kathryn Nash is a postdoctoral research fellow with the Political Settlements Research Program (PRSP) at the University of Edinburgh Law School. She completed her PhD at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS)\, University of London. Her research focuses on norms\, the role of regions in the international community\, and peace and security issues. Prior to beginning her PhD\, Dr Nash worked for the U.S. Department of State first in the Bureau of African Affairs and then in the Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations. She has a Master’s degree in conflict resolution from Georgetown University and a Bachelor’s degree from the George Washington University in international relations. \nAbout Dr. Lise Howard\nLise Morjé Howard is Professor of Government and Foreign Service at Georgetown University\, and President of the Academic Council on the United Nations System. Her research and teaching span the fields of international relations\, comparative politics\, and conflict resolution. She has published articles and book chapters about civil wars\, peacekeeping\, and American foreign policy in many leading journals. Her book UN Peacekeeping in Civil Wars (Cambridge University Press 2008)\, about organizational learning\, won the 2010 book award from the Academic Council on the UN System. Her recent book\, Power in Peacekeeping (Cambridge University Press 2019) won the 2021 book award from the International Security Studies Section of the International Studies Association. Dr. Howard earned her M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science from UC\, Berkeley\, and her A.B. in Soviet Studies from Barnard College\, Columbia University. She has held yearlong fellowships at Stanford University\, Harvard University\, and the U.S. Institute of Peace. She previously served as founding Director of the Georgetown MA Program in Conflict Resolution. \nRegister on Eventbrite.
URL:https://peacerep.org/event/book-launch-african-peace-by-dr-kathryn-nash/
CATEGORIES:Public Event
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SUMMARY:Interim or Transitional Arrangements: Addressing Dilemmas for International Support
DESCRIPTION:Register now on Eventbrite. \nPeace and transition processes are often managed by putting in place ceasefires and interim governance arrangements. The interim governance arrangements are tasked with administering the country on a provisional basis until a new government can be appointed by a regular political process\, and putting in place a series of reform processes: security sector\, constitutional\, transitional justice. \nIn fact\, this modality of ending conflict is more often used than trying to broker a ‘big bang’ comprehensive peace agreement. \nIt is used to address very different types of conflict: \n\nviolent conflict\, one-sided violence from authoritarian states\nand social crisis that can erupt when an incumbent fails to quit after-losing elections\, or for other reasons.\n\nJoin us as we explore various aspects of interim transitional arrangements – focusing on the role of international actors\, in supporting them and sustaining them. \nThis event will launch and in a sense conclude a series of publications and events which PSRP and its partners have been involved in\, drawing together key findings. \nChair: Kimana Zulueta-Fuelscher\, Acting Head of Constitution-Building\, International IDEA.  \nPanelists \nIntroduction to Issue: Christine Bell\, Professor of Constitutional Law at Edinburgh Law School and the Director of the Political Settlements Research Programme. \nJago Salmon\, Head of UN Resident Coordinators Office in Sarajevo\, co-author of Pathways for Peace: Inclusive Approaches to Preventing Violent Conflict (2017\, World Bank/UN)\, and author of Moving From Conflict: the Role of International Actors in Transition Management (2020\, PSRP). \nSumit Bisarya\, Constitutions Advisor\, UNDPPA\, and Former Head of Constitution-Building Processses Programme at International Idea. See key report: Interim Governance Arrangements in Post-Conflict and Fragile Settings (2020). \nKatia Papagianni\, Director for Policy and Mediation Support\, Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue\, and author of Power sharing\, transitional governments and the role of mediation. \nFormat \nThe event will consist of an introduction and panel discussion\, bringing insight from diplomatic\, constitution-making and mediation fields\, drawing on country experience\,  followed by opportunity for discussion. \nThis event will be held on Zoom\, with joining links emailed to registered participants. The presentation element of this event will be recorded and made available after the event. \nThis event is the final instalment of the Peace Talks webinar series from the Political Settlements Research Programme at the University of Edinburgh Law School. \nRegistration \nRegister now on Eventbrite.
