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SUMMARY:Why is mediation failing to resolve so many armed conflicts today?
DESCRIPTION:Registration link: \nhttps://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_tm6xoKv5QieWOCHTCK-4Lw \nParticipants (see more detailed bios below): \nKatia Papagianni: Director of Policy and Mediation Support\, Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue (HD) in Geneva \nNeha Sanghrajka: Negotiator and mediator with more than 17 years of experience in conflict prevention\, conflict resolution\, and mediation \nMatt Waldman: Senior Adviser at the European Institute of Peace; Expert Adviser and Facilitator at the European Leadership Network; and Research Associate of the Department of Politics and International Relations at Oxford University. \nBetty Bigombe: Former Senior Director ‘Fragility\, Conflict and Violence’ at the World Bank; Ugandan Special Envoy to the South Sudan peace process \nPaul Dziatkowiec (moderator): Director for Mediation and Peace Support at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP); former senior Australian diplomat; Fellow of the Oxford Global Society \nDescription \nIn recent decades the conflict landscape appears to have changed markedly. Geopolitics are back; there has been an uptick in intra- and inter-state conflicts; there are more and more proxy wars and armed non-state actors; and the multilateral system (including the UN) is less integral to peacemaking efforts than it once was. Even more concerning\, the sheer number and scale of armed conflicts has ballooned to a level not seen for decades. What does this say about the practice of mediation – is it an outdated tool? Is it simply powerless in countering the resurgence of a ‘might makes right’ mantra? Or does it merely need rethinking and refining to make it fit for purpose? \n\nBios of participants: \nPaul Dziatkowiec is Director for Mediation and Peace Support at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP). He is an experienced diplomat and conflict mediator. Following his diplomatic career\, Paul joined the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue (HD) in Geneva. At HD Paul was involved in mediation in diverse conflict settings including Nigeria\, Myanmar\, Thailand and Ukraine. He led HD’s Ukraine program for six years. For five years Paul managed the Oslo Forum\, the pre-eminent global gathering for conflict mediation. \nKatia Papagianni is Director for Mediation Support and Policy at the Geneva-based Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue (HD Centre). In that capacity\, she has advised HD mediation teams and deployed to support operationally all over the world. Katia has also been seconded by the HD Centre to the team of the UN Special Adviser on Yemen as an expert on national dialogue processes. Prior to joining the HD Centre\, she worked in Russia\, Bosnia and Herzegovina\, and Iraq. Katia’s work focuses on mediation process design\, political transitions\, national dialogue and constitution-making processes. \nNeha Sanghrajka is a negotiator\, mediator\, and author with over 17 years’ experience in high-stakes negotiations\, including working for former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan in Kenya on the 2007 electoral crisis and with the Personal Envoy of the UN Secretary-General for Mozambique as a mediator in the definitive Mozambican peace accord. She is currently a fellow at Harvard University and a Senior Advisor for UNOPS. Neha is on the board of the Kofi Annan Foundation\, the Berghof Foundation and has worked with the HD Centre\, the UN\, and the AU. She is a founding member of Women Mediators across the Commonwealth and holds degrees in Law and International Relations. \nMatt Waldman has previously served as a special adviser to the United Nations envoys for Afghanistan\, Syria\, Somalia and Yemen\, and has conducted mediation and facilitation work with several international organisations. He has undertaken research on armed conflict\, foreign policymaking and psychology in international mediation as a fellow at Harvard’s Belfer Centre\, Harvard’s Law School\, Tufts’ Fletcher School\, and Clare College\, Cambridge University. Matt is the author of ‘Peacemaking in Trouble: Expert Perspectives on Flaws\, Deficiencies and Potential in the Field of International Mediation’. \nBetty Bigombe is a Ugandan national\, has played a key role in conflict resolution in Africa. She led the peace and humanitarian efforts in northern Uganda\, first in the 1990s as Minister of State for Northern Uganda and again as chief mediator to the conflict in the mid-2000s. She served as Senior Director ‘Fragility\, Conflict and Violence’ at the World Bank. She has been a visiting scholar at John Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies\, the Woodrow Wilson Center and a Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace\, consulting on the impact of war and violence.
