Other News
PAIS Prof and PhD candidate contribute to UN High-Level Panel report
In May, Prof Franklyn Lisk, PhD candidate Hany Besada, and Philip Martin of Norwegian People's Aid co-authored a paper, which was prepared and submitted to the United Nations High-Level Panel on the Post-2015 Development Agenda, entitled '.'
The panel was set up by the Secretary-General of the UN and co-chaired by the UK Prime Minister and the Presidents of Indonesia and Liberia, and issued its report, ',' at the end of May.
Article: 'Democratisation in the Middle East and North Africa'
The June 2013 issue of Third World Quarterly, vol. 34 issue 5, pages 838-5 publishes Prof Peter Burnell's article ',' which takes off from his earlier 'Lessons of Experience in International Democracy Support: Implications for Supporting Democratic Change in North Africa', available online as .
Prof Franklyn Lisk speaks at Industry and Parliament Trust meeting
On 18 June, Prof Franklyn Lisk spoke at an IPT event entitled 'This is Africa: Is Africa Open for Buisiness?'. Representatives from the International Development Select Committee, the British Chambers of Commerce, both houses of Parliament, and major commercial stakeholders attended the breakfast meeting, which included discussion of the challenges and opportunities of investing in Africa, how the UK government can better support UK-African business, and how Africa might debunk some of the myths about doing business on the continent.
Richard Aldrich discusses GCHQ on Newsnight
On 10 June Prof Richard Aldrich appeared on Newsnight to discuss the recent issues about data mining and sharing between the NSA and GCHQ. You can ; the section on cyber security starts at 1:20 into the show; the debate starts at 7:10.
Seminar Series - From The Ground Up: Women's Roles In Peacebuilding
On Wednesday 5th June, PaIS were lucky to welcome Lee Webster to give a talk as part of our Seminar Series.
Lee Webster is Policy and Advocacy Manager at Womankind Worldwide, a women's rights and international development NGO, and has an MA in Gender and Development from the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex.
In the lecture she examined the roles that women play in mitigating conflict and building peace at local level in Afghanistan, Liberia, Nepal, Pakistan and Sierra Leone. She showed that despite their active contribution to peace at local level, women are still marginalised from formal peace negotiations. The session explored how Womankind used new research, media and public pressure to influence the UK Government's policy and practice on women, peace and security.
Lee was also kind enough to answer questions afterwards.
Click the above image to read the report From the ground up: Women’s roles in local peacebuilding in Afghanistan, Liberia, Nepal, Pakistan and Sierra Leone.