Other News
Gabrielle Lynch speaks in Kenya
Whilst undertaking research in Kenya as part of her ESRC First Grant project on 'Truth and Justice: The Search for Peace and Stability in Modern Kenya', Gabrielle Lynch gave a series of talks to the policy-making community.
- ‘Truthtelling, Reconciliation and Documentation’, Victim Centred Workshop on Transitional Justice organised by the Joint Advisory Technical Committee on Transitional Justice (JATCO), Simba Lodge, Naivasha, 29 August 2011
- 'Amnesty and implications for the forthcoming elections and ongoing ICC proceedings', Truth Justice and Reconciliation Commission Workshop on Reparations and Amnesty, Monday 5 September 2011, Ole Serenei Hotel, Nairobi
- 'Briefing on Kenya'sTruth Justice and Reconciliation Commission', Conflict & Security Donor Group Meeting, 15 September 2011, The Netherlands Embassy, Nairobi
Wyn Grant to give the Amos Memorial Lecture
Wyn Grant has been asked to give the Amos Memorial Lecture for the East Malling Research institute. The talk is on “Safe, Sustainable, Sufficient: The Challenge for Food” and is being held on 3rd November 2011 at 3pm in the East Malling Conference Centre.
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Nicola Pratt to speak at UEA
Dr Nicola Pratt will be speaking at the University of East Anglia on 11 November on 'The Arab Uprisings--Where From and Where To?'
For more information, please contact DrVassiliki Koutrakou.
WHEN GLOBAL POWERS MEET
A Knowledge Centre article by Dr Ben Richardson
The latest RIPE debate took place in March 2011 and featured Professor Jan Aart Scholte and Professor Philip G. Cerny. The RIPE debates bring together internationally renowned scholars to talk about issues at the cutting edge of IPE (International Political Economy), placing them alongside a number of individuals from the British IPE community. Here, Dr Ben Richardson, Department of Politics and International Studies, looks further into the topics discussed at the debate.
TEN YEARS OF 9/11
A Knowledge Centre article by Professor Stuart Croft
America is still coming to terms with the terrible events of September 11th 2001. But the consequences of the subsequent 'war on terror' have been complex and far-reaching. Consider the actions of the Bush Administration at Guantanamo Bay, and the global rise of the far right. As we reach the tenth anniversary of the attacks, Professor Stuart Croft reflects on a decade of conflict, and asks if we are finally entering a new era.