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Academic Year 2019-2020
Upcoming Events 2019-2020
Inter-state conflict in Africa: New data, new paradigm
Nov 14, 2019
5.30-7.00 pm
Crowe Room
Panel:
Noel Twagiramungu, visting researcher at Boston University, African Studies,Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies
Professor Alex de Waal, Executive Director, World Peace Foundation
Chair: Monica Toft, Professor of International Politics, Director, Center for Strategic Studies at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
The panel will examine new data that show that most conflict in Africa is internationalized and not solely internal. This establishes a new paradigm that places the inter-state and transnational elements of African conflict firmly at the center of explanations. The paradigm shift has far-reaching implications for how we study African conflicts, and the kinds of interventions necessary to reduce them.
Co-hosted by World Peace Foundation and Center for Strategic Studies.
Read more about the The Transnational Conflict in Africa Dataset.
Why Judgments Are Not History: the limitations of courtroom contributions to the historical record in Africa
Monday, November 4, 2019
5 p.m.
The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
160 Packard Ave. Cabot 703
Medford, MA
A central claim of international criminal prosecutions is that they contribute to fact-finding and establishing a historical record. But do they? In this presentation Dr. Thijs Bouwknegt addresses the process of legal-historical truth finding, the use of witness testimonies as historical sources, and the legacies of international trials in the wake of the civil war in Sierra Leone (1991-2002), the genocide in Rwanda (1994), and contested leadership change in Côte d’Ivoire (2010 -2011). He raises important questions about the discrepancies between prosecutorial and historical endeavors.
Thijs Bouwknegt is a researcher and lecturer at the Netherlands Institute for Holocaust and Genocide Studies (NIOD). He specialises in transitional justice, international criminal justice, mass violence in Africa and comparative genocide studies.
Overcoming Extreme Inequality and its Evils
Presented by Yale Global Justice program and Quinnipiac Albert Schweitzer Institute
November 1-November 3, 2019
‘Inequality’s Evils’
November 1, 2019
3:30-5:30pm
Faculty Room, Connecticut Hall, Yale University
New Haven, CT
Panelists:
Alex de Waal, Executive Director, World Peace Foundation : Famine
Bridget Conley, Research Director, World Peace Foundation : Mass Atrocities
Michal Apollo, Pedagogical University of Cracow
Chair: Anat Biletzki, Albert Schweitzer Institute / Quinnipiac University)•
Full program available at Yale Global Justice.
Agency of Bones Marginal Memory
a talk with Bridget Conley
October 28, 2019
6pm
Bard College
30 Campus Rd.
Annandale-On-Hudson, NY 12504
The Hannah Arendt Center
Contemporary efforts to answer the question, ‘Why memorialize Atrocities’, usually begins with the question, ‘For whom is memory?’
Past Events 2019-2020
Prospects for Democracy in Sudan
Friday, October 11, 2019
6:30pm to 8:00pm
Hosted by the Conflict and Civil Society Research Unit
London School of Economics
Old Theatre, Old Building, LSE
Houghton Street, London
The panel will discuss the dynamics of the 2019 Sudanese revolution, characterised by both non-violent civic mobilisation and the fast-evolving transnational and mercenarised political marketplace.
Panel:
Alex de Waal, Executive Director, World Peace Foundation, Research Programme Director, Conflict Research Programme
Raga Makawi, Sudanese Activist and Editor at Zed Books & African Arguments
Dr Rim Turkmani, Research Director, Conflict Research Programme – Syria
Law, Justice and Civicness: lessons from South Sudan
Tuesday, October 15, 2019
6:30pm to 8:00pm
Hosted by the Conflict and Civil Society Research Unit
London School of Economics
Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building
The panel will discuss the efforts of civil society actors campaigning for systematic change despite being a part of a system that profits from their oppression.
Panel:
Alex de Waal, Executive Director, World Peace Foundation, Research Programme Director, Conflict Research Programme
Rachel Ibreck, Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, Goldsmiths University
David Deng, Human Rights Lawyer
Red Flags and Red Diamonds: the warning signs and political drivers of arms trade corruption
Thursday, September 19, 2019
12:30-1:45pm
The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
160 Packard Ave., Mugar Room 231
Medford, MA 02155
Why is corruption so prevalent in the international arms trade? And what are the key warning signs or “Red Flags” that an arms deal might be corrupt? Dr. Samuel Perlo-Freeman, Program Director of the World Peace Foundation program on Global Arms Business and Corruption presents his latest report for World Peace Foundation, “Red flags and Red Diamonds – the warning signs and political drivers of arms trade corruption”, which discusses some of the key red flags relating to the buyer, the seller, and the details of the deal itself; but also challenges the discourse of corruption “risk” or “vulnerability”, which often seems to present corruption as a pitfall into which companies and governments may accidentally stumble. On the contrary, it is often an active choice by both arms companies and recipient governments, and in “Red Flags and Red Diamonds”, Perlo-Freeman analyses the political and economic drivers that make this a choice they are all too often willing to make.
Memory from the Margins:
Ethiopia’s Red Terror Martyrs Memorial Museum
Book events:
August 21, 2019
14:00-17:00
Hilton Addis Ababa
Menelik II Ave, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
August 23, 2019
9:00am
Mekelle University
Adihaki Campus
‘The Missing Picture’: Rethinking Genocide Studies & Prevention
14th Conference of the International Association of Genocide Scholars
July 14 – 19, 2019 Phnom Penh, Cambodia
https://www.iags2019.com/
July 16, 2019 15:30 – 17:00
Panel: Missing Pictures: Critical Genocide Studies and Prevention, ‘Missing the Point: Deconstructing Genocide Memory’
Bridget Conley, World Peace Foundation, Tufts University
July 17, 2019 9 – 10:30
Panel: Representing Violence and Suffering: Linguistic, Artistic and Conceptual Frameworks as Limits and Opportunities
Chair: Alex de Waal, World Peace Foundation; Tufts University
July 18, 2019 11:00 – 12:30
Panel: Starvation Crimes as Part of the Missing Picture in Genocide Studies and International Criminal Justice
The Fear of Famine: Why do International Criminal Justice Actors Avoid Addressing Starvation Crimes Randle DeFalco, University of Liverpool
The Seven Uses of Mass Starvation Bridget Conley, World Peace Foundation, Tufts University
Starvation Crimes Alex de Waal, World Peace Foundation; Tufts University