The Richardson Institute is the oldest Peace Studies centre in the UK and was established in 1959 in the spirit of the Quaker scientist, Lewis Fry Richardson. The Richardson Institute is an interdisciplinary forum for research on peace and conflict based within the Department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion at Lancaster University. Run by Dr Simon Mabon, the Institute has a number of podcasts available on this channel. The first is SEPADPod, part of SEPAD, the Sectarianism, Proxies and ...
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On this episode of SEPADPod Simon speaks with Louise Kettle, Assistant Professor in Politics and International Relations in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Nottingham. Louise is the author of Learning from the History of British Interventions in the Middle East (Edinburgh University Press, 2018) amongst other things. On this epi…
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On this episode of SEPADPod Simon speaks with Dr Inna Rudolph, a Research Fellow on the Cross-Border Conflict Evidence, Policy and Trends (XCEPT) research programme at King's College London. Inna is a world leading expert on the hashd al shabi in Iraq and has done fascinating work on the topic. On this episode Simon and Inna talk about living in Ye…
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On this episode of SEPADPod Simon speaks with Erwin van Veen, senior research fellow at Clingendael’s Conflict Research Unit (CRU). He is an experienced professional who delivers high quality and insightful strategic advice that helps mitigate violent conflict. His direct area of expertise are the relationships between political order, protest and …
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SEPADPod with Chris Phillips - Battleground
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On this episode of SEPADPod Simon speaks with Professor Christopher Phillips of Queen Mary University about his fantastic new book Battleground: Ten Conflicts that Explain the New Middle East. The book, out on 27th February 2024 with Yale University Press, builds on Chris' earlier work and applies it to 10 'battlegrounds' across the Middle East and…
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On this episode of SEPADPod Simon speaks with Shabnam Holliday, Associate Lecturer at the University of Plymouth. Shabnam is the author of a number of books and articles on Iran, global IR and the wider Middle East. On this episode Simon and Shabnam talk about living across the region, working in Gaza, the Islamic Republic, the current situation an…
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On this episode of SEPADPod Simon speaks with Satgin Hamrah, PhD Candidate in History at Tufts University and editor of Contextualizing Sectarianism in the Middle East and South Asia: Identity, Competition and Conflict. On this episode, Simon and Satgin talk about rejecting the lived experiences of the 'ancient hatreds' narrative and the lessons ta…
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On this episode of SEPADPod Simon speaks with Edward Wastnidge, Deputy Director of SEPAD about 2023 and the various activities, publications, workshops, and more. It's a deep dive into the many things that SEPAD and the wonderful people that are involved in our project have been up to. We're very lucky to have such a great group of people involved …
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On this episode of SEPADPod Simon speaks with Gerasimos Tsourapas, Gerasimos Tsourapas is Professor of International Relations at the University of Glasgow. He is also the Chair of the Ethnicity, Nationalism, & Migration Studies (ENMISA) Section of the International Studies Association. He works on the international relations of the Middle East and…
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On this episode of SEPADPod Simon speaks with Raihan Ismail, His Highness Sheikh Hamad Bin Khalifa Al Thani Professor of Contemporary Islamic Studies at Oxford University. Raihan is the author of two fabulous books published by OUP: 2021's Rethinking Salafism: The Transnational Networks of Salafi ‘Ulama in Egypt, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia, and 2016'…
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On this episode of SEPADPod Simon speaks with Professor Andrea Teti. Andrea looks at connections between the production of knowledge and relations of power, and second, the use of discourse analysis to examine how political actors conceive of and act in pursuit of key goals such as democracy. He is on twitter (X) at a_teti.On this episode Simon and…
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On this episode of SEPADPod Simon speaks with Eyad Al Refai, Aziz Alghashian, Guy Burton and Francesco Belcastro about Saudi Arabia and the Kingdom’s growing influence in global football. Eyad, Aziz, Guy and Francesco all work at the interplay of football and politics in the Middle East, while Aziz and Eyad have experience of attending games in Sau…
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On this episode of SEPADPod Simon speaks with Javier Bordon Osorio about his recent report 'Spatialising Securitisation'. Javier is a PhD student at Lancaster University and a PhD Fellow with SEPAD. He is on twitter at @JavierBordonOs.The report reflects on the following questions: How do processes and dynamics of spatialisation inform security con…
