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Conflict prevention, peacebuilding and state building
This programme of conferences will focus on the following:
- Preventing and addressing conflict through early warning
- Stabilisation and peace-keeping measures, by the United Nations and others
- Developing capacity for good governance and justice with sustainable economic recovery in post conflict reconstruction
Latest podcasts:
Talking while fighting
Civil war and civil disruption: The need to engage in dialogue with the very people with who conflict is occurring. We address the history of talking while fighting, pre-conditions for dialogue and ask why an upsurge in fighting....
Afghanistan - talking with the Taliban
Dialogue between the Afghan government and insurgents is ongoing, but how did talks begin? How did the government identify who to talk with? And what is so special about this insurgency? In this podcast, we address these questions and more.
Civil resistance
Has civil resistance always been associated with regime change? What and where have the greatest successes and failures been? And are we entering an era where popular movements will be shaping regimes? We ask these questions and more.
Conflict diplomacy
We ask what has changed in the world in the past 10 years and how the new century’s international affairs and diplomacy differ from the past. We discuss how information technologies are putting power in the hands of unaccountable individuals.