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Knowledge for Peace: Transitional Justice and the Politics of Knowledge in Theory and Practice

Edited by Briony Jones, Associate Professor of International Development and Deputy Director, Warwick Interdisciplinary Research Centre for International Development (WICID), Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick, UK and Ulrike Lühe, Researcher, swisspeace, an associated Institute of the University of Basel, Switzerland.

Combining the knowledge and experience of leading international researchers, practitioners and policy consultants, Knowledge for Peace discusses how we identify, claim and contest the knowledge we have in relation to designing and analysing peacebuilding and transitional justice programmes. Exploring how knowledge in the field is produced, and by whom, the book examines the research-policy-practice nexus, both empirically and conceptually, as an important part of the politics of knowledge production.

Find out more here: https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/knowledge-for-peace-9781789905342.html

How can we build mutual learning with IDPs, rather than engaging the research process in extractive terms? This is a question that researchers from the Data and Displacement team discuss in the first project podcast, which is now available here. The podcast brings together PI Professor Vicki Squire with Co-I Dr Briony Jones and Research Fellows Dr Prithvi Hirani and Grant Tregonning, who collectively consider how the team aims to incorporate a participatory ethos into our upcoming phase 1 fieldwork, as well as the research process as a whole.

 WICID Visiting Fellow Dr. Mouzayian Khalil-Babatunde interviewed Dr. Yvette Hutchison (Univ. of Warwick Theatre and Performance Studies) and Dr. Tosin Tume (Federal University Oye-Ekite Nigeria) for the Think Development Out Loud series. Watch the interview and hear about their work and the African Women's Playwrights Network here.

Measuring Unpaid Care and Domestic Work: Challenges and Innovations

Thursday 4th March, 1-2:30pm (UK time)

Register here: https://tinyurl.com/wicidoxfam

Amber Parkes and Diya Dutta, Oxfam

Lucia Rost, Plan International

Jayanthi Lingham, WICID, University of Warwick

Fiorella Picchioni, University of Greenwich

Discussant: Nancy Folbre, University of Massachusetts Amherst

WICID, in collaboration with Oxfam, is hosting a webinar on innovations and challenges in measuring unpaid social reproductive work. The webinar will bring together researchers from policy and academia who have recently pioneered different methodologies for researching care work. These include Oxfam's Household Care Survey (Amber Parkes & Diya Dutta, Oxfam), and 'accelerometry' as a tool to measure gendered time use and energy expenditure (Fiorella Picchioni, University of Greenwich). Nancy Folbre, Professor Emerita of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, will provide reflections on the different methodologies. The webinar will be chaired by WICID director Shirin Rai. Please join us!

CSAG Webinar 4 March: Farmers' Protests in India: Class, Culture and Politics with Shreya Sinha, University of Cambridge

Shreya Sinha's commentaries on the ongoing farmers movement in India have featured on the BBC, NDTV, the India Forum and a number of other media outlets. She studies the political economy of development and agrarian change in India, with a focus on Punjab. Shreya has a PhD in Development Studies from SOAS University of London and she is the Reviews Editor of the Journal of Agrarian Change. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.

Thursday, Mar 4, 2021, 2-3:30pm (UK time)

Rashmi Varma of the Critical South Asia Group will chair.

Join us on Blackboard: https://tinyurl.com/wicidcsagmar4

(no registration required)

Please note that this webinar will be recorded and shared on our YouTube Channel. If you do not wish to appear in the recording, please turn off your video. This will be announced again at the beginning of the webinar.