Workshop '09
'Everyday Life", September 16-18, 2009 at University of Exeter.
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Workshop '08
'The City and the Contested State',
September 25-26, 2008 at the School of Sociology, Queen's University Belfast
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Workshop 3
'Problems of Evidence in Divided Societies and Divided Cities',
March 29-31, 2007 at CRASSH, Cambridge
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Workshop 2
'Reassessing Conflict in Cities: Planning & Resilience
September 18-20, 2006 at CRASSH, Cambridge
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Workshop 1
'Conflict in Cities'
January 8-10, 2004 at CRASSH, Cambridge
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Conflict in Cities (Jeruslem team) has appointed two Research Assistants to be based in Jerusalem.  Nadera Karkaby and Razan Makhlouf will be assisting Wendy Pullan and Mick Dumper in their field work and data collection. Nadera is a graduate of Westminster University and has worked with the CinC team previously. Razan, a graduate of the Olive Tree Programme at City University has a special interest in photography and media studies. The position is for 1 year.

Roundtable Discussion "Jerusalem: the Cost of Failure"
On October 21st, Mick Dumper and Wendy Pullan organised a Roundtable Discussion in Jerusalem focussing on an examination of the future of the city in the event of a failure to come to an agreement over the future of the city which is acceptable to both Israelis and Palestinians.

October 19th-21st, 2009
Mick Dumper presented a paper on the "Role of UNESCO in Jerusalem" at the Arab Thought Forum International Conference held in Ramallah on October 19-21st , 2009. The conference was held to mark the Jerusalem as the "2009 Arab Cultural Capital" and brought together Palestinian and international scholars researching on the heritage of the holy city.

September 25th-27th, 2009
Wendy Pullan gave a keynote lecture entitled "Spatial discontinuities in Jerusalem and other contested cities" at the Globalisation and the Transformation of Europe's Borders, NORFACE seminar held at Aalborg University, Denmark.

The ESRC are to publish a short piece on module B5: 'Public space in Belfast city centre' in their mass-circulation annual magazine 'Britain in 2010'. The article is entitled "Mothering in post-conflict Belfast' and is authored by Lisa Smyth and Martina McKnight.

Research Assistants (based in Jerusalem)
Conflict in Cities are seeking to appoint two Research Assistants to undertake research and to carry out fieldwork and assist in the running of workshops and seminars in Jerusalem. Both posts are part-time (18.5 hours per week) for two years and are available from 1 October 2009. Interviews will be held in Jerusalem on 25 June 2009. Please click on the links for information and application procedure for:
Research Assistant 1: undertaking research for Dr Wendy Pullan, Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge
Research Assistant 2: undertaking research for Prof Mick Dumper, Department of Politics, University of Exeter

Conflict in Cities research visit to Jerusalem - June 2009
"No change in Jerusalem, yet": Prof Mick Dumper's impressions of the recent trip to Jerusalem. This article was published on comment is free...Guardian Online on 1 July 2009.

June 16th, 2009
At the Territories Revisited workshop, Ben Gurion University, Beersheva, Israel, Wendy Pullan gave a paper on 'Some observations on the space of contested cities'.

June 12th, 2009
Members of the Belfast Conflict in Cities team (James Anderson, Milena Komarova and Liam O'Dowd) contributed to a colloquium entitled 'Transitional Justice and Public Space' organised by the transitional Justice Institute at the University of Ulster.

June 6th, 2009
Liam O'Dowd gave a keynote address entitled 'Promoting Civil Society: Bridging East-West Divisions in the EU Borderlands?' at a conference to celebrate the foundation of the University of Joensuu, Finland.

May 29th-31st, 2009
Craig Larkin presented his paper 'Between Silence and Scream: the Lebanese postmemory experience' at the Marginalisation and Mobilisation of Arab Youth Conference, held at American University of Beirut, Centre for Behavioral Research.

May 29th-30th, 2009
Wendy Pullan was invited to present 'Spatial discontinuities in contested Jerusalem' at Enclaving Identity: Remaking Borders in the Circum Mediterranean, a conference sponsored by the Robert Schuman Centre at The European University, Florence.

May 21st-22nd, 2009
Wendy Pullan and Liam O'Dowd attended the final project colloquium of the ESRC funded project 'The urban environment: mirror and mediator of radicalisation?' at the University of Manchester. (Grant Number RES-181-25-0028).

May 9th-10th, 2009
At the annual conference of the Sociological Association of Ireland, Milena Komarova presented the paper 'Structural transformation, regeneration and the shaing of Belfast: A case studies approach'. The paper is co-authored with Liam O'Dowd.

May 7th, 2009
Liam O'Dowd gave a paper entitled 'Civil Society and the EU's External Borders: A Conceptual Minefield' at the final Project Conference of the EU Framework 6 Project: EU Dimensions in Brussels.

May 6th-7th, 2009
In Brussels on an EU research project, James Anderson took the opportunity to meet with some academics working on the city (and other 'divided cities') in the fields of geography, history and sociolinguistics.

