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SECURITIZING ISLAM
A Knowledge Centre interview with Prof Stuart Croft
How are national identities formed? Who decides who is included and, therefore, who is excluded? What happens when identities come into conflict with one another? In his new book, Securitizing Islam, to be published in January 2012, Professor Stuart Croft, Department of Politics and International Studies, sets out his theory that Britishness has been reconstituted as a means and result of securitizing Islam.
ANDERS BREIVIK, AND THE THREAT TO EUROPE
A Knowledge Centre article by Prof Stuart Croft
The recent tragedy in Norway was on a scale that is hard to imagine. But what are the wider implications of the attacks? What is the significance in terms of European far right groups? What similarities are there to the work of Al Qaeda? Professor Stuart Croft, Politics and International Studies, explains more.
WOMEN IN PARLIAMENT
A Knowledge Centre interview with Prof Shirin Rai
The Gendered Ceremony and Ritual in Parliament Programme differentiates between ceremony and ritual as part of an analyisis of three parliaments based on the Westminster model.
LABOUR LEADERSHIP CAMPAIGN
A Knowledge Centre interview with Dr Justin Greaves
Dr Justin Greaves, PAIS, gives his perspective on the campaign in an interview with Amy McLeod.
Gabrielle Lynch speaks in Kenya
Whilst undertaking research in Kenya as part of her ESRC First Grant project on 'Truth and Justice: The Search for Peace and Stability in Modern Kenya', Gabrielle Lynch gave a series of talks to the policy-making community.
- ‘Truthtelling, Reconciliation and Documentation’, Victim Centred Workshop on Transitional Justice organised by the Joint Advisory Technical Committee on Transitional Justice (JATCO), Simba Lodge, Naivasha, 29 August 2011
- 'Amnesty and implications for the forthcoming elections and ongoing ICC proceedings', Truth Justice and Reconciliation Commission Workshop on Reparations and Amnesty, Monday 5 September 2011, Ole Serenei Hotel, Nairobi
- 'Briefing on Kenya'sTruth Justice and Reconciliation Commission', Conflict & Security Donor Group Meeting, 15 September 2011, The Netherlands Embassy, Nairobi