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Schattenkriege - Machtpoker in der Krise
Schattenkriege finden meist jenseits der öffentlichen Aufmerksamkeit statt, gehören jedoch zu den intensivsten und spannungsreichsten Auseinandersetzungen zwischen zwei oder mehreren Parteien. Die Dokumentation beleuchtet unter anderem den Konflikt zwischen Russland und Georgien, Syrien unter dem Assad-Regime oder die Hintergründe des Bürgerkriegs in Kambodscha.
Financial Strains, Health Pressures: Syria, Somalia and the COVID-19 impact
Khalif Abdirahman is Senior Field Researcher on LSEs - Conflict Research Programme - Somalia. He has conducted research across the Somali regions for the last seven years including for Tufts University, the Rift Valley Institute and the Overseas Development Institute. Mazen Gharibah is the Research Manager at the Governance and Development Research Centre in Beirut, Lebanon, which partners with the CRP-Syria Team. Nisar Majid is Research Director for CRP in Somalia.
Civic vs Madani: The Story of Two Perspectives
‘Supporting civil society’ and ‘promoting civic values’ are key elements in many Western interventions in the Arab world. As governments in the region continue to disappoint, attention has shifted to civil society and its organisations. However, delivery of these interventions is often met with local resistance, leading to frictions and adverse outcomes.
Peacebuilding
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Securitization of Religion as a Tool of Survival in Syrian Conflict
In this webinar, Rahaf Aldoughli will talk about her recent research on how Islam has become a matter of intense national interest in recent years under the Assad regime in Syria. It discusses how Sunni ulama have become the primary audience for Assad’s religious securitization discourse—which recruited the ulama to combat popular political dissidence, while also holding them responsible for establishing public unity and stability. By drawing sharp boundaries between approved vs.
How the West Stole Democracy from the Arabs
Date: 16th of July 2020 Time: 17:00 pm BST/London time, 12:00 pm EST time This event is part of our celebration of the centenary of state building attempts in the Levant. In this webinar Elizabeth F. Thompson will speak about her recent book “How the West Stole Democracy from the Arabs” which presents a new perspective on the history of democracy in the Middle East and reasons for its weakness today.
Event: Iraq, 2003-2020: From Invasion to Revolution: An LSE Webinar with Sinan Antoon and Bassam Haddad
Webinar with Sinan Antoon and Bassam Haddad Date: Wednesday 17 June 2020 Time: 16:00 pm BST (11:00 am EST) Format: Online public event - click here to register, click here to watch the event live. About Baghdad Website:www.AboutBaghdad.com (requires Flash) Event Description: In July of 2003, Haddad and Antoon were part of a collective that visited Baghdad to film About Baghdad(2004) a documentary about Iraqi lives under dictatorship and military occupation.
Understanding Violence in the Middle East and Africa
Recorded on 19 March 2018 at Old Theatre, Old Building This event will launch LSE’s new Conflict Research Programme funded by the UK’s Department for International Development. The CRP aims to understand why contemporary violence is so difficult to end and to analyse the underlying political economy of violence with a view to informing policy, with a special focus on Iraq, Syria, South Sudan, Somalia and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Hungry for Peace: Positives and Drawbacks of Local Truces and Ceasefires in Syria
As the war in Syria shows no sign of abating, international efforts to hasten a political solution to a conflict that has killed more than 190,000 people and pushed more than 3 million Syrians to seek refuge in neighboring countries continue to stall.
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