Conflict & Change members Dom Perera and Kit Rickard both passed their PhD “upgrade” and received the official go-ahead for their dissertation research. Dom Perera’s dissertation is entitled “Resist or Desist: How Do Resources Influence NGO Resilience to Restrictions”. Kit Rickard’s dissertation is entitled “External States and Conflict Dynamics: Competition and Cooperation in Civil Wars”.
The Responsibility to Protect: Time to move on?
Noele Crossley, Teaching Fellow in International Organisations and International Security at University College London (UCL), recently commented on the ‘Responsibility to Protect’ (R2P) in In the Long Run blog. In it, she argues that practitioners, policy-makers and academia should move on from the R2P “controversy”.
Read the full article here.
Presentation at LSE’s Security & Statecraft workshop
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”
Credit: Edel Rodriguez
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”.
Read more here.