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Students enrolled on the 3^rd year module, Middle East Regional Relations, will participate in week 10 in a simulated Middle East peace conference. Students will be divided into national delegations, representing Israel, Egypt, Jordan, Syria and the Fateh-controlled Palestinian Authority. They will be tasked with reaching agreements on a number of major issues in the Arab-Israeli conflict, including the future of the Palestinian refugees, the borders of a future Palestinian state, the return of the Golan Heights and the status of Jerusalem. According to Dr Nicola Pratt, module convenor, ‘The conference will highlight the difficulties of conducting peace negotiations based only on the ‘land-for-peace’ formula, as well as the complexity and interconnectedness of many of the issues needing to be resolved to reach a comprehensive peace settlement’.

There is now a new deadline for registering special exam considerations. The new deadline is 10 March. More details can be found here: http://tiny.cc/ZAb2e

As part of the PaIS Seminar Series 2009 / 10 Andrew Oswald's seminar titled 

'An Introduction to Social Science Findings on Happiness'

is now available online as an MP3. You can either stream the seminar directly by clicking on the above hyper link, or you can save the MP3 to your computer by right-clicking the above link and selecting the "Save Target As" option. Do not re-distribute the MP3 without prior consent from the PaIS department.

As part of the PaIS Seminar Series 2009 / 10 Justin Greaves' seminar titled 'Crossing the Interdisciplinary Divide: Political Science and Biological Science' is now available online as an MP3. You can either stream the seminar directly by clicking on the above hyper link, or you can save the MP3 to your computer by right-clicking the above link and selecting the "Save Target As" option. Do not re-distribute the MP3 without prior consent from the PaIS department.

PAIS is pleased to announce the publication of its Undergraduate brochure, available as an e-mag here.