HCRI is delighted to announce the dates and times of the inaugural lectures to be given by Professor Roger Mac Ginty and Professor Oliver Richmond, our two Co-Directors of the MA in Peacebuilding programme.

In his inaugural lecture, Professor Roger Mac Ginty will focus on the conflict avoiding and reconciliation practices used in everyday life in deeply divided societies. Based on fieldwork, his lecture will offer an alternative to the emphasis on top-down interventions by professional conflict resolution ‘experts’ and considers how everyday peace skills can help prevent a divided society from tipping over into civil war.

Professor Mac Ginty will deliver his lecture on October 23rd 2013 at 5:30pm.

Later in November, Professor Richmond will examine the implications of local processes of peace formation and emerging peace infrastructures for the state, and for the international peacebuilding architecture; including how the interaction of processes of state formation, liberal peacebuilding and statebuilding, and localised practices of peace formation, offer the prospect of forms of peace that may be both locally and internationally legitimate. He discusses how post-liberal and hybrid forms that are based on contextual, state, and international sites of legitimate authority, and that are cognizant of different forms of power, offer a better understanding of peace processes worldwide.

Professor Richmond will deliver his lecture on November 27th 2013 at 5:30pm.

In order to attend the inaugural lectures you must register your attendance on Eventbrite, where you can also find more information about the events. Venue information is still to be confirmed.

• Register for Professor Mac Ginty’s inaugural lecture.
• Register for Professor Richmond’s inaugural lecture.

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