London Conflict Review

24/11/2021

A reminder that our recruitment will close today at midnight UK time!

11/11/2021

The London Conflict Review is recruiting our 2022 team! Positions are open to postgraduate students at any university - not just LSE. The deadline to submit is November 24th.

The following positions are open: Editorial Board (including Managing Editor and two Senior Editors), Operations Manager, Events Coordinator, Social Media Coordinator, and Webmaster.

More information on our website!

Submit a paper now for a chance to participate in the London Conflict Review's 2021 Conference, supported by LSE's Dept of Government.

06/11/2021

Hello Everyone! Our panel discussion on displacement during COVID-19 begins in 30 min

04/11/2021

Our third panelist is Mauricio Palma-Gutierrez!

Mauricio is a post-graduate researcher at the Department of Politics and International Studies (PAIS) at the University of Warwick (UK) and a lecturer in International Relations, at the Del Rosario University (Bogotá). His research interests deal with the intersections between migration, human mobility, border studies and security. Previously, he worked as a public policy adviser and researcher on security, human mobility and global institutions for over ten years, mostly in Colombia. He also taught various courses in International Studies at the undergraduate and post-graduate levels during the same period, at the Del Rosario University (Bogotá). He completed an MSc in Global History at the London School of Economics (UK), an MA in Global Studies at the University of Leipzig (Germany), and a BA in International Relations at the Del Rosario University. His current research focuses on contested practices and changing conceptions of sovereignty in cross-border migration from Venezuela along the South American Andes during Covid-19.

04/11/2021

Our second panelist is Matthew Hemsley!

Matthew Hemsley is Oxfam’s Policy, Advocacy, and Communications Manager in Iraq, having previously been based in Damascus as the organisation’s Policy Adviser, where he co-authored two published paper that focussed on issues of humanitarian access and recovery & resilience assistance. Working in Iraq, Oxfam seeks to raise the voices of vulnerable communities and representative Iraqi civil society in responding to humanitarian needs and tackling inequality; including advocacy work on the situation facing Iraqi IDPs who were forcibly displaced when camps were closed. He has previously worked for Oxfam in Amman and Wales.

04/11/2021

Our First Panelist is Alexa Netty, Chair of Steering Committee & Trustee at SolidariTee!

Alexa is trustee and former executive director of SolidariTee, an international student-led charity which seeks to raise awareness of sustainable solutions to the 'refugee crisis', and offers grants to NGOs providing empowering, long-term aid to forcibly displaced people. She holds a degree in psychology, neuroscience and behaviour, with a focus on PTSD, and has recently completed a vet degree, and is an editor for Earth Refuge, a legal think-tank dedicated to seeking innovative solutions to upholding rights for climate migrants.

08/10/2021

Alex Briscoe's article 'Regime, Ideology and Genocide' considers intentionalism and functionalism in accounting for the permeating nature of ideology in the Third Reich. Briscoe illustrates "Nazism’s role as filling the void in a polycratic regime, necessitating an analysis of both the political structure of the regime and its ideology, rather than focusing solely on one or the other".

Author Alex Briscoe studies History and Politics at University College Dublin.

Read the full article here: https://londonconflictreview.com/?p=621

Whether the Holocaust was the result of a long-premeditated plan or not is debated. Two paradigms within the historiography of the Holocaust, intentionalism and functionalism, predominate....

06/10/2021

Are debt securities the ammunition of today? Are secondary markets neocolonial battlefields? S.L. Staley considers these questions in their recent piece 'Are Bonds the New Bullets? Theoretical Musings of Neo-Realism and the Implications of Sovereign Debt'.

"Due to technological advances and societal progression, the expression of power dynamics today looks different than it did in centuries past. Power-grabs have evolved from traditional warfare to more subtle means such as economic influence."

Read the full piece on our website: https://londonconflictreview.com/?p=629

Are debt securities the ammunition of today? Are secondary markets neocolonial battlefields? The neo-realist implications of sovereign debt.

03/06/2021

REMINDER: Only one week left to submit papers for the London Conflict Review 2021 Conference!

