Durham Global Security Institute

Please join us for another DGSi Public Lecture with Prof. Louiza Odysseos: Tuesday 21st January 2020, 4-6pm, Al-Qasimi Building IM102.

DGSi event this afternoon 3-5pm in the Oriental Museum. Please join us!

Dear DGSi friends,

We are delighted to start our public lecture series of the new academic year 2019/20 with Gordon Bacon. He is a former policeman (from the Durham area) who has worked on missing persons in the former Yugoslavia (following the civil wars) and Sri Lanka (following the Tsunami). We encourage the new cohort of MSc students to engage with his rich experience as a practitioner and join us today (8 October) at 16:00 in the Al-Qasimi Building, IM102.

We hope to see you there!

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DGSI friends:
We would like to invite you to our exhibition launch and panel discussion "Security on the Move" on thursday, March 14, 2019 from 3 to 5 p.m. at the Arch at the Africa Centre (66 Great Suffolk Street London, SE1 0BL):

Large scale migration and forced displacement are among the most dramatic consequences of war and political instability. In the DGSI research project ‘Security on the Move’, forty people who have been displaced to Somali cities took pictures to document their experiences and everyday lives. An exhibition of these images and the photographers' testimonies will be launched on 14 March 2019 in London. The event is free but registration for the launch is required through Eventbrite:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/security-on-the-move-exhibition-launch-and-panel-discussion-tickets-56556221180

Launch event programme (3-5pm, 14 March 2019)
• Introduction of the research project and presentations of the main findings
• Guided tour through the exhibition. Visitors can explore the exhibition and talk to the researchers
• Panel discussion featuring humanitarian practioners and policy makers dealing with challenges of rapid urbanisation and migration.
There will be opportunities for the audience to ask questions and engage with the panelists and the research team.

*Although this launch event will take place between 3-5pm, the exhibition is open to the public from 12-3pm and 5-7pm (no RSVP necessary)

Project background

The ‘Security on the Move’ project is conducted by the Durham Global Security Institute at Durham University, Noragric at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences, and the Somali civil society organisation SOWELPA, in collaboration with UNHabitat. For this research, interviews were conducted with 120 displaced people in the cities of Baidoa, Bosaaso, Hargeisa and Mogadishu. Forty internally displaced people were trained and equipped to take photographs that document their everyday lives in order to present their perspectives on security and urbanisation across these cities.

All exhibited photographs were taken by displaced people who have participated in the project. Public exhibitions and discussions have already been held in the four Somali project cities in January 2019. These are now being following with exhibitions in Oslo, London and Nairobi.

Project funded by Department of International Development (DFID), UK and Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), UK

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Dear DGSI friends,

We are reigniting our DGSI lecture series next week as Dr Toni Haastrup will deliver her talk “Practicing the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) Agenda in Africa: A Regional Perspective”. Dr Haastrup’s talk focuses on her contribution to the Oxford Handbook of Women, Peace and Security, reflecting on the type of contributions made by African practices of the WPS agenda as a way of introducing a difference from the dominating narratives of WPS from the Global North. Dr Haastrup is a Senior Lecturer in International Security at the University of Kent, dedicated to researching the EU’s external relations in Africa as well as Africa’s International Relations.

Her talk is scheduled for Thursday the 28th of February from 17.00 to 18.30 at Room MHL452 in the Mill Hill Lane building.

DGSi would like to invite papers and panels for two events focused on the study of urban violence:

- A first call for the section on ‘Violence in the City: Actors, Forms and Dynamics of Urban Violence’ at the European Consortium of Political Research (ECPR) conference taking place in Wrocław, Poland, from 04-07 September 2019. This section draws attention to the different direct and indirect forms of urban violence, its actors, dynamics and causes. Submission deadline is 18th, February 2019

- A second call for the section 'Violence Security Capitalism: Global Perspectives on the City ' at the European Studies Association Pan-European Conference (EISA PEC) taking place in Sofia, Bulgaria, from 11-14 September 2019. This call looks for papers for the following panels:

•Property, Power and Politics in the City
•Everyday Politics in Austere Times: Navigating Cities of Violence
•Violence and Urban Infrastructure
•City Industries and Conflicts
•Methodological Approaches to Study Violence and “Dangerous” Places
•Resistance to Capitalism in the City
•Governing International Mobilities: regulating movement and flows in cities
•City and Terrorism

Submission deadline is 28th, February 2019

For more information on both calls please visit:

Durham Global Security Institute : Violence and the City - Durham University We, Kirsti Stuvøy ([email protected]) and Jutta Bakonyi ([email protected]) invite papers and panels for our section on ‘Violence in the City’ at the European Consortium of Political Research (ECPR). The conference takes place in Wrocław, Poland, from 04-07 September 2019.

Osman consulting is looking for an intern to support them in their international humanitarian work.

Our students are working on conflict mapping, conflict sensitive approaches and programme management, looking at pastoralist conflicts in Northern Kenya.

A paid training opportunity for anyone with an interest in the Western Balkans and with knowledge of local languages of the region:

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