Today MESF’s Dr Zahid Shahab Ahmed will give an invited talk on ‘reflections from a decade-long engagement with the development sector’ at the Civil-Military-Police Interaction Workshop, organised by the Australian Civil-Military Centre in Sydney.
Professor Akbarzadeh interviewed on ABC News Radio
Dr Zahid Shahab Ahmed elected to IPRA Foundation Board
MESF’s Dr Zahid Shahab Ahmed has been elected to the Board of Directors of the International Peace Research Association (IPRA) board. Read about the organisation here.
UN paralysis over Syria: the responsibility to protect or regime change?
Shahram Akbarzadeh and Arif Saba have published a new paper on R2P in International Politics. Read the full text here.
The Gülen Movement and Surviving in Exile: The case of Australia
Dr David Tittensor has published a new paper in a special issue of Politics, Religion & Ideology on ‘Ruin or Resilience: The Future of the Gülen movement in transnational political exile. Read the paper here.
Dr David Tittensor interviewed on Radio National
Dr David Tittensor was interviewed by Geraldine Doogue on ABC Radio National this morning on the upcoming Turkish election. Listen to the interview here.
Basra’s Bid for Autonomy: Peaceful Progress toward a Decentralized Iraq
A/Prof Benjamin Isakhan and Peter Mulherin have published a new paper in The Middle East Journal on Iraq. Read the full text here.
Dr Dara Conduit interviewed on ABC News Breakfast
Trouble Ahead
Prof Shahram Akbarzadeh has argued that ‘the winds of time have removed the dust of utopian ideas and revealed the rock of authoritarianism across the’ Middle East in a new OpEd in the Lowy Interpreter. Read it here.