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Lecture:
Does Intervention in the name of Human Rights undermine Conflict Resolution? The recent cases of Libya and Syria have highlighted the salience of this question and the challenges that it presents for scholars and policy-makers interested in the resolution of violent conflict in global politics. Drawing on a rich theoretical, conceptual, and historical research trajectory, this lecture seeks to highlight the dangers as well as the opportunities presented by the juxtaposition of humanity and sovereignty in international politics generally and in the context of conflict resolution in particular.
Biography:
Vivienne Jabri, PhD, is Professor of International Politics in the Department of War Studies, King’s College London. Professor Jabri's research draws on critical and poststructural social and political theory to investigate the nexus between international politics, conflict, war, and security practices. She is specifically interested in how war and interventionist practices (including peacebuilding operations) relate to sovereignty, political community, subjectivity, the international politics of culture and race, and the political/juridical structure of the international. Her current research and writing focus on war/violence and conceptions of cosmopolitan political community in a globalised world. Professor Jabri has held European Commission funding for collaborative research on the relationship between practices of security, war, and their implications for liberties and rights. She has published widely, including 4 single-authored books, 2 co-edited books, and a number of peer-reviewed journal articles. Her books include Mediating Conflict: The Western Contact Group in Namibia (Manchester University Press, 1990), Discourses on Violence: Conflict Analysis Reconsidered (Manchester University Press, 1996), War and the Transformation of Global Politics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007 and 2010), and the most recent, The Postcolonial Subject: Claiming Politics/Governing Others in Late Modernity (Routledge, 2012). Professor Jabri serves on the Editorial Boards of the journals International Political Sociology and Security Dialogue, and is a member of the Politics and International Studies subpanel for the 2014 Research Excellence Framework of the UK’s Higher Education Funding Council.Loading..