Anna Stavrianakis, Senior Lecturer in the Department, held a series of workshops with NGOs and academics to consider possibilities for change in UK arms export policy, given the role of UK-supplied weapons in human rights abuses and violations of international humanitarian law in the Middle East. See her articles about the Saudi war in Yemen in Open Democracy, and the need for better parliamentary accountability The Conversation (co-authored with Prof. Neil Cooper of the University of Bradford).
Hosted by the Sussex International Relations Society, Dr Julian Germann and Mareike Beck ran a public workshop on the pros and cons and nuts and bolts of the controversial EU-US trade agreement.
Dr David Karp ran a policy workshop on 18 August 2015 for NGO campaigners and researchers whose work connects to the topic of business and human rights. The event included over 20 participants from 9 different countries (Cambodia, Denmark, Honduras, Ireland, Kenya, South Sudan, Sweden, Uganda, the United Kingdom), all of whom are employees of major development and humanitarian NGOs. The topic of the event was a comparison of features of two different policy initiatives, (1) the 2011 UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, (2) a new UN intergovernmental working group on a business and human rights treaty, led by Ecuador since 2014. The event examined the issue from the point of view of the opportunities and challenges that each initiative poses to the NGOs’ broader ongoing campaigns on human rights, development, gender and social justice. The event was recorded and subsequently has been forwarded to a number of other NGOs.
Petito Fabio: designed and run a closed door seminar on ‘Understanding the role of secular and religious forces in international relations: Muslim-Catholic engagement and foreign policy’ at the Italian Ministry of Foreign affairs in Rome, 4 June 2015. co-organised between the initiative on ‘Religions and International Relations’ which he coordinates and the ‘Contending Modernities: Catholic, Muslim, Secular’ research initiative based at the University of Notre Dame's Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies .
In March 2015 Stefan Elbe, Director of the Centre for Global Health Policy and Professor of International Relations at the School of Global Studies at the University of Sussex, and Kendall Hoyt, Assistant Professor at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College, visited the Council on Foreign Relations to share their views on potential strategies to improve the incentive structure for developing urgently needed pharmaceutical products.
Listen to this podcast for a “to-the-point” discussion of these issues and important insights of Professors Elbe and Hoyt.
Centre for Global Health Policy Research Fellow, Dr Gemma Buckland Merrett, authored the report from the meeting on ‘Antimicrobial resistance in humans and animals in low and middle income countries: how can knowledge and action be strengthened at national level’, which took place 13 –15 March 2015.
This meeting provided an opportunity for those responsible for human and animal health, primarily from countries in low and middle economic settings, to strengthen knowledge in approaching antimicrobial resistance domestically, identify emerging good practice and ways to scale up action at country level.
In November 2014 a one-day workshop was organised by the Centre for Global Health Policy at Sussex and the BISA Working Group on Global Health.
The purpose of this workshop is to facilitate discussion between some of the most eminent scholars working in this field to collectively bring the insights of this existing research to bear directly on the unfolding Ebola crisis, to harness lessons from IR research that may be of assistance to those on the front line of the response, and to develop a post-Ebola research agenda in global health in response to the deeper questions that the crisis generates for the state of global health policy and governance.
Dr. Kamran Matin participated in a panel discussion in the European Parliament as part of a conference on ‘ISIS attacks on Kobane and their effects on the region” on November 4, 2014. The conference was organised by the Confederal Group of the European United Left - Nordic Green Left, and the Kurdistan National Congress (KNK).
Anna Stavrianakis, Senior Lecturer in the Department, spent a term's sabbatical on secondment to Saferworld, a conflict prevention NGO, to encourage Chinese participation in the UN Arms Trade Treaty process. She co-authored two policy reports with Chinese academics:
In 2013, Dr. Paul Kirby produced a Guide to Open Access in the Social Sciences to better inform researchers. The guide was part of wider engagement on the possibilities and pitfalls of open access publishing, including invited talks for the British Academy, at LSE and at Manchester Metropolitan University.
View the guide: Open Access in the Social Sciences
Hosted by the Sussex International Relations Society, members of our faculty and doctoral researchers ran a public workshop on the pros and cons and nuts and bolts of the controversial EU-US trade agreement
More information: TTIP-What is it and What Does it Mean?