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On this episode of SEPADPod Simon speaks with Jamie Allinson, Senior Lecturer in the School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh. Jamie is a scholar of politics and international relations with a particular interest in the contemporary Middle East. I am especially interested in how forms of political power - within, across…
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SEPADPod - The regional repercussions of the Saudi-Iranian rapprochement
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On this episode of SEPADPod Simon speaks with Abdolrasool Farzam Divsallar and Eyad Al Refai about the Saudi-Iran deal. Eyad is a Fellow with SEPAD and a PhD Student at Lancaster University. He is the author of a number of articles and opinion pieces on regional security in the Middle East including on transforming the Saudi-Iranian rivalry (with S…
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SEPADPod Special: The Saudi-Iranian Normalisation Agreement
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On this episode of SEPADPod - the first (that we are aware of) to bring Saudi and Iranian scholars together - Simon speaks with Banafsheh Keynoush and Aziz Alghashian about recent diplomatic developments between Saudi Arabia and Iran. Banafsheh is a scholar of international affairs who has conducted fieldwork in the Middle East for two decades, inc…
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On this episode of SEPADPod Simon speaks with Youssef Cherif, Director of CGC Tunis and a political analyst who specializes in Maghreb affairs. A member of Carnegie's Civic Research Network, Youssef contributes to a number of think-tanks on Maghreb affairs. Youssef is a Researcher at Leiden University - Institute of Area Studies. He is on twitter a…
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On this episode of SEPADPod Simon speaks with Maya Mikdashi, an interdisciplinary scholar of the state at Rutgers University. Maya is the author of the wonderful Sectarianism: Sovereignty, Secularism, and the State in Lebanon, published by Stanford University Press. She is the co-founder of Jadaliyya and the director of About Baghdad (2004) and Not…
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SEPADPod: Desectarianization and the End of Sectarianism?
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On this episode of SEPADPod Simon speaks with Ibrahim Halawi and Ruba Ali Al-Hassani about their recent report Desectarianization and the End of Sectarianism? Funded by The Henry Luce Foundation the report looks at desectarianization in Iraq, Lebanon and Bahrain. In the discussion, Simon, Ibrahim and Ruba reflect on desectarianization as 're-imagin…
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On this episode of SEPADPod Simon speaks with Edward Wastnidge, Deputy Director of SEPAD and Senior Lecturer at the Open University about SEPAD's activities across 2022 and into 2023. Picking out some of their memorable moments from the year, Simon and Eddie reflect on the conference, various reports, the successes of our Fellows and some things to…
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n this episode of SEPADPod Simon speaks with Gabriel Garroum, Margarita Salas Postdoctoral Researcher at abriel is an interdisciplinary researcher specialized in International Relations and Middle East Politics. Born into a Syrian-Catalan family, his main research areas include political violence, critical IR theory, contemporary security issues, a…
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On this episode of SEPADPod Simon speaks with Maria Kastrinou, Lecturer in (Social) Anthropology at Brunel University. Maria's research focuses on sectarian politics and national belonging, religion, state, conflict and energy in the Middle East and South-Eastern Mediterranean. She is the author of Power, sect and state in Syria: The politics of ma…
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SEPADPod - The Political Economy of Infrastructure, with Javier Guirado
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On this episode, Simon speaks with Javier Guirado, PhD candidate at Georgia State University, a Visiting Doctoral Researcher at the Orient-Institut Beirut, and a SEPAD Fellow. His work explores the historically changing relation between society, urban space, and narratives of modernity in the Gulf. He is writing his dissertation about social moveme…
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On this episode of SEPADDiscusses, Simon speaks with Stacey Philbrick Yadav, Vincent Durac and Azal Alsalafi about Stacey's wonderful new book Yemen in the Shadow of Transition: Pursuing Justice Amid War. Over the course of the discussion, Stacey sets out the main argument of the book while Vincent and Azal reflect on the many strengths of the text…
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On this episode of SEPADPod, Simon speaks with Mariam Mabrouk, an Egyptian artist and former Lancaster University student, who is acting as our first ‘artist in residence’. Mariam has produced some amazing pieces of art for forthcoming SEPAD publications and you can see her work on instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/studiomabrouk/On this epi…