URL:https://oxgs.org/event/why-is-mediation-failing-to-resolve-so-many-armed-conflicts-today/
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SUMMARY:Can private diplomacy help end today’s conflicts?
DESCRIPTION:Register here: \nhttps://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_GRfUFSjRSsm_BCNt4Pk8Nw#/registration \nParticipants (see more detailed bios below): \nAlan Doss: Former Under Secretary General of the UN & former President of Kofi Annan Foundation\, Chair of Advisory Board at Oxford Global Society \nSarah Boukhary: Yemen Program Manager at the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue \nDavid Lanz: Deputy Director for Mediation Support and Policy at the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue \nPaul Dziatkowiec (moderator): Director for Mediation and Peace Support at the GCSP\, former senior Australian diplomat\, Fellow at Oxford Global Society \nDescription: \nThe ongoing conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza have served not only to sharpen geopolitical tensions\, they have seemingly also rendered ineffective a number of diplomatic methods for ending conflicts around the world. This points to the need for alternative tools for preventing and resolving conflict.  ‘Private diplomacy’ has become an increasingly common approach for exploring and ‘pre-cooking’ solutions. \nPrivate diplomacy is sometimes referred to as Track II / Track 1.5 mediation\, or simply unofficial peacemaking. These terms essentially refer to discreet\, unofficial dialogue processes facilitated by non-state institutions or individuals\, who convene relevant actors (or their associates) involved in conflict\, with a view to developing mutually-agreeable options for preventing or resolving conflict. \nThrough this online discussion\, the Oxford Global Society intends to shed some light on the practice of private diplomacy; and to examine whether\, and in what circumstances\, ‘unofficial diplomats’ may contribute to finding solutions where traditional diplomacy struggles to adapt to new international realities – and indeed\, whether the two can be made more complementary. \nPanelists will consider the following\, among other aspects: \n\nThe purpose and methods of private diplomacy/track II mediation.\nThe extent to which private diplomacy works in modern conflicts\, and if so\, which circumstances are more conducive to its success.\nCases illustrating how unofficial peacemaking has helped bring an end to conflict\, and where it has failed to do so.\nThe applicability of such methods to the rapidly changing international landscape (eg in addressing certain current conflicts where dialogue has failed to bring results).\nThe challenges and limits of private diplomacy.\n\nBios of participants: \n \nAlan Doss is a former Under Secretary General of the UN and a former President of Kofi Annan Foundation. He worked on UN development\, humanitarian and peacekeeping issues for more than four decades. He represented the UNDP in various African and Asian countries\, opening UNDP offices in Vietnam and China. He was appointed as deputy special representative of the Secretary General for UN peacekeeping missions in Sierra Leone and Cote d’Ivoire and then as the Special Representative of the UN missions in Liberia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. After retirement from the UN and Kofi Annan Foundation\, Alan continues to support international efforts to promote peace and development in various roles\, including as Chair of the Advisory Board of the Peace Division of UN Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) and as a board member of INTERPEACE. He also serves as the Chair of the Advisory Board at Oxford Global Society. \nPaul Dziatkowiec is Director for Mediation and Peace Support at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP). He is an experienced diplomat and conflict mediator. Paul’s most recent diplomatic posting was as Australia’s Deputy Ambassador to Kenya (2009-12)\, during which he was the Acting Ambassador for approximately a year to Kenya\, Somalia\, South Sudan\, Rwanda\, Burundi\, Uganda\, and Tanzania\, and deputy Permanent Representative to the UN in Nairobi. Earlier Paul was posted in Israel\, and periodically served as Acting Representative to the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah. Following his diplomat career\, Paul joined the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue (HD) in Geneva. At HD Paul was involved in mediation in diverse conflict settings including Nigeria\, Myanmar\, Thailand and Ukraine. He led HD’s Ukraine program for six years. For five years Paul managed the Oslo Forum\, the pre-eminent global gathering for conflict mediation. \n \nDavid Lanz is Deputy Director for Mediation Support and Policy at the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue in Geneva. He is a trained mediator with 15 years of experience supporting international mediation processes and leading dialogue efforts. Prior to joining the HD Centre\, he was Representative for Dialogue Promotion with the International Crisis Group. He also co-headed the mediation program of swisspeace\, where he led applied research projects on process design\, power-sharing and sanctions & mediation. He previously served in the OSCE Conflict Prevention Centre\, deploying as part of the organization’s response to the crisis in and around Ukraine in 2014\, and worked for the UN Mission in Sudan. David holds a PhD from the University of Basel and was a visiting fellow at the Kroc Institute of International Peace Studies at Notre Dame University. \nSarah Boukhary the Yemen Program Manager at the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue (HD). She oversees the strategic development of HD’s private diplomacy work in Yemen\, as well as its operational and programmatic priorities in the country. She specializes in multi-level mediation engagements with local\, national\, and regional stakeholders\, as well as in fostering inclusion in multiple tracks of participation. Sarah is an Erasmus Mundus scholar and holds an M.A. in Human Rights Policy and Practice\, as well as a B.A. in Political Studies from the American University of Beirut (AUB). She has co-authored and co-edited a number of reports on the Women\, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda in the MENA region and addresses the current state of affairs of mediation in Yemen and the broader region in her speaking engagements.
