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- This exciting degree programme is offered exclusively through the Institute for Conflict, Cooperation and Security (ICCS), comprised of a number of leading scholars in the field of security who regularly produce cutting edge, internationally renowned research.
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- Monday 18th February 2013
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- Professor John Makumbe died on 24 January aged 63. Professor Makumbe was a member of the Department of Political and Administrative Studies of the University of Zimbabwe. The University of Birmingham awarded him an honorary doctorate in 2004 on the strength of his brave and principled commitment to truth and integrity in Zimbabwe and in Africa more broadly.
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- Friday 1st February 2013
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- Browse an overview of IDD's recent research, teaching, consultancy and publications.
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- Thursday 24th January 2013
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- How can politics enable, as opposed to constrain, better public services in conflict-affected countries? IDD and ODI researchers have collaborated to examine the politics of progress on water and sanitation in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
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- Thursday 17th January 2013
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- A University of Birmingham delegation visited the Balkans from 04-08 December 2012. The delegation was headed by Professor Mark Webber, Head of the School of Government and Society, and its members included Professor Stefan Wolff, Director of Research and Knowledge Transfer (College of Social Sciences), Dr Graham Timmins, Director of Education in the School of Government and Society, and Dr Gëzim Alpion Director of Joint Honours Programmes (POLSIS).
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- Friday 11th January 2013
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- Nicolas Lemay-Hébert highlights the importance of a neglected question: what type of state does statebuilding seek to promote?
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- Friday 14th December 2012
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- The University of Birmingham's China Institute celebrates its official opening today in the presence of His Excellency Mr Liu Xiaoming, Ambassador of the People's Republic of China to the UK.
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- Friday 14th December 2012
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- Students from the UK and around the world will have free access to some of the country's top universities thanks to FutureLearn Ltd, an entirely new company being launched by The Open University (OU). The universities of Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, East Anglia, Exeter, King's College London, Lancaster, Leeds, Southampton, St Andrews and Warwick have all signed up to join FutureLearn.
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- Friday 14th December 2012
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- The University of Birmingham is now accepting nominations for ESRC funding starting in October 2013. The University of Birmingham ESRC Doctoral Training Centre (DTC) is one of 21 across the UK that has been accredited by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).
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- Wednesday 12th December 2012
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- Is there an ideal electorate system? As a recent Birmingham Brief demonstrated, we are often faced with a simple binary choice: do we want 'strong government' which can claim an empowering mandate, or do we want a government that represents, however messily, 'the will of the people'? If we want the former, in the UK at least, we have persisted with a first-past-the-post system. From time-to-time, though, we have had a dark night of the soul, wondered at the fairness of governments' claiming a mandate from a minority of voters actually supporting them, and flirted with alternatives.
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- Tuesday 11th December 2012