Press Releases
South African Minister Announces Leading UK Engineer to Help Run Transport Network
South Africa’s Public Enterprises Minister Jeff Radebe has announced that Professor Sir Kumar Bhattacharrya, Director of the Warwick Manufacturing Group at the University of Warwick, has been appointed as a new Board Member of Transnet Limited - which operates and controls South Africa's major transport infrastructure.
Economist Says Trading Life for Identity is Key to the "Logic" of Suicide Terrorism
Suicide terrorism seems to many to defy logic. Economists find the idea particularly hard to understand in the context of economic theories that are usually based on ideas of self interest: surely self interest must preclude self killing. But now a new research paper by Professor Mark Harrison an economist at the University of Warwick says that the value placed on personal identity by suicide terrorists provides some of the answers.
US Looks to Nazi Germany as Model for Regime Change in Iraq
A new research paper by University of Warwick researcher Maja Zehfuss points to the increasing tendency of commentators on regime change in Iraq to compare it to US post-war policy in Germany. New York Times writer James Dao has said that "The process will be painstaking, similar to de-Nazification in postwar Germany". Congressman Skelton, has also exhorted the government that "Planning for the occupation of Germany and Japan took years before the end of the Second World War." He claims that "We had a plan in place for the occupation of Germany and it worked.... And today we have, as you know, democracies in both Japan and Germany."
Three MEPs Come To The University of Warwick to Debate Europe's Stance on Iraq
Britain's controversial alliance with America against Iraq and a range of other topics relating to contemporary Europe will be at the top of the agenda on 20th February, as Michael Cashman Labour MEP, Philip Bushill-Matthews Conservative MEP and Nicholas Clegg Liberal Democrat MEP, battle and debate the most pressing issues facing Europe today.
Two Veteran War Reporters Join Kate Adie to Debate War Reporting Ethics
As war looms in Iraq distinguished war reporter Kate Adie, whose career spans conflicts from Libya to Kuwait, and Afghanistan, along with Michael Jermey, Managing Director of ITN International, and veteran BBC war reporter, Jake Lynch, will debate the ethics of conflict reporting at the University of Warwick, on 19th February 2003 at 6.30pm.
£300,000 Research Award Set To Examine Impact Of Translation On Global News Headlines
The Arts and Humanities Research Board (AHRB) has awarded over £300,000 to the University of Warwick to study news media translation, and reveal how it impacts on global relations.