URL:https://peacerep.org/event/interim-transitional-arrangements/
CATEGORIES:Knowledge Exchange,Public Event
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SUMMARY:Roundtable on Women’s Rights in Armed Conflict under International Law
DESCRIPTION:Register now on Eventbrite. \nJoin the Transitional Justice Institute\, the Political Settlements Research Programme\, and special guests for a roundtable event celebrating the launch of Dr Catherine O’Rourke’s new monograph\, Women’s Rights in Armed Conflict under International Law (Cambridge University Press\, 2020). \nWomen’s Rights in Armed Conflict under International Law examines the protection of women’s rights in armed conflict under international humanitarian law\, international criminal law\, international human rights law and the United Nations Security Council. Through a series of case studies (DRC\, Colombia\, Nepal) and emblematic violations\, the research identifies and proposes several opportunities to strengthen the legal status of specific protections to women’s rights; to improve how key institutions comply with and implement their own guarantees of women’s rights; to improve coordination amongst key institutions; and to maximise the strengths of different monitoring and enforcement procedures in order to enhance the overall protection of women’s rights in conflict under international law. A policy brief drawn from the book is also available. \nFeaturing special guests including: \nMadeleine Rees\, Secretary-General of Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom \nAdrian Johnson\, UK Foreign\, Commonwealth & Development Office \nVanessa Murphy\, International Committee of the Red Cross \nEmily Kenney\, UN Women \nCatherine O’Rourke\, Director of the Transitional Justice Institute at Ulster University \nChristine Bell\, Professor of Constitutional Law at Edinburgh Law School and Director of the Political Settlements Research Programme \n  \nRegister now on Eventbrite. \n 
URL:https://peacerep.org/event/roundtable-on-womens-rights-in-armed-conflict-under-international-law/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Academic Event,Knowledge Exchange,Public Event
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210311T130000
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SUMMARY:Three forms of power-sharing and their relationship to inclusion of non-dominant groups
DESCRIPTION:Register now \nHow do peace agreements and independent commissions provide for inclusion of non-dominant groups in post-conflict societies? \nDr Kevin McNicholl (University of Edinburgh) will outline the relationship between power-sharing and inclusion of non-dominant groups\, and demonstrate how peace agreements with political power-sharing include provisions for women\, girls and gender at an above average rate. \nDr Dawn Walsh (University College Dublin) will introduce the role of independent commissions in peace agreements and post-conflict societies\, and examine patterns of provisions for women’s inclusion in these key institutions. \nThe webinar will be held over Zoom. Register now. \nThis event is part of PSRP’s Peace Talks webinar series\, which will run from October 2020 – March 2021.
URL:https://peacerep.org/event/three-forms-of-power-sharing-and-their-relationship-to-inclusion-of-non-dominant-groups/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Knowledge Exchange,Public Event
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210304T130000
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SUMMARY:Regional Responses to Covid-19
DESCRIPTION:Register now\nThe global response to Covid-19 has occured across multiple levels of governance: from community-led initiatives to international coordination by the World Health Organisation (WHO). While there has been significant analysis of responses at the state and international level\, there has been less coverage of regional responses. Regional organisations can be a crucial level of governance when addressing cross-border threats and challenges from violent conflict to climate change. Regional governance can complement domestic policy actions\, and it can provide a collective voice on the international stage to advocate for region-specific concerns.  \nThis event will examine regional responses to the pandemic and present early insights into findings from a forthcoming report outlining responses in Africa\, Latin America\, and the Middle East. Dr Kathryn Nash will examine the African Union’s response and ongoing efforts to continue with the peace and security agenda amidst the pandemic. Hannah den Boer will examine regional responses in Latin America and the Middle East.  \nPanellists \nDr Kathryn Nash is a postdoctoral research fellow with the Political Settlements Research Program (PRSP). \nHannah den Boer is a Research Assistant with the Political Settlements Research Program (PRSP). \nThe event will consist of a panel discussion followed by an opportunity for questions from the audience. \nRegister now
