CCW Director Rob Johnson British Journal for Military History article titled '"I Shall Die Arms in Hand, Wearing the Warriors’ Clothes”: Mobilisation and Initial Operations of the Indian Army in France and Flanders' is now available online here.
Executive Leadership Course of the Oxford Changing Character of War Programme
The CCW will be holding an intensive one-week executive leadership course that will equip participants with a critical understanding of the changing character of armed conflict as well as the conceptual and practical tools necessary to anticipate and tackle future conflict. The course takes an interdisciplinary, participatory approach and combines academic rigour with innovative practical thinking. It is critical for current and future leaders involved in policy-formulation, practice or research related to security, defence and peacebuilding.
CCW Working Group on Armed Conflict off to a Success
Today saw the successful launch of the CCW Working Group on Armed Conflict, attended by students, faculty and visiting fellows from departments and programmes across the university. Eminent scholar of civil war and violence, Stathis Kalyvas, gave a presentation on how the study of civil war and armed conflict has progressed over the last decades, and how future research can tackle important questions about the causes, character and consequences of violent conflict.
Launching the CCW Working Group on Armed Conflict: a Morning Roundtable with Stathis Kalyvas
The working group is a student-led initiative that aims to facilitate research into the causes, character and consequences of armed conflict. With meetings taking place every fortnight, the group serves as a forum for students and researchers to discuss their own work and developments in the field, and as a meeting point to find areas of mutual interest and opportunities for collaboration and cooperation. Interdisciplinary in outlook and open to diverse theoretical and methodological approaches, the group is for anyone interested in advancing the study of armed conflict, civil war and related issues such as peacebuilding and post-war reconstruction.
Is God Watching You?
CCW Steering Committee member Dominic Johnson appeared on BBC Radio 4 this morning in a debate with Conor Cunningham titled 'Is God Watching you?' Available here.
UK Strategy Forum
On Tuesday 2 February 2016 the Changing Character of War Programme was delighted to host Air Chief Marshal Sir Stuart Peach GBE KCB ADC DL to chair the fourth meeting of CDS’ Strategy Forum, exploring the theme ‘UK Defence: International By Design’. The eighty delegates at the Forum, drawn from the armed forces, government, academia, and the private sector, will be also be addressed by Professor Janne Matlary (Professor of International Relations at the University of Oslo and the Norwegian Command and Staff College and former State Secretary, Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs).
Oxford Research Fellow Wins Prestigous Smith Richardson Fellowship to Study Baltic Defence
CCW Annual Lecture 2016
In Conversation with Rob Wainwright
Rob Wainwright has been the Director of Europol since 2009. Prior to joining Europol, Wainwright worked with a number of national agencies in the UK including MI5, where he specifically focused on issues of terrorism. Wainwright’s presentation, just weeks after the terrorist attacks in Paris by suspected Islamic State extremists, touched on the organizational roles and responsibilities of Europol, particularly relating to counterterrorism; the fluid and fluctuating nature of the international terrorist threat; and the troubling (or confounding) issues relating to terrorist and criminal organizations’ use of the “dark web.” This CCW interview expands on these central themes.
In Conversation with Kai Htang Lashi
Kai Htang Lashi is the foreign affairs spokesperson for the Kachin National Organisation (KNO), an organisation established to be the Kachin people’s international representation. Her presentation spanned a wide range of subjects relating to the armed struggle for greater autonomy from Burma and ethnic minority rights conducted by the Kachin Independence Organisation/Army. Topics covered both the history of the conflict and modern concerns, such as the KIO/A’s refusal to participate in the October 2015 ceasefire. They spanned many issues, such as the relationship between the KIO/A and Kachin society, the relationships between the KIO/A and other ethnonationalist insurgent movements in Burma, and the difficulties of promoting the Kachin cause abroad. Given Kai Htang Lashi’s role as one of the chief conduits of knowledge on life in Kachin state, CCW delves into what that life is like and what being Kachin means.
CCW Director of Studies Annette Idler awarded a Social Sciences Knowledge Exchange Fellowship
Europe's Response to the Jihadist Threat
New CCW Roundtable event
Major-General P.M. Nakasone speaking at the CCW on the 10th November.
Nordic-Baltic Defence conference announced
New website launched!
CCW Director Rob Johnson speaks at the British Embassy in Paris
CCW Director of Studies Annette Idler awarded the 2015 Cedric Smith Prize
CCW Director of Studies Dr Annette Idler, has been awarded the 2015 Cedric Smith Prize for the best piece of peace and conflict research by a UK-based student. For more information on the Conflict Research Society's Cedric Smith Prize, please click here.
Annette won for her paper entitled 'Complex Cooperation: Shifting Alliances among Rebels, Paramilitaries and Criminals'.
