Previous events at the ICCS In 'Events' Events, seminars and workshopsPrevious Events at the ICCS Back to 'Institute for Conflict, Cooperation and Security' 2021 3rd February - Empathy and the Historical Understanding of the Human Past… and Present11th-15th January - Third Annual UK Political Psychology Conference 2020 17th December - What Are Emotional Mechanisms?30th October - Roundtable discussion: Is America sliding into authoritarianism?25th March - Public Perception of International Crises: Identity, Ontological Security and Self-Affirmation11th March - POSTPONED - Security Challenges for the 21st Century: An Audience with General David Petraeus (Honorary Professor at the ICCS, University of Birmingham)27th February - Book Launch for the Elgar Handbook of Terrorism and Counter Terrorism Post 9/115th February - Nuclear Risk Reduction: Disputed Past; Radically Uncertain Future29th January - UoBe Enlightened 2019 16th-17th December - 2nd Annual UK Political Psychology Conference21st November - Subversion As Statecraft: The USA & Russia25th October - Second State Responsibilities Research Workshop23rd October - Extralegal Groups in Post-Conflict Liberia: how trade makes the state9th October - Peace Interrupted – The Success and Limits of International Mediation28th May - 2nd Annual English School Workshop28th May - Keynote Address - Regimes of Difference: Culture and Order in World Politics20th May - ICCS Research Afternoon – PhD Presentations18th March - Rebel Governance in De Facto States: An Empirical Test25th February - Disordered Violence28th January - Humanitarian Muhajireen and the Medical Experience in the Islamic State 2018 18th December - First Annual UK Political Psychology Conference12th December - Theorising the System of States in the Mirror of Theology12th November - Conflict Transformation through Dialogue: Analysing the Role of International Organizations in Ukraine1st November - The Responsibility to Protect: From Promise to Practice28th September - Change and Resistance: How Authoritarianism Structures Partisan Conflict in the US19th September - Dealing with Difficult Topics: Theoretical and Methodological Challenges in the Study of Post-War Sexual Violence9th July - The Shadow NATO Summit IV11th June - Making peace, place and politics: Radio and the re-animation of urban life in post-conflict Abidjan10th May - The 'Women, Peace and Security' Agenda in Service of Countering Violent Extremism: Prevention at the Limits of Security30th April - Freedom of movement and the European Union26th April - Trusting Enemies: Interpersonal Relationships in International Conflict26th February - Cancelled: The dialogical creation of public opinion: how the European Union's 'ever closer union' narrative became a public narrative.22nd January - Acceptance of austerity policies: evidence from a survey experiment 2017 20th November - 'I will not leave, my freedom is more precious than my blood': From affect to precarity: crowd-sourced citizen archives as memories of the Syrian war6th November - Understanding Online Political Networks: The Case of the Far-Right and Far-Left in Greece23rd October - More than Fighting for Peace? Conflict Resolution, UN Peacekeeping, and the Role of Training Military Personnel5th July - Trust as a social emotion4th April - Writing Statehood into Existence: Explanatory IR, the War against ISIS, and Discourses on Kurdish National Self-determination27th-31st March - Trust, Diplomacy and Conflict Transformation 201713th March - What is the Future for NATO?27th February - Podcast: Can Organisations Be Trustworthy?1st February - Podcast: The Disappearance of the Battlefield in the Age of Global Targeting 2016 5th December - Podcast: Education and Peace-Building in Deeply Divided Societies14th November - Trust processes in the eye of the storm! How do we cope with salient vulnerability31st October - Set-Theoretic Thinking in the Social Sciences – Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) in a Nutshell17th October - Personality and International Politics: Insights from Existing Research and Directions for the Future12th September - Podcast: Global Governance for the Anthropocene: Nuclear Weapons and the Global Ecology20th June - Ontological Security: A Holistic Framework for Analysis6th June - Podcast: Drones as Air Proscription? The case of South Arabia and Yemen in comparative perspective27th May - Podcast: "The Prince" Among Men: Bismarck, the Psychology of Realism, and International Relations4th May - Podcast: The Next Great Hope: The Humanitarian Initiative and Nuclear Weapons11th-15th April - Trust, Diplomacy and Conflict Transformation 201621st March - NATO: from Wales to Warsaw3rd March - Playing by the Rules: Obama, Syria, and Chemical Weapons18th January - Podcast: What's Wrong with NATO and How to Fix It 2015 14th December - Nuclear strategy in the cyber age: new challenges for the ultimate weapon16th November - Podcast: Overcoming a lack of trust to facilitate peace agreements in divided societies19th October - Podcast: Security, Ecology and Climate Change13th October - Podcast: Knowing how the other thinks: the brain and influence in international confrontations5th October - Podcast: Researching Trust: The Ongoing Challenge of Matching Objectives and Methods17th July - Podcast: Smart, smart, and many versus few and bespoke: Will small drones shift the character of conflict?13th-17th April - Trust, Diplomacy and Conflict Transformation 2014 1st April - Podcast: Peace Negotiations and Peacebuilding in the Middle East: The Role of Religion and Culture in Processes of Reconciliation31st March-4th April - ICCS Training Programme: Trust, Diplomacy and Conflict Transformation24th March - Podcast: 'Chemically Massacring Civilians: How Much Does, Should, or Can the International Community Care?'24th February - 'Strategy: A History'23rd January - Visual Securitization: Taking Security Studies from the Word to the Image20th January - 'An encounter with empathy: normalisation or resistance? The case of Israel and Palestine' 2013 9th December - 'Trauma and the Politics of Fear: Europe at the Crossroads'2nd December - Podcast: 'Security Cosmopolitanism: Case, Critiques, and Future'25th November - Podcast: 'Health for Health's Sake, Winning for God's Sake: US medical assistance and smart power strategies in Iraq and Afghanistan'18th November - 'The English School: A Neglected Approach to International Security Studies4th November - Podcast: 'Empathy Dynamics in Conflict Transformation'7th October - The New Dark Age: The Decline of Global Systems18th February - Dr Sara Fregonese to present 'Uprising Geographies: Sovereignty, Urbanity, Resilience'9th January - Dr. Sebastian Kaempf to present at upcoming departmental seminar 2012 23rd October - Professor Nicholas Wheeler to deliver guest lecture on 'Researching the 2003-2006 Nuclear Negotiations Between Iran and the West' at the University of Aberystwyth3rd October - Professor Barry Buzan to present at upcoming departmental seminar17th-18th September - Civil War and the State-Building Challenge4th September - Trust, Cooperation and the Global Nuclear Future