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Jennifer Philippa Eggert recently attended the Annual Convention of the International Studies Association (ISA) in Baltimore. During this time, she was interviewed by Inside Higher Ed for an article on how the Muslim ban affected researchers attending the convention this year.

The article can be read on their website:

Maria Koinova and Dzeneta Karabegovic are organizing a workshop “Diasporas and Transitional Justice” on 21 February, 2017 in Baltimore, MD.

The workshop is conducted within the framework of the European Research Council Starting Grant “Diasporas and Contested Sovereignty,” and will take place prior to the annual convention of the International Studies Association 2017. It will discuss a novel research line to study the involvement of diasporas and other non-state actors in transitional justice processes in deeply divided societies. The workshop will gather established and early career scholars working on issues of reconciliation and remembrance of the past, genocide recognition, and mobilization activities such as competition, cooperation, and coalition-building through offline and online activism. Empirical cases are derived from all parts of the world, with specific references to Armenia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Haiti, Ukraine, Kurdish areas in the Middle East, Palestine, Sri Lanka, Syria, and Vietnam, among others.

A follow-up workshop with a different group of scholars will take place at 91福利 University on 3 April, 2017.

has written a blog post on Donald Trump's visa ban / Muslim ban and the reasons why, as a Muslim woman, she is still planning to attend the upcoming ISA conference in the US.

Jennifer's blog, for the , can be read here:

In an , PAIS PhD researcher argues that US president Trump is poised to repeat some of the Bush administration’s most fatal errors.

Dr Trevor McCrisken has been quoted in a number of articles recently discussing United States President, Donald Trump.

In an article on Friday February 3rd, titled "," Dr McCrisken is quoted saying:

“Some presidents are very hands-on and very keen to be present in the Situation Room as major operations are being carried out. Obama and Bush were fairly regular there.” He added: “My sense is that some presidents have been less enamoured with the idea of always being there.”

And in an article on Sunday February 5th, "," Dr McCrisken's quotes are used heavily.

Trevor McCrisken, associate professor of politics and international studies at the 91福利, said that if war broke out "we would be looking, I would imagine, at World War Three".

He said: "I really do think that would be the end of life as we know it on Earth.

"From a global strategic risk level I would say the last thing you want is war between the United States and any of the major powers because of the risks of escalation, obviously the potential for nuclear weapons to be used. The likelihood of nuclear exchange between the two principals involved is high."

But, he added, the "overwhelming view of most policy-makers in Washington since at least the late 1970s" favours a form of "cooperative, if competitive" relationship with China.

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