Thursday Aug 21
Thursday August 21
Theme 3: Conflict Transformation (in cross-cultural perspective)
Morning Sessions 9:00-12:30. Lecture Hall 1
Keynote Lecture IV: Pumla Gobodo -Madikizela, Professor for psychology at the University of Cape Town, and Senior Consultant for The Institute for Justice and Reconciliation in Cape Town, South Africa.
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Plenary 4, Theme 3: Ervin Staub, Professor emeritus of psychology at Univ. of Massachusetts, Director of the Psychology of Peace & Violence Research Unit.
“Overcoming Evil: Origins, Prevention, and Reconciliation in Violence between Groups”
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Plenary 5, Theme 3: Jan Øberg, Director of the Transnational Foundation for Future and Peace Research, Lund, Sweden
“Levels of Intervention: Critical and Constructive Views”
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Thursday August 21, Lecture Halls 1, and 3-5, 14:00-14:45
Session plenaries for themes 3
Lecture hall 3, session plenary 4, theme 3: Robin Schott, School of Education, University of Aarhus, Denmark.
“The Unmaking and Making of the Political World: War Rape, Natality, and the Recovery of Rights”
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Lecture hall 4, session plenary 5, theme 3: Thomas Brudholm, Danish Institute for International Studies, Copenhagen, Denmark
“The Unforgiving and the Unforgivable”
Lecture hall 5, session plenary 6, theme 3: Martijn van Beek, Department of Anthropology, University of Aarhus
“Irreconcilable Difference? Identity Fetishism and the Dynamics of Conflict”
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Lecture hall 1, session plenary 7, theme 3: Per Mouritsen, Centre for University Education in Journalism, University of Aarhus
“The Cartoons Affair and the Press”
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Breakout Sessions for Theme 3
Thursday August 21, Lecture Hall 3, 15:00-17:15
Session 3.1. Personal transformation
Susan Allen Nan, Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University, USA
“Consciousness in Conflict and Conflict Resolution”
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Yoram Lubling / Elsebet Jegstrup, Department of Philosophy, Elon University, USA
“Backwards into the Future: Buber, Levinas, and the Original Encounter”
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Anne -Marie Søndergard Christensen, Department of Philosophy, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
“The Role and Importance of Innocent Guilt in the Aftermath of Conflicts”
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Claudia Welz, Centre for Subjectivity Research, Copenhagen
“Identity as Self-Transformation: Emotional Conflicts and their Metamorphosis in Memory”
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Thursday August 21, Lecture Hall 5, 15:00-17:15
Session 3.2.1 Social transformation and cultural narratives: general considerations
Tove Hansen Malloy, European Academy Bolzano, Italy
“Transforming Antagonistic Nationhood: Towards an Agency-Oriented Ethics of Agonistic Co-Nationship”
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Nell Walton Senter, Department for Philosophy and Social Work, Jackson State College, USA
“Social Transformation of Conflict”
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Farouk Y. Seif, Center for Creative Change, Antioch University Seattle, USA,
"Conflict, Change, and Continuity: The Everlasting Dance of Inventing Cultural Reality"
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Edward S. Majian, Department of Philosophy, St. Peter’s College, USA
“Subjectivity and Narrative: Common Dialogue toward Recognition and Healing”
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Thursday August 21, Lecture Hall 6, 15:00-17:15
Session 3.2.2 Social transformation and cultural narratives: case studies
Lourdes Gutierez Najera, Department of Anthropology, Darthmouth College, USA,
“Circulating Conflict and Contesting Community within a Zapotec Transnational Locality”
Michele Judith Lamb, Department of Sociology, University of Essex, UK
“Weaving the Golden Thread: Human Rights and Solidarity in Three 'Communities of Practice' in Northern Ireland”
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Chuz Chuz Eberendu, School of Politics, Queens University Belfast, Ireland
“The Dynamics of Narratives and Ethno-Political Conflicts in Nigeria”
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Hala W. Mahmoud, Department for Social Psychology, Cambridge University, UK
“The Role of Conflict in Identity Transformations”
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Thursday August 21, Lecture Hall 8, 15:00-17:15
Session 3.3.1 Third party intervention: general considerations
Ibanga B. Ikpe, Department of Philosophy, University of Botswana, Botswana
“Between the Just and the Expedient: the Problem of Conflict Resolution in Africa”
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Sung Yong Lee, Department of Politics, University of York, UK
“The Impact of Cultures of External Interveners on Civil War Peace Negotiations”
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Geetanjali Mukherje, Department for Public Administration, Cornell University, USA
“Is True Reconciliation Impossible in Ethnically Divided Societies?”