URL:https://oxgs.org/event/can-private-diplomacy-help-end-todays-conflicts/
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CATEGORIES:Global Politics
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SUMMARY:Why in this time of war we need diplomacy more than ever
DESCRIPTION:Registration: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_QnDywpIFRWK3ncseKcmAxQ \nEvent description   \nWe are living in parlous times. Across the globe\, there are some 32 countries embroiled in armed conflict. While the Russia-Ukraine war and\, more recently\, the outbreak of violence in Israel/Palestine\, dominate news headlines\, Central African Republic\, Ethiopia\, Libya\, Mali\, Myanmar\, Somalia\, South Sudan\, and Syria are all currently experiencing civil wars\, resulting in significant casualties and displacement. In many regions around the world\, peacemaking and mediation efforts are failing to prevent or resolve armed conflict. What scope is there for diplomacy to play a more effective role in mediating these conflicts? On the occasion of the publication of the 8th edition of Satow’s Diplomatic Practice edited by Ivor Roberts\, we bring together four former diplomats to answer that and related questions. \nChair/Moderator   \nProf Richard Caplan (Professor of International Relations\, Oxford University; Oxford Global Society Fellow) \nSpeakers   \nSir Ivor Roberts (former British ambassador in Belgrade\, Dublin and Rome; former president of Trinity College\, Oxford University; Oxford Global Society Advisory Board member) \nDr Noeleen Heyzer (former UN Under-Secretary General\, Executive Secretary of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia Pacific (ESCAP)\, Executive Director of the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM)\, Secretary-General Special Advisor for Timor-Leste and Special Envoy on Myanmar) \nAmbassador Jorge Heine (former Chilean ambassador to China\, India and South Africa; research professor at the Pardee School of Global Studies and interim director of the Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future at Boston University) \nMr Ghaith al-Omari (Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Senior Fellow at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy. From 1999-2006 he held various positions in the Palestinian Authority including as an advisor to the Palestinian negotiating team)
URL:https://oxgs.org/event/why-in-this-time-of-war-we-need-diplomacy-more-than-ever/
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SUMMARY:Good Friday Agreement at 25: The troubled past and the uncertain future
DESCRIPTION:Seminar registration:  https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_FkNdE1vWRwS-BGg_6HohkA \nThe 10 April 2023 marks the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement (GFA)\, which is responsible in large part for bringing peace in Northern Ireland. It was agreed when both the UK and Ireland were in the EU’s single market and Customs Union. Brexit has challenged that settlement. The Northern Ireland Protocol\, together with amendments by the Windsor Framework\, are intended to reconcile the UK’s leaving the single market and the customs union with two seemingly incompatible objectives: one ensuring there is no North-South border\, ie\, between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland; the other ensuring there is no West-East border\, ie\, between the rest of the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland.  The second has proved to be particularly difficult. The aim of this seminar is to look at: (1) how we have got the position we are currently in and (2) what may be the future for the Good Friday Agreement and its implications. \nModerator \nProf. Catherine Barnard: FBA\, FLSW\, FRSA\, Professor of EU law and Employment Law at Cambridge University; Advisory Board member of Oxford Global Society. \nPanelists \nSir Ivor Roberts: KCMG\, FCIL\, Former British Ambassador in Belgrade\, Dublin and Rome; former President of Trinity College Oxford University; Advisory Board member of Oxford Global Society. \nProf. Marianne Elliott: Blair Chair\, OBE\, FBA\, FRHistS\, Professor Emerita and former Director of The Institute of Irish Studies\, University of Liverpool. \nProf. Christopher McCrudden: FBA\, Professor of Human Rights and Equality Law at Queen’s University Belfast and William W Cook Global Law Professor at the University of Michigan Law School. Until 2011\, he was Professor of Human Rights Law at Oxford University. \nMr. Alan Doss: Former Under Secretary General of the United Nations; former President of Kofi Annan Foundation; Chairman of the Advisory Board of Oxford Global Society. \nDr. Niamh Gallagher: Associate Professor in Modern British and Irish History\, Fellow of St Catharine’s College\, Cambridge University. Her book\, Ireland and the Great War: A Social and Political History\, won the Royal Historical Society’s 2020 Whitfield Prize.
