An online 2 part series discussing the relationship between war, the arms trade and policing.
The aim of this series is to address the absence of policing in mainstream anti-arms trade organising. This webinar series aims to ask, what is the link between war and policing? How should both be understood? And should they be separated? What is the role of war, the arms trade, and policing in the making and upholding of empire?
As well as bringing forward the very obvious ways in which policing is part of the global arms trade, with the police literally protecting the sales and transfer of arms at arms fairs like DSEI, the attendance of police forces at arms fairs, and the shared exchange of policing tactics, this series aims to look at the foundations of war and policing addressing for example, and how both operate together – with suggestions that they are one and the same (e.g. war as global policing).
With contributions on war/policing in/of the UK, Kashmir, Palestine, and through borders, this series aims to contribute to more holistic understandings of war and policing whilst a re-thinking of resistance in the re-framing of the arms trade.
You can register for a free ticket here.
Format:
The series will be in two parts. The first online webinar session will be led by contributions from speakers and reflections on broad questions around policing, war and empire. Part 2 will focus more on responding to specific questions and thoughts (collated from part 1) and building a more interactive session around how we move forward. Each session will be 2.5 hours long and will include a 15 minute break.
Sessions will be held on Zoom, and links to join the sessions wil be emailed upon registration.
Speakers:
Adam Elliott-Cooper is a research associate at the University of Greenwich. He received his PhD from the School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, in 2016. He has previously worked as a researcher in the Department of Philosophy at UCL, as a teaching fellow in the Department of Sociology at the University of Warwick and as a research associate in the Department of Geography at King’s College London. He sits on the board of The Monitoring Group, an anti-racist organisation challenging state racisms and racial violence.
Arun Kundnani is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Media, Culture and Communication at New York University. He is the author of The Muslims are Coming! Islamophobia, Extremism, and the Domestic War on Terror (Verso, 2014), Spooked: How Not To Prevent Violent Extremism (Institute of Race Relations, 2009) and The End of Tolerance: Racism in 21st Century Britain (Pluto, 2007). A former editor of the journal Race & Class, he has been an Open Society fellow, a fellow at the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism in the Hague and a scholar-in-residence at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library.
Ather Zia is a poet and a political anthropologist. Ather teaches Anthropology and Gender Studies at the University of Northern Colorado Greeley and has recently authored of Resisting Disappearance: Military Occupation and Women’s activism in Kashmir.She is the founder and editor of Kashmir Lit and co-founder of Critical Kashmir Studies Collective. Her research interests focus on military occupation, human rights, armed conflict, resistance, settler colonialism, gender, Muslim women, and Islam.
Lana Ramadan was born in Dheisheh refugee camp, near Bethlehem in the West Bank. After being actively involved in community activities, Lana studied Human Rights and International Law in the joint Al Quds University and Bard College program. After graduating, Lana went directly into a master’s program at the London School of Economics. She graduated with a Master in Human Rights in 2016. Lana worked with Badil Refugee Resource Centre. She worked as a researcher, specifically focusing on forced displacement and the creation of coercive environments by Israeli policies. In December 2017, she began at Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association as the International Advocacy Officer.
Nadine El-Enany is a Senior Lecturer in Law at Birkbeck School of Law and Co-Director of the Centre for Research on Race and Law (@CentreRaceLaw). Nadine teaches and researches in the fields of migration and refugee law, European Union law, protest and criminal justice. She has published widely in the field of EU asylum and immigration law. Nadine has written for the Guardian, the LRB Blog, Pluto Blog, Verso Blog, Open Democracy, Media Diversified, Left Foot Forward and Critical Legal Thinking. Her recent book (B)ordering Britain: Law, Race and Empire was published by Manchester University Press in March 2020.