CIRIS Podcast

International and humanitarian crises pose important challenges to the international community, organisations, and states. The issue of refugees and migrants has become a more and more pressing concern, leading to extensive debates within civil societies, political parties, and media establishments. The definition and use of proper terms becomes therefore imperative to avoid mistakenly considering all situations as the same.

The CIRIS Roundtable is where our staff discusses specific topics in the field of International Relations. In this episode, the podcast team is made up of the following members: Sergei Oudman, Dominique Batiste, Mursel Sabir, Raffaele Petroni, and Adithyan Nair. In this podcast, we discuss the war in Ukraine and the fallout and possible consequences of Russia's invasion.

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Podcast with Sabur Shah Dawod Zai

Sabur Shah Dawoodzai is an Afghan politician who served as the former Advisor to Deputy Interior Affairs Afghanistan. He is also the former Advisor to the National Security Council of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (NSA).  Currently, he is the Founder and CEO of BIN Dawod Foundation and a Freelance Journalist with India America Today, and Global Strat View.  He is also the recipient of the prestigious World Peace award in Stockholm Sweden in 2022,

Presented by: Adithyan Nair, director, and editor of digital content.

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Iyad el-Baghdadi is an internationally recognized Arab Spring activist and an expert on the topic of Islam & liberty. A former career entrepreneur and startup consultant, he rose to prominence in the aftermath of the Arab revolutions of 2011 before being summarily arrested and forcibly exiled from his home in the UAE in April 2014.

Today he is recognized among the most influential and prominent Arab voices online. He lives in Oslo, Norway, where he has been granted political asylum and writes regularly for both Norwegian and international media, and his Twitter account received over 180 million views last year.

Iyad is the founder of Kawaakibi Foundation, an accelerator for thinkers and doers with a focus on the future of liberty in Muslim communities and in the Arab world. He is also the founder and editor-in-chief of the Arab Tyrant Manual, a platform for the study of authoritarian behavior and tactics. Iyad is a fellow at Norwegian liberal think tank Civita and a board member at Munathara, the Arab debate NGO. His first book, the Vicious Triangle: Terrorists, Tyrants, and the West, will be published in late 2019.

Presented by: Mursel Sabir, director of the SWANA (South West Asia and North Africa) Region.

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The Quebec independence movement has been part of the Canadian political landscape since the 1960s, notably with the founding of the Parti Québécois (PQ). The movement was particularly strong from the 1970s to the 1990s, with the holding of two referendums on Quebec independence under PQ governments. While sovereigntists were defeated on both occasions, the results of the 1995 referendum were particularly tight with 49.42% of Quebec voters who voted in favor of separation from Canada. Since then, however, the movement has been on the decline. In 2018, the PQ obtained only  17% of the popular vote and won 10 seats out of 125 in the Quebec National Assembly.  Polls across the province over the past two decades have shown voters are moving away  from this issue, especially among young people. Paul St-Pierre Plamondon, PQ leader since October 2020, hopes to turn the tide. The 44- years-old leader intends to revitalize the Quebec independence movement in the years to come.  In this podcast episode, we discuss the topics of Quebec independence and the 2021  Canadian federal election.

Presented by: Samuel Lavoie & Sergei Oudman

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