Dan Plesch report cited in The Express, The Irish Sun and The Star

Dan Plesch and Martin Butcher’s 2007 discussion paper “Considering a war with Iran” featured in three UK publications this weekend. The Express, The Irish Sun and The Star all refer to the paper while discussing the Theatre Iran Near Term (TIRANNT), plan for a “shock and awe” attack on Iran.

30th September 2019

Dr Ashley Cox discusses Online Learning at APSA

Dr Ashley Cox was chair and contributor to the American Political Science Association’s (APSA) Teaching and Learning Conference.

20th September 2019

Dan Plesch speaks at United Nations

CISD Director Dr Dan Plesch spoke at the United Nations Office in Geneva on Tuesday 17 September. The talk and accompanying exhibition was the first in a series of events in partnership with the UN Library.

20th September 2019

CISD participates at the 5th Conference of State Parties to the Arms Trade Treaty

From the 25th to the 30th August 2019 CISD Students Anahita Ghanbari Parsa, Jacob Loose, and former student Lidia Matias participated at the Conference of State Parties to the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) in Geneva.

9th September 2019

Dan Plesch to speak alongside UN Director-General Tatiana Valovaya at exhibition and lecture series launch

As part of a week-long exhibition and lecture series at the UN Library in Geneva, Dr Dan Plesch revisits the history of the creation of the UN System from the 1942 Declaration by the United Nations to the United Nations Charter of 1945.

9th September 2019

Justice Richard Goldstone participates in Beyond the Nuremberg / ICC Model of Justice events series

From the 18th to the 21st of June, SOAS’s Centre for International Studies & Diplomacy (CISD) hosted former United Nations chief prosecutor for Rwanda and Yugoslavia, and anti-apartheid judge Justice Richard Goldstone.

27th June 2019

SOAS debates Basketball Diplomacy in Africa

The Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy at SOAS University of London, hosted a roundtable workshop to discuss with internal and external partners basketball’s globalization and growth on an African plane.

27th June 2019

SOAS scholar in team awarded £300k Bloomsbury SET award for project on antimicrobial resistance

SOAS Centre of International Studies and Diplomacy’s Dr J Simon Rofe, is one of the researchers working on a two year project addressing the role of wildlife in antimicrobial resistance and ecosystem contamination.

11th June 2019

SOAS to hold events series looking at the Nuremberg-ICC Model of Justice with Justice Richard Goldstone

SOAS University of London’s Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy (CISD) and the Centre on Conflict, Rights and Justice (CCRJ) is holding a new seminar series exploring some of the challenges faced by the International Criminal Court (ICC), and question what accountability for war crimes would look like in a post-Nuremberg / ICC model.

10th June 2019

SIS sells out at Pint of Science 2019

The School of Interdisciplinary Studies participated in Pint of Science 2019. The School organised a sell-out run of nights at the Marquis of Cornwallis.

7th June 2019

Avinash Paliwal discusses India's election for BBC Asian Network

Avinash Paliwal discusses Narendra Modi's victory.

23rd May 2019

Dan Plesch quoted in Guardian article

15th May 2019

CISD celebrates first batch of FCO students to complete Global Diplomacy programme

CISD celebrated the of the first graduates sponsored by the FCO from the MA Global Diplomacy programme.

8th May 2019

Dan Plesch writes for the European Leadership Network

Dr Dan Plesch, Director of the Centre for International Studies & Diplomacy, SOAS, has written an article for the European Leadership Network calling for tangible and verifiable measures to implement weapons control.

29th April 2019

SOAS scholar uncovers the untold story of FIFA’s Diplomacy and the 1966 World Cup

Dr J. Simon Rofe, Global Diplomacy Programme Director and Reader in Diplomatic and International Studies in the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy, SOAS has co-written an article which tells the untold story of FIFA’s Diplomacy and the 1966 World Cup.

29th April 2019