Events

Seminar series: Politics and International Studies in Practice

After completing a PhD Alastair Kirk went to work in northern Iraq where he lived for the major part of three years. His first 18 months were spent on a DfID-funded programme coordinated through the Middle Eastern Studies department in Durham; seeking to provide capacity-building skills in databases/ needs assessment/ GIS and surveying for the Kurdish regional government. The second half of his time in Iraq was spent working for Save the Children UK, undertaking research used to advocate for a change in the sanctions regime. He worked on two important pieces of research around access to education and food security. He left Iraq at the end of 2001 and spent a year coordinating the Save the Children team in northern Sri Lanka in the period after the ceasefire agreement had been signed. After a final brief visit to Baghdad at the end of the war in May 2003, he turned his attention to following his vocation in the Church and is now a chaplain at the University of Warwick.

This seminar is scheduled for 4 to 5.30 pm in room S0.18 with tea beforehand from 3.30.