The Understanding Violence Seminar Series explores the drivers of violent and peaceful behaviour, with a focus on the impact of trauma in conflict-affected states. Throughout 2020-21, we will be inviting a range of speakers including diplomats, academics, activists, journalists, and policy practitioners, who will bring new disciplinary insights and inspire new ways for thinking through the challenges of armed conflict and its aftermath.
The series is led by Dr Christine Cheng, Lecturer in War Studies, and Pauline Zerla, PhD student, Department of War Studies.
Event Calendar:
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28 Oct 15:00 – 16:30 |
Visual Investigations in Conflict Zones | Christiaan Triebert, Journalist at the New York Times |
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4 Nov 15:00 – 16:15 |
Violent Extremist Disengagement and Reconciliation | Chris Bosley, Senior Program Officer at the U.S. Institute of Peace |
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11 Nov 15:00 – 16:30 |
Victims and Transitional Justice in Columbia | Dr Lina Malagón, Research Associate at the Transitional Justice Institute (TJI) at the University of Ulster |
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2 Dec 15:00 – 16:15 |
What Works? Creative Approaches to Transitional Justice in Bosnia and Herzegovina |
Professor Rachel Kerr, Professor of War and Society, King's College London Dr Tiffany Fairey, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, King's College London |
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9 Dec 15:00 – 16:15
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Understanding the Current Dynamics of Eastern Syria: Tribes, Islamists & Kurdish Autonomy |
Hassan Hassan, Director, Nonstate Actors Program, Center for Global Policy |
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6 Jan 15:00 – 16:15
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When Bad Things Happen to Good Brains: The Effects of Early Life Stress and Adversity |
Dr Charles Nelson, Professor of Paediatrics and Neuroscience at Harvard Medical School, Director of Research in the Division of Developmental Medicine at Boston Children's Hospital |
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13 Jan 15:00 – 16:15
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Violence and Peace through the lens of health and trauma
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Professor Richard Sullivan, Director, Institute of Cancer Policy |
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20 Jan 15:00 – 16:15
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Getting involved in Political Violence: Irish Stories | Dr Neil Ferguson, Professor of Political Psychology, Liverpool Hope University |
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27 Jan 15:00 – 16:15
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Addressing cycles of violence in (post-)conflict regions from a clinical perspective | Dr Anselm Crombach, University of Konstanz |
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4 Feb 15:00 – 16:15
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Lives and Violence | Mareike Schomerus, Busara Center, Nairobi and Research Director of the Secure Livelihoods Research Consortium at ODI, London |
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10 Feb 15:00 – 16:15
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Reducing Fragility & Conflict: Emerging Insights from Impact Evaluations |
Aprille Knox, Policy Manager, Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab |
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17 Feb 15:00 – 16:15
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Mary Ellsberg, Founding Director, Global Women’s Institute, George Washington University |
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3 Mar 15:00 – 16:15
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How my understanding of participating in violence changed: Reflections from research and practice
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Dr Rebecca Wolfe, Assistant Instructional Professor, Harris School for Public Policy, University of Chicago |
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10 Mar 15:00 – 16:15
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Professor Brandon Hamber, John Hume and Thomas P. O'Neill Chair in Peace, International Conflict Research Institute (INCORE), Ulster University | |
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17 Mar 15:00 – 16:15
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Rajan Basra, PhD student, International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR), Department of War Studies | |
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24 Mar 15:00 – 16:15
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War and Genocide in South Sudan: A Book Talk by Clemence Pinaud
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Clemence Pinaud, expert on South Sudan, African civil wars and genocide |
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5 May 15:00 – 16:15
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Friederike Bubenzer, Senior Project Leader, Institute for Justice and Reconciliation | |
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12 May 15:00 – 16:15
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The Islamic State’s Pattern of Sexual Violence: Ideology and Institutions, Policies and Practices
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Mara Redlich Revkin, National Security Law Fellow, Georgetown University Law Center Elisabeth Jean Wood, Crosby Professor of the Human Environment and Professor of Political Science, International and Area Studies, Yale University. |
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26 May 15:00 – 16:15
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Dr Jocelyn Kelly, Director for Harvard Humanitarian Initiative’s (HHI) Gender, Rights and Resilience (GR2) program |
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2 June 15:00 – 16:15
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Masculinity, Ideology and Change in the People’s War in Nepal |
Heidi Riley, Adjunct Research Fellow, School of Politics and International Relations, University College Dublin and interim Survey Director, XCEPT Project, Kings College London |
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9 June 15:15 – 16:30
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Renos K. Papadopoulos, Professor of Analytical Psychology, Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies and Director of the ‘Centre for Trauma, Asylum and Refugees’ |
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16 June 15:00 – 16:15
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Zachariah Mampilly, Marxe Endowed Chair of International Affairs, City University of New York |
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23 June 15:00 – 16:15
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Is Violence Ever Right? Violence and developmental pathways in Brazil and Colombia |
Sandra Jovchelovitch, Professor of Social Psychology, London School of Economics and Political Science |
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30 June 15:00 – 16:15
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Jaremey McMullin, Senior Lecturer, School of International Relations, University of St Andrews |