LSE WPS April events featuring Christine Bell, Aisling Swaine & Laura J. Shepherd

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New events from the Centre for Women Peace and Security Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. Forward to a Friend The Centre for Women, Peace and Security is an academic space for scholars, practitioners, activists, policy-makers and students to develop strategies to promote justice, human rights and participation for women in conflict-affected situations around the world. Public events are open to all with no ticket required, unless otherwise stated. LSE campus map lse.ac.uk/wps #LSEWPS From Transitional to Transformative: justice for conflict-related violence against women Speakers: Christine Bell; Aisling Swaine Chair: Christine Chinkin Monday 23 April, 6.30-8pm Sheikh Zayed Theatre, LSE #LSESwaine 'Conflict-related violence against women' is often understood to mean sexual violence, specifically rape used as a weapon of war. But this is only one part of a broad continuum of gender violence which must be understood and addressed within and across conflict settings. This event, launching Conflict-Related Violence Against Women: Transforming Transition by Aisling Swaine, will explore the proposition that a transformation rather than a transition is required in the aftermath of conflict, if justice is to play a role in preventing gender violence. Read more.  Countering Violence, Countering Extremism: the WPS agenda in service of countering violent extremism Speaker: Laura J. Shepherd Chair: Paul Kirby Friday 27 April, 6.30-8pm Wolfson Theatre, LSE  #LSEWPS_CVE The most recent resolution in the Women, Peace and Security architecture, UN Security Council Resolution 2242, raised the possibility of alignment with the Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) agenda at the UN and beyond. In this event, Laura J. Shepherd will examine the articulation of prevention in the context of UN counter-terrorism efforts and the WPS agenda, in order to understand how the alignment of WPS and CVE agendas became possible, and to explore the likely implications. Read more. Latest from the LSE WPS blog and Working Paper Series  Where are reproductive rights in the WPS Agenda? - this blog post by Claire Pierson and Jennifer Thomson introduces the latest in the LSE WPS Working Paper Series 'Abortion and Reproductive Rights in the Women, Peace and Security Agenda'. Keep in touch via Twitter and Facebook for latest news.  Copyright © 2015 The London School of Economics and Political Science, All rights reserved.

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William Hague MP, Angelina Jolie Pitt, and Professor Christine Chinkin launch the UK’s first academic Centre on Women, Peace and Security, to be based at LSE.

LSE: New Centre for Women, Peace and Security launched at LSE by William Hague and Angelina Jolie Pitt

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New Centre for Women, Peace and Security launched at LSE by William Hague and Angelina Jolie Pitt

LSE today hosted First Secretary of State William Hague and UNHCR Special Envoy Angelina Jolie Pitt to launch the UK's first academic Centre on Women, Peace and Security, to be based at the School.

Mr Hague and Ms Jolie Pitt announced the establishment of the ground-breaking initiative to students and academic colleagues with LSE Director Professor Craig Calhoun and Professor Christine Chinkin, who will lead the new centre. It will focus on the participation of women in conflict-related processes and on enhancing accountability and ending impunity for rape and sexual violence in war.

The Centre marks a collaboration between LSE, Mr Hague, Ms Jolie Pitt and the UK Government.  It will support the aims of the Preventing Sexual Violence Initiative (PSVI), co-founded in 2012 by Mr Hague and Ms Jolie Pitt, by bringing academic expertise to bear on preventing crimes of sexual violence, holding perpetrators to account and protecting the rights of survivors. From 2016 the Centre will provide a post-graduate teaching programme in Women, Peace and Security, leading to an MSc degree.

LSE has recently announced the creation of a new Institute of Global Affairs which will host the Centre on Women, Peace and Security. The choice of LSE as host university for the Centre reflects both its international reach and its focus on issues of global concern.

Professor Calhoun said,

"This Centre is a remarkable opportunity for us to bring together academic and policy experts and those in the front line of tackling violence against women. LSE has always had at the heart of its mission the goal of translating education – research and teaching – into solving real-world problems. This new initiative represents precisely that aim. I am delighted to have worked with William Hague and Angelina Jolie Pitt in bringing this project together, and I am very excited about the possibilities it brings.

