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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: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: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: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
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