Over the years, the SBCC community has curated several novel approaches to understanding people's behaviours and creative ways to influence them. Communications in the SBCC terminology holds special importance and we have witnessed several success stories of effective use of posters, media, edutainment and the likes to drive impact, be it in the space of …
Fireside Peace Chat at Universiteit Leiden University College The Hague Monday, December 19, 2022. 18 - 19.30 (with drinks and oliebollen!) https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/2022/12/fireside-peace-chats---19-december-2022 Hosted by the Knowledge Platform for Security and Rule of Law and Universiteit Leiden University College The Hague
International 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) …
In ‘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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The 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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The 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 …
Mental 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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