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Public Event: Refugees And Diasporas In Conflict And Post-Conflict Reconstruction

Thursday November 26, 6-8pm, S0.19, Social Sciences

There will be refreshments available between 6.00pm and 6.20pm.

The current refugee crisis in the Mediterranean has been of unprecedented proportions since the Second World War. It brings to the fore the difficult faith experienced by many refugees and conflict-generated diasporas at different times and in different places. This roundtable seeks to shed light on diaspora activism related to the conflicts of Kosovo, Bosnia, Iraq, Lebanon, Nagorno-Karabakh, Palestine, Sri Lanka, and Rwanda, among others, and to draw parallels with the current refugee crisis. It also aims to discuss how diasporas support their home countries during post-conflict reconstruction. Please join us for lively presentations from the panelists and a discussion to follow.

More information about this public event is available at the ERC Project "Diasporas and Contested Sovereignty" website at: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/pais/research/clusters/cpd/diasporas/news/refugee.diasporas.public.event.pdf

Professor Shaun Breslin has recently spoke at the ThinkIN China event "Governing The Socialist Market: Developmentalism And China" in Beijing.

The year 2015 marks the 25th anniversary of the publication of Robert Wade’s seminal book “Governing the Market”. In his book, Wade elaborates a theory stressing the role of the state in economic development. As the consequences of the Great Recession are forcing many governments and the International Financial Institutions themselves to put into question their ideological stance of unfettered free markets, the anniversary marks the occasion to review the developmental state paradigm (DSP) debate and re-assess validity in the XXI century global political economy. Have financial crises in the 90s and the Great Recession itself generated more political support for DSP principles or have neoliberal attempted solutions to the same crises undermined the tenets of developmental state theories? Are DSP policy measures still feasible (and desirable) in a globalized era dominated by global value chains? With an eye to the Chinese experience in the past decades, the roundtable will discuss whether the key principles of the DSP – as properly understood – are still valid, and what lessons developing countries can learn from China’s developmental trajectory.

A podcast of the event can be listened to here (registration required)

PAIS, class of 2015, alum Michael Yip's final year research on China and Japan has recently been accepted at the British Conference of Undergraduate Research. He is due to give an oral presentation in March 2016.

Michael's research uses history and international political economy to compare China's and Japan's past and present ability to lead East Asia. At its core, his research uses a hybrid approach of giving equal weight to both actors and issues in his analysis - in order to give a much more well-rounded conclusion. It therefore tries to move away from pre-existing commentary that has tended to focus only on one or the other.

As part of this research project, Michael has already presented at the International Conference of Undergraduate Research and intends on submitting his work to journals.

Our new collaborative project entitled ‘Raced Markets’ draws together researchers, activists, and artists whose work broadly explores how racial power functions in the global economy.

Raced Markets is a joint endeavour between our own IPE cluster and the School of Politics and IR at QMUL, and our first two-day workshop will take place here at Warwick at the start of December.

The papers included in this event cover many timely unfolding aspects of the global political economy including: economies of migration, racial bioeconomies of genes and cells, and the global financial crisis as a raced event. Further papers variously consider how race is foundationally implicated in political economy as a discipline, present feminist readings of racial economies, and examine the role of race in processes of foreclosure and enclosure

Black Activists Rising Against the Cuts (BARAC) will be there to introduce the campaign work of their organisation and the Institute for Race Relations (IRR) will also be involved in the event.

If you would like any further information on the workshop or the project as a whole please contact lisa.tilley@warwick.ac.uk 

Raced Markets Workshop Programme

The ERC Starting Grant Project “Diasporas and Contested Sovereignty” invites you to a roundtable public event:

Bosnia and Herzegovina 20 Years after Dayton: Achievements, Challenges, and
Transnational Diaspora Activism

November 19, 2015, 18:00 – 20:00,

MS.05, Mathematics and Statistics Building

There will be refreshments available between 18:00 and 18:20.  

The General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina – better known as the Dayton Agreement (1995) – effectively ended the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, following genocide in Srebrenica, the worst mass atrocity committed in Europe since WWII. This roundtable will analyze lessons learned in Bosnia and Herzegovina for the past 20 years, and discuss the achievements and challenges vis-à-vis its diaspora living globally, peacebuilding, transitional justice, and European integration.

What lessons can we draw from the Dayton model for recent conflicts and the refugee crisis in Europe today?

Please join us for lively presentations and discussion with the panelists:

Dr. Maria Koinova, Reader at the University of Warwick and Principal Investigator of the European Research Council Starting Grant “Diasporas and Contested Sovereignty,” will be chairing the roundtable discussion. She is the author of Ethnonationalist Conflict in Postcommunist States (UPENN, 2013), and of articles published in the European Journal of International Relations, International Political Science Review, Foreign Policy Analysis, International Political Sociology, and Review of International Studies, among others.

Dženeta Karabegović is a PhD Research Fellow in PAIS at the University of Warwick. Her research, funded by the “Diasporas and Contested Sovereignty” ERC Grant, focuses on Bosnian diaspora mobilization in Europe around political participation, remembrance, and transitional justice.

Dr. Waqar Azmi OBE is Chairman of the charitable initiative “Remembering Srebrenica” established in 2013 to commemorate the Srebrenica genocide in the UK, and to educate British society on this recent chapter of European history. Formerly Waqar was the UK Government’s Chief Diversity Adviser at the Cabinet Office and European Union (EU) Ambassador for Intercultural Dialogue.

Dr. Eric Gordy is Senior Lecturer in Politics of Southeast Europe at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES) of University College London. His publications include the books The Culture of Power in Serbia: Nationalism and the Destruction of Alternatives (1999) and Guilt, Responsibility and Denial: The Past at Stake in Post-Milošević Serbia (2013).