When does political violence (used in the context of interstate war, intrastate war, insurgency and counterinsurgency, or terrorism) lead to victory? When does political violence produce a stable peace compatible with the political goals of the victor and in which violence is no longer necessary? Much has been written on this question from the strategic, operational, and tactical points of view. In this paper, I examine this question from the socio-political standpoint. Specifically, I theorize the socio-political conditions for the emergence of a stable peaceful order out of violence.

Lisa Nandy was elected as the Member of Parliament for Wigan in May 2010.

Lisa graduated from Newcastle University in 2001 and went on to work for the Labour MP Neil Gerrard MP, specialising in housing and homelessness. From 2003-2005 she worked for the youth homelessness charity Centrepoint, and later spent five years at The Children’s Society, working with some of the most disadvantaged children in the country.

It has become almost an article of faith that China's rise is destined to produce confrontation, it not outright conflict, with the west. But there is hope amidst the gloom. China's transition to an innovation- and services-driven economy will require fundamental institutional and political reforms which are likely to produce greater convergence with those of the west.

Annette Idler will discuss the research and conclusions reached in her new book from OUP. The book will be available to purchase at a discounted price.


A wine and canape reception will follow.

Borderlands are often the space where the nexus between economic development, conflict, crime, politics and identity are at its most dynamic.

Despite a relationship between gender and support for populist causes in cross-national research, the role of gender has been missing in analysis of support for Brexit, probably because women and men showed no average aggregate-level differences in voting Leave or Remain. This, we argue, misses an important part of the explanation for Britain’s vote to leave the European Union.

Abstract: Why are certain responses to past human rights violations considered instances of transitional justice while others are disregarded? This talk interrogates the history of the discourse and practice of the field to answer that question. Zunino argues that a number of characteristics inherited as transitional justice emerged as a discourse in the 1980s and 1990s have shaped which practices of the present and the past are now regarded as valid responses to past human rights violations.