Seminar: Politics and Media in post 9/11 Pakistan

Politics and Media in post 9/11 Pakistan


Wednesday 7 March 2012, 17:30 -18:30

Speaker: Kiran Hassan (Institute of Commonwealth Studies)

Chair: Professor James Manor (Institute of Commonwealth Studies)

Venue: ST274 (Stewart House, second floor), Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

Convenors: Dr Shihan de Silva (Institute of Commonwealth Studies) & Dr Susan Williams (Institute of Commonwealth Studies)

Contact: chloe.pieters@sas.ac.uk


forthcoming events in the Commonwealth Research Seminar Series include:

13 March The Commonwealth Secretary-General - from Smith to Sharma
Speaker: Stuart Mole (Institute of Commonwealth Studies / Commonwealth Advisory Bureau)
17:30 Room 261 (Senate House, 2nd floor)

28 March Reporting on The Truth & Justice Commission of Mauritius
Speakers: Dr Vijaya Teelock (University of Mauritius)
17:30 The Court Room (Senate House, First Floor)


24 April Rebuilding Sierra Leone's Evidence Base in the Post Conflict Period
Speaker: Anne Thurston (Institute of Commonwealth Studies)
17:30 Room 261 (Senate House, 2nd floor)

22 May What happened to 'garibi hatao'? India's Congress Party and the politics of poverty
Speaker: James Chiriyankandath (Institute of Commonwealth Studies)
17:30 Room 265 (Senate House, 2nd floor)

Culture and Conflict - call for projects and research proposals

The Prince Claus Fund and the Commonwealth Foundation are calling for high quality, multi-disciplinary and innovative project proposals from civil society organisations addressing the issue of culture and conflict, within the framework of the Culture and Conflict Programme.


Grants will be awarded to civil society organisations in Rwanda, Zimbabwe, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.

Organisations should submit a proposal for the development and delivery of activities that use culture as a way of engaging with local communities. Projects should also include a tangible output that captures the experiences of the participants and highlights the impact of the project.

The Prince Claus Fund and the Commonwealth Foundation are also calling for high quality and innovative research proposals from individuals exploring the role of culture in conflict and post-conflict situations, within the framework of its Culture and Conflict programme.


Two researchers will be appointed with responsibility for examining arts and culture-led initiatives for conflict resolution, including the work of the Culture and Conflict Programme grant recipients in Rwanda, Zimbabwe, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. One researcher will be appointed from Africa and another from Asia.

Applicants should have proven professional research experience or practice in the field of culture and conflict and/or development.

All applications and queries should be sent to: h.thomas@commonwealth.int

Deadline: 27 January 2012, 17:00 (GMT)

Pakistan Forum : Voice of a Progressive Pakistan

Pakistan Forum : Voices of a Progressive Pakistan


http://www.pakistaniaat.net/

Started by the editors of Pakistaniaat: A Journal of Pakistan Studies (based in the English Department of the University of North Texas, and the sponsored journal of the American Institute of Pakistan Studies) this is a public forum for all those interested in Pakistani history, culture, and politics. The website includes current affairs discussion, blog postings, book reviews and links to many Pakistan based blogs.

A Selection of New Books - Asia

A selection of new books from South and South East Asia added to the collection this month are listed below:

Malaysia : human rights report 2008 : civil & political rights. Selangor, Malaysia : Suaram Kommunikasi, c2009.

Baruah, Sanjib (ed). Ethnonationalism in India : a reader. New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2010.

Brunner, Hans-Peter. North East India : local economic development and global markets. New Delhi ; London : SAGE, 2010.

Buch, Nirmala. From oppression to assertion : women and panchayats in India. Delhi : Routledge India; c2010.

Chowdhury, Kanishka. The new India : citizenship, subjectivity, and economic liberalization. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, c2011.

Deo, Nandini. The politics of collective advocacy in India : tools and traps. Sterling, VA : Kumarian Press, 2011.

Faraizi, Aminul Haque, Taskinur Rahman and Jim McAllister. Microcredit and women's empowerment : a case study of Bangladesh. London : Routledge, c2011.

Gilani, Ijaz Shafi, The voice of the people : public opinion in Pakistan 2007-2009. Karachi : Oxford University Press, 2010.

Holt, Sarah. Aid, peacebuilding and the resurgence of war : buying time in Sri Lanka. Basingstoke ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

Hossain, Shahadat. Urban poverty in Bangladesh : slum communities, migration and social integration. London : I.B. Tauris, 2011.

Kaviraj, Sudipta. The imaginary institution of India : politics and ideas. New York ; Chichester : Columbia University Press, c2010.

Kazi, Seema. In Kashmir : gender, militarization & the modern nation-state. Brooklyn, NY : South End Press, 2010.

Kua, Kia Soong. 20 years defending human rights. Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia : SUARAM, [c2009]


Kumar, Deepak, Vinita Damodaran and Rohan D'Souza (eds). The British Empire and the natural world : environmental encounters in South Asia. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.

