Parkviews: Pirates: Paradoxes and Perils – 8 NOVEMBER

JOIN US ON THURSDAY 8 NOVEMBER 2018 AT 6PM.  ST FRANCIS PARKVIEW.

Piracy is a crime that captures the imagination like almost no other.

In the past decade it leapt from being a topic of interest to historians,

movie-makers and a few maritime officials, to one of the greatest

global threats to peace and security. In 2011 South Africa became the

only African country to mount a counter-piracy patrol, in the

Mozambique Channel. Recently the threat and risk of falling victim

has declined to such an extent off the coast of Somalia that many

people discuss the end of piracy. Yet how much can we be sure of,

especially once we dive beyond the headlines and deep down to

discover some startling and often untold stories – many of which show

the stark difference between what we imagine and what is actually

occurring on the High Seas.

presented by

Timothy Walker, The Institute of Security Studies (ISS)

Timothy Walker is a senior researcher at the Institute for Security

Studies in Pretoria. Since he joined the Institute in 2011, Timothy’s

work has focused predominantly on African maritime security and

development issues – including piracy and the blue economy. Other

areas of interest include China-Africa relations, international

relations theory and human security. Timothy holds a Master’s

degree in political and international studies from Rhodes University.