URL:https://peacerep.org/event/regional-responses-to-covid-19/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210226T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210226T170000
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SUMMARY:The Historical Context of the Myanmar Crisis
DESCRIPTION:Co-hosted with the Keith Forum on Commonwealth Constitutionalism and the Edinburgh Centre for Constitutional Law \nChair: Dr Asanga Welikala\, Director\, Edinburgh Centre for Constitutional Law \nPanel: \nDr Harshan Kumarasingham (Edinburgh): The Politics of Decolonisation in Burma \nDr Donal Coffey (Maynooth): Legal State-Formation in Burma \nDr Vasabjit Banerjee (Mississippi State): The Coup in Comparative Context \nThis event is free and open to all but registration is required through Zoom:\nhttps://edin.ac/3rJwobr
URL:https://peacerep.org/event/the-historical-context-of-the-myanmar-crisis/
CATEGORIES:Public Event
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SUMMARY:Global Ungovernance
DESCRIPTION:This event will explore the emerging concept of ungovernance: how it works\, what it is good for\, its potential downsides\, and its implications for programs of institutional change. \nRegister now on Eventbrite. \nJoin PSRP\, the Edinburgh Centre for International and Global Law\, and special guests for the launch of a new special issue of Transnational Legal Theory on “global ungovernance”\, edited at Edinburgh Law School. \nWe all know by now that legal and institutional change is profoundly complex\, deeply political\, and impossible to predict. And we keep pursuing it in the face of that knowledge. A new collection of papers\, part of a special collection in Transnational Legal Theory\, explores whether this tension is not a quirk\, but a constitutive feature\, of a particular mode of institution-building. Studying the fields from post-conflict peacebuilding\, to transitional justice\, to environmental governance\, the authors identify practices that sustain a commitment to institution-building while simultaneously embracing the impossibility of doing so. These practices lead to institutional irresolution\, unsettlement\, and provisionality (or forms of “un-governance”). The discussion explores how un-governance works\, what it is good for\, its potential downsides\, and its implications for programs of institutional change. \nIn this event\, contributors to the special issue will host a panel discussion on global ungovernance\, focusing on defining ungovernance\, the ungovernance of peace\, public law techniques of ungovernance\, and more. \nThis event is organised by the Political Settlements Research Programme in collaboration with the Edinburgh Centre for International and Global Law and the Austrian Study Centre for Peace and Conflict Resolution. The event will consist of a panel discussion followed by an opportunity for questions from the audience. The event will be held on Zoom. Joining instructions will be sent to registered participants. \n\n\nSpeakers\nEvent chair Prof Andrew Lang is Professor of International Law and Global Governance at Edinburgh Law School. \nProf Christine Bell is Professor of Constitutional Law at Edinburgh Law School and the Director of the Political Settlements Research Programme. \nDr Deval Desai is Lecturer in International Economic Law at Edinburgh Law School. \nDr Jan Pospisil is the Research Director of the ASPR and lecturer for political science at the University of Vienna\, and a co-investigator at the Political Settlements Research Programme. \n\n\n\n\nRegistration\nRegister now on Eventbrite.
URL:https://peacerep.org/event/global-ungovernance/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Academic Event,Knowledge Exchange,Public Event
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210226T063000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210226T070000
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SUMMARY:Semantic Enablement for Integrated Sensor Web and Spatial Data Infrastructure: Location Intelligence from Sensors (LISENS)
DESCRIPTION:PSRP’s Dr Devanjan Bhattacharya is holding an invited talk on Semantic Enablement for Integrated Sensor Web and Spatial Data Infrastructure: Location Intelligence from Sensors (LISENS) on 26 February at 6:30am GMT (12:00pm IST)\, as part of the International Semantic Intelligence Conference (ISIC 2021).  \nMore details and registration are available at the conference website. \nWatch the live stream: https://www.facebook.com/MERICollege/ \nDr Devanjan Bhattacharya is a MSCA Train@Ed Postdoctoral Fellow with the Political Settlements Research Programme\, focusing on collaborative map visualisations for participation and mediation in peace processes. Devanjan holds a PhD and Masters degree in Geomatics Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology. His research interests include geospatial data analytics\, digital mapping\, smart cities applications\, spatial data infrastructure\, internet of things\, and artificial intelligence in geoinformatics.