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On this episode of SEPADPod with Jillian Schwedler, Professor of Political Science at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Jillian is the author of a huge number of books, articles, opinion pieces and more. She is on twitter @DrJSchwedler.On this episode Simon and Jillian talk about Broadway, travelling across the Mi…
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On this episode of SEPADPod Simon speaks with Ali Bakir, assistant professor at Qatar University’s Ibn Khaldon Center for Humanities and Social Sciences and nonresident senior fellow with the Scowcroft Middle East Security Initiative at the Atlantic Council’s Middle East programs. Ali has extensive experience of working within the foreign policy an…
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On this episode of SEPADPod Simon speaks with Jannis Grimm, head the Research Group Radical Spaces at the INTERACT Center for Interdisciplinary Peace and Conflict Research at Freie Universität Berlin. Jannis' work centres on political violence and state repression in the Middle East and North Africa as well as on processes of mass mobilization and …
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On this episode of SEPADPod Simon speaks with Sharri Plonski, Senior Lecturer in International Politics at Queen Mary University of London. Her work, which is anchored in the political terrain of Palestine and the Israeli state, focuses on the materiality (and mobility) of colonial relations and the struggles that reveal and challenge them. She als…
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On this episode of SEPADPod Simon speaks with Diana Galeeva, Non-Resident Fellow with Gulf International Forum. Diana was previously an Academic Visitor to St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford (2019-2022). She is the author of two books “Qatar: The Practice of Rented Power” (Routledge, 2022) and “Russia and the GCC: The Case of Tatarstan’s Pa…
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On this episode of SEPADPod Simon is joined by Edward Wastnidge, Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Studies at the Open University where he is also the Director for the International Studies programme. Eddie is the author of a range of publications on Iran and the Middle East and co-director of SEPAD. On this episode, Simon and Eddie tal…
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On this episode of SEPADPod Simon speaks with Anoush Ehteshami, Professor of International Relations in the School of Government and International Affairs, Durham University. Anoush is also the Nasser al-Mohammad al-Sabah Chair in International Relations and Director of the HH Sheikh Nasser al-Mohammad al-Sabah Programme in International Relations,…
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On this episode of SEPADPod Simon speaks with Hendrik Kraetzschmar, Associate Professor in the Comparative Politics of the Middle East and North Africa at the University of Leeds. Hendrik holds a PhD from the LSE and works on the comparative politics of the Middle East with a particular interest in Islamism and political parties. He has been workin…
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On this episode of SEPADPod Simon speaks with Lucia Ardovini, Lecturer in International Relations (Theory) at Lancaster University. Lucia's work focuses on the intersection of social movements, transnational activism and ideology. She is the author of Surviving repression: The Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood after the 2013 coup. She is on twitter @Luci…
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On this episode of SEPADPod Simon speaks with Rima Majed, Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Sociology, Anthropology and Media Studies Department at the American University of Beirut (AUB). Her work focuses on the fields of social movements, sectarianism, conflict, and violence. She is currently a visiting fellow at the Middle East initiative …
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SEPADPod Special on Saudi-Israeli normalisation
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On this special episode of SEPADPod Simon speaks with Dr Aziz Alghashian and Dr Nir Boms about Saudi-Israeli normalisation in the first podcast of its kind, bringing Saudi and Israeli scholars together. Aziz is a Fellow with SEPAD and a Saudi researcher focusing on Saudi foreign policy towards Israel. Aziz obtained his PhD in Saudi foreign policy t…
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On this episode of SEPADPod Simon speaks with Zaid Al Ali, the Senior Adviser in Constitution-Building in the Arab Region for International IDEA. He has law three law degrees from Harvard Law School, the Sorbonne University, and King's College London. He has been practicing international commercial arbitration since 1999 and has been advising on co…
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On this episode of SEPADPod Simon speaks with Clemens Chay, a research fellow at the National University of Singapore’s Middle East Institute. Clemens' research focuses on the history and politics of the Gulf states, with a particular emphasis on Kuwait, Oman and Qatar. At MEI he spearheads a public education series entitled “Bridging the Gulf”. He…