URL:https://oxgs.org/event/good-friday-agreement-at-25-the-troubled-past-and-the-uncertain-future/
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CATEGORIES:Global Politics
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SUMMARY:The era of digital surveillance: Authoritarianism vs. Democracy?
DESCRIPTION:Registration Link \nhttps://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_BBNstHr1TmyczDYdf7Lcrw \n  \nEvent description \nDigital surveillance\, carried out by both governments and technology companies\, has become common practice around the world. Surveillance technologies\, such as facial recognition\, are widely used for many purposes including making online payment\, verifying identity\, and public security. During the Covid-19 pandemic\, many countries have used surveillance technologies to track the spread of the virus. As in other areas of international affairs\, there is an increasing tendency in the West to frame\, analyse\, and discuss digital surveillance as authoritarianism vs. democracy. Oxford Global Society (OXGS) brings together leading analysts to examine the following issues: \n(1) How are governments around the world using and relying on surveillance technologies? What are the roles of technology companies in governments’ surveillance schemes? \n(2) What are the main factors (such as culture\, state-society relations) that shape the public’s views about digital surveillance in their daily lives in different countries? \n(3) When it comes to “digital authoritarianism”\, China is often the focus of discussion. How different are the practices of the Chinese government from that of Western world? \n(4) Does the division between authoritarianism vs. democracy help in understanding the practices of digital surveillance? \n  \nModerator:  \nDenis Galligan  OXGS Director; Emeritus Professor at Oxford University \nSpeakers: \nRalph Schroeder    Professor at Oxford Internet Institute (OII\, Oxford University); Programme Director of the MSc in Social Science of the Internet and Senior Research Fellow at OII. \nRalph Schroeder was formerly Professor in the School of Technology Management and Economics at Chalmers University in Gothenburg (Sweden). He completed his PhD about Max Weber at the LSE in 1988. His publications include Rethinking Science\, Technology and Social Change (Stanford University Press\, 2007) and Being There Together: Social Interaction in Virtual Environments (Oxford University Press\, 2010). He is also the author of ‘An Age of Limits: Social Theory for the 21st Century’ (Palgrave Macmillan 2013) and\, with Eric T. Meyer\, of ‘Knowledge Machines: Digital Transformations of the Sciences and Humanities’ (MIT Press 2015). His most recent book is ‘Social Theory after the Internet‘ and he is also working on big data in the social sciences. \nJinghan Zeng    Professor of China and International Studies at Lancaster University (UK); Academic Director of China Engagement and Director of Lancaster University Confucius Institute; OXGS Fellow. \n \nProfessor Zeng’s research lies in the field of China’s domestic and international politics. He is the author of Artificial Intelligence with Chinese Characteristics: National Strategy\, Security and Authoritarian Governance (2022)\, Slogan Politics: Understanding Chinese Foreign Policy Concepts (2020) and The Chinese Communist Party’s Capacity to Rule: Ideology\, Legitimacy and Party Cohesion (2015). He is also the co-editor of One Belt\, One Road\, One Story? Towards an EU-China Strategic Narrative (2021). He has published over twenty refereed articles in leading journals of politics\, international relations and area studies including The Pacific Review\, Journal of Contemporary China\, International Affairs\, JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies\, and Third World Quarterly. \nHe draws on his research to connect with audiences beyond academia. He frequently appears in TV and radio broadcasts including the BBC\, ABC Australia\, Al Jazeera\, Voice of America\, DR (Danish Broadcasting Corporation)\, Russia Today (RT)\, China Central Television (CCTV) and China Global Television Network (CGTN). He has been quoted in print/online publications including Financial Times\, Forbes\, South China Morning Post\, PULSO and TODAY. He has written op-ed articles for The Diplomat\, BBC(Chinese)\, The Conversation\, Policy Forum among others. Before his academic career\, he worked for the United Nations’ Department of Economic and Social Affairs in New York City. \nDaniel Smilov   Associate professor of Political Theory at the Political Science Department\, University of Sofia (Bulgaria); OXGS Fellow. \nDr. Daniel Smilov is a comparative constitutional lawyer and political scientist.  