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, a PhD candidate under the supervision of and , was recently quoted in an 11 August article appearing in the print edition of the , a local newspaper in Okinawa prefecture, Japan. She was interviewed by a reporter about the plans for relocating US Marines Air Base Futenma from Ginowan City to Henoko Village in Nago City, Okinawa.

Read the article (JPEG in Japanese)

is scheduled to give a guest lecture on 9 July at the College of Europe in Warsaw's PhD Summer School on 'The EU, it's neighbourhood and the ENP'.

His talk is entitled 'Democracy support perspectives on the "Arab awakening"'.

Miriam Grinberg, a first-year PhD candidate in PAIS, has been awarded a for 2013-14. The award goes towards funding Miriam's fieldwork next year in Japan, where she will be conducting interviews and archival studies as part of her dissertation research entitled 'The US-Japan alliance and the relocation of Futenma: Sites of discursive exchange in the reproduction of security alliances'.

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.

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.