Mr Hague, founding the new centre with Ms Jolie Pitt, said,

"By founding this Centre LSE is setting an impressive example to other universities in the UK and around the world. I'm delighted that as we take forward the Preventing Sexual Violence Initiative we'll be able to work with the UK's first academic centre on Women, Peace and Security at the LSE, providing the ideas and rigorous academic understanding needed to expand equal rights, equal freedom and equal opportunity for women everywhere."
Ms Jolie Pitt said,

"I am excited at the thought of all the students in years to come who will study in this new Centre. There is no stable future for a world in which crimes committed against women go unpunished. We need the next generation of educated youth with inquisitive minds and fresh energy, who are willing not only to sit in the classroom but to go out into the field and the courtrooms and to make a decisive difference."

Professor Chinkin said,

"I am honoured to be the inaugural Director of such a ground-breaking initiative. I look forward to working with colleagues across and beyond the academic world in helping to make the world a better place for women."

The Centre also received a message of support from US Secretary of State John Kerryand Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton. 

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Craig Calhoun is Director of the London School of Economics and Political Science and a world-renowned social scientist whose work connects sociology to culture, communication, politics, philosophy and economics. Professor Calhoun took up his post as LSE Director on 1 September 2012, having left the United States where he was University Professor at New York University and director of the Institute for Public Knowledge and President of the Social Science Research Council.  Professor Calhoun took a DPhil in History and Sociology at Oxford University and a Master's in Social Anthropology at Manchester. He co-founded, with Richard Sennett, Professor of Sociology at LSE, the NYLON programme which brings together graduate students from New York and London for co-operative research programmes. He is the author of several books including Nations Matter, Critical Social Theory, Neither Gods Nor Emperors and most recently The Roots of Radicalism (University of Chicago Press, 2012).  

Christine Chinkin is a former Professor of International Law at the LSE and a barrister, a member of Matrix Chambers. Together with H. Charlesworth, she won the American Society of International Law, 2005 Goler T. Butcher Medal 'for outstanding contributions to the development or effective realization of international human rights law'. She is a William W. Cook Global Law Professor, University of Michigan and has been a Scholar in Residence for Amnesty International (2005), as well as Visiting Professor at Columbia University (2004) and the, Australian National University (2003, 2012), the Xiamen Academy of International Law (2010) and United Nations University, Tokyo, (2011). A short film celebrating her research and more on the ways she has worked in international law to change the way governments work to protect women's rights can be found here:http://www.lse.ac.uk/researchAndExpertise/researchImpact/caseStudies/chinkin-making-world-safer-place-women.aspx

The Centre will provide a leading academic space in Europe where scholars, practitioners, activists, policy-makers and others can develop strategies to promote justice, human rights and political participation for women in conflict areas around the world, and to influence the thinking of governments.  Through inter-disciplinary research, teaching, public engagement and collaboration with international institutions and NGOs, the Centre will contribute to global efforts to address violence against women in armed conflict and conflict-affected situations, including sexual violence.

The aims of the LSE Centre include:

• To develop research and practice in issues relating to women, peace and security and sexual violence in armed conflict and conflict-affected settings.
• To bring together world-class scholars at LSE to advance research in this area, and influence global policy-making.
• To build partnerships with those working on issues of women, peace and security and gender-based violence in armed conflict, including UN bodies and agencies, regional bodies, government agencies, military personnel and NGOs.
• To consolidate and improve academic and international knowledge concerning women, peace, and security.

In recent years there has been growing international recognition of the critical need to address sexual violence in conflict.  Through a series of UN Security Council Resolutions (UNSCRs) the United Nations has repeatedly condemned and called for the end to all forms of sexual violence against women and children in situations of armed conflict and made clear their link to wider international conflict prevention efforts.  But, sexual violence in armed conflict has continued to occur, often reaching appalling and frequent levels of brutality.

