When Systems and International Engagement Clash (invitation only)

Co-hosted by UNICEF and the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR), the Global Alliance for Social and Behaviour Change (GA4SBC) will host a 3-hour interactive session to explore the policies and practices needed to promote an SBC Code of Ethics' values. The session also will highlight measures to ensure benefits and address challenges …

Code of Ethics for Social and Behaviour Change: From Theory to Practice Read More »

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 …

The C in SBCC: Contradictions Read More »

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) …

Author meets critics: Lives Amid Violence: Transforming Development in the Wake of Conflict Read More »

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 …

Author’s Corner: Lives Amid Violence: Transforming Development in the Wake of Conflict Read More »

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 …

Panel Discussion: The State of the Art on Statebuilding (FB18) Read More »

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 …

Special Sadat Book Chat in Collaboration with CIDCM and MAIR, University of Maryland at College Park Read More »