He is also programme director at the Centre for Liberal Strategies\, Sofia\, and recurrent Visiting Professor of Comparative Constitutional Law at the Central European University\, Budapest/Vienna. He holds doctorates from the University of Oxford (DPhil\, 2003) and the Central European University\, Budapest (SJD\, 1999). Daniel has held research positions and fellowships at the Centre for Policy Studies at the Central European University and the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute\, Florence. Dr. Smilov is author of numerous academic publications on topics of comparative constitutional law\, party and campaign finance and the politics of contemporary populists. He has weekly columns in the Bulgarian press and is a regular commentator on Bulgarian politics in the media.
URL:https://oxgs.org/event/digital-surveillance-authoritarianism-vs-democracy/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Digital Technologies & Governance,Global Politics
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SUMMARY:Russia-Ukraine War: The West vs. The Rest?
DESCRIPTION:Event description\nThe Russia-Ukraine war has lasted for months and could last for years. At the beginning of the war\, many Western politicians and media reports claimed that “The world is united against Russian invasion”\, which soon turned out to be a fallacy. As many commentators in the West now acknowledge\, in terms of condemning and sanctioning Russia\, it is largely The West vs. The Rest. This divide reflects the geopolitical tensions of the world and casts an ominous cloud over the direction of the war\, given that both sides have their military and/or economic support from other countries. We bring leading analysts from both the Western and non-Western worlds to understand better different perspectives about the ongoing Ukraine war and global politics\, and to analyse the reasons behind “the West vs. the Rest” divide and the implications for the world. \nRegistration Link\nhttps://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_IMve8ZJgQK-F470oUF1pnQ\nChair/moderator \nSir Ivor Roberts (former British ambassador in Belgrade\, Dublin and Rome; former president of Trinity College\, Oxford University; Oxford Global Society Advisory Board member) \nSpeakers\nProf. Robert Wade (Professor of global political economy at the LSE\, UK) \nProf. Adebayo Olukoshi (Distinguished Professor at the Wits School of Governance at the University of the Witswatersrand\, South Africa) \nDr. Julie Newton (Director of the University Consortium & Research Fellow at St Antony’s College\, Oxford University) \nMr. Praveen Donthi (Senior Analyst for India\, Crisis Group) \nDr. Zhao Hai (Director of international political studies at the National Institute for Global Strategy\, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences) \n \nBios of speakers\n \nSir Ivor Robert read Modern Languages at Keble College\, Oxford. From 1968-2006 he worked in the British Diplomatic Service  in Lebanon\, Paris\, Luxembourg\, Canberra\, Vanuatu\, was Minister in the British Embassy in Madrid and Ambassador in Belgrade\, Dublin and Rome. On his retirement from the Diplomatic Service\, he was elected President of Trinity College\, Oxford\, a post he held for 11 years till 2017.  Sir Ivor is an Honorary Fellow of Keble College and Trinity College Oxford\, a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Linguists (FCIL)\, a Patron of the Venice in Peril Fund and was Chairman of the Council of the British School of Archaeology and Fine Art in Rome (2007-12). He currently chairs the Trustees of the Keats-Shelley Memorial Association and the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra. Sir Ivor also sits on the Advisory Board of Oxford Global Society. \nIn 2009\, he published as editor and major contributor the first new edition for 30 years of the classic reference book on diplomacy ‘Satow’s Diplomatic Practice’ (Oxford University Press). A further edition appeared in 2017 and he is actively preparing a new (8th) edition due to appear in 2023. His memoir of his time in Belgrade during the Bosnian war and the Kosovo crisis\, ‘Conversations with Milosevic’ appeared in 2016. \n  \n \nRobert H. Wade is professor of global political economy at the London School of Economics. His central interest is in Adam Smith-type questions about the level and distribution of material well-being on a global scale.  