Keele International Relations graduates give talks at Keele University

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Posted on 09 April 2010

Pete Wright in Sudan Pete Wright who obtained both his BA and MA from Keele (2005) spoke to second year Global International Organisation students about 'The role of NGOs: the humanitarian work of Mines Advisory Group’.  The MAG, for which Pete works in procurement, is a humanitarian organisation clearing the remnants of conflict for the benefit of communities worldwide.  For these services it shared the 1997 the Nobel Peace Prize.

faisal2 Dr Farahanaz Faisal, who took her BA in International Relations at Keele (1989)  and became the first Maldivian woman to obtain a PhD for her thesis on the ‘Security Problems of Small, Island Developing States (SIDS) with particular reference to the SIDS of the Indian Ocean”, was actively involved during the Gayoom era in liaising with Human Rights Organisations to try to secure the release of political prisoners, and has worked as an analyst and consultant on security problems of small island states, gender and international relations.   

Her warmly-applauded lecture on ‘The democratisation of an Islamic state: the experience of the Maldives’, which was based on first-hand experience, included a tribute to the support Keele students gave during the struggle for democracy.

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