We take a fluid and interdisciplinary approach to the field of Conflict Studies and are accepting applications from a diversity of disciplines. The deadline to submit papers is June 10th. For more information on the conference and submissions guidelines, please visit our website or send us a message.
https://londonconflictreview.com/?page_id=454


LSE International Relations
LSE Department of Government

27/04/2021

"Understanding that the vulnerabilities experienced by women when forced to flee are due to gender roles and identities is important in order to plan and implement proper and effective humanitarian assistance."

In her recent analysis piece, 'Women and Forced Displacement' Kathryn Wood considers the gendered ways in which women are rendered vulnerable by being forced to flee. She examines women's experiences during flight and whilst living in refugee camps, as well as the asylum-seeking framework’s inherent discrimination favouring cisgender males renders women and LGBTQ individuals disproportionately vulnerable.

Kathryn is an Editor for the London Conflict Review and an MSc Conflict Studies student at The London School of Economics and Political Science - LSE. She completed her undergraduate degree in International Relations at The University of Edinburgh.


https://londonconflictreview.com/?p=574

Women, men, girls, and boys all suffer when they are forced to flee. Though sometimes women and girls have similar experiences to men and boys, more often than not they have different experiences due to their gender.

15/04/2021

"Overlapping issues of humanitarian concern and epistemic responsibility have re-emerged today in the context of Syria’s civil war. Indeed, this war is both kinetic and informational, with violence and online propaganda each contributing to the conflict. While the kinetic war has generated a chronic humanitarian disaster, the parallel “propaganda war” challenges outside observers’ ability to formulate appropriate ethical decisions in response. It is in this context that humanitarian organisations (HOs) in Syria must decide whether to bear witness to alleged atrocities committed by a specific party to a conflict."

Steven Haig's recent analysis piece 'When to Bear Witness to Atrocities in Armed Conflict: The Case of Syria' examines bearing witness in conflict, considering the organisation Medicins Sans Frontières (MSF), which was formed in 1971 as a humanitarian organisation defined by its willingness to bear witness.

Steven Haig is an LL.B Law and International Relations student at The University of Edinburgh with academic interest in international refugee law and policy, climate change law and policy, and the facilitation of good governance through the design of legal and political institution.

https://londonconflictreview.com/?p=555

The question of whether or not to bear witness to atrocities in violent conflict is perennial in the humanitarian sector. By ‘bearing witness’ I mean the...

10/04/2021

Submissions are open for the London Conflict Review 2021 Conference! The conference will feature the academic work of postgraduate students (and graduates) from around the world, guest speakers and moderated discussions by academics at LSE.

The conference, hosted with support from the LSE Department of Government, will be held virtually on October 9th. The deadline to submit papers is June 10th. For more information on submissions guidelines, visit our website.

https://londonconflictreview.com/?page_id=454

We take a fluid and interdisciplinary approach to the field of Conflict Studies and are accepting applications from a diversity of disciplines.


LSE International Relations
LSE Department of Government

08/04/2021

In her analysis piece, 'The Covid-19 Vaccination: A Global Moral Dilemma?', Aisling O'Connell considers the moral and pragmatic imperative of equitable and proportional COVID-19 vaccination distribution.

"Rhetoric of vaccine nationalism, where leaders advocated for their country to receive the vaccine before others, has emerged in the past year from leaders such as US President Donald Trump, Russian President Vladamir Putin, and Chinese President Xi Jinping. However, not only is equitable vaccine distribution morally correct, it is a pragmatic decision to help end the pandemic as quick as possible."

Read the full piece here - https://londonconflictreview.com/?p=540

Aisling is an MSc Conflict Studies student at The London School of Economics and Political Science - LSE. She completed her BA (International) at University College Dublin and Sciences Po Paris and has won several academic awards including the Brian Farrell medal and the Peter Semple medal.

On the 8th of December 2020, a Northern Irish woman named Margaret Keenan became the first person in the world to receive a dose of the...