Based firmly on the belief that the UK has the moral obligation and the diplomatic power to change this, on 29 May 2012 then Foreign Secretary William Hague launched the PSVI campaign with the Special Envoy of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Angelina Jolie Pitt.  The aim of the campaign is to raise awareness, rally global action, promote greater international coherence and increase the political will and capacity of states to do more to address the culture of impunity that exists for these crimes, to increase the number of perpetrators held to account and to ensure better support for survivors.  

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*Security in Transition: New Conference report*

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Civil Society Dialogue on Transitional Justice in East Africa and the Balkans: Conference Report

We are pleased to share with you this report, which summarizes the key issues and ideas that emerged from the Civil Society Dialogue on Transitional Justice in East Africa and the Balkans, convened by LSE Security in Transition and held at the British Institute in East Africa in Nairobi. The dialogue brought together activists working on accountability and justice for atrocity crimes from Kenya, Uganda and the former Yugoslavia. The report discusses the role of civil society actors in responding to ongoing human rights violations, triggering debates over justice in the public sphere, engaging with transitional justice processes and mechanisms, and creating autonomous spaces for debate and activism outside formal justice processes.

With best wishes,

Security in Transition

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The LSE Middle East Centre and the Civil Society and Human Security Research Unit : *The Struggle for Iraq's Future* 7 May, LSE

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The LSE Middle East Centre and the Civil Society and Human Security Research Unit are pleased to invite you to…

The Struggle for Iraq’s Future

Date: Wednesday 7 May 2014
Time: 6.30-8.00 pm
Venue: NAB1.04, New Academic Building
Speaker: Zaid Al-Ali
Discussant: Professor Toby Dodge, LSE
Chair: Professor Mary Kaldor, LSE

In this public lecture, launching Zaid Al-Ali’s new book The Struggle for Iraq’s Future, the author provides a uniquely insightful interpretation of Iraq’s nation-building progress in the wake of the 2003 war. Al-Ali argues that the 2005 constitution is illegitimate and established a system of government that was so extreme that it could never be implemented, creating a void that the country has been struggling to fill since. The people’s trust, he contends, has been betrayed by all segments of Iraq’s ruling elites who have negotiated the formation of government on the basis of personal self-interest, patronage and deceit. Al-Ali argues that the solution lies in establishing a road map for reform that should be imposed on the ruling parties by all the major components of civil society.  

 

Zaid Al-Ali is Senior Adviser on Constitution Building at International IDEA.  He has been practicing law since 1999, specializing in comparative constitutional law and international commercial arbitration. From 2005 to 2010, he was a legal adviser to the United Nations focusing on constitutional, parliamentary and judicial reform in Iraq.  Since the beginning of 2011, he has been working on constitutional reform throughout the Arab region, in particular in Tunisia, Libya and Egypt. 

Toby Dodge is Director of the LSE Middle East Centre, a Reader in the International Relations Department at LSE, and a Senior Consulting Fellow for the Middle East, International Institute for Strategic Studies, London. 

Mary Kaldor is Director of the Civil Society and Human Security Research Unit and Professor of Global Governance at the LSE.

This event is free and open to all with no ticket required. Entry is on a first come, first served basis. For any queries email i.spyratou@lse.ac.uk or call 020 7955 6419.
Maps and directions to the LSE are available here: http://www.lse.ac.uk/mapsAndDirections/Home.aspx

 

 

Events@LSE (London School of Economics)- Announcing New Events for Spring Programme

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We are pleased to announce two new events for the Spring programme.

