In April, Alan Hunter stepped down from his position as Director of CPRS. Alan had been in post since 2008, during which time CPRS rapidly developed into one of the UK’s lea...
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Dr Marwan Darweish is leading a consultancy project for the EU to conduct a survey about the nonviolent movement in Palestine and its applicability to the EU Partner For Peac...
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Public Meeting at Coventry University on 11 April, 2012 at 7pm
Humber Lecture Theatre, George Eliot Building Room G31
There is a growing interest in nonviolent civilian r...
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A re-conceptualisation of ex-combatant reintegration: ‘social reintegration’ approach
Conflict, Security & Development, Volume 12, Number 1, March 2012, pages 51-73
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This book provides future public administrators and policymakers with a comprehensive understanding of the institutional, socio-cultural and political dimensions of natural a...
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To be held at Coventry University on 10 - 12 April 2012
There is growing interest in the role of nonviolent civilian resistance in the transformation of repressive and und...
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The CPRS's new MA Programme in Peacebuilding welcomes its 2012 cohort for the Induction Workshop in Coventry. 23 participants from 14 different countries, including Afghanist...
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Professorial Lecture by Alpaslan Ozerdem, Professor of Peacebuilding, Centre for Peace and Reconciliation Studies (CPRS), Coventry University
Disarmament, Demobilization and...
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Filippo Grandi, Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) for Palestine refugees has just been awarded with a Honorary Doctorate by Coventry ...
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Dr Marwan Darweish explained that this event is part of the Nonviolent Research Group CPRS organised in cooperation with the GLP and the Department of International Studies...
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Angela Mackay: is the former Director of Programmes, Pearson Peacekeeping Centre, Canada; the Chief of Office of Gender Affairs, UN Mission in Kosovo; and the GENCAP Gender A...
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The Centre for Peace and Reconciliation Studies has been awarded a London
2012 Olympic Truce Related Inspire Mark for a Sport and Peace Exhibition it has designed in c...
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CPRS welcomes Diego Checa Hidalgo as Marie Curie Research Fellow in nonviolent action, under the Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship scheme. Prior to moving to Coventry, he...
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Entitled Ending Hunger Worldwide and presented by George Kent from the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Sydney and Formerly Professor of Political Science...
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Dr Marwan Darweish and Dr Carol Rank just completed teaching a two week intensive post graduate certificate course in conflict resolution skills. There were 25 participants f...
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Child Soldiers: From Recruitment to Reintegration
Alpaslan Ozerdem and Sukanya Podder (eds.)
This volume explain the process involved in young people’s participation in civ...
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CPRS welcomes Sung Yong Lee as Lecturer in Peacebuilding for our online MA programme. Prior to moving to Coventry, he received a PhD in International Relations from the Unive...
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CPRS is welcoming Heike Wischmann as new Administrative Officer to the team. She previously supported a research unit at the University of York, became expert in coordinating...
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CPRS will host two visiting professors from Turkey for three months over the summer. Dr Mehmet Durdu Karsli and Professor Rauf Yildiz are both based at Canakkale Onsekiz Mart...
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CPRS, in collaboration with the Centre for Agroecology and Food Security (CAFS), hosted ‘The Stabilisation Agriculture workshop’ at the Coventry University London Campus, on...
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CPRS will host a researcher on nonviolent action for two years, from October 2011, under the Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship scheme. Dr Diego Checa Hidalgo is based at...
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CSAR is a joint initiative between the Centre for Peace and Reconciliation Studies (CPRS) at Coventry University and the School of International Relations at the University o...
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Chas Morrison joined the CPRS team as Research Fellow in June 2011, following an MSc in Security Studies at UCL and previously, a BSc in Disaster Management at Coventry. He h...
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CSAR is a joint initiative between the Centre for Peace and Reconciliation Studies (CPRS) at Coventry University and the School of International Relations at the University o...
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Stabilisation Agriculture: Developing an Agenda
Centre for Peace and Reconciliation Studies (CPRS) and Centre for Agroecology and Food Security (CAFS)
Coventry University,...
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For further information, please visit: http://www.coventry.ac.uk/d/1195/$/a/6318
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So far, more than 100 abstract submissions have been received for the Istanbul Human Security conference from researchers representing nearly 20 different countries and 40 ac...
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Dr Marwan Darweish and Prof Andrew Rigby just completed a consultancy in Palestine/Israel for the Swiss international Development Agency HEKS EPER. The overall aim of the co...
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In a panel with Professor Fen Hampsen, Carlton University, Canada and Dr Roger Mac Ginty, St Andrew’s University, UK, Professor Alp Özerdem and Dr Rebecca Roberts presented t...
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Dr Rebecca Roberts has completed a mid-term evaluation to assess the socio-economic and capacity building impact of the Mines Advisory Group (MAG) humanitarian mine action pr...
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Palestinian Resistance and NONVIOLENCE...
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The development of CPRS was informed by a commitment to the study of how to promote peace, justice and human rights through nonviolent means. Integral to this approach has b...
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Palestinian refugees in Lebanon refer to themselves as ‘the forgotten people’. Sixty years after their arrival, tens of thousands still live in temporary shelters in overcrow...
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The ‘responsibility to protect’ in natural disasters: another excuse for interventionism? Nargis Cyclone, Myanmar
Conflict, Security & Development, Volume 10, Issue 5, N...
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Dr Marwan Darweish presented a paper titled “Conflict Transformation and Peace Education” 1 November, Bethlehem University, Palestine. The conference is part of the World Ed...
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This book is testimony to the emergent nature of human security as an idea, as a useful construct and as an operational strategy. The aim is to showcase new directions that m...
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Civil Wars, Volume 12, Number 3, September 2010, pages 304-325
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The 2009 cessation of governmental offensive to eliminate key figures of the separatist Moro Isla...
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‘Afghanistan, War and the Media: Deadlines and Frontlines’, Edited by Richard Lance Keeble and John Mair (Arima, 2010), pp: 167-176.
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Since the end of the Cold War,...
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Sukanya Podder joined the CPRS Research Team in October 2010, having recently submitted her PhD on reintegration outcomes of child soldiers in the Liberian civil wars at the ...
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Dr Marwan Darweish new publication “Human Rights and the Imbalance of Power: The Palestinian-Israeli Conflict” in Berghof Handbook Dialogue titled : "Human Rights and Co...
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International Peacekeeping, Volume 17, Issue 3 June 2010, pages 343 - 360.
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The war that ravaged Liberia between 1989 and 2003 had myriad causes and belligerents, ...
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Professor Alpaslan Ozerdem is the Chief Editor of an online journal called ‘Journal of Conflict Transformation and Security’. The new journal will be published biannually. Pl...
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The Postgraduate Certificate in Conflict Resolution Skills is taught as a two-week summer school followed by online interaction with tutors and the completion of assignments....
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Professor Alan Hunter visited a new Park for Peace in Santiago, Chile in July. Villa Grimaldi is one of the few places of its kind in the world. It was a suburban property ...
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In February Dr Carol Rank and Prof Andrew Rigby were in Uganda to continue their consultancy work for the three-year British Council Delphe project (Development Partnerships ...
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Dr Darweish is leading a programme to develop a partnership with the Arab American University (AAU), in Jenin, Palestine. The overall aim of the programme is to enhance the c...
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Professor Özerdem was invited by the Presidential Office of Cameroon to make a presentation at the Security Plenary Session of the ‘Africa 21: New Challenges for Africa’ Yaou...
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A British Academy funded field research on the role of family and community in the recruitment of youth in conflict in the context of Mindanao, Philippines was undertaken by ...
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