The AGM for Peace and Justice will happen from 6-6:20pm, and the talks/discussion will happen from 6:30pm onwards. Click here to register for the event.
Talk and discussion: The speakers will argue that to address COVID, climate and the ecological emergencies we must move from an outmoded model of national security towards human security. and that we need to rethink security so that it becomes a means to reduce not reproduce violence.
Come along and listen and then put your questions to the two speakers.
With:
Professor Paul Rogers, Emeritus Professor of Peace Studies at Bradford University and President of the Movement for the Abolition of War.
Professor Jenny Pearce, Latin America and Caribbean Centre (LACC). London School of Economics.
Moderator: Brian Larkin, Peace & Justice Coordinator
ONLINE Event.
ONLINE Event.
About the Speakers
Paul Rogers, President of Movement for the Abolition of War and Professor Emeritus of Peace Studies at Bradford University. Paul is a regular broadcaster on radio and TV networks worldwide. He writes a weekly column on international affairs for Open Democracy and wrote a monthly analysis on international security issues for Oxford Research Group until 2021. Paul has written/edited 30 books and over 150 papers and book chapters, including Losing Control: Global Security in the 21st Century (London: Pluto, 2010) and Irregular War: New Threats from the Margins (London: Bloomsbury/I B Tauris, 2017). His most recent publication, “The Triple Paradigm Crisis: Economy, Environment and Security”, is in The Journal of Global Faultlines in 2020.
Jenny Pearce is a political scientist who specialises in Latin America. She works with anthropological and participatory research methodologies on social change, violence, security, power and participation. She considers herself a peace scholar, committed to theoretical development of the field of peace, power and violence as well as empirical study.
