event
CCDP
Thursday
12
March
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Borders and the Middle East: Past and Present

Jordi Tejel
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Auditorium A2, Maison de la paix, Geneva

The Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding and the University of Neuchâtel have the pleasure to invite you to a panel discussion tittled "Borders and the Middle East: Past and Present".

 

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The CCDP and the University of Neuchâtel have the pleasure of inviting you to the first of a series of joint events showcasing the findings of the ERC consolidator grant:

"Towards a Decentred History of the Middle East: Transborder Spaces, Circulations, Frontier Effects and State Formation, 1920-1946"

The project, begun in 2017, is led by Prof. Jordi Tejel, Adjunct Professor with the Department of History at the University of Neuchâtel and CCDP Research Associate.

The first panel discussion, around the theme of "armed groups and violence", will also feature a presentation by Dr. Isabel Käser on female Kurdish fighters in Syria and Northern Iraq, as well as reactions from Dr. Jérôme Drevon.

The event will be moderated by Prof. Mohammad-Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou, Chair of the Graduate Institute's International History Department and CCDP Faculty Associate. 

 

About the speakers

 

Prof. Jordi Tejel received a Ph.D. in History and Historical Sociology from the University of Fribourg and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS, Paris), respectively. He is currently Adjunct Professor in the Department of History at the University of Neuchâtel where he is leading a project titled "Towards a Decentred History of the Middle East: Transborder Spaces, Circulations, Frontier Effects and State Formation, 1920-1946".

Isabel Käser, received a Ph.D at the School of Oriental and African Studies University of London. She is a Visiting Fellow at the LSE Middle East Centre, and her main research examines the historical and political trajectory of female participation in the PKK-led women's movement from the 1980s-today in the Kurdish Middle East.

Jerome Drevon received a Ph.D in International Relations from Durham University, UK. He is advisor on Non-State Armed Groups at the International Committee of the Red Cross and Research Associate at the CCDP. He is generally interested in the study of (mostly Islamist) non-state armed groups from the meso-level, including institutional, organizational, and networking perspectives. He is currently working on the institutionalization of non-state armed groups in the Syrian conflict.

 

Picture: Copyrights University of Neuchâtel https://www.unine.ch/border/

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