cii announces British Academy grant
Monday 8 August 2011
cii is delighted to announce the award of project funding of just under £30,000 from the British Academy under the International Partnerships competition for 2011. The project, entitled "On the Receiving End: towards more critical and inclusive perspectives on international intervention", will build a teaching and research partnership between Birzeit University in Palestine, Singidunum University in Serbia and the University of Surrey in Guildford in the UK.
The project will support critical work on international intervention. It will evaluate how international intervention has been practised, document local voices in areas that have experienced international intervention and compare these with the views of policy makers in the UK. Following research training, students in the three locations will develop written and audio-visual course materials on intervention based on their conduct of this primary research and on their reading of the literature. Research training and film-making facilities will be provided to students in all three locations. Two summer-schools on intervention will be delivered (year two in Belgrade; year three in Birzeit). Distance learning access to the Surrey MA in international intervention and parallel provision in participating institutions will be explored; a substantial research project on global legitimacy and international intervention will be planned.
Commenting on the award, cii's Co-Director Professor Marie Breen-Smyth said: "We are delighted to have this opportunity to build on our existing links with Birzeit and Singidunum and to develop critical and more inclusive approaches to international intervention. In recent years both Palestine and Serbia have been 'on the receiving end' of intervention from outside and it is vital that the perspectives of people there are understood and taken into account in future debates. Teachers and students in all three locations will benefit from the chance to learn from each other and to help shape future research in this area."