Summary: This week's podcast features Pablo de Orellana, who is a teaching fellow at the Department of War Studies. His research focuses on issues of identity in diplomatic communication, including the role of representation in the diplomacy of the First Vietnam War and the Western Sahara conflict. In this week's podcast we focused on Pablo's second case study - the Western Sahara conflict. On November 17th, Dr Solava Ibrahim from the Institute for Development Policy and Management at the University of Manchester, came to the War Studies Department to give a talk titled 'Frustrated Youth and Failed Democracy: The Dynamics of Wellbeing, Aspirations and the Politics in Egypt'. In this week's podcast, she discusses the findings of her research and her academic plans for the future. Jayne Peake provides details of next week's events. Presented by Xenia Zubova and Bradley Murray. Pablo de Orellana's talk 'War, Exile and the First Arab Spring: Western Sahara 1975-2015' https://soundcloud.com/warstudies/war-exile-and-the-first-arab-spring-western-sahara-1975-2015?in=warstudies/sets/events DISCLAIMER: Any information, statements or opinions contained in this podcast are those of the individual speakers. They do not represent the opinions of the Department of War Studies or King's College London.
