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MA student Emanuel Ingold, who graduated from PAIS this September, recently attended the . He presented a paper at the conference entitled '' on the Human Rights and Global Governance panel.

This paper is available for download on the Social Science Research Network's website, where it has been listed on the SSRN's Top Ten download list for PSN: Conflict Processes (Topic).

Associate Professor was recently awarded two ESRC grants.

The first is an ESRC knowledge exchange grant entitled “Kenya 2013-2014: From election monitoring to longer-term reform” for which Gabrielle is principal investigator and Nic Cheeseman (Oxford) and Justin Willis (Durham) are co-investigators.

The second is an ESRC standard grant entitled “The impact of elections: voting, political behaviour and democracy in sub-Saharan Africa”, on which Willis is the principal investigator and Cheeseman and Gabrielle are co-investigators.

On 10 September, Trevor McCrisken was interviewed on BBC Radio Oxford about how President Obama is handling the US response to the use of chemical weapons in Syria. You can until 16 September; the interview begins 21 minutes into the broadcast.

On 5 September Prof Shaun Breslin appeared on the Voice of Russia in a discussion of China's position regarding Syria entitled 'Why Would China Oppose the War on Syria?' Shaun joined Dr. Mathieu Duchatel, Senior Researcher and head of the SIPRI’s China and International Peace and Security Project at Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, and Vassily Kashin, China expert based with the Centre for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies.

You can on the Voice of Russia's website.

On August 26-28, Prof Franklyn Lisk participated in the Horn Economic and Social Policy Institute (HESPI) and United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) Conference on Rebuilding Viable State and Effective Institutions in Somalia. This three-day consultative meeting held in Addis Ababa brought together representatives across Somali leadership and civil society, as well as academics, professionals, and experts on post-conflict reconstruction. The main objectives were to contribute to the current assessment of the country's priority needs; provide support to the new government of the Federal Republic of Somalia in its endeavours to plan, formulate, and implement a coherent programme for the rebuilding of a viable and effective state; and to foster dialogue that promotes the exchange of ideas and new thinking among policy makers and the country's developed partners.

Prof Lisk presented on post-conflict reconstruction and the challenges of sustainable development in Africa. The conference report will be prepared by HESPI to communicate the key findings and messages from the conference papers and keynote speeches to assist the federal Government of Somalia in planning and formulating its near and medium term strategy for reconstruction and institution building.

Proceedings will become available on the HESPI website, where the is already available.