Wednesday Aug 20
Wednesday August 20
Theme 1: Conflict Analysis: Reflections on Methods and Theories in cross-cultural perspective
Theme 2: Causes and Reasons of Conflict in cross-cultural perspective
Morning Sessions: 9:00-12:30 - Lecture Hall 1
Plenary 1, Theme 1: Daniel Druckman, Professor in the Department of Public and International Affairs at George Mason University, USA and Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Queensland, Australia
“Conflict Research through a Multi-Method Lens”
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Plenary 2, Theme 1: Peter T. Coleman, Director of the Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution, Columbia University, USA
“Attracted to Conflict or Peace? A Dynamical-System’s Approach to the Study of Constructive Engagement in Seemingly Intractable Conflicts”
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Plenary 3, Theme 2: Chris Mitchell, Professor emeritus at the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University, USA.
“Causing Conflicts to Continue”
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Wednesday August 20, Lecture Halls 3-5, 14:00-14:45
Session plenaries for theme 1 and theme 2
Lecture Hall 3, session plenary 2, theme 1: Gordon Burt, Conflict Research Society, The Open University, London, UK
“A Foundational Approach to the Modelling of Social Conflicts”
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Lecture Hall 4, session plenary 2, theme 2: Karen Abi -Ezzi, Department for Peace Studies at the University of Bradford, UK
“Dominant Cultural Norms in the West pre-1948 and political support for Zionism: the Convergence of Realpolitik, Christian Zionism and notions of racial superiority”
Lecture Hall 5, session plenary 3, theme 2: Andrew Robert Finlay, Department of Sociology, University of Belfast, Ireland
“Models of Conflict Resolution: Globalized Peace Initiatives, Local Critiques”
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Breakout Sessions Theme 1: Problems of Description and Empirical Research
Wednesday August 20, Lecture Hall 5, 15:00-16:00
Session 1.1 Method and Focus
Timothy Wittig, School of International Relations, University of St. Andrews, UK:
“Power, Value, and the Individual Exchange: A Proposed Method for Modelling the Political Economy of Conflict”
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Marie Pace, United Nations Development Program, University of Syracuse, USA:
“Interacting and Contested Terrains of Meaning in Peace Practices: The Value and Use of Qualitative Research Methods”
Wednesday August 20, Lecture Hall 6, 15:00-16:45
Session 1.2 Modelling conflict dynamics
Martin Neumann, Department of Philosophy, University of Bayreuth, Germany:
“Sensitivity of Social Systems: A Model-To-Model Analysis”
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Frieder Lempp, Center for Logic, Language and Computation, Victoria Univ. of Wellington, New Zealand:
“Logic-based Conflict Modelling”
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Nasak Nobari, Allame Tabatabaii University Teheran, Iran
"A strategy for managing dynamical conflict in the complex organizations"
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Breakout Sessions Theme 2: Structural, emotional, and cultural causes
Wednesday August 20, Lecture Hall 8, 15:00-17:15
Session 2.1. Social (cultural) identity
Demetris Portides / Panayiotis Stavrinides, Department of Philosophy / Department of Psychology, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
“Conflict and the Construction of a Common System of Beliefs: The Cyprus Paradigm”
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Geoffrey Nwaka, Department of History, Abia State University, Uturu, Nigeria
“The Dilemma of Colonial Boundaries in Contemporary Africa: The Baksssi Peninsula in Nigeria-Cameroon Border Conflict”
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Zoran Slavnic, Department of Social and Welfare Studies, University of Linköpping, Sweden
“Conflicts and Inter-Solidarity Solidarity: Integration Processes Among Immigrants from Former Yugoslavia”
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Moji Bosede Daramola, Department of Religions, University of Pretoria, South Africa
“Factors of Identity Crises in a Developing State”
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Wednesday August 20, Lecture Hall 9, 15:00-17:15
Session 2.2 Structural Causes of Conflicts
Edith Sarah Klein, Zdenka Milivojevic, European Studies, University of Toronto, Canada
“The Uncertain European - Shifting Values and Conflict Readiness in Serbia”
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Magid Shihade, Middle East / South Asian Program, UC Davis, USA
“Comparative Sectarian Violence: Colonialism--A Structure in Motion
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Ayla Kilic, Political Science Department Okanagan College, Canada
“Building on Similarities: the Transmodernist Approach in the Analysis of Transnational Conflicts”
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Anna Adamus-Matuszynska, University of Economics at Katowice, Poland
“Social Conflicts as a Consequence of Transformation”
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Wednesday August 20, Lecture Hall 3, 15:00-17:15
Session 2.3 Conflict and Gender
Sherry Sabarwal, Department of Sociology, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India
“Gender, Caste and Honor Killings in India: Reflections from a Social Structural Perspective”
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Chioma L. Enwerem, Department of Sociology, Nigeria,
“Violence against Women in Selected Nigerian Video Films and Novels”
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Ibrahim Badamasi Kamara, Centre for Human Rights, Sierra Leone
“Africa’s Gender Paradigm, the Root Cause of Conflict”
Ersin Kusdil & Nahide Günbay, Department of Psychology, Uludag University, Turkey
“Does the Turban Cover or Reveal? The Relationships between Female Turkish University Students’ Ingroup-Outgroup Evaluations and Their Personal, Social, and Collective Identities”
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Wednesday August 20, Lecture Hall 7, 15:00-17:15
Session 2.4 Conflict, Emotion, and social perception
Angela Maitner, Diane Mackie, Department of Psychology, Eliot Smith, University of Kent, UK
“Group-Based Emotions as Regulators of Intergroup Conflict Behaviour”
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Monsuru Adegboyga Kasali, Department of Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Ibadan, Nigeria
“The Impact of Physical and Psychological Abuse on a Culture of Religious Violence among the Almajirai in Kano and Jigawa: A Comparative Study"
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Roberto Poli, Department of Sociology, University of Trento, Italy
“Anticipation and Conflict: Towards an Ontology of Conflict”
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Ejvind Hansen, Department of Philosophy and the History of Ideas, University of Aarhus, Denmark
“Detecting Conflicts”
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Wednesday August 20, Lecture Hall 10, 15:00-17:00
Workshop I:
Christiana Lambrinidis, Greece
“Pass[ports] to Conflicts: A Workshop Between Writing and Performance”
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Wednesday August 20, Lecture Hall 6, 16-17:00
Fred Setterberg, California, USA
"Under the Dragon," Photo presentation about intercultural life in California
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Wednesday August 20, Lecture Hall 1, 17:45-18:30
The ICON-Project: Interculturality, Conflict, and Value Studies
Idea--Initiatives--Invitation
An introduction by Jesper Garsdal, Johanna Seibt, Steen Wackerhausen