22/03/2021

We are extremely excited to announce the first London Conflict Review Annual Academic Conference. The 2021 Conference will showcase and amplify the academic work of postgraduate students in the field of Conflict Studies, featuring guest speakers and moderated discussions by academics at LSE.

The conference will be hosted with support from the LSE Department of Government and will be held virtually on October 9th with potential hybrid in-person events.

To be featured, submit an application through our website submission form before the 10th of June. We take a fluid and interdisciplinary approach to the field of Conflict Studies and are accepting applications from a diversity of disciplines.


https://londonconflictreview.com/?page_id=454

The London School of Economics and Political Science - LSE Department of Government: London School of Economics

17/02/2021

In her analysis piece 'Duterte’s Dilemma: The failing façade of friendship with China', Aiza Mohamad, MSc International Relations candidate at The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) considers the failures of the friendship strategy that the Philippine President, Rodrigo Duterte, has adopted towards China's Xi Jinping since 2016.

"With the end of his presidency of the Philippines drawing closer (2016 – 2022), Rodrigo Duterte has much to deliver on securing his country’s territorial claims in the South China Sea. Yet the years-long tension with his new ally, China, over these resource-rich territories remains. Despite returning Duterte’s enthusiasm for partnership, China has doubled down on its commitment to the ‘nine-dash line’ – the line it has used since the 1940s to demarcate its claims in the South China Sea."

Read her analysis piece and other recent published work on the London Conflict Review site.

https://lnkd.in/gXq2wXT

11/02/2021

Hold an academic or personal interest in White Nationalist Militias in the US? We're currently looking for submissions on this topic - pitch us an article!

In the wake of the Capital Riot and the increased focus on groups such as the Proud Boys and the Three Percenters, we are commissioning an article addressing White Nationalist Militias in the context of the academic field of Conflict Studies. The focus and argument are up to you.

The piece would need to be under 2,000 words and would feature on our website as an "Analysis Piece". You can pitch us via the form linked to this post or by contacting us at [email protected]. If you aren't interested in this topic, you can pitch us another idea through the same channels.

The London Conflict Review is an academic journal founded and run by graduate students at the London School of Economics. We host an annual conference in the field of Conflict Studies and publish shorter research pieces on our website.

https://londonconflictreview.com/?page_id=124



LSE International Relations LSE Department of Government

Write for us! Send us a pitch for a conflict-oriented analysis piece or research paper and make a valuable addition to our journal.

10/02/2021

El Salvador's "government and its powerful gangs have become odd partners in fighting the coronavirus, and the immediate consequences of this partnership may appear positive... Yet, there is evidence that El Salvador’s controversial president has ulterior motives for embracing the country’s gangs and this arrangement could indicate the entrenchment of the country’s criminal-political class."

Mark Wilson's recent analysis piece 'COVID-19 and Complicity in El Salvador’s Gangs' documents the way the Coronvirus outbreak has forged an alliance between gangs and the Government in El Salvador. He argues that the relationship between MS-13 and the increasingly authoritarian President Nayib Bukele could be defining for El Salvador's future.

Mark is an MSc Conflict Studies candidate at The London School of Economics and Political Science - LSE and is managing editor of the London Conflict Review.



https://londonconflictreview.com/?p=390

In October of 2020, MS-13 gang member Chino Milo was transferred from the Salvadorian maximum security prison Izalco Fase III to the Zacatecoluca hospital because of...

30/12/2020

Are you interested in writing for us?!

The London Conflict Review is a journal founded by postgraduate students at The London School of Economics and Political Science - LSE, with a focus on the area of Conflict Studies. We showcase the writing and research of students from universities around the world and are currently looking for submissions of short op-ed and blog pieces.

If you are interested in writing for us, you can pitch an article or research paper via the link below: https://lnkd.in/gVn28j9

We look forward to reviewing your submissions!

Guidlines: Along with this pitch form, a word document containing your article should be sent to [email protected]. We ask that you include citations via hyperlink for Opinion Pieces. For Research Papers, please use Harvard Style with page numbers and a bibliography containing hyperlink...