Durham Global Security Institute

Please join us for another DGSi Public Lecture with Prof. Louiza Odysseos: Tuesday 21st January 2020, 4-6pm, Al-Qasimi Building IM102.

DGSi event this afternoon 3-5pm in the Oriental Museum. Please join us!

Dear DGSi friends,

We are delighted to start our public lecture series of the new academic year 2019/20 with Gordon Bacon. He is a former policeman (from the Durham area) who has worked on missing persons in the former Yugoslavia (following the civil wars) and Sri Lanka (following the Tsunami). We encourage the new cohort of MSc students to engage with his rich experience as a practitioner and join us today (8 October) at 16:00 in the Al-Qasimi Building, IM102.

We hope to see you there!

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DGSI friends:
We would like to invite you to our exhibition launch and panel discussion "Security on the Move" on thursday, March 14, 2019 from 3 to 5 p.m. at the Arch at the Africa Centre (66 Great Suffolk Street London, SE1 0BL):

Large scale migration and forced displacement are among the most dramatic consequences of war and political instability. In the DGSI research project ‘Security on the Move’, forty people who have been displaced to Somali cities took pictures to document their experiences and everyday lives. An exhibition of these images and the photographers' testimonies will be launched on 14 March 2019 in London. The event is free but registration for the launch is required through Eventbrite:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/security-on-the-move-exhibition-launch-and-panel-discussion-tickets-56556221180

Launch event programme (3-5pm, 14 March 2019)
• Introduction of the research project and presentations of the main findings
• Guided tour through the exhibition. Visitors can explore the exhibition and talk to the researchers
• Panel discussion featuring humanitarian practioners and policy makers dealing with challenges of rapid urbanisation and migration.
There will be opportunities for the audience to ask questions and engage with the panelists and the research team.

*Although this launch event will take place between 3-5pm, the exhibition is open to the public from 12-3pm and 5-7pm (no RSVP necessary)

Project background

The ‘Security on the Move’ project is conducted by the Durham Global Security Institute at Durham University, Noragric at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences, and the Somali civil society organisation SOWELPA, in collaboration with UNHabitat. For this research, interviews were conducted with 120 displaced people in the cities of Baidoa, Bosaaso, Hargeisa and Mogadishu. Forty internally displaced people were trained and equipped to take photographs that document their everyday lives in order to present their perspectives on security and urbanisation across these cities.

All exhibited photographs were taken by displaced people who have participated in the project. Public exhibitions and discussions have already been held in the four Somali project cities in January 2019. These are now being following with exhibitions in Oslo, London and Nairobi.

Project funded by Department of International Development (DFID), UK and Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), UK

The OSCE is calling for applications to its 2019 Junior Professional Officer Programme, open to nationals of OSCE participating States. For more information visit
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Dear DGSI friends,

We are reigniting our DGSI lecture series next week as Dr Toni Haastrup will deliver her talk “Practicing the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) Agenda in Africa: A Regional Perspective”. Dr Haastrup’s talk focuses on her contribution to the Oxford Handbook of Women, Peace and Security, reflecting on the type of contributions made by African practices of the WPS agenda as a way of introducing a difference from the dominating narratives of WPS from the Global North. Dr Haastrup is a Senior Lecturer in International Security at the University of Kent, dedicated to researching the EU’s external relations in Africa as well as Africa’s International Relations.

Her talk is scheduled for Thursday the 28th of February from 17.00 to 18.30 at Room MHL452 in the Mill Hill Lane building.

