Dr Mandy Turner - Staff Profile

NameDr Mandy Turner
Contact PositionLecturer in Conflict Resolution & Undergraduate Admissions Tutor
BSc Sociology, MSc International Relations, PhD International Relations. All from the London School of Economics.
Room and BuildingPemberton Building
Email Addressm.turner4@bradford.ac.uk

Biography

Mandy Turner is a lecturer in conflict resolution. Previous to joining the Department she was a Teaching Fellow at University College London and before that she was a journalist with The Guardian newspaper in London. Her research interests lie in peacekeeping and peacebuilding, statebuilding, post-conflict reconstruction, and the Israel/Palestine conflict.

Mandy teaches on the MA and BA modules 'Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding' and the MA module 'Introduction to Conflict Resolution'. Mandy also teaches on the Chevening Fellowship 'Peacekeeping and International Capacity Building' and Ministry of Defence training courses for the department.

Research Areas

  • The Israel-Palestine conflict
  • Statebuilding and democratisation
  • Peacebuilding and post-conflict reconstruction
  • Peacekeeping and humanitarian intervention
  • Development and conflict.

Mandy is interested in supervising research degrees in the following areas:

  • the Israel/Palestine conflict,
  • peacebuilding and postconflict reconstruction,
  • statebuilding and democratisation.

Consultancy Work

Mandy has undertaken research and policy work for DFID, UNDP, UNIDIR, SEESAC, ILO and the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland.

  • Core research team member and Palestinian report coordinator of the ILO-funded project "Researching the Worst Forms of Child Labour in Conflict Zones", February-November 2009. Publication forthcoming.
  • Part of a civil society mission to observe the Venezuelan presidential elections in December 2006. The rationale behind the mission was to 'democratise' election observation thus expanding international observers beyond the EU, OAS and Carter Center official technical observers. Our remit was to speak to civil society organisations and local people about the elections and their democratic rights.
  • A study for UNIDIR on the costs of storing small arms and light weapons (SALW) and ammunition safely, which involved fieldwork in Bosnia-Herzegovina visiting and assessing the state of military sites in terms of safety and security, interviewing the military, EUFOR and UNDP about demilitarisation and military restructuring, and interviewing the nascent unified Ministry of Defence about the challenges of demilitarisation, November/December 2005.
  • Project manager and researcher for the 'Armed Violence and Poverty Initiative', a 14-month study for the UK Government's Department for International Development (January 2004 to April 2005). I collaborated with Professor Lionel Cliffe and Dr Jeremy Ginifer on this project which studied 13 case study countries on the long-, medium- and short-term impacts of conflict. Download details of the project and its working papers at: http://www.brad.ac.uk/acad/cics/publications/AVPI/
  • Impact of arms transfers on poverty and development in Asia and Africa (January 2004 to July 2004). Coordinated, co-authored and edited a paper for UK government use in assessing Criterion 8 of the EU Code of Conduct.
  • Designed, coordinated and conducted research on project assessing and reviewing impact of small arms reduction projects in Latin America (Colombia, El Salvador, Brazil) and Africa (Sierra Leone, Republic of Congo) (January 2004 to February 2005)

Other Professional Interests

Bibliography

Books:

  • Whose Peace?: Critical Perspectives on the Political Economy of Peacebuilding (co-editor with Michael Pugh and Neil Cooper), Palgrave, 2008.

Book chapters:

  • "Co-opted and Institutionalised: why human security has had its day?", co-author with Michael Pugh and Neil Cooper, in Chandler, D. and Hynek, N. (eds) Critical Perspectives on Human Security: Discourses of Emancipation and Regimes of Power, Routledge, 2010, forthcoming.
  • "Three Discourses on Diasporas and Post-conflict Peacebuilding" in Whose Peace? (see above).
  • "Conflict Prevention and Access to Fresh Water in Sub-Saharan Africa", (co-author with Volker Boege) in Greene, O., Buxton, J., and Salonius-Pasternak, C. (eds), 2006, Conflict Prevention, Management and Reduction in Africa, Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland, Development Policy Information Unit.

Journal articles:

  • "The Power of 'Shock and Awe': the Palestinian Authority and the Road to Reform", International PeacekeepingVol.16, No.4, August 2009.
  • "Civil War and its Discontents" International Peacekeeping, Vol.15, No.5, 2008.
  • "Building Democracy in Palestine: Liberal Peace Theory and the Election of Hamas", Democratization Vol.13, No.5, December 2006: pp.739-755.
  • "Taming Mammon: Corporate Social Responsibility and the Global Regulation of Conflict Trade", Conflict, Security and Development, Vol. 6, No.3. December 2006.
  • "Society Must Be Protected: Polanyi's 'Double Movement' and the Regulation of Conflict Goods", Journal of Corporate Citizenship special issue on "Karl Polanyi and the corporate contribution to global peace and security", Summer 2007: pp. 85-99.
  • "Towards a New Agenda for Transforming War Economies" (co-author with Michael Pugh), Conflict, Security and Development, Vol. 6, No.3. December 2006.