He was awarded the Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought\, 2008.  His book Governing the Market: Economic Theory and the Role of Government in East Asia’s Industrialization (Princeton University Press\, 1990\, 2004)  won the American Political Science Association’s award of Best Book in Political Economy for 1989-91.  He was a founding member of the Financial Times’ “Economists’ Forum”\, described as “50 of the world’s most influential economists.” Professor Wade worked at the Institute of Development Studies (Sussex University)\,  the World Bank\, Princeton University\,  MIT\, and Brown University.  Fieldwork in Pitcairn Island\, Italy\, India\, Korea\, Taiwan\, Iceland\, and inside the World Bank and IMF. \n  \n \nAdebayo Olukoshi is a Distinguished Professor at the Wits School of Governance at the University of the Witswatersrand in Johannesburg\, South Africa\, and an Honorary Professor at the Centre for African Studies at the University of Edinburgh\, UK. \nHe has previously served as the Director for Africa and West Asia at International IDEA\, Director of the UN African Institute for Economic Development and Planning\, Executive Secretary of the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa\, Research Programme Coordinator at the Nordic Africa Institute\, Senior Programme Staff at the inter-governmental South Centre\, and Director of Research at the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs. He holds a Bachelor’s degree from Ahmadu Bello University and a doctorate from Leeds University. His current field of research is centred on the interface of democracy\, governance\, and development. \n  \n \nBased at Oxford University\, Dr Julie Newton is Director of the University Consortium\, funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York\, bringing together six universities in the US\, the EU and Russia – Harvard\, Columbia\, Oxford\, Sciences Po and\, until the war\, MGIMO and HSE– to promote engagement between Russia and Western countries.   \nShe is also a Research Fellow at Oxford in the Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre at St Antony’s College\, where she specializes in Russian foreign policy and Russia-US-EU relations.  In addition\, she is an Associate Professor at the American University of Paris\, France; and in the US\, she is a frequent Visiting Professor at Colorado College where she is currently teaching. Until February 2022\, she also had a teaching post in Moscow in the MGIMO-MGU International Master’s Program in Post-Soviet Politics. Her authored books include Russia\, France\, and the Idea of Europe (Palgrave\, 2003) and Institutions\, Ideas\, and Leadership in Russian Politics (Palgrave\, 2011\, with Dr William Tompson).  \n  \n \nPraveen Donthi is a Senior Analyst for India at Crisis Group. He is responsible for analysing existing and emerging conflict situations in India through primary research\, ground reporting and analysis. His work illuminates how domestic political calculus and regional great power rivalries come together to shape the region and India’s role in it. \nPraveen has been a journalist for over fifteen years in India. He has reported intensively on politics\, the intersection of business and politics\, separatist and sub-nationalist conflicts\, and caste and religious violence across the country. Before joining Crisis Group in 2021\, he was deputy political editor with The Caravan\, an independent monthly magazine in New Delhi. He has a Master’s and MPhil in modern history from Jawaharlal Nehru University\, New Delhi. \n  \n \nDr. Zhao Hai is director of international political studies at the National Institute for Global Strategy\, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (NIGS-CASS)\, one of the top government-affiliated think-tanks. He also serves as a senior research fellow and member of the Academic Committee of the Grandview Institution. \nDr. Zhao specialises in China-US relations\, China’s foreign policy\, and global governance. Besides academic publications\, he is a frequent international affairs opinion contributor to China’s mainstream media.  Previously\, Dr. Zhao worked as a research fellow at the National Strategy Institute of Tsinghua University (NSI)\, and held various positions at think tanks in Chicago and Washington D.C. in the United States. Dr. Zhao graduated from Peking University with a dual bachelor’s degree in history and law\, and later with a master’s degree in Asia-Pacific regional studies. Dr. Zhao obtained his PhD in international history from the University of Chicago.