Leong, Wai Kum. The Singapore Women's Charter : 50 questions. Singapore : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2011.

Milner, Anthony. The Malays. Malden, MA ; Oxford : Wiley-Blackwell Pub., 2008.

Panagariya, Arvind. India : the emerging giant. New York, N.Y. : Oxford University Press, 2010.

Pande, Ishita. Medicine, race and liberalism in British Bengal : symptoms of empire. Abingdon ; New York : Routledge, 2010.

Raj, Subhendu Ranjan. Coalition politics in India : dimensions of federal power sharing. New Delhi : Manak Publications, 2009.

Ranganathan, Maya. Eelam online : the Tamil diaspora and war in Sri Lanka. Newcastle : Cambridge Scholars, c2010.

Roy, Anupama. Mapping citizenship in India. New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2010.

Saif, Lubna. Authoritarianism and underdevelopment in Pakistan, 1947-1958, the role of the Punjab. Karachi ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
 
Saravanamuttu, Johan. Malaysia's foreign policy : the first fifty years : alignment, neutralism, Islamism. Singapore : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2010.

Schaffer, Howard B. How Pakistan negotiates with the United States : riding the roller coaster. Washington, D.C. : United States Institute of Peace, 2011.

Shaban, Abdul. Mumbai : political economy of crime and space. New Delhi : Orient BlackSwan, 2010.

Shankar, B. L. The Indian Parliament : a democracy at work. New Delhi ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.

Siddiqui, Kamal  et al. Social formation in Dhaka, 1985-2005 : a longitudinal study of society in a third world megacity. Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2010.

de Silva Jayasuria, Shihan. African diaspora in Asian trade routes and cultural memories, Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press, c2010.


Singh, A.K., S.P. Singh and D.S. Sutaria (eds) Gender budgeting and women empowerment in India. New Delhi : Serials Publications, 2010.

Sobhan, Rehman. Challenging the injustice of poverty : agendas for inclusive development in South Asia.  New Delhi, India ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, 2010.

Sury, M. M. India : sixty years of planned economic development, 1950 to 2010. New Delhi, India : New Century Publications, 2010.

New archives list - Sir Ivor Jennings - education and constitutional law across the Commonwealth

We're pleased to announce another handlist added to the ULRLS Archives Catalogue.

The Sir Ivor Jennings papers (ICS125) are a vaulable resource for the history of, and hiostory of education in, Sri Lanka, and for constitutional history across many nations within the Commonwealth.

Sir (William) Ivor Jennings, constitutional lawyer and educationalist, was born in Bristol on 16 May 1903 and died in Cambridge on 19 December 1965. Jennigs held academic appointments at Leeds University in 1925-1929, and the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), where he was first lecturer, (1929-1930) and then reader in English Law (1930-1940). His publications in this period included works on the poor law code, housing law, public health law, town and country planning law and laws relating to local government. He also wrote on constitutional matters in The Law and the Constitution (1933), Cabinet Government (1936) and Parliament (1939).

Appointed principal of University College, Ceylon in 1940, he was its first Vice-Chancellor (1942-1955) when it became the University of Ceylon. He described his life there in Road to Peradeniya, an unpublished autobiography, which was posthumously published in 2005 (ref: C/14); see also Jennings' The Kandy Road (ed. H.A.I. Goonetileke, University of Peradeniya, 1993). He was frequently consulted on constitutional, educational and other matters and was Chairman of the Ceylon Social Services Commission (1944-1946), a member of the Commission on University Education in Malaya (1947), a member of the Commission on the Ceylon Constitution (1948), President of the Inter-University Board of India (1949-1950), Constitutional Adviser and Chief Draughtsman, Pakistan (1954-1955), a member of the Malayan Constitutional Commission (1956-1957), and Chairman of the Royal University of Malta Commission. He was also Professor of Political Science, University of British Columbia, in 1938-1939 and Visiting Professor, Australian National University in 1950.

As the colonial period ended, he became particularly interested in the Commonwealth and the newly independent nations and was valued as a commentator on the subject. He delivered the 1948-1949 Wayneflete lectures at Magdelen College, Oxford on `The Commonwealth in Asia', the 1950 George Judah Cohen Memorial Lecture at the University of Sydney on `The Commonwealth of Nations', the 1957 Montague Burton lecture on International Relations at the University of Leeds on `Nationalism, Colonialism and Neutralism' and a series on `Problems of the New Commonwealth' at the Commonwealth Studies Center at Duke University, North Carolina, USA in 1958. He re-published an earlier work on laws of the empire as Constitutional Laws of the Commonwealth (3ed. 1956) and published The Approach to Self-Government (1956) and works on Ceylon and Pakistan. In 1954 he became Master of Trinity Hall, Cambridge and Downing Professor of the Laws of England in 1962, holding both posts until his death. In later life he returned to his study of the British constitution, with the publication of Party Politics (1960-62). He was knighted in 1948, made a QC in 1949, and awarded the KBE in 1955.

