As the sun shines on London, we're looking forward to our Development and Conflict Summer School. This year we have a couple of skills share sessions: Dr Maya Goodfellow (who regularly writes for The Guardian newspaper) will present on conflict and journalism, and we have a session planned on conflict and documentary film making, delivered by an international film producer.
I'm also very happy to present two other colleagues who have been teaching with me on the MSc Violence, Conflict and Development core module and Security/Security BA. It's a real pleasure to have them on the teaching team for the Summer School as well. They have both received rave reviews for their teaching, and their research expertise will guide and inform the discussions and analysis in July and August. Have a look at their profiles below.
Full details of the Summer School are here:
Karen Schouw
Iversen is a PhD candidate in the department of Development Studies at SOAS.
Her PhD research focuses on protests and forms of resistance amongst internally
displaced persons in Bogotá, Colombia, who have engaged in a series of
occupations of public spaces and buildings in order to contest what they
perceive to be an inadequate humanitarian response to their displacement. The
research examines how people displaced by violence themselves negotiate the
situations they find themselves in, and grapples with the question of what
potential protests have in a context characterised by violence and forced
displacement. More broadly, it grapples with issues such as humanitarianism,
forced migration, and the potential and limitations of resistance.
Hassan Ould Moctar is a 3rd year PhD candidate in the Department of
Development Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University
of London. He is also a Graduate Teaching Assistant in the department on the
Political Economy of Violence, Conflict and Development module. He holds an MSc
in Migration and Ethnic Studies, which he obtained from the University of
Amsterdam. His research project focuses upon the interaction between EU border
externalisation processes and nation-state boundaries in Mauritania. It is
supported by the National University of Ireland. His research interests more
broadly concern borders and boundaries, EU migration policy, capitalism and
migrant labour, urban informal economies, and subjectivity formation, with a particular
interest in the politics and societies of Mauritania and the Sahel region.
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