DGSi would like to invite papers and panels for two events focused on the study of urban violence:

- A first call for the section on ‘Violence in the City: Actors, Forms and Dynamics of Urban Violence’ at the European Consortium of Political Research (ECPR) conference taking place in Wrocław, Poland, from 04-07 September 2019. This section draws attention to the different direct and indirect forms of urban violence, its actors, dynamics and causes. Submission deadline is 18th, February 2019

- A second call for the section 'Violence Security Capitalism: Global Perspectives on the City ' at the European Studies Association Pan-European Conference (EISA PEC) taking place in Sofia, Bulgaria, from 11-14 September 2019. This call looks for papers for the following panels:

•Property, Power and Politics in the City
•Everyday Politics in Austere Times: Navigating Cities of Violence
•Violence and Urban Infrastructure
•City Industries and Conflicts
•Methodological Approaches to Study Violence and “Dangerous” Places
•Resistance to Capitalism in the City
•Governing International Mobilities: regulating movement and flows in cities
•City and Terrorism

Submission deadline is 28th, February 2019

For more information on both calls please visit: https://www.dur.ac.uk/dgsi/research/projects/violenceandthecity/

Durham Global Security Institute : Violence and the City - Durham University We, Kirsti Stuvøy ([email protected]) and Jutta Bakonyi ([email protected]) invite papers and panels for our section on ‘Violence in the City’ at the European Consortium of Political Research (ECPR). The conference takes place in Wrocław, Poland, from 04-07 September 2019.

Osman consulting is looking for an intern to support them in their international humanitarian work.

Our students are working on conflict mapping, conflict sensitive approaches and programme management, looking at pastoralist conflicts in Northern Kenya.

A paid training opportunity for anyone with an interest in the Western Balkans and with knowledge of local languages of the region: https://eed.recruitee.com/o/traineeship-western-balkans-programme-support

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Dear DGSI friends,

Next week we will have the opportunity to host Dr André Bank from the GIGA Institute of Middle East Studies who will be delivering his presentation: "In the Neighbourhood of War: Transformations in the Syrian-Jordanian Borderland."

Dr Bank's talk will reflect findings from field research in Norhern Jordan, arguing for the need to disaggregate temporally and spatially the local logics of (in)security. Such bottom-up view takes perceptions of (in)security of people living in the broderland of war and compares them with quite simplistic models of violent conflict diffusion and spread.

This DGSI lecture series event will take place on tuesday Octoebr 30th, in room MHL452 at the Durham Business School from 5 to 6:30 p.m.

Dear DGSI friends,

We would like to make you aware that our workshop on 'Governing (Im-)Mobilities' will take place from May 23-24, 2019, and not from May 30-31, as indicated on the website. The workshop aims to explore the transformation of borders and border regimes. It will look into conflicts this transformation generates, and discuss the implications this has for our understanding of the state, sovereignty and political authority more generally.

DGSi would like to invite papers exploring borders, borderlands and bordercities in theoretical, historical-comparative and/or in-depth empirical enquiries. Scholars from a wide range of disciplines are welcome to apply, including, but not limited to history, geography, anthropology, sociology, economics, archeology, international relations, security and urban studies

The workshop is organised by Jutta Bakonyi ([email protected]) and Raphaela Kormoll ([email protected]), and hosted by the Durham Global Security Institute (www.dur.ac.uk/dgsi/) at the School of Government and International Affairs in collaboration with IBRU: Durham University’s Centre for Borders Research (www.dur.ac.uk/ibru/). Regular updates on the event can be found on the Durham Global Security Institute’s website at: www.dur.ac.uk/dgsi/seminars/workshops/borders/.

Durham Global Security Institute : Governing (Im-)Mobilities: International Borders, Borderlands, and Bordercities - Durham University Every day people and goods move across state borders. International borders are expressions of state power, delimiting where the sovereignty of one state begins and the sovereignty of another ends. They are created to control, stop, slow down or interrupt mobility and they are used to surveil and pr...

For those of you with an interest in Bosnia-Herzegovina and also seeking some work experience, Remembering Srebrenica in Birmingham are looking for volunteers to support their advocacy work.

Working with Remembering Srebrenica – Since the charity’s founding in 2013, Remembering Srebrenica has been working to raise awareness of the genocide in Srebrenica and in 2015 created 66 million TV, radio and press campaign viewing opportunities for people to learn about Srebrenica. The charity is part funded by the Department for Co...

