 Hello, my name is Zoe Marridge and I'm a Professor of Security and International Development at Sawas University of London. I'd like to give a short overview of our summer school in conflict and international development, which is taking place between the 20th and the 31st of July this year. I'll give a summary of the colleagues that I'll be working with, the topics we'll be covering and how to apply for the summer school. I'll be working on the summer school with two colleagues, Karen Iverson and Hassan O Mokta. We've been working together over the last three years on the delivery of the master's programme, Violence, Conflict and Development, and on my optional module, Security, which is taught at postgraduate and undergraduate level. The central concerns of the summer school is how it is that conflict and development interact with each other. It is to say how does conflict impact on development and how does development impact on conflict. We'll start by conceptualising and measuring violence to ask how do we know what violence is taking place, who is it taking place between, who is perpetrating, who is on the receiving end of that, and how does that impact on processes of development. We'll then go into some origins and theories of mass violence. Why are people violent? What do they achieve? What do they lose? How does it change the power relationships with regard to military, economic or political strength? We'll then move to start looking with more specificity at issues of ethnicity and religion and how they interact with conflict and violence. Hassan will be drawing on his research to look at borders, migration and refugees, how these people fit within global systems of violence and conflict and how they're able to survive in uncertain circumstances. Karen will then start looking at ways of resisting violence, what role does agency and activism play in theatres of direct and structural forms of violence. This speaks very much to the work that I've done on security and insecurity, how people react to and negotiate the threats that they face. Karen will wrap up the course with a lecture on terror and counterinsurgency. The whole of the summer school will be taught online. This means that you can interact with it wherever you are in the world, meet new colleagues, exchange ideas and work together towards an understanding of how it is that conflict and international development interact with each other. You can apply for the summer school online. Here's a link to the SOAS page. When you open the page, this is what you'll find. There's a tab to apply in the top right hand corner. If you've got any questions about the summer school, please feel free to get in touch with me through your marriage on ZM2 at sos.ac.uk. Thank you and see you in July.