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SUMMARY:Virtual Roundtable: Integration of Ukraine in the EU – Challenges and Opportunities
DESCRIPTION:Speakers: \nMaria Popova (Associate Professor and Jean Monnet Chair at McGill University) \nTimothy Garton Ash (Professor of European Studies and Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow at St Antony’s College\, Oxford University\, and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution\, Stanford University) \nMilada Vachudova (Professor of Political Science at the University of North Carolina) \nRoman Petrov (Head of Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence and Jean Monnet Chair in EU Law at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy) \nDaniel Bilak (OXGS Fellow and Senior Counsel at Kinstellar\, served as Chief Investment Adviser to the Prime Minister of Ukraine) \nCatherine Barnard (Professor of European & Employment Law\, Trinity College\, University of Cambridge) \n  \nModerators:  \nDenis Galligan (OXGS Director\, Emeritus professor at Oxford University) \nKatarina Sipulova (OXGS Fellow\, Head of the Judicial Studies Institute\, Masaryk University) \n  \nRegistration link: \nhttps://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ELgeH_s-QASX5MP7EbrpkA \nPlease sign up to our newsletter to receive future event announcements from Oxford Global Society (OXGS). \n  \nEvent description: \nAt the very beginning of the war in Ukraine\, President Zelenskyy asked the EU to allow it an expedite accession. The request was met with lukewarm reaction from EU institutions\, although the integration in Western structures was a leitmotif of Ukraine’s internal reforms and conflicts with pro-Russian politicians for the last two decades. Some scholars argue that Ukraine is much more prepared to join the EU than many Western politicians think and that the EU might actually benefit from her membership. \nIn the view of the decision the European Commission should take soon on the Ukrainian application\, the roundtable seeks to address the challenges of Ukraine’s accession to the EU. \n\nIs Ukraine ready to accede? \nWhat would the integration mean for the ongoing conflict and the EU security policy? \nWhat political\, economic and legal challenges the integration posits for the EU? \nHow could the integration help both Ukraine and the EU to reshape the raison d’être of the whole organisation after Brexit and several years of on-going rule of law crisis?
URL:https://oxgs.org/event/virtual-roundtable-integration-of-ukraine-in-the-eu-challenges-and-opportunities/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Global Politics,Governance & Law
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220309T120000
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SUMMARY:Book Colloquium: Measuring Peace and Related Matters
DESCRIPTION:The colloquium\, organised by Oxford Global Society\, will focus on Richard Caplan’s recent book: Measuring Peace: Principles\, Practices\, and Politics (Oxford University Press\, 2019; ppbk 2021) and then touch on other issues around peace. Richard’s book opens with the question: How can we know if the peace that has been established following a civil war is a stable peace? The answer: more rigorous assessments of the robustness of peace are needed. Richard goes on to show how that can be done. The debate will touch on other matters relating to peace\, including how to get to peace and the process after peace. \nRead the excerpt from Richard Caplan’s book here. \n \nRichard Caplan: Professor of International Relations at the University of Oxford. Fellow of Oxford Global Society. His research is concerned principally with international organizations and conflict management. \nCommentators:\nChristine Bell: Professor of Constitutional Law at Edinburgh University\, Co-Director of the Global Justice Academy\, and a Fellow of the British Academy. She is the author of: Peace Agreements and Human Rights (Oxford University Press\, 2000) and On the Law of Peace: Peace Agreements and the Lex Pacificatoria (Oxford University Press\, 2008) \nAlan Doss: former Director and President of the Kofi Annan Foundation. Prior to joining the Foundation in 2011 he worked for the UN on peacekeeping\, development and humanitarian assignments around the world. These assignments included UN peacekeeping appointments as the Special Representative of the UN Secretary General in Liberia and then in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Alan’s most recent book is A Peacekeeper in Africa: Learning from UN Interventions in Other People’s Wars (Lynne Rienner\, 2020) \nModerator:\nDenis Galligan\, Director Oxford Global Society\, Professor of Socio-Legal Studies Emeritus Oxford University\, Professorial Fellow Emeritus Wolfson College Oxford. \nRegister for the event: \nhttps://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwucu2vpj4qGd2d3K-w8KCC-9UzzFggwBKJ
