Robbert Woltering of the University of Amsterdam examines Egyptian football supporters, the ultras, as political actors in the Egyptian context.

An international conference marking the first anniversary of the Egyptian Revolution through an interdisciplinary gathering, held at the Department of Politics and International Relations. Conference panels ranged over the causes, characteristics and fortunes of the revolution and brought together scholars and activists from inside and outside Egypt and the Arab world.

Mustapha al-Sayyid of Cairo University compares different cases in the Arab uprisings of 2011.

An international conference marking the first anniversary of the Egyptian Revolution through an interdisciplinary gathering, held at the Department of Politics and International Relations. Conference panels ranged over the causes, characteristics and fortunes of the revolution and brought together scholars and activists from inside and outside Egypt and the Arab world.

What does it mean to say that the Egyptian uprising of 2011 was leaderless/or leaderful? And does it matter?

John Chalcraft of the London School of Economics examines horizontalist mobilisation and questions of ideological programme in the Egyptian revolution of 2011.

Adam Hanieh of the School of Oriental and African Studies considers the connection between international and regional patterns in Egypts neoliberal order under Mubarak.

An international conference marking the first anniversary of the Egyptian Revolution through an interdisciplinary gathering, held at the Department of Politics and International Relations. Conference panels ranged over the causes, characteristics and fortunes of the revolution and brought together scholars and activists from inside and outside Egypt and the Arab world.

Amr Osman of the Gulf University of Science and Technology looks at the debate and consensus among Egyptian intellectuals critical of the rule of Hosni Mubarak.

An international conference marking the first anniversary of the Egyptian Revolution through an interdisciplinary gathering, held at the Department of Politics and International Relations. Conference panels ranged over the causes, characteristics and fortunes of the revolution and brought together scholars and activists from inside and outside Egypt and the Arab world.

Marie Duboc of the American University in Cairo looks at the Egyptian labour movement in the years preceding the Egyptian revolution.

An international conference marking the first anniversary of the Egyptian Revolution through an interdisciplinary gathering, held at the Department of Politics and International Relations. Conference panels ranged over the causes, characteristics and fortunes of the revolution and brought together scholars and activists from inside and outside Egypt and the Arab world.

Reem Abou-El-Fadl, conference convener from the University of Oxford, explains the conference rationale and aims in examining the revolution in progress.

An international conference marking the first anniversary of the Egyptian Revolution through an interdisciplinary gathering, held at the Department of Politics and International Relations. Conference panels ranged over the causes, characteristics and fortunes of the revolution and brought together scholars and activists from inside and outside Egypt and the Arab world.

Stephen Whitefield, Head of Oxfords Department of Politics and International Relations, introduces the conference in the context of the Departments existing research.

An international conference marking the first anniversary of the Egyptian Revolution through an interdisciplinary gathering, held at the Department of Politics and International Relations. Conference panels ranged over the causes, characteristics and fortunes of the revolution and brought together scholars and activists from inside and outside Egypt and the Arab world.

(Chairs: Prof. Christer Jnsson)

Dr. Alistair Edgar (ACUNS): Religions and Spirituality in the United Nations: Resonance or Dissonance?

Dr. Pamela Sue Anderson (Oxford): God, Gender and Global Governance

Dr. Rama Mani (Oxford): Can Spirituality and Ethics be Integrated in Global Governance?

(Chair: Prof. Adam Roberts, Oxford)

Dr. Scilla Elworthy(Peace Direct):From Brute Force to Inner Power to Sustain Global Peace and Security

Prof. Christer Jnsson (Lund University): ACUNS at 25: Diplomacy and Cultural and Religious Diversity in Global Governance

This interdisciplinaryconference explored the paradoxical role of religion and spirituality in the contemporary social and political context, and its potential to shape global governance.