Author meets critics: Lives Amid Violence: Transforming Development in the Wake of Conflict
71-Copier, Fairmont The Queen Elizabeth, Montreal , CanadaInternational Studies Association Annual Meeting Panel TD71 Sponsored By: Real Struggles, High Stakes: Cooperation, Contention, and Creativity (Theme) Participants: Chair: Jessica R. Piombo (Naval Postgraduate School) Participant: Naazneen Barma (University of Denver) Participant: Larissa Fast (HCRI, University of Manchester) Participant: David Chandler (University of Westminster) Participant: Linda S. Bishai (Elliott School of International Affairs, GWU) …
Author’s Corner: Lives Amid Violence: Transforming Development in the Wake of Conflict
ISA MontrealIn ‘Lives Amid Violence: Transforming Development in the Wake of Conflict’ (Bloomsbury Academic, 2023), Mareike Schomerus sets out a new vision for what international engagement in situations of violent conflict needs to look like. Drawing on ten years of a major research consortium (the Secure Livelihoods Research Consortium), which conducted longitudinal empirical multi-method work in …
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Panel Discussion: The State of the Art on Statebuilding (FB18)
Ballroom West A, Le Centre Sheraton Montreal Hotel , CanadaThe 2021 fall of Kabul to the Taliban has led both scholars and practitioners to question what is really known about international statebuilding. For almost three decades, international statebuilding has been one of the dominant forms of international engagement with conflict-affected states. Scholars have studied it extensively, although from often-dispersed disciplinary and epistemological perspectives. As …
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Changing Aid Conference
American University Washington, DC, United StatesSpecial Sadat Book Chat in Collaboration with CIDCM and MAIR, University of Maryland at College Park
Taliaferro Hall (Berlin Room), University of Maryland at College Park College Park, MD, MD, United StatesThe Anwar Sadat Chair for Peace and Development is pleased to announce a special Sadat Book Chat in collaboration with CIDCM and MAIR, inviting Dr. Mareike Schomerus, Vice President of the Busara Center, to discuss her new book Lives Amid Violence: Transforming Development in the Wake of Conflict. The Sadat Book Chat is a book conversation …
Lives Amid Violence: A Conversation with Mareike Schomerus
The Keller Center, Sky Suite 1307 East 60th Street, Chicago, IL, United StatesWorkshop: Changing Mental Models in International Conflict Engagement
King's CollegeMental Models in International Conflict Engagement International engagement in situations of violent conflict—or in the presumed aftermath—sets these situations up for a never-ending violent path. The most recent and painful examples of this are events in Myanmar and Sudan, with the situation rapidly deteriorating in other places, for example Tunisia. That international engagement has a …
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The problem with bricks: Statebuilding and mental models
King's CollegeConflict Research Society Conference 2023 Panel 4F – S3.30 Rethinking the Process: New Approaches to Peacebuilding Chair: Meredith Carbonell ● Paper 1: Ali Altiok, Artificial Intelligence and Peacemaking ● Paper 2: Meredith Carbonell, Mediation After Mass Atrocities ● Paper 3: Isabel Philips, Dispute, the state and commercial actors: Mandating mediation for others vs using it …
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Book Launch Nairobi: Lives Amid Violence Transforming Development in the Wake of Conflict
British Institute in East Africa Laikipia Road, Kileleshwa, Nairobi, KenyaOn 30 November 2023, the Rift Valley Forum, in collaboarion with the British Institute in Eastern Africa (BIEA) and the French Institute for Research in Africa (IFRA) in Nairobi, will launch a book by Mareike Schomerus, titled Lives Amid Violence: Transforming Development in the Wake of Conflict. Drawing on a decade of research across eight countries …