URL:https://peacerep.org/event/semantic-enablement-for-integrated-sensor-web-and-spatial-data-infrastructure-location-intelligence-from-sensors-lisens/
CATEGORIES:Conference
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SUMMARY:Covid-19: An Opportunity for Regional Integration?
DESCRIPTION:Covid-19: An Opportunity for Regional Integration?\nJointly held by al-Sabah Programme\, Gulf Studies Center\, Political Settlements Research Programme and Open Think\nTank \nFeatured Panels & Speakers\nPanel I – Regional Responses to Covid-19 in the Middle East and Africa\nProf. Bulent Aras – Gulf Studies Center\, Qatar University\nDr. Kathryn Nash – PSRP\, University of Edinburgh\nHannah den Boer – PSRP\, University of Edinburgh \nPanel II – Covid-19: Tool of Conflict or Opportunity for Rapprochement\nin the Gulf?\nDr. Mustafa Menshawy – SEPAD\, Lancaster University\nProf. Nikolay Kozhanov – Gulf Studies Center\, Qatar University\nDr. Luciano Zaccara – Gulf Studies Center\, Qatar University \nView full event programme (pdf – opens in new tab) \nContact: Dr. Juline Beaujouan | J.Beaujouan-Marliere@ed.ac.uk \nWebEx Joining Instructions\nhttps://qu-edu.webex.com/quedu/j.php?MTID=ef9081340f35e9e4631b92ac043ab903c\nEvent ID: 121 585 4232\nPassword: gsc2021
URL:https://peacerep.org/event/covid-19-an-opportunity-for-regional-integration/
CATEGORIES:Public Event
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SUMMARY:The Law and Politics of the Coup D’Etat in Myanmar
DESCRIPTION:Co-hosted with the Constitution Building Programme\, International IDEA and the Edinburgh Centre for Constitutional Law \nPanel: \nDr Kimana Zulueta-Fülscher (International IDEA): The Political Dynamics of the Crisis in Historical Context \nProfessor Andrew Harding (NUS): The 2008 Constitution and the Military Takeover \nDr Monalisa Adhikari (Edinburgh): The Geopolitical Context of Conflict in Myanmar \nChair: Dr Asanga Welikala\, Director\, Edinburgh Centre for Constitutional Law \nThis event is free and open to all but registration is required through Zoom:\nhttps://edin.ac/3peVBc6
URL:https://peacerep.org/event/the-law-and-politics-of-the-coup-detat-in-myanmar/
CATEGORIES:Public Event
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SUMMARY:Conflict\, Peace\, & Covid-19 in the Middle East
DESCRIPTION:How is Covid-19 affecting political and social trust and cohesion in the Middle East\, and how are local actors responding to the pandemic?\nThis 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. Panellists will discuss their research in the following areas:  \n\nSyria and Iraq: Dr Juline Beaujouan will examine how the pandemic has affected political trust and social cohesion in northwest Syria and the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.\nYemen: Robert Wilson and Raiman Al-Hamdani will offer early insights into how local actors in Yemen appear to be responding to Covid-19; examining how security actors are enforcing Covid measures in Taiz\, and the societal perceptions of these measures.\n\nYemen Policy Center\, supported by their donors\, the German Foreign Ministry\, have led on the research for part 1; examining security actors in Taiz and Covid-19 enforcement measures\, with Yemen Polling Center collecting the data in-country. \nSpeakers \nDr Juline Beaujouan is a Research Associate at the University of Edinburgh’s Political Settlements Research Programme. She is also a board member and senior researcher at Open Think Tank. \nRobert Wilson is a Research Associate at the University of Edinburgh’s Political Settlements Research Programme. \nRaiman Al-Hamdani is a Researcher at ARK Group and Yemen Polling Center. \nDr Amjed Rasheed (event chair) is a Visiting Research Fellow at the School of Government and International Affairs at Durham University\, and a Visiting Lecturer at the Political Science Institute (IfP) at Tübingen University. He is also a board member and senior researcher at Open Think Tank. \nEvent Format \nThe event will consist of a panel discussion followed by an opportunity for questions from the audience. \nThe event will be held on Zoom. Register now. \n\n\nThis event is part of PSRP’s Peace Talks webinar series\, which will run from October 2020 – March 2021. \n  \n 
