‘The Globalization(s) of the conflict in Somalia’

This conference will explore how the plurality of transnational forces is helping to shape the conflict in Somalia – and how Somalia, in turn, is bring its internal conflicts and contradictions to the world stage: from transnational organised crime to the transnational diaspora community; from international NGOs to international terrorist movement; from neo-fundamentalist Islam to neo-liberal economics.

Workshop on Dissident Irish Republicanism

This workshop was convened to address some of the following broad agenda issues:

• Who are the dissident republicans and what distinguishes them from the rest of society? What are they trying to achieve?
• What is the role of 'dissidents' in Irish republicanism? Are current dissidents consistent with 'republicanism'? Are there similarities with earlier dissident outbreaks?
• Do they have a strategy or political objectives?
• Why are they still committed to physical violence?
• How and why does someone become a dissident republican?
• What would it take for them to disengage or move away from violence?
• The relationship between dissident activity and the Good Friday Agreement.

Terrorism from a Multidisciplinary Perspective' Workshop

In recognition of the benefits of inter-disciplinary research, this workshop will bring together speakers from a number of Schools and Departments within the University of St Andrews to speak on the subject of terrorism from the perspective of their own discipline. Schools represented include International Relations, History, Ancient History, Divinity, Psychology, Film Studies and English.