Previous events at the ICCS

3rd February - Empathy and the Historical Understanding of the Human Past… and Present

11th-15th January - Third Annual UK Political Psychology Conference

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-Affirmation

11th 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 9/11

5th February - Nuclear Risk Reduction: Disputed Past; Radically Uncertain Future

29th January - UoBe Enlightened

16th-17th December - 2nd Annual UK Political Psychology Conference

21st November - Subversion As Statecraft: The USA & Russia

25th October - Second State Responsibilities Research Workshop

23rd October - Extralegal Groups in Post-Conflict Liberia: how trade makes the state

9th October - Peace Interrupted – The Success and Limits of International Mediation

28th May - 2nd Annual English School Workshop

28th May - Keynote Address - Regimes of Difference: Culture and Order in World Politics

20th May - ICCS Research Afternoon – PhD Presentations

18th March - Rebel Governance in De Facto States: An Empirical Test

25th February - Disordered Violence

28th January - Humanitarian Muhajireen and the Medical Experience in the Islamic State

18th December - First Annual UK Political Psychology Conference

12th December - Theorising the System of States in the Mirror of Theology

12th November - Conflict Transformation through Dialogue: Analysing the Role of International Organizations in Ukraine

1st November - The Responsibility to Protect: From Promise to Practice

28th September - Change and Resistance: How Authoritarianism Structures Partisan Conflict in the US

19th September - Dealing with Difficult Topics: Theoretical and Methodological Challenges in the Study of Post-War Sexual Violence

9th July - The Shadow NATO Summit IV

11th June - Making peace, place and politics: Radio and the re-animation of urban life in post-conflict Abidjan

10th May - The 'Women, Peace and Security' Agenda in Service of Countering Violent Extremism: Prevention at the Limits of Security

30th April - Freedom of movement and the European Union

26th April - Trusting Enemies: Interpersonal Relationships in International Conflict

26th 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

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 war

6th November - Understanding Online Political Networks: The Case of the Far-Right and Far-Left in Greece

23rd October - More than Fighting for Peace? Conflict Resolution, UN Peacekeeping, and the Role of Training Military Personnel

5th July - Trust as a social emotion

4th April - Writing Statehood into Existence: Explanatory IR, the War against ISIS, and Discourses on Kurdish National Self-determination

27th-31st March - Trust, Diplomacy and Conflict Transformation 2017

13th 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

5th December - Podcast: Education and Peace-Building in Deeply Divided Societies

14th November - Trust processes in the eye of the storm! How do we cope with salient vulnerability

31st October - Set-Theoretic Thinking in the Social Sciences – Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) in a Nutshell

17th October - Personality and International Politics: Insights from Existing Research and Directions for the Future

12th September - Podcast: Global Governance for the Anthropocene: Nuclear Weapons and the Global Ecology

20th June - Ontological Security: A Holistic Framework for Analysis

6th June - Podcast: Drones as Air Proscription? The case of South Arabia and Yemen in comparative perspective

27th May - Podcast: "The Prince" Among Men: Bismarck, the Psychology of Realism, and International Relations

4th May - Podcast: The Next Great Hope: The Humanitarian Initiative and Nuclear Weapons

11th-15th April - Trust, Diplomacy and Conflict Transformation 2016

21st March - NATO: from Wales to Warsaw

3rd March - Playing by the Rules: Obama, Syria, and Chemical Weapons

18th January - Podcast: What's Wrong with NATO and How to Fix It

14th December - Nuclear strategy in the cyber age: new challenges for the ultimate weapon

16th November - Podcast: Overcoming a lack of trust to facilitate peace agreements in divided societies

19th October - Podcast: Security, Ecology and Climate Change

13th October - Podcast: Knowing how the other thinks: the brain and influence in international confrontations

5th October - Podcast: Researching Trust: The Ongoing Challenge of Matching Objectives and Methods

17th 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

1st April - Podcast: Peace Negotiations and Peacebuilding in the Middle East: The Role of Religion and Culture in Processes of Reconciliation

31st March-4th April - ICCS Training Programme: Trust, Diplomacy and Conflict Transformation

24th 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 Image

20th January - 'An encounter with empathy: normalisation or resistance? The case of Israel and Palestine'

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 Studies

4th November - Podcast: 'Empathy Dynamics in Conflict Transformation'

7th October - The New Dark Age: The Decline of Global Systems

18th February - Dr Sara Fregonese to present 'Uprising Geographies: Sovereignty, Urbanity, Resilience'

9th January - Dr. Sebastian Kaempf to present at upcoming departmental seminar

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 Aberystwyth

3rd October - Professor Barry Buzan to present at upcoming departmental seminar

17th-18th September - Civil War and the State-Building Challenge

4th September - Trust, Cooperation and the Global Nuclear Future