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Dr. Maria Koinova will this week speak at a high profile policy event on “Global Diaspora Mobilization” at the University of 糖心TV Brussels Office.

The global refugee crisis brings pressing concerns how to manage refugees on the move and deal with fragile sending states in conflict and disarray. While such concerns take the limelight, long-term effects of refugee and large-scale migration movements remain in the shadow. Over time refugees may return home, but many will remain in their new destinations, or move on to others, and eventually turn into conflict-generated diasporas with durable links to their original homelands. ​

Conflict-generated diasporas can be a source of economic development, but also of further conflict from afar, and engage in a variety of long-distance practices. Lessons learned from experiences of previous refugee waves, their diaspora engagement, and the management of large-scale migration, including fragile and developing states, can inform meaningful policies towards refugees and migrants today.

The seminar seeks to enhance the conversation between academics and policy-makers in European institutions by focusing on lessons learned from diaspora mobilisations and their management, and to bring their implications for policy areas such as: conflict and security, state-building, economic and social development, migration governance, transitional justice and democratisation.

The event will also highlight the links between the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and human mobility that needs to be understood more comprehensively to support and leverage different types of diaspora populations and link integration policies in countries of settlement with the transnational activities of mobile populations.

The event, takes place on Tuesday 28th March. For more details, and to register, please see:

This week the Hallsworth Conference on China and the Changing Global Order was held in Manchester on Thursday 23rd and Friday 24th March. Organized by Catherine Jones, André Broome, Matthias Kranke, and Pablo Rodríguez-Merino from PAIS in collaboration with Shogo Suzuki from the School of Social Sciences at the University of Manchester, the conference brought together 60 delegates from over 15 countries around the world to discuss new research papers from a range of disciplinary sub-fields across International Relations and International Political Economy. The conference discussions focused on critical questions such as how China’s rise is changing the global order, whether China’s visions for global order represent a viable alternative mode of global governance, and how more Sino-centric global governance institutions will shape international power relations.

Plenary speakers at the conference included: Professor Kerry Brown, King's College London; Dr Lai-Ha Chan, University of Technology Sydney and Princeton University; Professor Rosemary Foot, University of Oxford; Dr Yang Jiang, Danish Institute for International Studies; Professor Katherine Morton, University of Sheffield; Professor Edward Newman, University of Leeds; Professor John Ravenhill, Balsillie School of International Affairs; and Professor Yongjin Zhang, University of Bristol.

A selection of research papers that were presented at the conference will be published online later this year in the Hallsworth China Forum, a special collection within the CSGR Working Paper Series.

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Dr 's research has been extensively quoted by Christian Today.

Steven Kettell, points out that the US Christian right is enjoying a resurgence under the new presidency of Donald Trump, one in which its influence appears to be renewed as the source of 'religiously inspired policy-making'.

And he acknowledges that, 'Compared to their US counterparts, conservative Christians in Britain are far fewer in number, tend to engage with a different set of issues, are typically more left-of-centre in their economic outlook and have far less political clout.'

The full article, titled Does Britain Have A 'Christian Right' And If So How Successful Is It?, can be viewed .

Dr. Maria Koinova, PI of the ERC Project "Diasporas and Contested Sovereignty", became the Division Co-chair for the development of the program of the Migration and Citizenship Section at the American Political Science Association during its annual meeting in San Francisco, California, August 31-September 3, 2017.

This year APSA's annual convention is exploring the theme "The Quest for Legitimacy: Actors, Audiences and Aspirations."

More information is available .

Marking the sixth anniversary of the 25 January 2011 Egyptian Revolution, Nicola Pratt and Sara Salem have published a new article based on material from their research project, 'Politics and Popular Culture in Egypt: Contested Narratives of the 25 January 2011 Revolution and its Aftermath.'

You can read the article here:

More details about the project can be found here: