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In brief: SIPRI activities in January 2014

  • 13 Jan., London
    SIPRI Researcher Rachel Irwin successfully defended her PhD thesis, on the subject of political ritual within the World Health Organization, at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

  • 13 Jan., Stockholm
    SIPRI welcomed two new Korea Foundation interns: Suyoun Jang will intern with SIPRI's Global Health Project, and Duli Im will be an intern in the SIPRI Arms Transfers Programme.

  • 16 Jan., Stockholm
    SIPRI Researcher Xenia Avezov's workshop report from the fourth New Geopolitics of Peacekeeping Initiative regional dialogue, in Astana, Kazakhstan, was published on the SIPRI site (PDF).

  • 22 Jan., Stockholm and Washington, DC
    SIPRI, Economists for Peace and Security and the United States Institute of Peace co-published the first installment in a two-part blog post on the governance of natural resources in hybrid political orders, by Gilles Carbonnier and Lara Atanasijevic.