Civilian Protection Amidst Violent Conflict

Description

In this episode of Vienna Dialogues: Coffee & IR, host Markus Pollak is joined by CEU Professor Xymena Kurowska to speak with Professor Berit Bliesemann de Guevara from Aberystwyth University about the project "Creating Safer Space: Strengthening civilian protection amidst violent conflict".

The conversation opens with a discussion of conducting international relations field research in conflict and war-affected settings. At the core of the episode is the "Creating Safer Space" project. It explores questions of (unarmed) civilian protection, as well as the project’s broader contributions to debates in peace and conflict research and beyond academia.