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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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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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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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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: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/
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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/
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