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SEPADPod Roundtable Special: On Power Sharing & Protest
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On this episode of SEPADPod Simon speaks with four wonderful scholars about power sharing and protest in Lebanon and Northern Ireland. With Simon are three SEPAD Fellows: Professor John Nagle, Dr Ibrahim Halawi, AK Ronn, and Dr Drew Mikhael, making his SEPAD debut. John is Professor of Sociology at Queen’s University Belfast, Ibrahim is Teaching Fe…
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SEPAD Discusses: Mariam Salehi's Transitional Justice In Process
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On this episode of SEPAD Discusses, Simon speaks with Mariam Salehi, Stacey Philbrick Yadav and Mohammad Dhia Hammami about Mariam's wonderful new book Transitional Justice in Process: Plans and Politics in Tunisia.Mariam Salehi is Research Group Leader at the INTERACT Centre for Interdisciplinary Peace and Conflict Research at Freire Universitat B…
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On this episode of SEPADPod Simon speaks with Somdeep Sen, Associate Professor of International Development Studies at Roskilde University. Somdeep is the author of the fabulous Decolonizing Palestine (Cornell University Press 2020). He is on twitter @ssen03. On this episode Simon and Somdeep speak about Som's wonderful new book, the journey from I…
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On this episode of SEPADPod Simon speaks with two SEPAD Fellows about the recent elections in Lebanon, Dr Ibrahim Halawi and Larissa Abou Harb. Ibrahim is a Teaching Fellow at Royal Holloway University who specialises in counter revolution in the Middle East. Larissa is a PhD student at the University of Exeter working on protest movements in Leban…
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On this episode of SEPADPod Simon speaks with Ajay Gudavarthy, a political theorist, analyst and columnist in India. Ajay is associate professor in political science at Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He is the editor of India after Modi: Populism and the Right (Bloomsbury, Delhi, 2018)and Secular Sectarianism:…
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On this episode of SEPADPod Simon speaks with Lea Bou Khater, Lecturer in Development Studies at the American University Beirut. Lea holds a PhD from SOAS and is the author of the wonderful book 'The Labour Movement in Lebanon'. She is on twitter @leaboukhater.On this episode, Simon and Lea talk about labour movements and the state in Lebanon, trac…
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On this episode Simon speaks with Dr Mohammad Kalantari, Research Fellow in International Relations and Co-Director of Centre for Islamic & West Asian Studies at Department of Politics and International Relations. Mohammad’s research lies in the International Relations of the Middle East with a particular focus on the interaction of regional doctri…
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On this episode of SEPADPod Simon speaks with Juan Cole, Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History at the University of Michigan. Juan is the author of myriad books, articles and chapters on Islam, the Middle East, and Muslim South Asia, including Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires ( Bold Type Books, 2018) The New Arabs:…
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On this episode of SEPADPod Simon speaks with Anicee Van England, Associate Professor of International Security & Law at the Cranfield Forensic Institute. Anicee holds a PhD in Islamic Studies, Politics and Law from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Paris (2006). She graduated in law from Paris II Assas and furthered her studies with three master…
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On this episode of SEPADPod Simon speaks with Andrew Delatolla, Lecturer in Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Leeds, a Visiting Research Fellow at the Middle East Centre at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He was the former Chair of the LGBTQA+ Caucus of the International Studies Association 2020/2021. You can find hi…
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On this episode of SEPADPod Simon speaks with Ruba Ali Al Hassani, post doctoral research fellow at Lancaster University. Ruba is the author of a number of articles, chapters and opinion pieces including the wonderful 'Storytelling: Restorative Approaches to Post-2003 Iraq Peacebuilding' in the Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding. Ruba was al…
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On this episode of SEPADPod Simon speaks with Shamiran Mako, assistant professor of international relations at the Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University. Her research and teaching interests lie at the intersection of international relations and comparative politics of the Middle East with a substantive emphasis on foreign interventio…
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