{"title": "Book launch: Escaping the Conflict Trap?", "start": "2026-11-09T14:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "King's College London, Strand Campus", "address": "Strand, WC2R 2LS London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launch-escaping-the-conflict-trap-tickets-2002616053525?aff=oddtdtcreator", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/africa", "literature"], "description": "A book launch at King's College London's Strand Campus for 'Escaping the Conflict Trap?: Seeking Stability in Liberia and Sierra Leone'. It is hosted by the Africa Research Group, with Alan Doss and David Harris discussing the book they wrote together. Drawing on his experience as a practitioner and his as an academic, they explore the peace processes in Liberia and Sierra Leone, the actors involved and the factors that shaped peacebuilding, comparing the two with the Democratic Republic of Congo. A panel with Mats Berdal, Felix Marco Conteh and chair Kieran Mitton follows, ending with questions from the audience.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/book-launch-escaping-the-conflict-trap-80732/", "official_url": "https://www.kcl.ac.uk/events/book-launch-escaping-the-conflict-trap", "image": "", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-09T14:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "King's College London, Strand Campus", "address": "Strand, WC2R 2LS London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Sudan’s War: Political Economy, Regional Interests and the Search for a Viable Peace", "start": "2026-11-10T17:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "SOAS University of London", "address": "", "price": "Free to attend, but registration is required", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://forms.cloud.microsoft/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=odBNZ2Kux0Kjn2nuGZU3qNQxGyvuolVHrInpQGVsN9ZUNUc3SEZQMjJPRzlONUVVWllURjJUSTlGOC4u", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/sudan", "society/politics"], "description": "A seminar at SOAS University of London examining why the war in Sudan has proved so difficult to end. 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The book, published by Duke University Press, is edited by Wazhmah Osman and Robert D. Crews and offers cross-disciplinary, ground-up perspectives on colonial projects in Afghanistan, focusing on the US intervention that began in 2001. Contributors Dawood Azami, Marya Hannun and Wazhmah Osman will discuss media narratives, information warfare and knowledge production, and how visual tropes and ideologies shape portrayals of Afghanistan. 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It is held by Imperial War Museums as part of its IWM In Conversation series and draws on British and American stories of people who chose service when it came at a cost. Barcott, a Marine Corps veteran and New York Times bestselling author, will speak about his book 'Courage Can Save Us', while war reporter and historian Damien Lewis presents 'Behind Enemy Lines'. 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Ghattas, a journalist and author who has covered the Middle East for more than twenty years, will be in conversation with Clarissa Ward, CNN's Chief International Correspondent. The book is a work of true crime following one American family's search for answers after the 1984 murder of Malcolm Kerr, president of the American University, in war-torn Beirut. 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