May 6th, 2009
Research Councils UK (RCUK) held 'Security in Cities', a one day workshop that was part of the Global Uncertainties Programme; it was chaired by Wendy Pullan and Mick Dumper was a participant. The venue was RIBA, London.

Research Visit to Nicosia (21st-28th March, 2009)
Wendy Pullan, Mick Dumper, James Anderson, Liam O’Dowd and Lefkos Kyriacou visited Nicosia (21st-28th March). This was the first of several planned research visits to divided cities. The visit included several interviews with planners, academics, journalists, politicians and civil society activists from both the Greek-Cypriot and Turkish-Cypriot communities.     

Professor Oren Yiftachel and Belfast Project Workshop, February/March 2009
‘Conflict in Cities’ along with the School of Geography in Queens University Belfast hosted a visit by project partner Oren Yiftachel of Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheva, under the School’s Visiting Professorship scheme.....[MORE]

January 27th, 2009
Lefkos Kyriacou participated in a discussion at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, on issues including map making, gathering visual information and graphical communication. The event was organised by Intermediate Unit 6 as part of the design studio's ongoing work on mapping.

Policy advisory work
Mick Dumper continues to be involved in the Jerusalem Old City Initiative which is looking at the possibility of third party intervention in the future administration of the Old City of Jerusalem...[MORE]

December 18th, 2008
Wendy Pullan delivered a keynote address 'Can Resistance Play a Positive Urban Role?' at a symposium on 'Planning East Jerusalem', sponsored by Bimkom - Planners for Planning Rights. The event was held in Jerusalem and included papers on planning the East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Jabel Mukaber by Rassem Abeidat and Efrat Cohen-Bar.

Research Visit to Jerusalem (1st-14th December, 2008)
Craig Larkin has undertaken a research visit to Jerusalem (1-14th December). His fieldwork concentrated on the ‘Holy City/Holy Places’ J2 module, exploring relevant themes such as the ongoing politicisation of cultural heritage and re/desacralization of land; and the role and significance of Islamic groups working within Jerusalem....[MORE]

Meir Margalit elected to the Jerusalem City Council
Conflict in Cities project partner Meir Margalit has been elected to the Jerusalem City Council (Nov 2008). Meir, a founder of Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) will represent the Meretz party.

Conflict in Cities to guest edit an issue of the Jerusalem Quarterly
Conflict in Cities has been invited to guest edit an upcoming issue of the Jerusalem quarterly. This journal, published by the Institute of Jerusalem Studies (IJS), is uniquely dedicated to history and life of the city of Jerusalem, combining both historical research and contemporary analysis.

November 26th, 2008
Wendy Pullan gave a lecture entitled, 'Resistance as an Urban Phenomenon in Palestinian Jerusalem' at the Cities and Fragile States Seminar, London School of Economics.

Talks by Salim Tamari - November 13th and 14th, 2008
Professor Salim Tamari gave a lecture on 13th November entitled '(Un)sacred Geography - Jerusalem as a Worldly City' and a seminar on 14th November, 'Diaries as a source of studying Urban History'...[MORE]

November 13th, 2008
Max Gwiazda is participating in the 'Building Futures Initiative: Visualisations of the 21st Century City' headed by the RIBA. He will give a presentation, at the School of the Built Environment - Oxford Brookes University, on the security challenges faced by modern cities using examples from Jerusalem.

November 10th, 2008
Salim Tamari participated in a lecture and discussion, at Exeter University, entitled 'The Collapse of the Two State Solution: What are the Alternatives?' The event was co-hosted by the Politics Department and the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies and Exeter Centre for Ethno-Political Studies (EXCEPS) " Discussants were Ilan Pappé and Mick Dumper.

November 6th, 2008
Max Gwiazda presented a paper, entitled 'The Politicization of urban heritage Designs in Jerusalem's "City of David" Archaeological Park' to Heritage Research Group Seminars, Department of Archaeology, Cambridge University.

November 4th, 2008
Wendy Pullan and Max Gwiazda took part in a round table discussion, entitled '"Contained Conflict":Rethinking terror and territory in Jerusalem' at the Post-Conflict, Post-Crisis Group, CRASSH, Cambridge University.

October 27th, 2008
Professor Salim Tamari gave a lecture, entitled 'WW1 and the Remaking of Arab-Turkish Identity after Galipoli' ...[MORE]

October 15th-16th, 2008
Wendy Pullan gave a lecture entitled 'Can resistance play a positive urban role? The situation in Jerusalem/Al-Quds' to 'Cities: Understanding Socio-Cultural Transformations' conference in Istanbul.