	More info about the event		NEW EVENT LSE European Institute and the European Parliament Information Office 'European Parliament Elections 2014: Issues and Stakes' series The Rise of Euroscepticism: causes and prospects Date: Thursday 30 January 2014 Time: 6.30-8pm Speakers: Dr Matthew Goodwin, Peter Kellner  Matthew Goodwin (pictured) is associate professor at the University of Nottingham. Peter Kellner has been president of YouGov since 2007 and is the former political editor of New Statesman.
	More info about the event		NEW EVENT Department of International Development public lecture Peacebuilding: what is it and why is it important? Date: Tuesday 4 March 2014 Time: 6.30-8pm Speaker: Judy Cheng-Hopkins Peacebuilding has become a buzzword over the past decade. Yet, there are many diverging ideas of what peacebuilding is and what it entails. The United Nations is not exempt from such uncertainty. Assistant secretary-general for peacebuilding support, Judy Cheng-Hopkins, will seek to outline the concept of peacebuilding, its practical significance and translation into operational activity.
	More info about the event		PROGRAMME FLIP-BOOK NOW ONLINE LSE Space for Thought Literary Festival 2014 Reflections Dates: Monday 24 February - Saturday 1 March 2014 You can now browse a flip-book pdf of the LSE's 6th Literary Festival programme - talks, readings, panel discussions and film screenings, as well as creative writing workshops and children's events, all free to attend and open to all.
	UPDATED TICKET RELEASE DATES Please note that the ticket release dates of some of this term's upcoming events have been amended.  See Ticketed Events for revised dates.

	Entry requirements for the above events, including ticket information, where applicable, can be found by clicking the event title or information button.

Ticketed events Click here for details of LSE public lectures and debates that require a ticket. LSE Arts The next exhibition in the Atrium Gallery is Rainbow Jews which runs from 3-28 February 2014. Podcasts and videos Podcasts and videos of many recent LSE public lectures are now online. To listen to podcasts or watch videos please visit the LSE Public Lectures and Events Podcasts Channel Please note that a podcast or video is not available for every event. LSE Music The next lunchtime concert will be with Bartosz Woroch (violin) taking place on Thursday 23 January at 1.05pm. Coming to an event If you are planning to attend these events and would like details on how to get here and what time to arrive, please refer to Coming to an event at LSE

UPCOMING EVENTS LSE IDEAS public lecture  The Origins of Mass Killing: the bloodlands hypothesis Date: Tuesday 21 January 2014 Time: 6.30-8pm Venue: Old Theatre, Old Building Speaker: Professor Timothy Snyder At no other time in European history were so many human beings deliberately killed as a matter of policy as in Eastern Europe between 1933 and 1945. In the lands between Berlin and Moscow, the Soviets killed more than four million by starvation and bullets, the Germans more than twice that number by starvation, bullets, and gas. Most deliberate Soviet killing, and almost all deliberate Nazi killing, took place in this zone. If we can understand the totality of the catastrophe, we will better understand the two regimes, and we may be better prepared to understand its component parts, the most significant of which was the Holocaust of European Jews. Professor Timothy Snyder is the Philippe Roman Chair in History and International Affairs, 2013/2014. Suggested hashtag for this event for Twitter users: #LSEbloodlands   Forum for European Philosophy 'Ethics Matters' panel discussion  The Ethics of 'Nudge' Date: Monday 27 January 2014 Time: 6.30-8pm Venue: Old Theatre, Old Building Speakers: Professor George Loewenstein, Samuel Nguyen, Professor Drazen Prelec Better decisions versus autonomous choices: should policy makers try to influence people's behaviour using techniques from the behavioural sciences when it comes to retirement savings, organ donation and lunch choice? George Loewenstein is Herbert A. Simon Professor of Economics and Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University. Samuel Nguyen is senior economist for the Behavioural Insights Team in the Cabinet Office. Drazen Prelec is professor of management science and economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Suggested hashtag for this event for Twitter users: #LSEnudge   Systemic Risk Centre public debate The Next Crisis Date: Tuesday 28 January 2014 Time: 6.30-8pm Venue: Old Theatre, Old Building Speakers: Professor Julia Black, Dr Jon Danielsson, Professor Charles Goodhart The official response to the current economic crisis may create longterm stability or, in actual fact, lay the seeds for the next. The panel of experts will debate what is the more likely outcome. Julia Black is director of LSE's Law and Financial Markets Project. Jon Danielsson (@JonDanielsson) is co-director of the Systemic Risk Centre (@LSE_SRC). Charles Goodhart is emeritus professor of banking and finance with the Financial Markets Group at LSE. Suggested hashtag for this event for Twitter users: #LSESRC The above events are free and open to all, with no ticket required.  Entry is on a first come, first served basis so please arrive early to avoid disappointment.

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