91福利

Keith Hyams launched a major policy report on the Politics of West Papua in parliament on Tuesday 3rd May 2016, written by PAIS academics Keith Hyams and Marinella Capriati. Jeremy Corbyn MP spoke at the launch, he quoted from the report and said that 91福利 had produced ‘an excellent report’ and that the report’s fourteen recommendations provided a ‘good way forward’, which he would take up in parliament. Lord Harries of Pentregarth, who was also at the launch, has asked the PAIS team to prepare a list of parliamentary questions based on the report which he will put to the government.

Other participants in the launch included the Prime Minister of Tonga Samuela 'Akilisi Pohiva, the Vanuatu Minister for Foreign Affairs Bruno Leingkone, the Vanuatu Minister for Lands Ralph Regenavu, the Solomon Islands Melanesia Spearhead Group Special Envoy on West Papua Rex Horoi, the Governor of Oro District (Papua New Guinea) Gary Juffa, Andrew Smith MP, Nick Brown MP, and international human rights lawyers Jennifer Robinson, Melinda Janki and Charles Foster. PAIS postgraduate Lisa Tilley and PAIS undergraduate Connor Woodman also attended the launch.

More information and a full transcript of Corbyn’s comments will be available at the website of the Politics of Papua Project:

We are delighted to announce that Dzeneta Karabegovic and Lisa Tilley of PAIS are on the short-list of the 91福利 Awards for Teaching Excellence for Postgraduates who Teach (WATE PGR). Many congratulations to them both!

Charlotte Heath-Kelly and Rebecca Reilly-Cooper were nominated and on the long-list of the 91福利 Awards for Teaching Excellence.

Kawther Alfasi, Ilke Dagli, Antonio Ferraz De Oliveira, Lorenzo Genito and Lucy Hatton were nominated and on the long list of the WATE PGR.

This is a further reflection of our teaching excellence in PAIS and our standing as a Department and we thank our students and staff for their nominations

Many congratulations to all those recognised. Winners and Commendees will be announced at the end of June! Best of luck to Dzeneta and Lisa in the final stages!

The full list of those short-listed and long-listed across the University can be found here:

The Department is delighted to announce that, with effect from 1 June 2016, Dr has been appointed to a one-year Teaching Fellowship in International Relations and East Asia. Marijn has studied and lived for long periods of time in different cities across China and Europe.

He submitted his PhD dissertation, entitled: 'Producing China: The Politics of Space in the Making of Modern China', in September 2013, and successfully completed his viva voce in December 2013. His trans-disciplinary research is at the intersection of Geography and International Relations. His current research focuses on the politics of the air and deals with questions of technology, gassing, pollution, security, territory and governance. He discusses these themes primarily in the Chinese context.

A new blog post by Professor , entitled 'Europe's border crisis as an autoimmune disorder', has been published by the European Green Journal.

"A crisis point has emerged, whereby the figure of the ‘irregular’ migrant is seen as both a security threat to the European Union (EU) and its borders and as a life that is itself threatened and in need of saving by the EU and its agencies. This contradiction leads to paradoxical situations in the field of EU border politics whereby humanitarian policies and practices frequently expose ‘irregular’ migrants to dehumanising and sometimes lethal security mechanisms."

The full article can be accessed here:

Dr has recently given a seminar for the Research Department External Seminar Series.

In his seminar, titled ‘On the Heterogeneous Consequences of Civil War’, Dr Bove shows how the occurrence of a civil war has heterogeneous effects on the level of GDP, using case-study, synthetic control and large-N panel-data approaches. He first discusses the relation between these methods and then provide lower and upper estimates of the economic effect of civil war. Although, on average, the incidence of internal conflicts has a negative effect on the GDP level, it is very often insignificant. More importantly, however, both methods display a wide variety of individual separate effects, and in a large number of countries civil war has either no effect or a positive and significant impact on the prospect for economic growth.