The Department of International Relations is to present a lecture by Hazel Smith on ‘North Korea and the Crisis in East Asian Security’.

The lecture will be held in room 116 at the Old Humanities building, Msida campus.

Prof. Smith is professor of resilience and security, and director of the Resilience Centre at Cranfield University, UK.

Her most recent monograph is Hungry for Peace: International Security, Humanitarian Assistance and Social Change in North Korea.

Prof. Smith recently directed three research projects that have each resulted in edited publications (2007). These are Humanitarian Diplomacy: Practitioners and their Craft edited with Larry Minear of Tufts University; Diasporas in Conflict Peace-Makers or Peace-Wreckers? edited with Paul Stares of the Council on Foreign Relations, New York; and Reconstituting Korean Security: A Policy Primer.

Prof. Smith has undertaken field work in Korea, Nepal, China and Nicaragua, carrying out scholarly research and working for various intergovernmental and non-governmental organisations.

For more information call the Department of International Relations on 2340 3083 or e-mail valentina.cassar@um.edu.mt.

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