URL:https://peacerep.org/event/conflict-peace-covid-19/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Public Event
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SUMMARY:Sudan Peace Process: Where are we and what have we learnt from past national and international processes
DESCRIPTION:The Peace Research Institute (PRI) of the University of Khartoum and the Political Settlements Research Programme (PSRP) of the University of Edinburgh\, are holding a virtual session\, supported by the UK Foreign\, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO)\, on Sudan’s peace process. \nThe session will highlight lessons learned from previous peace processes in Sudan\, as well as the implications of those lessons on the ongoing process (including the Juba Peace Agreement and beyond). The session will also explore how challenges currently being experienced in the Sudanese context were addressed in other contexts and will explore the role of the international community in supporting the Sudanese peace process moving forwards. \nThe session will run for approximately 1 hour 30 minutes\, including a Q&A discussion. \nNote the change in date – this event has been rescheduled for Tuesday 2 February 2021. \nRegister now.
URL:https://peacerep.org/event/sudan-peace-process-where-are-we-and-what-have-we-learnt-from-past-national-and-international-processes/
CATEGORIES:Knowledge Exchange,Public Event
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210114T140000
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SUMMARY:PeaceTech and Data4peace: What are we learning?
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we explore key insights into PeaceTech\, the interdisciplinary field using data for peace.   \nThis 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: \n\nWhat is PeaceTech? How can technology help facilitate inclusive peace\, and what is the new potential regarding data analysis?\nData 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?\nWhat types of interdisciplinary and research-practice-tech teams are needed to produce effective PeaceTech projects?\nWhat lessons have we learned about designing an effective collaborative PeaceTech project in the ‘data’ space?\n\nWe will share key learnings and examples from our PeaceTech work\, including our Covid-19 Ceasefires Tracker\, a publicly available digital tracking tool to examine the consequences of the coronavirus outbreak on peace processes and armed conflict across the world. The tool monitors the progress of ceasefires alongside live data on infection rates in country. The data can be viewed in a timeline format\, a search browse format\, and a map format which also includes live data on infection rates in country. \nThe University of Edinburgh’s PeaceTech team is a unique collaboration between peace builders\, data scientists\, and many others who are helping shape the PeaceTech space\, using cutting-edge technologies and data to build digital platforms that facilitate inclusive peacebuilding.  \nFeaturing Prof Christine Bell\, Dr Sanja Badanjak\, Dr Devanjan Bhattacharya\, and Fiona Knäussel from the Political Settlements Research Programme\, with special guest Dr Benjamin Bach\, Lecturer in Design Informatics and Visualization at the Bayes Centre\, School of Informatics\, University of Edinburgh\, as event chair. \nThis event will be held on Zoom. Joining instructions will be sent to registered participants. \nRegister now. \n  \nPeace Talks Series\nThis event is part of PSRP’s Peace Talks webinar series\, which will run from October 2020 – March 2021.
URL:https://peacerep.org/event/peacetech-data4peace/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Knowledge Exchange,Public Event
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