The collection of papers held at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies comprises of material relating to both the legal and educational career of Jennings.

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  A. Education: material collected by Jennings as Vice-Chancellor of Ceylon University, Chairman of the Royal University of Malta Commission and a member of other educational bodies in or relating to Hong Kong, Jamaica, Kuwait, Malaya and Uganda.
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  B. Constitutional issues: material on constitutional and legal issues in Australia, Canada, Ceylon, Cyprus, Eritrea, Gambia, Ghana, Gibraltar, Japan, Malaya, Maldives, Malta, Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, Singapore, South Africa, and Sudan;
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  C. Books and other writings: including material relating to British Commonwealth of Nations, Colonial Constitution Law, Laws and Liberties of England, Road to Peradeniya (unpublished autobiography);
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  D. Other material: material outside previous other categories, including British government publications and volumes of press cuttings.

 

'Negotiating with the ‘Enemy’: perspectives past and present - 24th September 2010

University of London School of Advanced Study, Institute of Commonwealth Studies-Open University Empire and Postcolonial Group and Ferguson Centre for African & Asian Studies

Workshops on Counterinsurgency and Colonialism


'Negotiating with the ‘Enemy’: perspectives past and present

Friday 24 September 2010

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Venue: Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of
London, Court Room, South Block, Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU

Theme:

Counterinsurgency, 'homeland security' and 'The War on Terror' have led to a renewed interest in historical case studies of counterinsurgency, including case studies from the British Empire and Commonwealth. There has been debate in the US and UK of military
strategies, 'winning hearts and minds', and policing for international operations. But the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the peace process in Northern Ireland, demonstrate that another, relatively neglected area can have a major impact on such campaigns. This is the 'negotiation' with, and 'persuasion' of, militant elites and their key civilian supporters. The Northern Ireland peace process was developed through complex, often secret, contacts. The Iraqi insurgency was turned around as much through the 'Anbar Awakening' as by a 'surge' and new counterinsurgency policy. The question of how to negotiate, persuade and buy over Taliban leaders and supporters came to the fore in Afghanistan policy in 2009-10. This workshop will look at a variety of ways and contexts, contemporary and historical, in which 'enemy' leaders (military and civilian) have been targeted for persuasion and negotiation.

Enquires: To apply to attend without a paper please email Troy Rutt: Troy.rutt@sas.ac.uk

Programme

Registration 9.00-9.15

Opening 9.15-9.30

Session 1 9.30-11.00 Negotiating with tribal societies – AfPak perspectives

• Negotiating Frontier Relations: Britain & Wazistan (Hugh Beattie, Open University) Discussant: TBC
• The Political Officer: Managing the Pashtun tribes of the NW Frontier of India 1901-1947 (Chris Tripodi, Kings College London, DSD) Discussant: TBC
• Pashtun Perspectives on negotiating with the Soviets & British, 1839-1987 (Rob Johnson, Oxford University) Discussant: John Bew

Tea 11.00-11.15

Session 2 11.15-12.45 Levels of Negotiation: surrender & loyalty transfer

• Negotiating with Mau Mau: pseudo-gangs and surrender schemes, 1952-56 (Huw Bennett, King’s College London) Discussant: Karl Hack.
• Communist perspectives on coming to terms with the British & semi-autonomous local politicians: Malaya 1948-60’ (Karl Hack, Open University). Discussant: TBC.

Lunch 12.45-1.45

Session 3 1.45-3.15 Covert peacemaking: Northern Ireland experiences

• Covert peacemaking: Clandestine Negotiations &Backchannels with the IRA during the early ‘Troubles’, 1972-76 (Andrew Mumford, University of Hull) Discussant: TBC
• Behind the Scenes: Negotiating with Republicans & Loyalists and the Northern Ireland Peace Process, 1980s-90s (Paul Dixon, Kingston University) Discussant: TBC.

Tea 3.15-3.30

Session 4 3.30-5.00 Paradoxes, Paradigms and Problems

• The Northern Ireland model re-examined: conditions for successful negotiation (John Bew, Kings College London) Discussant: Paul Dixon
• The Paradoxes of Negotiation (Isabelle Duyvesteyn and Bart Schuurman, Utrecht University, Netherlands) Discussant: TBC.

Roundtable/overview 5.00-5.30

For further details see the full programme.

New on Intute - Pakistan Conflict Monitor

Intute is a free online service that helps you to find the best web resources for your studies and research. Recently added to Intute is the following resource, do check the website and its own blog for new resources.

Pakistan conflict monitor

The Pakistan Conflict Monitor is maintained by the Human Security Report Project at the School for International Studies at Simon Fraser University. It aims to highlight research about conflict and international security relating to Pakistan. This includes coverage of terrorism, Al-Qaeda, fundamental Islam, the links with the Taliban in Afghanistan and more generally government and development initiatives. The site summarises and links to key research data, press releases and reports. Information is generally available from 2009 onwards.

Remember to check the website for a complete list http://www.intute.ac.uk/