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On 23 May, Professor Peter Burnell gave the keynote address, on ‘Promoting party politics in emerging democracies’, to the 28th workshop of the NATO Partnership for Peace Consortium of Defense Academies and Security Studies Institutes, Study Group Regional Stability in South East Europe. The event was convened by the Austrian Ministry of Defence/Austrian National Defence Academy at Château Rothschild, Reichenau/Rax on the theme ‘Political parties in South East Europe: supporting intra-State, regional and European consolidation?’

Maja Savevska, one of our PAIS GEM PhD students supervised by Professor Matthew Watson, has been awarded a postdoctoral fellowship at the Institute of Global Law and Policy at Harvard University to be taken up from autumn 2015.

This is a great achievement by Maja to win such a prestigious and competitive fellowship. It is also yet another endorsement of the quality of PAIS' PhD programme.

Many congratulations to Maja.

DAM UK would like to explore how to engage the Bangladeshi diaspora in the UK in making financial donations or giving other assistance to the work of DAM. This opportunity involves developing skills in communication, research, teamwork, project management and developing insights into how an international NGO works. This is an excellent opportunity that enables student/s to gain invaluable experience to build skills and further their career.

You can find more details on the internships page.

Dr Nicola Pratt has written a briefing titled 'Egyptian universities on the frontline of protest' for Egypt Solidarity. The briefing exposes the scale of the crackdown on Egyptian university campuses over the past academic year.

Dr Pratt documents an extensive catalogue of abuses by the security forces including shooting protesting students, arbitrary mass arrests and repeated assaults on university campuses with tear gas and birdshot. Yet student protests have continued for months, as activists challenge the military regime.

You can read the briefing on the Egypt Solidarity website.

Mara Duer, a first year PhD student in PAIS, has been awarded a £600 Travel Grant from the Society for Latin American Studies (SLAS). Her thesis, supervised by Professor Stuart Elden and Dr Nick Vaughan-Williams, investigates territorial conflicts in Chile, Peru, and Ecuador.