In this book launch, the authors of ‘The Politics of International Intervention: the Tyranny of Peace’ critically explore the practices of peacebuilding, and the politics of the communities experiencing intervention. The contributions to this volume have a dual focus. First, they analyse the practices of western intervention and peacebuilding, and the prejudices and politics that drive them. Second, they explore how communities experience and deal with this intervention, as well as an understanding of how their political and economic priorities can often diverge markedly from those of the intervener. From Cambodia to Afghanistan, Iraq to Mali, interventions in the pursuit of peace have not achieved the results desired by the interveners. But, rather, they have created further instability and violence. The contributors to this book explore why.
Event Details
Speakers: Dr Mandy Turner, Kenyon Institute (Council for British Research in the Levant); Dr Florian P. Kühn, Otto von Guericke University; Professor Michael Pugh, University of Bradford; Professor Caroline Hughes, University of Bradford; Dr Christopher Phillips, Queen Mary University of London; Professor Toby Dodge, LSE.
Chair: Professor Toby Dodge, LSE
Date: Wednesday 23 March 2016
Time: 18:00-20:00
Event Hashtag: #LSEIntervention
Location: Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building, LSE
Attendance: Registration for this event is now closed.
Panelists
Michael Pugh is Emeritus Professor, Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Bradford, and Visiting Professor, Centre for International Conflict Analysis and Management, Radboud University, Nijmegen.
Caroline Hughes is Professor of Conflict Resolution and Peace at the Department of Peace Studies at the University of Bradford.
Florian Kühn is Interim Professor for Comparative Politics at Magdeburg's Otto von Guericke University and co-editor of the Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding.
Mandy Turner is a Visiting Fellow at the LSE Middle East Centre and is also the Director of the Kenyon Institute (Council for British Research in the Levant) in East Jerusalem.
Toby Dodge is Director of the Middle East Centre, Professor of International Relations at LSE and Kuwait Professor.
Christopher Phillips is Senior Lecturer in the School of Politics and International Affairs at Queen Mary University of London.