Dear DGSI friends,

We have a new DGSI working paper out: "Are apologies just symbolic politics? A case study of Serbian apologies towards Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina" by Durham student Cliodhna Simpson. The paper studies the apologies offered by Serbia's political elite to Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia, looking at the connections between political apology, political forgiveness and reconciliation. Find access to this paper through the following link:

https://www.dur.ac.uk/dgsi/workingpapers/

Durham Global Security Institute : DGSi Working Papers - Durham University The prevalence of apologies in modern politics has left the international community expectant of moral repentance. Simultaneously, the increasing focus on restorative justice in reconstructing war-torn environments has propelled ideas of forgiveness and reconciliation into political rhetoric. In dev...

Dear DGSI friends,

Next week we will continue with our DGSi lecture series. This time we will have a presentation by Lieutenant General Robin Brims sharing with us his expertise and views of intervention in settings such as Bosnia-Herzegovina, Northern Ireland and Iraq. The focus of the lecture is on exploring the reality of ‘planning to the finish’ and managing the political/military interface in the three mentioned countries. His assessment will consider the different perspectives of politicians, military, commentators and nations in each case. We look forward to having some of you join us. The lecture will take place on Wednesday, October 17th, at room IM201 in the Al-Qasimi building, from 17.00 – 18.30.

Dear DGSI friends,

The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe have uploaded a video online giving advice on how to write applications for their international vacancies. This may be useful for some of currently applying for jobs in the sector.

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Today DGSI welcomed the new cohort of postgradaute students for its MSc programmes in defence, development and diplomacy and conflict prevention and peacebuilding. Our new students had a chance to meet and interact with staff members. As part of the day, students were asked to do a body map exercise to help discover shared interests, experiences and ideas among them.

Hello DGSI friends! We are back with our lecture series with a presentation by Dr Antonis Ellinas from the University of Cyprus. His talk 'Organizing against democracy: the local orgnaizational development of the Golden Dawn in Greece and Europe' will analyze the trajectory and development of the Greek Golden Dawn in order assess how local parties develop roots in certain socio-political settings and fail in others. The talk is scheduled for the 8th of October at room IM222 in the Al-Qasimi building from 12 to 2 p.m. The event will be followed by lunch in the Al-Qasimi building. For further details, please contact Dr Olga Demetriou, [email protected]. We look forward to seeing many of you at this inaugural lecture.

The Elgar Companion to Post-Conflict Transition

Durham University's community website has posted a blog written by three of DGSI's students describing their field trip experience in Bosnia-Herzegovina during the months of March and April. You can find it here: http://community.dur.ac.uk/blogs/remembering-srebrenica-part-1/

Remembering Srebrenica - part 1 - Durham University - Student Blogs Durham Global Security Institute (DGSI) students, taking either the Masters in Diplomacy, Defence and Development, or the Masters in Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding, visited Bosnia Herzegovina for a full week.

The School of Government and International Affairs is opening its call for the Sir Willliam Luce fellowships. This Fund is looking for research proposals that examine historic aspects of Iran, the Gulf States, South Arabia and Sudan that throw light on contemporary events. https://www.dur.ac.uk/sgia/research/fellowships/

School of Government & International Affairs : Fellowships - Durham University

DGSI, together with the Forum for the Study of the Global Condition and the Erfurt Spatio-temporal Studies Research Group are doing a call for papers for the workshop ‘Histories and rhythms of urban violence: global encounters in the nexus of space and time’. This interdisciplinary workshop will take place in Erfurt, Germany, on December 6-7th, 2018. The event seeks to explore the generative capacities of violence and how they transform space and time in the city. We invite papers (e.g. empirical case studies, comparative studies, theoretical and conceptual papers) from a wide range of disciplines and a variety of methodological and analytical approaches to the study of spatio-temporal practices of violence in cities. The papers should address any of the following four themes:

