Student panel discussion on the conflict in the Donbass region

On Thursday morning, students of UCL’s ‘Violent and Non-violent Conflict” module participated in a panel discussion on the armed conflict in Ukraine’s Donbass region. Moderated by the module tutors Nils Metternich and Manuel Vogt – both members of UCL’s Conflict & Change group –, the students discussed the current situation in the region and, in particular, different policy options to solve the conflict. The panel discussion was the result of a group case study project that took place over the course of the final three weeks of the course. In this project, students worked together in small groups to analyse a specific contemporary conflict of their choice, consider different policy options to end the conflict, and elaborate a set of concrete policy recommendations.

Successful PhD upgrades

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”

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.