URL:https://oxgs.org/event/book-colloquium-measuring-peace-and-related-matters/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Book Colloquium,Global Politics
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220301T090000
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SUMMARY:The Ukraine Crisis: Three Perspectives
DESCRIPTION:Putin’s assault has plunged Ukraine into the darkest hour of its 30-year history as an independent state. What is the view from Kyiv? What are Putin’s ultimate aims? What are the implications of this crisis for Europe and the global order? We bring together three leading analysts to offer perspective on these and related questions. \nRegistration: \nhttps://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYtfuGspzMvHNHTHnN-c9ONGmPkRM8dW3ZB \nSpeakers: \nDaniel Bilak: OXGS Fellow and Senior Counsel at Kinstellar\, one of Central and Eastern Europe’s leading international law firms. He has served as Chief Investment Adviser to the Prime Minister of Ukraine and principal adviser and chief of staff to the Minister of Justice of Ukraine\, among other advisory roles to the government of Ukraine. He is currently one of the leaders of civil defence in Kyiv. \nTimothy Garton Ash: Professor of European Studies and Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow at St Antony’s College\, Oxford\, and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution\, Stanford University. He is one of the leading commentators on European affairs\, writing a widely syndicated column in the Guardian. \nRoy Allison: Professor of Russian and Eurasian International Relations and Director of Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre (RESC)\, Oxford University. Head of the Russia and Eurasia Programme at the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) (1993-2005). \nRichard Caplan (moderator): OXGS Fellow\, Professor of International Relations and Fellow of Linacre College\, Oxford.
URL:https://oxgs.org/event/the-ukraine-crisis-three-perspectives/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Global Politics
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220114T160000
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SUMMARY:The New Cold War? Online book colloquium: Comity by Frank Vibert
DESCRIPTION:In this online event\, Frank Vibert\, OXGS Fellow\, will present his new book: Comity: Multilateralism in the New Cold War. The book depicts a new Cold War between democracies and authoritarian countries. The fundamentally different values they embed in the way they approach government and policymaking means that the task of making fully international rules of behaviour has become almost impossible. The meagre results from COP26 and the indefinite postponement of the 2021 WTO Ministerial meeting illustrate this problem. As the main way out of deadlock\, the book explores the role of like-minded democratic countries in taking the lead in making international rules. Will it lead to further conflict? Is it a legitimate approach? \nParticipants:\nFrank Vibert  \nAuthor. OXGS Fellow and an associate of the Centre for the Analysis of Risk and Regulation (CARR) at the London School of Economics where he was a Senior Visiting Fellow between 2008-2020. \nRichard Caplan\nCommentator. Richard Caplan is Professor of International Relations at the University of Oxford. His research is concerned principally with international organizations and conflict management. He is the author\, most recently\, of Measuring Peace: Principles\, Practices and Politics (Oxford University Press). \nPaul Craig\nCommentator. Paul Craig is Emeritus Professor of English Law\, St John’s College\, Oxford University. He has written extensively on constitutional law\, administrative law\, EU law and comparative administrative law. \nDenis Galligan\nModerator. OXGS Director. Emeritus Professor of Socio-Legal Studies\, Oxford University.     \nEvent registration:\nhttps://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAkdu6trDspHddJG-Nb3Zh1xjIzo-vdtIs8
URL:https://oxgs.org/event/the-new-cold-war-online-book-colloquium-comity/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Book Colloquium,Global Politics
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