Film Screening: “No Fire Zone: The Killing Fields of Sri Lanka”

“No Fire Zone: The Killing Fields of Sri Lanka”

 

 

Introduction and Q&A with Henrietta Briscoe from Tamils Against Genocide.

24th October, 18:00, Westminster Forum, 5^th Floor, 32-38 Wells Street.

“No Fire Zone: The Killing Fields of Sri Lanka” has sparked international controversy through its account of the Sri Lankan government’s action in 2009 and has been acclaimed worldwide as a powerful documentary.

On the 16^th May 2009 the Sri Lankan government declared victory in its long running conflict with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). The United Nations later estimated  that between January and April 2009 6,500 civilians were killed and 14,000 injured. A subsequent UN enquiry found “credible evidence” of war crimes having being committed. The Sri Lankan government has strongly denied this.

 

Please contact Dr Aidan Hehir for further details (a.hehir@wmin.ac.uk)

Forthcoming SIRP Seminar: "Assange, Snowden and the Future of the Security State"

"Assange, Snowden and the Future of the Security State"

Professor Gavin MacFadyen Director the Centre for Investigative Journalism

18:00,3rd October, 2013

Westminster Forum, 5th Floor, 32-38 Wells Street

The Security and International Relations Programme is delighted to welcome Professor MacFadyen who will speak on privacy, journalists source protection, the growth of the secret police, the role of the mainstream media and the fight for the Internet.

 

Professor Gavin MacFadyen is the Director the Centre forInvestigative Journalism at City University in London and a television Producer and Director.

He was involved in the Amnesty Award winning Channel 4 Dispatches programme based on the WikiLeaks Iraq War Logs and has spoken publicly on the subject of Transparency, Accountability and whistle-blowing.

The Centre for Investigative Journalism has trained over 1000 journalists and graduate students and has conducted training programmes in over 20 countries including the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, and numerous international conferences.

CIJ has recently established Britain’s first Whistle Blowers organisation to encourage more truth telling insiders to inform the public of their concerns with safety. It was this work which brought him into contact with Julian Assange in 2007

 

For further information please contact Dr Aidan Hehir@wmin.ac.uk

 

UPCOMING ROUNDTABLE ON SYRIA...

UNDERSTANDING THE SYRIAN CRISIS

September 26th, 18:00, Fyvie Hall, 309 Regent Street

 

Since March 2011 the crisis in Syria has continued largely unabated and dominated the international political agenda. This roundtable brings together an array of experts from the Department of Politics and International Relations to discuss various aspects of the crisis (see speakers and topics below) and its implications for contemporary, and future, international relations. All are welcome.

 

"Neither Washington nor Moscow, neither Riyadh nor Tehran: What happened to the Syrian revolution?"

Dr James Allinson (Lecturer in International Relations)

"We Must (Not) Act: Politics of Imperialism and Humanitarianism"

Dr Dibyesh Anand (Head of the Department of Politics and International Relations and Reader in International Relations)


"Lessons From Africa"
Dr Hannah Cross (Lecturer in International Relations)

"Russia and Syria"

Professor Roland Dannreuther (Dean of School and Professor of International Relations)

"Sectarian Narratives and the Escalation of the Conflict"

Dr Abdelwahab El-Affendi (Reader in Politics)

"The Security Council and the Responsibility to Protect After Syria"

Dr Aidan Hehir (Reader in International Relations and Director of the Security and International Relations Programme)

"Iran, Syria and Lebanon"

Dr Farhang Morady (Senior Lecturer in Globalization and Development)

Security and International Relations Programme Seminar

Hi all,

Below are details about the next Security and International Relations Programme Seminar.

Hope to see you there,

Aidan

 

6th December, 18:00, Westminster Forum, 5^th Floor 32-38 Wells Street

“Bursting the Bubble: Lessons of Social Media’s Impact on Social Activism from KONY2012 and Beyond”

MarkKersten, LSE, creator of, and contributor to, Justice in Conflict blog.

 

The Justice in Conflict blog provides up-to-date commentaries on a wide range of issues related to international relations/law and can be accessed here.

Analyses of KONY 2012 can be accessed here.

The “KONY 2012” film is available to view here...

Security and International Relations Programme Seminar

Hello all,
Below are details about this Thursday’s Security and International Relations Programme Seminar.
Hope to see you there,
Aidan

15th November 2012: Westminster Forum, 5th Floor, 32-38 Wells Street. 
Dr Toby Dodge, Reader in International Relations, LSE:
“Intervention and dreams of exogenous state-building; the applications of the Liberal Peace to Afghanistan and Iraq”

Dr. Toby Dodge is Deputy Director of LSE IDEAS, a Reader in the International Relations Department at the LSE, and a Senior Consulting Fellow for the Middle East, International Institute for Strategic Studies, London

Security and International Relations Seminar Series

Below is a list of forthcoming seminars in the Security and International Relations Seminar series. Hope to see you there….

25th October 2012

Ausuma Monajed, Member of the Syrian National Council and Executive Director of the Strategic Research & Communication Centre:

“What’s next in the Syrian Conflict?”

15th November 2012

Dr Toby Dodge, Reader in International Relations, LSE:

“Intervention and dreams of exogenous state-building; the applications of the Liberal Peace to Afghanistan and Iraq”

6th December 2012

Mark Kersten, creator of, and contributor to, Justice in Conflict blog, LSE:

“Bursting the Bubble: Lessons of Social Media's Impact on Social Activism from KONY2012 and Beyond”

All seminars start at 18:00 and will be held in the Westminster Forum, 5th Floor, 32-38 Wells Street, London, W1T 3UW. Contact Dr Aidan Hehir for further details (a.hehir@wmin.ac.uk)

“Useful or Useless?: The EU Role in the Arab Revolts”

Thanks to all of you who attended the first of this year’s Security and International Relations Programme Seminars last Thursday (4^th October).

Professor Rosemary Hollis gave a seminar titled, “Useful or Useless?: The EU Role in the Arab Revolts”.

This was a fascinating, and very timely analysis, of the impact of the EU’s policies towards the Middle East and North Africa prior to the eruption of the “Arab Spring”. Professor Hollis advanced a very critical assessment – particularly of the UK’s role – and argued that the EU exacerbated the tensions and frustration amongst the general public which exploded in late 2010.

A video of her talk is available here….

All the best,

Aidan