Speaker: Tom Rodwell, Lessons Advisor, UK Stabilisation Unit.
Chair: Prof Mats Berdal, CSDRG, War Studies, KCL.
This event is strictly off-the-record and will not be recorded.
Free and open to all. No registration required. Seats are taken on a first come basis.
Part of the CSDRG Monday Seminar Series.
This talk will provide a short history of the UK’s approach to conducting stabilisation operations in order to illustrate how lessons from a range of interventions and activities have been identified and implemented generating a significant evolution of the UK’s approach to stabilisation. This brief assessment will identify the phases in the UK’s thinking about stabilisation, show the extent to which the UK has learnt and adapted and try to place the current approach into context.
Speaker Profile:
Tom Rodwell is a conflict and stabilisation lessons adviser in the United Kingdom’s Stabilisation Unit. Prior to this he worked in the Ministry of Defence as an analyst tasked to provide subject matter expertise on the political economy of southern Afghanistan in order to facilitate the military’s understanding of the economic factors which influence the human terrain, politics, and drivers of conflict at the provincial and district level. Previously he worked in the private sector for over a decade conducting political and economic risk analysis on emerging markets. Tom holds a BA in History from UCL and an MA in Conflict, Security and Development from KCL.