Malik Ayub Sumbal is author of: Tovuz to Karabakh: a comprehensive analysis of war in the South-Caucasus, 2021.

“The appropriation of land thus opens up a legal space as such, turns the earth into a location.” Byung-Chul Han, What is Power?, p.80)

For decades, during a civil conflict that engulfed Northern Ireland, we regularly featured in articles and book collections on so called “intractable conflicts.” 

The world is littered with these “frozen conflicts” that seem to “flare up” and flash intermittently across our screens, seizing our attention momentarily when conflicting parties calculate that an escalation in violence can shift the balance of power and public opinion in their favour. In every case that I can call to mind, these conflicts are the unfinished business and geopolitical fractures created in the wake of a collapse or reconfiguration in wider regional imperial or other strategic interests. Consider Kashmir and Palestine to name but two other examples.

In the case of Nagorno-Karabakh, the fate of local populations and politics per se will turn, ultimately, on their continued utility in a regional balance of power shaped by Turkey and Russia, driven largely by a timeless and toxic deployment of energy politics and ethnic conflict.

Malik Ayub Sumbal, has taken on the complex task of combining his keen skills as a geopolitical analyst and commentator to bring us a fresh account of the “frozen conflict” involving Armenia and Azerbaijan.  While Armenia won control over the Nagorno-Karabakh territory in the 1988-1994 war, its population has remained largely hostage to Azerbaijan’s refusal to accept the new status quo. This account is an invaluable and heartfelt series of insights based on Malik’s first-hand knowledge of

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Stopping Street Harassment

A conversation with the two founders of the campaign to stop street harassment in Northern Ireland.

In this episode PhD researcher Meghan Hoyt speaks with fellow QUB law students Kirsten Wallace and Hannah Campbell about their campaign to criminalise street harassment.Further Information:

Vera-Grey, F. (2016) ‘Men’s Stranger Intrusions: Rethinking Street Harassment’. Women's Studies International Forum. Vol: 58 pp. 9–1.

Page, T., Bull, A. and Chapman, E. (2019) ‘Making Power Visible: “Slow Activism” to Address Staff Sexual Misconduct in Higher Education’. Violence Against Women. Vol: 25 (11) pp. 1309 – 1330.

Vera-Grey, F. and Kelly, L. (2020) ‘Contested gendered space: public sexual harassment and women’s safety work’. International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice. Vol: 44(4) pp. 265-275.