Dear all,
This is just a reminder of the upcoming conflict workshops (Aung San Suu Kyi Room), which are open to all BSIS students:
– Conflict Workshop 1: Crash course on Gender and Conflicts (30/10/13, 13.00-15.00), Élise Féron
– Conflict Workshop 2: “Inter-communal violence in India: A gender approach to communal conflicts: promoting reconciliation in Indian urban areas” (20/11/13, 13.00-15.00), Emanuela Mangiarotti
– Conflict Workshop 3: The conflict in Lebanon and the consequences of the situation in Syria (11/12/13, 13.00-15.00), Octavius Pinkard
Anna Bara (EUI) will also give a guest lecture on December 4 (13.00-15.00) on “Faces of Forced Migration: governmental responses to human trafficking in post-conflict zones”. A short summary of her lecture is copied and pasted below this message.
All best,
Élise Féron
Brief outline of Anna Bara’s lecture:
Human trafficking has long since represented one of the most problematic forms of forced migration. Particularly notable in the post-Soviet context has been the concerted influx of male and female labour migrants trafficked into various countries from the zones of conflict. Efforts to combat this phenomenon have traditionally been the preserve of individual state governments. The objective of the lecture is to examine key policy dilemmas related to human trafficking in Eastern Partnership countries and Russia that followed as a result of experienced inter and intra state conflicts.
Practice is when it works but we don’t know why.
Theory is when we understand but it doesn’t work.
Often Theory and Practice converge:
Nothing works, and we can’t explain it.
Élise Féron, PhD
Director, MA in International Conflict and Security
Senior Lecturer in International Conflict Analysis
University of Kent
Brussels School of International Studies
Boulevard de la Plaine 5
1050 Brussels
BELGIUM
Ph: +32 2 641 1721
Fax: +32 2 641 1720
e.feron@kent.ac.uk
www.kent.ac.uk/brussels