Dr Omar McDoom and I are co-organising the LSE Department of Government annual conference at Cumberland Lodge in Windsor Great Park for the weekend of 4-6 May 2012.* I’m afraid this one is for our faculty and students only!
Liberty & Security: Human Rights in an Age of Terror
Friday 4 May
20:15 Welcome
Faye Taylor – Cumberland Lodge
Dr Omar McDoom – LSE
Dr Jill Stuart – LSE
20:30 KEYNOTE: Professor Conor Gearty , Human Rights Law – London School of Economics
“Can Human Rights Resist The Counter-Terrorist Juggernaut?”
21:45 Bar (Open until midnight)
Saturday 5 May
08:00 – 09:00 Breakfast
09:30 Session 2 Dr. Richard Clarke Director, Strategy, Planning & Change, Office of Security and Counter-Terrorism, UK Home Office
“CONTEST: the Government’s counter-terrorism strategy”
10:45 Refreshment Break
11:30 Session 3 Dr. Brooke Rogers, Senior Lecturer in Risk and Terror, Department of War Studies, King’s College London
“Pathways into Violent Radicalisation: Identifying Drivers, Understanding Processes and Exploring Solutions”
13:00 Lunch – followed by free afternoon
16:30 Coffee/Tea
17:00 Session 4 Professor Jason Ralph, International Relations University of Leeds
“US foreign policy, international law and the War on Terror”
18:15 Meet in the Bar
19:15 Dinner
20:30 Session 5 Maajid Nawaz (Co-founder and chairman of Quilliam Foundation (a Counter-extremism Think tank)
“Human rights as a front line of defence against terrorism”.
21:45 Bar (Open until 01:00)
Sunday 6 May
09:00 – 09:45 Breakfast
09:45 Session 6 Film: The Road to Guantanamo
[10:25 Departure for those attending Matins at Royal Chapel]
11:15 Coffee/Tea
11:45 Session 7 Professor Lucia Zedner, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford. Conjoint Professor, Faculty of Law, UNSW, Sydney
“Security Trade-offs: public protection v. individual security from the state”
13:00 Lunch
*Dr McDoom and I are also grateful to our administrative team of Sharon Cemm and Ariane Sparks, who have been both indispensible and outstanding in organising this event.
