Workshop programm : The social, legal and political challenges of counter-terrorism

The social, legal and political challenges of counter-terrorism

9.30 - 16.45

Department of War Studies

War Studies Seminar Room

King’s College London

Strand, London, WC2R 2LS

Recent years have seen rapid innovations in the practices, principles and critiques of counter-terrorism. This workshop will bring academics and practitioners together to discuss the social, legal and political implications of the changing field.

With new anti-terrorist legislation now a regular event in many liberal democratic states, are we witnessing a shift from a ‘politics of exception’ to a ‘politics of normalization’? What are the social, legal and political legal implications of the ever-more complex array of counter-terrorism practices that are being constructed and institutionalized?

This workshop will consider the implications of developments in the practices and principles of counter-terrorism. It will also consider how the critical debate on counter-terrorism has developed in recent years, and what future directions it should take.

For further details contact: andrew.neal@kcl.ac.uk

An Integrated Project Financed by

the Sixth EU Framework Programme of

DG Research, European Commission

Programme

9.30 - 10.00 Registration/coffee

10.00 - 11.00 Welcome – Vivienne Jabri,King’s College London

Mark Pallis,specialist adviser to the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Extraordinary Rendition

11.00 – 12.30 Elspeth Guild, CEPS and the Centre for Migration Law, Nijmegen

«The uses and abuses of counter terrorism policies in Europe»

Anneliese Baldaccini, Advisor to the House of Lords EU Committee

«Counter-terrorism and new methods of policing and control»

Judit Tóth, Szeged University, Hungary

«EU member states complicity in extraordinary renditions»

Chair – Vivienne Jabri, King’s College London

12.30 – 1.30 Lunch, The River Room

1.30 – 3.00 Andrew Neal,King’s College London

«Goodbye war on terror»

Georgios Katsonis, King’s College London

«Logoi and Hieroglyphs: Post-Foucauldian reflections on contemporary exceptionalism»

Mustapha Pasha, University of Aberdeen

«Exorcism and the Politics of ‘Islamic Extremism’»

Chair: James Gow, King’s College London

3.00 – 3.15 Tea

3.15 – 4.45 Gillian Youngs, University of Leicester

«Globalization, the media and the war on terror»

Anastassia Tsoukala, Paris V University

«Human rights, counter-terrorism policies and politics: an ongoing (re)configuration»

Chair: Didier Bigo, Science Po/King’s College London

Closing discussion: Vivienne Jabri

Mustapha Pasha

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