This conference inaugurates a new academic journal Peacebuilding, and a new policy-scholar network, the International Association for Peace and Conflict Studies. Registration is £20 for employed academics and free for postgraduate students. View...
Category: Events
HCRI’s Prof James Thompson hosting In Place of War closing event, 15 March 2012
HCRI's Professor James Thompson, and Director of the In Place of War project http://www.inplaceofwar.net/ is a key panel member at the closing event for this initiative on 15 March 2012. This special event combines a drinks reception, film screening, book launch and...
HCRI’s new intercalated BSc in Global Health is welcomed by medical student community
The University of Manchester's student newspaper The Mancunian welcomes HCRI's new Intercalated BSc in Global Health http://www.student-direct.co.uk/2012/02/23/new-degree-programme-mixes-medicine-with-politics/ This exciting new programme mixes emergency medicine and...
HCRI & MSF host book launch “Humanitarian Negotiations Revealed”, 8 December 2011
Join MSF and HCRI to discuss and debate the issues raised in this bold new book, then mingle with speakers and panel members over drinks. The publisher will be selling copies of the book at a special discounted rate for delegates.To sign up please visit...
Join us for a free HCRI film night: Human Terrain, 15 November 2011
Join us for a free HCRIÂ public film screening of Human Terrain followed by an expert panel discussion and Q&A on Tuesday 15 November 2011. Doors open at 6pm, event starts 6.15pmTo sign up please visit http://hcripresentshumanterrain.eventbrite.com Related...
Dr Tim Jacoby speaks at Conservative Party Conference
Dr Tim Jacoby, Senior Lecturer in Conflict Studies at IDPM and HCRI Director of Teaching, spoke at a fringe meeting during the Conservative Party Conference. Organised by the non-partisan Foreign Policy Centre, it was entitled, “Which Path to Peace: Promoting...
HCRI supports Model UN project in schools
Our own Dr Jen Peterson helped to plan and run a Model United Nations event with secondary school children from across Stockport. Over three months, students were taught about the global spread of HIV/AIDS and the policies in place to manage this pandemic. Student...
Sign up for HCRI lecture series
HCRI's lecture series is conceived as an interactive forum for leading academics and students in humanitarian and conflict/development studies to drill through current debates in their field and enrich their theoretical and empirical repertoire. To sign up please...
HCRI at 17th World Congress on Disaster and Emergency Medicine (WCDEM)
HCRI Deputy Director, Professor Tony Redmond attended the 17th World Congress on Disaster and Emergency Medicine (WCDEM) in June 2011. The Congress hosted more than 1,600 participants from 57 countries and was held in conjunction with the 14th Annual Meeting of the...
HCRI present panel discussion at 2nd World Conference on Humanitarian Studies, Tufts University, 2 – 5 June 2011
HCRI team members Professor Bertrand Taithe, Dr Tanja Müller, and Dr Alison Howell are presenting a panel discussion 'The (anti-)politics of humanitarian intervention - changing dynamics' at the 2nd World Conference on Humanitarian Studies, 2nd to 5th June 2011....