As a KPSRL member, I have been invited to attend the following lecture organized by the Knowledge Platform Security & Rule of Law (KPSRL), also shown at: Register now for our public lecture with Mary KaldorView in browserInvitation to a lecture by Mary Kaldor18 January 2018...

I have been invited to attend the following lecture by Dr. Marina de Regt as part of the Global Challenges lecture series organised by Studium Generale of Leiden University and the Research Centre of Leiden University College; the following text is taken and adopted from www.universiteitleiden.nl/studium-generale/programma/global-challenges#wed-5-09-yemen-the-forgotten-war (accessed 15-8-2018). G...

As a KPSRL member, I have been invited to attend the following lecture organised by the Knowledge Platform Security & Rule of Law (KPSRL); the following text is taken and adopted from www.kpsrl.org/event/dialectiq-an-online-visual-platform-to-explore-power-and-relational-dynamics  (accessed 2-6-2018).Dialectiq - An online visual platform to explore power and relational dynamicsZeestr...

On the invitation of Prof. Tadeusz Czekalski (tadeusz.czekalski@uj.edu.pl), I held a a lecture on 'Brutalisation in Armed Conflict' at the Institute of History of the Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland, on March 29th, 2018 (see poster shown below). For this lecture, I made use of a recent summary of my PhD research, which in turn forms part of my larger, i.e. overall and ongoing Brutalisatio...

As a KPSRL member, I have been invited to attend the following lecture organized by the Knowledge Platform Security & Rule of Law (KPSRL); the following text is taken and adopted from www.kpsrl.org/events/events-event/t/public-lecture-mary-kaldor-second-generation-human-security (earlier online version). Public Lecture: Mary Kaldor on "Second Generation Human Security"Organized by: Knowle...

Demonstration and Commemoration of the Start of the Syrian Revolution in Amsterdam on 20 March 2016  This concerns a short account of the Commemoration on the start of the Syrian Revolution on 15 March 2011, organized by the Syrian Committee in the Netherlands (www.syrischecomite.nl) on March 20th 2016 at the Westermarkt in Amsterdam (12:00 - 13:30), followed by a debate co-organized by Amn...

Annual Conference 2016 of the Knowledge Platform Security & Rule of Law Overall theme: Hard Contexts, Hard Choices Thursday, April 7, 2016, from 8:30 AM til 19:00 PM Venue: The Hague Institute for Global Justice Sophialaan 10, The Hague, the Netherlands Based on a broad international orientation and engagement, the Knowledge Platform Security & Rule of Law (KPSRL) aims to inform The N...

Here I place the new instalments  of my “The Expert” cartoon after the Summer break (see Event 'my new Cartoon "The Expert", with first installments', 23 May 2015) for the remainder of 2015, as shown below. From top to bottom: from most recent to oldest cartoon - except if subsequent cartoons can only be understood by the immediately preceding ones.Caspar ten Dam13 August, 1,19,30 Septembe...

20th Srebrenica commemoration in The Hague, the Netherlands, from 15:00 till 16:30 As chairperson of the Political Committee Stari Most (PCSM), I am heavily involved in the yearly Srebrenica commemoration in The Hague on July 11th.See below for a) the general announcement  of the 2oth commemoration by Pax for Peace (PAX), another co-organiser of the yearly commemoration; b) the basic declarat...