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  • Everyday Humanitarianism in Tanzania
    Photo/illustration by Everyday Humanitarianism in Tanzania (EHTZ)
    Livestreaming

    Humanitarianism in crisis?

    DIIS Auditorium
    This seminar brings together leading scholars on humanitarianism to discuss the state of humanitarianism today, its historical entanglements and its future
  • Arabisk skrift på tavle
    Photo/illustration by Joe Penney/Reuters/Ritzau Scanpix

    Al-Qaeda and Islamic State from a theological perspective

    DIIS Auditorium
    How do Al-Qaeda and Islamic State use Islamic thought as justification for their ideology and how do the two movements differ? Three researchers give us their perspectives at this seminar
  • Pexels. Jens Mahnke.
    Photo/illustration by Pexels. Jens Mahnke. copyright license

    DIIS researcher receives prestigious European grant

    A new research project will address the expanding dynamics behind Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State in order to develop a new approach to containment
  • Video

    Iraq, Islamic State, and EU Involvement, streaming of the DIIS seminar 15 September 2014

    In the shadow of the Arab Spring, Syrian civil war, conflicts in Egypt and Libya, one of the most serious conflicts in the Middle East evolved in Iraq leading to the establishing of a caliphate in areas stretching from the borders to Iraqi Kurdistan and beyond Al-Raqqah in Syria. The group behind the caliphate, Islamic State, is one of the most powerful and brutal groups seen in the modern Middle East now, threatening the Middle East system of states as well as Western interest inside and outside the region. How can the Arab Middle East and/or EU confront the Islamic State?

  • Images and the Yezidi-genocide

    Auditorium

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