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UN Peacekeeping and the Rule of Law

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Study points to what might enhance peacekeeping ‘rule-of-law’ impact

Summary

The study seeks to explain when UN peacekeeping missions are more likely to succeed at improving the rule of law. It identifies how UN personnel levels, activities, and timing impact success in rule of law reforms.

A security dividend: Peacekeeping and maternal health outcomes and access

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Study demonstrates how peacekeeping operations have a positive impact on maternal health and women’s education.

Summary

There is strong evidence that a UN peacekeeping presence positively impacts women and maternal health. Such a presence leads to lower mortality rates, more maternal health services, as well as higher levels and years of women’s education.

Lecture by the Right Hon. Lord David Willetts (PPE, 1975): 'Can politics deliver fairness between the generations?'

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5pm: Lecture at The Sir Michael Dummett Lecture Theatre

6.15pm: Drinks and Informal chat in the Exhibition Space

7pm: Dinner at High Table. (Senior Members only. Please book in as normal if you wish to join Lord Willetts at dinner.)

A Match Made in Heaven: Love and Piety in Iranian Spousal Selection

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Abstract: Love’s emergence as basis of marriage is a hallmark of modernity. Its compatibility with religious and traditional bases of marriage, however, is less understood. We explore the different criteria Iranians use to select their spouse as part of a broader effort to understand the complex relationships between love, religion and modernity. Love, we argue, does not mean the same thing to all, and its meaning is conditioned by the distinct historical and cultural frameworks in which it is embedded.

In Sudan, West Darfur is in the grip of a new escalation of violence

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Stealing from the Rich to Give to the Poor: Towards an Ethics of Social Banditry

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Bordering and Ordering among Refugees from Burma/Myanmar | Annual Elizabeth Colson Lecture 2022

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The impact of borders on refugees’ lives has been extensively analysed in relation to border control, border policing and border violence. However, borders can also be generative, shaping non-state political and social orders at multiple levels. This lecture examines the relationship between border regimes and the social orders created in displacement, drawing on empirical work with refugees from Burma living in Thailand, Malaysia and India.

My Neighbour, My Friend? The Rise and Demise of Local Civil Alliances in Ethnic War

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Under what conditions do communities in ethnic wars form, and abide by, local non-aggression pacts? Studies of civilian victimization showed that pre-existing microlevel contention can generate violence, but lesser attention was given to the role of cordial relationships in constraining it. In this paper I argue that local actors will create inter-ethnic agreements in order to coordinate when there is high uncertainty over the local outcome of the war, and thus cooperatively lower it by providing mutual assurances.

The varying effects of middle class size on perceptions of grand corruption

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Large-N studies reveal a strong, negative relationship between income-based measures of the middle class and perceptions of grand corruption. Yet significant cross-country variation exists, even when accounting for regime type. Why are some countries with large middle classes nonetheless perceived to be persistently corrupt? This paper argues that the effect of middle-class size on grand corruption is moderated by the strength of horizontal accountability institutions.

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