June 27th, 2008
Max Gwiazda, Milena Komarova and Craig Larkin presented a joint session on aspects of ‘Conflict in Cities and the Contested State’ Project to the 'Culture of Reconstruction: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Aftermath of Crisis Conference'...[MORE]

May 30th, 2008
Karen Lee Bar Sinai, from SAYA Architecture & Consultancy, a practice based in Jerusalem met with Wendy Pullan and the Cambridge team in the Architecture Department in Cambridge. The discussion centred on Karen Lee's urban design proposals for various scenarios for Jerusalem as a shared capital in a projected two-state solution, including security arrangments for a special regime around the Old City, as well as various forms of shared and divided public space in potential border zones of Jerusalem.

May 24th, 2008
Wendy Pullan presented a paper entitled ‘Urban Encounters and their Legacy in the Development of Jerusalem’s New City’ The symposium took place at King’s College Cambridge.

May 21st, 2008
Madeleine Leonard presented her paper ‘Touring Disputed Places. The Role of Tourism’ to the multidisciplinary workshop 'Cyprus and Divided Societies' that took place at the Queen’s University Belfast.

May 14th, 2008
Wendy Pullan gave a talk entitled 'Frontier Urbanism in Contested Jerusalem' as part of the series of Martin Centre Lectures, Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge.

May 11th, 2008
Madeleine Leonard presented a plenary paper ‘A Little Bit of History and a Lot of Opinion: Biased Authenticity in Belfast and Nicosia’ to the Annual Conference of the Sociological Association of Ireland, National University of Ireland, Galway.

May 10th, 2008
Milena Komarova presented a paper ‘Living separately or Living Apart? Shared Space in Belfast and the Limits of A Shared Future’ to the Annual Conference of the Sociological Association of Ireland, National University of Ireland, Galway.

May 10th, 2008
Wendy Pullan gave a talk on ‘Images and Artefacts of Boundedness and Mobility in Contested Jerusalem’ as a part of one-day interdisciplinary conference 'Art, Visual Culture and the Israeli Occupation'. The conference took place at Manchester Metropolitan University.

May 10th, 2008
Liam O’Dowd presented a paper ‘Belfast in transition: from ‘City of the Troubles’ to ‘Post-Conflict Consumerist City’ to the Annual Conference of the Sociological Association of Ireland, National University of Ireland, Galway.

May 7th, 2008
Liam O’Dowd presented a paper entitled ‘Belfast beyond the Troubles: The future of ethno-national division in the consumerist city’ to the School of Sociology, Social Policy and Social Work Seminar, at Queen’s University Belfast.

May 5th, 2008
Dr Meir Margalit, from the Israeli Committee Against Housing Demolitions, an NGO based in Jerusalem met with Wendy Pullan and the Cambridge team, in the Architecture Department in Cambridge. Discussions focused on Meir's research on the activities of far right settlers in the Old City and Historical Basin in Jerusalem. The underlying territorial strategies of ultra-nationalist groups in Jerusalem's inner city were addressed, particularly in relation to settlers' manipulation of tourist development in achieving hegemony over key parts of the city.

April 16th, 2008
Madeleine Leonard gave a talk entitled ‘A Little Bit of History and a Lot of Opinion: Biased Authenticity in Belfast and Nicosia’ as a part of the QUB School of Sociology, Social Policy and Social Work seminar series.

April 9th, 2008
Liam O’Dowd led a discussion on Conflict in Cities at seminar organised by the Contested Cities-Urban Universities Group at Queen’s University.  It was attended by representatives of the Northern Ireland Civil Service, Belfast City Council, local Belfast community Groups and other academics researching Belfast.

April 4th, 2008
James Anderson gave an invited talk: ‘Territoriality and Democracy: from ethno-national conflict to democratic trespass’to a Workshop on 'Democracy with(out) nations? Old and new foundations for political communities' ...[MORE]

April 2nd, 2008
James Anderson presented the paper ‘Empire, national state and city: Linking scales, territorialities and uneven development’ (co- authored with Liam O’Dowd) ...[MORE]

Jerusalem field trip
The Cambridge and Exeter teams have undertaken a joint research trip to Jerusalem (30th March-9th April). The field trip concentrated on the research modules J1 (“Impact of the Separation barrier’) and J2 (‘Holy City/Holy Places’)...[MORE]

February 12th, 2008
Wendy Pullan gave a lecture on 'Security and the role of urban space in contested Jerusalem' at Oxford University Strategic Studies Group ...[MORE]

Research Visit to Jerusalem
Mick Dumper has undertaken a research visit to Jerusalem (4th-8th February). Based on discussions with a wide range of Israelis and Palestinians, he returned depressed about the post-Annapolis summit momentum in the peace process. He detected very little prospect of a deal before the US elections ...[MORE]

Seven doctoral studentships
The ESRC and the collaborating Universities agreed to generously fund seven PhD studentships – 3 by the ESRC, 2 by Queen’s Belfast, 1 each by Exeter and Clare College, Cambridge. Interviews were held in Chatham House on 1st February, and 7 applicants were selected ...[MORE]

January 29th, 2008
Liam O'Dowd and James Anderson took part in 'Developing Shared Space in Belfast'...[MORE]