Sectarianism, Proxies & De-sectarianisation
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Funding for New Project Received
SEPAD is delighted to announce that it has received funding from Henry Luce Foundation to work on a one year project titled The End of Sectarianism. The project critically reflects on the co...
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Publications and Activities
Our Fellows have been incredibly productive over the past year. Below is a selection of some of these activities:
Simon Mabon
Abir Chaaban Award
The Inaugural Abir Chaaban Award:
In recognition of Abir Chaaban’s life and work, SEPAD announces the launch of an annual prize to go to the PhD student or Early Career Researcher who has made the best cont...
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Consociational Power-Sharing Performance: Assessing a Mixed Record
This post was originally published in Arabic on the LAU’s Institute for Social Justice and Conflict Resolution website, available here: Read More
Saudi Arabia, Iran: Resilient Rivalries and Pragmatic Possibilities
Simon Mabon & Edward Wastnidge
The rivalry between Saudi Arabia and Iran has occupied a central role in shaping the contemporary Middle East. After revolutionary activities brought about an end to the Pahlavi...
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SEPAD Receives Additional Funding From Carnegie Corporation
SEPAD is pleased to announce that it has been awarded $400,000 from Carnegie Corporation for a further two years of work, building on the successful first phase of Corporation-funded research. The project, led by Simon Mabon (Lancaster Univ...
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Urban Spaces and Sectarian Contestation: Concluding Remarks
Cities are laboratories in which sectarian divisions are dialectically constructed and contested in constant tension. The premise that sectarian identities are the result of ancient hatreds - primordial expressions of group-based belonging ...
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Disclosing Reality: Daily Life of Palestinians in Contested East Jerusalem
Adel Ruished, Lancaster University
On Tuesday 21/11/2019, Israeli occupation forces in East Jerusalem stuck closure orders for six months on doors of a school, mosque, medical clinic and Palestinian media outlet in th...
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More than a fight for a park: How urban spaces in Bosnia-Herzegovina become arenas for contestation of ethno-nationalist politics
The loss of urban spaces has sparked several social movements in Eastern Europe and the Balkans over the past years, from the famous 2013 Gezi park protests in Istanbul to the less known 2005 Peti Park demonstrations in Belgrade, and the fight ove...
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