Policy Papers

  • "Competition for Water: Are Water Riots a Greater Threat than Water Wars", (co-author with Rose Osinde) in ID21 Insights on 'Water Governance', May 2007.
  • "Cost Benefit Analysis of SALW Destruction versus Storage", August 2006, Geneva: UNIDIR.
  • "The Impact of Armed Violence on Development and Poverty", Synthesis Report (co-author with Lionel Cliffe), CICS Working Paper No 4, March 2005.
  • "Assessing and Reviewing the Impact of SALW Projects on Arms Availability and Poverty", Synthesis Report, (co-author with Lionel Cliffe and William Godnick), March 2005. CICS Working Paper No 5.
  • "SALW [small arms and light weapons] and Development Programmes: Issues and Priorities for the EU" (co-author with Jeremy Ginifer) in UNIDIR (2005) Peace-Building, Conflict Prevention and Development, Geneva: UNIDIR.

Internet publications

Newspaper/magazine publications

Conference & Seminar Presentations

  • "The Limits of Peacebuilding under Occupation: an Analysis of the Palestinian Reform and Development Plan", BISA, University of Exeter, December 2009.
  • "State security and human security in conflict and post-conflict states", Public Lecture at the Institute of Law, Birzeit University, Palestine, 2 March 2009.
  • "Whose Security?: Liberal Peacemakers in the Occupied Palestinian Territories", paper presented at the International Studies Association annual convention, New York, USA, 15-18 February 2009.
  • "Ensuring Stability and Security in the State-building Process", paper presented at 'De Facto States in the World Order', conference organised by the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organisation (UNPO), European Parliament, 15 May 2008.
  • "Three Discourses on Diasporas and Peacebuilding", paper presented at the British International Studies Association annual convention, Exeter, 15-17 December 2008.
  • "Diasporas and Peacebuilding", paper presented at the International Studies Association Annual Convention, San Francisco, 26-28 March 2008.
  • "Diasporas and Post-Conflict Reconstruction", paper presented at'Diasporas and their Involvement in Peace Processes', a workshop organised by Uppsala University and the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, 14-16 May 2007, University of Uppsala, Sweden.
  • "Is it time for a UN international administration over Palestine?: Lessons from East Timor", paper presented at the conference: 'The Economy and Economics of Palestine: Past, Present and Future', 27-28 January 2007, SOAS, London.
  • "Polanyi's 'Double Movement', Corporate Social Responsibility and the Regulation of Conflict Goods", British International Studies Association annual conference, 18-20 December 2006, Cork, Ireland.
  • "Access to Freshwater and Conflict Prevention, Management and Resolution in sub-Saharan Africa", Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland workshop on 'Conflict Prevention, Management and Reduction in Africa' project, 24 January 2006, Helsinki, Finland.
  • "The EU and Israel's Defence Connections", presentation at the European Social Forum, 15 November 2004, Alexandra Palace, London.
  • The Armed Violence and Poverty Initiative, three-day conference in Geneva with donors and policymakers on the impact of SALW in 15 countries, 12-14 July 2004, Geneva, Switzerland.
  • The Armed Violence and Poverty Initiative, two-day conference for policymakers on the impact of SALW reduction projects on poverty and development, 6-7 February 2004, Department for International Development, Palace Street, London.

Awards and grants

  • British Academy Small Grant for £2,600 for research on "Minorities and Democratic Participation: a study of the Palestinian-Israeli Members of the Knesset", awarded June 2009.
  • Council for British Research in the Levant grant for £1,800 for research on "The Palestinian Reform and Development Plan: Promoting Development in a Conflict-country Context", awarded March 2009.
  • Finalist in The Guardian 'International Development Journalist of the Year Awards', November 2008 for article on "Child Labour in India". Awarded assignment to Tanzania to report on WHO project on eradicating elephantiasis, the article of which was published in November 2008.
  • British Academy Small Grant for £2,567 for research on "US Democracy Promotion Strategies in Palestine", April 2007- July 2008.
  • "The Transformation of War Economies", ESRC New Security Challenges, I was employed as Research Fellow on this project from March 2006-December 2006. This project, with core members of Professor Michael Pugh (Bradford), Dr Neil Cooper (Bradford), Dr Jonathan Goodhand (SOAS) and Professor Joanna Spear (George Washington University) focused on the dynamics that affect the way in which the economies of countries at war perpetuate or mutate in peace, and the difficulties this presents for peacebuilding. It was awarded 'outstanding' by all four anonymous peer reviewers in July 2007. www.bradford.ac.uk/acad/twe/