Podcast: International Women's Day

Will you #BeBoldForChange on International Women's Day 2017 and beyond by taking groundbreaking action that truly drives the greatest change for women? Joining us this week: In the first interview, we speak to Dr Brooke Rogers, the first psychologist at the Department of War Studies and chair of the Behavioural Science Expert Group for the Cabinet, with main research areas focussing on resilience, protecting crowded spaces and behavioural science. In the following interviews, we speak to members of Women in War and International Politics (WWIP): Ashley Pratt, Madison Estes and Farhana Akthar talking to us about their own experiences. Upcoming Events: Energy and Climate Policy between the Trump Presidency and Paris Agreement EUCERS/KAS Energy Talks 2017 7th of March 2017, 14.00 - 16.30 with a lunch upon arrival, River Room Speakers: Professor Dr Friedbert Pflüger, Director, EUCERS, King’s College London, Hans-Hartwig Blomeier, Director London Office, Konrad Adenauer Stiftung 14.20 Julian Popov, former Minister of Environment of Bulgaria, Fellow at the European Climate Foundation, Bernice Lee OBE, Executive Director, Hoffmann Centre on the Sustainable Resource Economy, Senior Fellow, Energy, Environment and Resources, The Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House Jonathan Gaventa, Director, E3G Dr Frank Umbach, Research Director, EUCERS, King’s College London, Daniel Scholten, Assistant Professor, CRNI Managing Editor, Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management, Delft University of Technology AFGHAN STUDIES GROUP 9th March 2017 (18:00-19:30) 3rd Floor Franklin Wilkins Building, Room 3.52 “The Defiant Border: The Afghan-Pakistan Borderlands” by Elizabeth Leake. "The Defiant Border" explores why the Afghan-Pakistan borderlands have remained largely independent of state controls from the colonial period into the 21st century. This book looks at local Pashtun tribes' modes for evading first British colonial, then Pakistani, governance; the ongoing border dispute between Pakistan and Afghanistan; and continuing interest in the region from Indian, US, British, and Soviet actors. LEARNED FROM THE RUSSIAN HACK: THE NEW ERA OF POLITICAL WARFARE 14th March 2017 (17:00-18:30) Pyramid Room ( K4U.04) 4th floor Strand Campus Dr Brandon Valeriano, Cardiff University will discuss ongoing research exploring cyber coercion, external threats and video games, and arms races and arms control in cyberspace. Dr. Valeriano has written opinion and popular media pieces for such outlets as Washington Post, Slate, Foreign Affairs, Business Insider, and War on the Rock. His two most recent books are Cyber War versus Cyber Reality at Oxford University Press (2015) and Russian Coercive Diplomacy at Palgrave (2015) THE PRACTICE OF NATIONAL SECURITY – INAUGRAL LECTURE OF LORD PETER RICKETTS GCMG GCVO, Visiting Professor at the Centre for Defence Studies Wednesday 15th March 2017, 18.30-20.30, Edmund J Safra. Strand Campus. RSVP here Lord Ricketts will reflect on the establishment of the UK National Security Council in 2010, as well as his appointment as the first National Security Advisor and the emergence of a national security approach in the United Kingdom. Tracing how the British Government has coordinated the different strands of its overseas policy from the Committee of Imperial Defence onwards, he will set out why he believes the creation of the National Security Council was a constitutional innovation that deserves to last, and will detail how it operated in its first years while he was the National Security Adviser. For more information, visit kcl.ac.uk/warstudies/events.