Keep up to date with the latest news and events from around the department and the wide-ranging projects our staff and students get involved with.
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- Zainab Usman has recently written an article in Think Africa Press entitled: "Joyce Banda: Another President by Providence". Zainab is currently studying International Political Economy and Development MSc at IDD, University of Birmingham.
- Date:
- Tuesday 15th May 2012
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- The landmark verdict on April 26th against the former Liberian President, Charles Taylor, is an important warning for those who perpetrate war crimes. Finding Taylor guilty of war-time atrocities during the war in Sierra Leone between 1991 and 2002, shows that no-one can be above the law.
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- Thursday 3rd May 2012
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- This project will examine every aspect of the 2011 elections, including the role of international donors, party financing, security personnel, ethnic politics and socio-cultural phenomena, in an attempt to assess whether it represents a step towards a consolidated, multiparty democracy for Uganda.
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- Friday 27th April 2012
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- This project investigates the place of African states in the international system and seeks to understand what space exists for aid-dependent governments to exercise agency in relations with donors. In exploring these issues it focus on the case of Uganda's NRM regime which has enjoyed very substantial international support despite its increasingly authoritarian nature, destabilising regional policy and questionable human rights record.
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- Friday 27th April 2012
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- Rhys Crilley, MA International Relations (Terrorism and Political Violence), reflects on his experiences during the Postgraduate Study trip to Delhi. Each year, a group of Masters students from across the School of Government and Society are given the opportunity to travel to Delhi, India, to take part in a week-long international module entitled 'Traditional and New Security Challenges: South Asia in Global Perspective'.
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- Friday 27th April 2012
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- Huma Haider is a research fellow in the Governance and Social Development Resource Centre. Her areas of interest include transitional justice in the context of peacebuilding; coexistence and reconciliation in divided societies; and the participation of refugees, IDPs and diasporas. This post is based on a paper she recently presented at the international conference on Relationships between Diasporas and their "Homelands" and Their Impact on the State, National Identities, and Peace & Conflict at the Lebanese American University in Beirut, Lebanon.
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- Thursday 19th April 2012
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- In February 2012 the School sent a delegation of students to the Harvard National Model United Nations conference in Boston, USA.
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- Monday 2nd April 2012
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- Joseph Bergson (MSc International Development) reflects on his experiences during the Postgraduate Study trip to Delhi. Each year, a group of Masters students from across the School of Government and Society are given the opportunity to travel to Delhi, India, to take part in a week-long international module entitled 'Traditional and New Security Challenges: South Asia in Global Perspective'.
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- Thursday 29th March 2012
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- The University of Birmingham is pleased to announce 18 PhD scholarships for students from China. This major new scholarship scheme is open to all fields and named in honour of Li Siguang, one of Birmingham's most famous Chinese graduates. Six scholarships a year will be awarded, on a competitive basis, for three years of PhD study at the University of Birmingham to include tuition fees and living costs.
- Date:
- Tuesday 27th March 2012
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- The UK's Independent Commission for Aid Impact issued a report yesterday on DFID's Programme Controls and Assurance in Afghanistan expressing strong concerns about DFID's control over its programmes and resources in the country, and about corruption in particular... Written by Heather Marquette, Senior Lecturer in Governance in IDD.
- Date:
- Monday 26th March 2012