Below, you will find notice of two Development Research Seminars taking place at the ISS that we expect you will be interested in and which form part of a new DRS series [http://www.iss.nl/Portals/Development-Research-Seminars/DRS-Thematic-Series-on-Conflict]

On the Origins of Contemporary, Large-Scale Conflict. 

* Dr. Guglielmo Verdirame, Cambridge University, on 18 April 2011

* Professor Ilan Pappe, Exeter University, on 2 May 2011

Both speakers are reknowned experts in their fields and are dynamic speakers.

Please advertise widely among your students and colleagues. Details follow below.

You are cordially invited to join us for drinks afterwards.

Kind regards,

Jeff Handmaker, Susan Newman and Mansoob Murshed
DRS Committee International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) of Erasmus University
www.iss.nl/DRS

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18 April: Development Research Seminar by Guglielmo Verdirame

Link:
http://www.iss.nl/News/Events/Tension-between-the-recent-Attempt-to-Regulate-Armed-Conflict-through-Human-Rights-and-Traditional-Regulation-of-the-Same-under-the-Laws-of-Armed-Conflict

Tension between the (recent) Attempt to Regulate Armed Conflict through Human Rights and (Traditional) Regulation of the Same under the Laws of Armed Conflict

Dr. Verdirame, Lecturer in International Law at the University of
Cambridge and a Fellow of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, is co-author (with Barbara Harrell-Bond) of the book [http://books.google.nl/books?id=hN5WaHs5BREC&printsec=frontcover&dq=rights+in+exile+janus+faced+humanitarianism&hl=nl&ei=nlekTdzAC4eBOsqyoekJ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CC0Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false
] Rights in Exile: Janus-Faced Humanitarianism (2005, Berghahn).

Event Details:
Date:
18 Apr 2011 16:15 hrs until 17:45 hrs

Location:

Aula A

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Speaker(s):
Dr. Guglielmo Verdirame , Cambridge University , Cambridge , UK

Seminar chair:
Dr. Jeff Handmaker
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2 May: Development Research Seminar by Ilan Pappe

Link: http://www.iss.nl/News/Events/Development-Research-Seminar-Ilan-Pappe

The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine: Past and Present

This talk claims that the ethnic paradigm is the most important one for
understanding Palestine and Israel's past and present predicament. Only through this paradigm can one fully absorb the significance of the Zionist project for the indigenous people of Palestine as well as for the settler community of Jews who came in the late 19th century. It is also the only plausible prism through which one can comprehend best the reasons for the deadlock in the Israel-Palestine "peace process". The talk argues that the Zionist and later Israeli strategy towards the Palestinians was based on the idea of 'ethnic cleansing' and would offer a way for a future solution for the ongoing conflict.

Professor Ilan Pappe, formerly a professor at Haifa University in Israel, has published several important books and articles, including A History of Modern Palestine (2004, Cambridge University Press); The Modern Middle East (2005, Routledge) and [
http://books.google.nl/books?id=pFxrGQAACAAJ&dq=pappe+ethnic+cleansing&hl=nl&ei=UyqkTbjKN4mDOsmqneEJ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=book-thumbnail&resnum=1&ved=0CEYQ6wEwAA
]The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (2007, One World).


Event Details:
Date:
02 May 2011 16:15 hrs until 18.00 hrs

Location:

Aula A or B

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Speaker(s):
Professor Ilan Pappe , Exeter University , Exeter , UK

Seminar chair:
Dr. Jeff Handmaker

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