Conflict & Change members Kit Rickard and Kristin M. Bakke presented their research on “Legacies of Wartime Order: Punishment Attacks and Social Control in Northern Ireland” at the Security & Statecraft workshop in the International Relations Department at the London School of Economics.
ISQ article on “Deploying Justice”
Conflict & Change member Kate Cronin-Furman’s article on “Deploying Justice: Strategic Accountability for Wartime Sexual Violence” (with Meredith Loken and Milli Lake) was published in the International Studies Quarterly.
Kate Cronin-Furman in Foreign Policy
Dr. Kate Cronin-Furman comments on the ongoing constitutional crisis in Sri Lanka in the latest issue of Foreign Policy: Halfway Isn’t Good Enough on Human Rights. She describes how US foreign policy failed in Sri Lanka and precipitated the return of former President Mahinda Rajapaksa, whose “name is a byword for thuggery and Sinhalese Buddhist supremacism”.
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Cheater's Dilemma: Disarming Iraq after the Gulf War
Iraq started dismantling its WMD programmes in 1991. So why did the regime continue to act as if it had something to hide?
Join us on 13 November for a keynote lecture by Dr. Målfrid Braut-Hegghammer, Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Oslo, to find out. The lecture is hosted by UCL’s Global Governance Institute (GGI).
Målfrid is the author of Unclear Physics: Why Iraq and Libya Failed to Build Nuclear Weapons (Cornell University Press, 2016). She is a former fellow (pre-doctoral, post-doctoral and junior faculty fellow) at the Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and Center for International Security and Cooperation, Freeman Spogli Institute, Stanford University. Her work has been published in International Security, The Nonproliferation Review, The Middle East Journal, Huffington Post, International Herald Tribune and New York Times (online edition). Her doctoral dissertation "Nuclear Entrepreneurs: Drivers of Nuclear Proliferation" (London School of Economics, 2010) received the British International Studies Association Michael Nicholson Thesis Prize for 2010.
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The lecture will start at 6.15 pm at the G6 Lecture Theatre, Archaeology Building, 31-34 Gordon Square.
Full house for "A Mother Brings Her Son To Be Shot"
There was a full house for the screening of the brilliant “A Mother Brings Her Son To Be Shot”, followed by a lively Q&A with Director and Producer, Sinéad O'Shea. Film-maker and journalist, she has made films and reports for the BBC, al-Jazeera English, the Guardian, RTE and the Irish Times.
The film tells the story of Derry woman Majella O’Donnell who brings her teenage son, Philly, to be shot in both legs by dissident republicans. The film follows the O’Donnell family over a five year period as they come to terms with the “shooting appointment”.
Many were surprised to to learn how little life has moved on from “the Troubles” in the staunchly republican communities of Derry. Despite the Good Friday Agreement's success in maintaining peace, many communities in Northern Ireland remain afflicted by violence associated with dissident paramilitary groups.