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Sandhurst Trends in International Conflict Series Symposium Programme
2018: Fragile States: Challenges and Responses
WEDNESDAY 7th FEBRUARY 2018 Royal Military Academy Sandhurst
Programme
0900-1000: Keynote Address
Prof David Chandler
University of Westminster
Challenges of State-building and State-consolidation in the Contemporary World
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1015-1130: Panel One - Key Challenges
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Dr Jan Pospisil
University of Edinburgh
Building States to Build Peace Revisited: Empirical Insights from Peace Negotiations in Fragile States
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Jacob Thomas-Llewellyn
Centre for Army Leadership, RMAS
Why do International Approaches to Fragile, Failing and Failed States Remain Selective?
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Chair: Dr An Jacobs (Defence and International Affairs, RMAS)
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1130-1200: Tea/coffee break
1200-1315: Panel Two - Challenges and Responses
Dr Jonathan Fisher
University of Birmingham
Somalia and its Neighbours: AMISOM and the Regional Construction of a Failed State
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Maj Franky Matisek
US Air Force/Northwestern University, Illinois
The Rise of Strong Militaries in Africa: Defying the Odds?
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Islam Goher
Cairo University/City College New York
Foreign Interventions and the Process of State Failure: Libyan Case Study 2011
Chair: Sean McKnight, Director of Studies, RMAS
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1315-1415: Lunch
1415-1530: Panel Three - Practitioners' Perspectives
Josie Stewart
Governance Adviser, Department for International Development
Building Stability - the DfID Perspective
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Maj Alex Davis
HQ Specialised Infantry Group, 1st (UK) Division
Upstream Capacity Building - a Military Perspective
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Lt Col Grant Davies
Army Legal Service
Failed States, the Erosion of the Rule of Law and the Consequences for Assisting States
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Chair: Lt Col Jane Hunter, SO1 Education, RMAS
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1530-1600: Tea/coffee break
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1600-1715: Panel Four - Statebuilding and External Interventions
Vanessa Meier
University of Oxford
For Better or Worse? Third-Party Intervention and Patterns of Civilian Victimisation in Civil Conflicts
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Dr Vladimir Rauta
Staffordshire University
Pre-emptive Proxy Wars as Key to State Survival
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Emily Knowles and Abigail Watson
Remote Control Project, Oxford Research Group
The Successes and Failures of a 'Fragile States = Safe Havens' Approach to Countering Terrorist Networks
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Chair: Sr Aelius Parchami, Defence and International Affairs, RMAS
1715-1730: Future Developments in the Sandhurst Trends Series
Kirstin Howgate, Howgate Publishing Ltd.
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