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C&C members Kristin Bakke and Kit Rickard presented their research on the legacies of wartime institutions in Northern Ireland at the Conflict, Security & Development Research Group at King's College London.
The talk is available below.
C&C members Dr Kate Cronin-Furman, Dr Inken von Borzyskowski, and Dr Julie Norman recently appeared on UCL’s “Uncovering Politics” podcast hosted by Dr Alan Renwick to discuss their research. “Uncovering Politics” explores key themes of contemporary politics and shares research findings from scholars at UCL to the wider world.
In the latest episode titled “Survivors of Violence”, Dr Kate Cronin-Furman discussed one of her recent publications that focuses on the relatives of people who have been ‘disappeared’ during conflict as well as other lasting traumas following civil war.
In the episode “Voter Information”, Dr Inken von Borzyskowski discussed her research on electoral violence and the quality of information available to voters. The episode covered the impact of misinformation on voters as well as the potential negative effects of too much available information.
In the episode “The US Elections: What’s Next”, Dr Julie Norman discussed the potential impact the contested election could have on American politics as well as key areas of foreign policy that the Biden administration will have to address.
On November 26, Manuel Vogt, Associate Professor in International Security in UCL’s Department of Political Science, is giving a virtual talk on ‘State Violence, Collective Memories, and Post-war Support for the Left in Guatemala’ at Hertie School in Berlin. Manuel will present his research on the long-term political consequences of state violence during Guatemala’s 30-years civil war, conducted in collaboration with Prof. Ricardo Saenz de Tejada at the Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala. Their study theorizes why indiscriminate counterinsurgent violence by state forces increases post-conflict electoral support for the insurgents and empirically analyzes the effect of wartime indiscriminate state violence on post-war electoral support for leftist parties in Guatemala. The results of the study indicate a robust and lasting positive effect of state violence on post-war support for the Left at the municipal level, suggesting that brutal counterinsurgency campaigns are likely to entail significant long-term political costs for states.
On November 19 and 23, Manuel Vogt, Associate Professor in International Security in UCL’s Department of Political Science and member of the C&C, is giving two guest lectures on ‘Ethnicity and Geopolitics’ and ‘Mobilization and Conflict in Multi-ethnic States: Central and Eastern Europe in Comparative Perspective’ at the University of Florence, Italy.
The first lecture will look at ethnicity and ethnic conflict from a historical perspective, uncovering the geopolitical forces that gave rise to distinct ethnic identities around the world, as well as the contemporary geopolitical consequences of these ethnic identities and ethnic inequality. The second lecture will embed contemporary ethnic conflicts in Eastern Europe in a broader comparative perspective and discuss various strategies of conflict management for multiethnic societies. Both lectures draw on theory and evidence from Manuel’s recent book on ‘Mobilization and Conflict in Multiethnic States’ (Oxford University Press, 2019).
PhD Workshop 2021
After the success of the past two years, members of the Conflict & Change research cluster are organizing the third edition of the PhD workshop at the Department of Political Science, University College London.
Sam Erkiletian, Jennifer Hodge and Kit Rickard are all PhD researchers working on armed conflict and political violence, broadly defined, and will soon issue a call for abstracts for the 2021 edition.