1. Spatio-temporal practices of violence: What are spatio-temporal effects of violence on the production and transformation of the urban? How do specific practices of violence shape rhythms of life? How do particular qualities of urban space and city rhythms produce and shape violence and generate different forms of violence?
2. Memories, narratives, symbolic and visual representations of violence: What role do spatio-temporal practices have in remembering (urban) violence? How are memories of violence embedded in the city’s spatial and temporal configurations? How do visual representations of violence (media, art, monuments, etc.) affect the space-time of the city? How do visual representations of violence transform and rearrange space and time of the city? What are the peculiarities of sacral space with regard to violence and what role do religious rhythms and cycles or imaginations of time play with regard to urban violence?
3. Methods to study the space-time of violence and its relation to the city: how we can build on existing time-space “measures” to understand the space-time of violence and its relations to the city?
4. Theorizing the relation between time-space-violence and the city: How can we understand the ruptures and destructive features of violence and its capacities to initiate and accelerate change? What connection can we draw between abstract (capitalist) time and the very concrete violent enactments that helped to produce abstract time and that continue to shape its ex*****on?

Abstract Submission: For this workshop we invite abstracts of proposed papers of up to 1.500 words. Please submit them by 1 September 2018 to [email protected]. When accepted, participants are expected to submit papers of around 5000 words four weeks prior to the workshop, on 7 November 2018. Workshop presentations should be kept short.

For PhD students and Post-Docs...

On Thursday, June 14th DGSI had the opportunity to host a talk with the Colombian ambassador to the U.K. Nestor Osorio Londoño and Helen Goodman, MP for Bishop Auckland and Shadow Minister (Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs) on the Colombian election and the future of the peace process. The presentations focused on the history of the Colombian conflict and its relation with drug trafficking, the road towards the 2016 Colombian peace agreement and the different scenarios at stake during the presidential elections organized yesterday. Students and staff expressed various concerns regarding the effects of the election on the transitional justice arrangements in the Havana accords and the need to unite a polarized Colombia. The event was organized and chaired by Dr Stefanie Kappler.

Dear friends,

DGSI, together with the Institute for hazard, risk and resilience and teh Anthropology Department (Durham) are organizing the workshop "Documenting resilience, debating resilience' on the 8th and 9th of June. This interdisciplinary event btings cholars from social sciences and humanities to debate the relevance od resilience as an ee xpression of political resistance, exploring resilience against homophobia, transphobia, resilience to austerity measures, non-citizenship and the paradigm of Fortress Europe. On Friday the event will be held at the Rosemary Cramp Lecture Theatre (Calman Learning Centre) and on Satuday it will be held at the Anthropology Seminar Room (Dawson Building). For more information please visit https://debatingresilience.net/.

We hope to see many of you at this event.

Documenting Resilience Debating Resilience A Critical Politics Workshop

Colombia’s Elections and the Future of the Peace Process

14th June 2018, 16:00 to 17:00, Room CG85, Chemistry Building, Science Site, Durham University

The Durham Global Security Institute and the School of Government and International Affairs are delighted to host a discussion with the Colombian Ambassador to the UK and Helen Goodman MP about the peace process in Colombia in the light on the current elections. The speakers will provide their insights on the recent developments and prospects for peace in the country as well as the implications for the United Kingdom.

Discussion with Néstor Osorio Londoño (Ambassador to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) and Helen Goodman MP (Shadow Minister, Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs).

The event is open to the public and no prior registration is required. There will be an opportunity for Q&A following the speakers' input. The session will be chaired by Dr Stefanie Kappler.

Contact [email protected] for more information about this event.

Islamic Relief is looking for a conflict advisor for their Birmingham.office: https://www.islamic-relief.org/work-with-us/international-programmes/conflict-advisor/

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Our students have been dealing with a wide range of issues as part of the Capstone simulation which takes Kenya's Dadaab camp as a case study for reflection on the challenges, dynamics and opportunities within a crisis management setting.

During the next three days our students will be engaged in the Capstone simulation exercise which seeks to recreate situations, decisions and challenges of security and development in a real world environment. In the following days you will see photographs of the work created by our students during this exercise.