IBRU

 
   
 
University of Durham
 
     
 
Border management in an insecure world

Current programme

5 April    6 April   Friday 7 April
 
 

Regional institutions and their roles in Orange River management: understanding hydropolitics of southern Africa
Ms Naho Mirumachi, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo, Japan

Transboundary water management: the case of the Mexico-US border region
Dr Carlos Lascurain, El Colegio de Veracruz, Mexico

Border environmental policy: the Korean case
Mr Jeong Bae Son, Department of Geography, Loughborough University, UK

Transboundary environmental management under inequitable conditions: the Israeli-Palestinian case before and after the disengagement
Mr Nitsan Levy, Department of Geography, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel





Economic impacts of border closures: tests from the US-Mexico border

Professor Dennis Soden et al, Institute for Policy and Economic Development, University of Texas at El Paso, USA

Economic, cultural and social impacts of hardening borders
Dr Faiqa Abdulhaye, University of Balochistan, Pakistan

Resistance and resilience to hardening borders in the Ferghana Valley borderlands
Mr C Stephen Lam, Department of Geography, King's College London, UK

The peacelines of Belfast: functionalism and identity
Ms Emily Ravenscroft, The University of North Carolina, USA

 
 


The authority and legal basis for territorial dispositions by international powers
Professor Seokwoo Lee, College of Law, Inha University, South Korea

The evolution of armistice lines and political borders
Dr Kaiyan Kaikobad, Department of Law, Durham University, UK

A blueprint for the practical creation of Cessation of Hostilities Lines
Mr Neal Archer, Defence Geographic Centre, UK

 


The changing meaning of borders in the post 2004 EU enlargement era:
the case of the Italo-Slovene border fence

Ms Chiara Tedaldi, School of History & Archives, University College Dublin, Ireland

Borders at the edge of new and old Europe: between hardening and softening
Dr Jaroslaw Janczak, Adam Mickiwicz University, Poznan, Poland

Security and identity at the German-Polish border
Ms Alexandra Schwell, Europa-Universität Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder), Germany


Panellists will include:

Mr Mark Kent, Deputy Director, Migration, UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office
Professor David Campbell, Department of Geography, Durham University