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Fiona Alison Wright, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden
“Bridging Cultural Perspectives with the Common Goal of Sustainability”
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Thursday August 21, Lecture Hall 9, 15:00-17:15
Session 3.3.2 Third party intervention: case studies
Hari Bhattarai, Department of Sociology/Anthropology, Tribhuvan University, Nepal
“The Maoist People's War in Nepal: A Jump from Politics of Bullets to Politics of Ballot”
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Alexander Loch, Centre Asie du Sud-Est a Paris, France
“Dealing With Conflicts after the Conflict: European and Indigenous Approaches for Conflict Transformation in East Timor”
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Heribert Adam, Department for Political Sociology, Simon Fraser University, USA,
“South African Lessons for Israeli/Palestinian Peacemaking”
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Olatunde Ayodele Ogunjobi, Department of Political Science, Lagos State University, Nigeria,
“Early Marriage and the Ideology of Patriarchy in Northern Nigeria: The Cultural Context”
Thursday August 21, Lecture Hall 4, 15:00-17:15
Session 3.4 Conflict Transformation and Education
Wouter Sanderse, Department of Philosophy, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands
“Virtue Ethics and Civic Education in a Pluralistic Society”
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Helena Syna Desivilya, Amit Rottman, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Max Stern Academic College of Emek Yezreel, Israel
“Negotiating Reality about Jewish-Arab Citizens Relations in Israel: The Case of Conflict Education in a Northern College”
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Friederike Feuchte, International Graduate College for Conflict and Cooperation, University of Jena, Germany
“Evaluation of the Peace Education Programme in a Liberian Refugee Camp in Ghana”
Gyeong-Ho Chae Hur , Hae-Soon Jang , Eun-Jeong Kim , Seong-Gene Shin , Julie Han, School of Journalism and Communications, Kyung Hee University, South Korea
“The Effects of Attachment Styles with Parents and Family Communication Patterns on the Conflict Resolution Styles among Korean Youths”
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Thursday August 21, Lecture Hall 7, 15:00-17:15
Session 3.5 Conflict Transformation, Emotion, and Communication
Inhe Lee, Hae-Soon Jang, Eun-Jeong Namgung, Kwan-Young Park, Julie Han, School of Journalism and Communication, Kyung Hee University, South Korea,
“Effects of Self-Construals, Social Anxiety, and Communication Apprehension on Conflict Management Styles: A Study of Korean Youths”
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Nara Arutchyan, Department of English, Yerevan State Linguistic University, Armenia
"Transforming Cultural Conflicts -Through Communication”
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Ya-Hui Kuo, Department of English, Wenzao Ursuline College of Languages,Taiwan, Province of China
“A Case Study Analysis on Taiwanese-Indian Cross-Cultural Conflicts”
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Padma Jayawera , Ministery of Constitutional Affairs and National Integration, Colombo, Sri Lanka,
“Language as a Tool of Reconciliation and Ethnic Harmony”
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Thursday August 21, Lecture Hall 12, 15:00-17:15
Student Session
Lisa Farhamy, Department for International Studies, American University Washington, USA
“Inside the New Terrorism”
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Rasmus Ugilt, Department of Philosophy and the History of Ideas, University of Aarhus, Denmark
“The Ontology of Terrorism”
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Jon Boiesen, Department of Philosophy and the History of Ideas, University of Aarhus, Denmark
“The Politics of Friendship-The Politics of Exclusion?”
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Christian Bøgh Norman Gade, Department of Philosophy and the History of Ideas, University of Aarhus, Denmark
"Ubuntu --The Philosophical Underpinning of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission"
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Thursday August 21, Lecture Hall 10, 15:00-16:30
Workshop II:
Lucia Barbieri, Italy
“The Theatre of the Oppressed as Method in Training on Cultural Conflict”
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Thursday August 21, Lecture Hall 1, 15:00-17:15
Session 3.6 Intercultural Management and the role of transnational corporations
Isabella M. Boitlehner, H. Hofstadler, University of Applied Sciences of Upper Austria, Austria
“Cultural Background Knowledge and Self-Reflection - Is This Enough to Avoid Cross-Cultural Conflicts?”
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Victor Ojakorotu, Monash University, South Africa
“Environmental Crisis, Identity struggle and Politics of Exclusion in the Niger Delta of Nigeria”
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Kiikpoye Kingdom Aaron, University of Port Hartcourt,
“Oil TNCs and Intra-community Conflicts in the Niger Delta: Does the Company Matter?”
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Chris Groves, Cardiff University, UK
“Environmental Futures and Value Conflicts"
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Thursday August 21, Lecture Hall 11, 15:00-17:15
Session 3.7.1 Conflict and the Media: International Case Studies
Iris Lurasi, Department of Journalism, University of Tirana, Albania
"The Role of the Media for Conflict Resolution"
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Hyun Jee Oh, School of Journalism, University of Missouri, USA
“Expansion on Media Framing of Conflict: Content Analysis of South Korean Hostage Case”
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Zeynep Altundag, Mubera Yksel, Department of Radio, Television and Cinema, Kadi Has University, Turkey
“Conflict Transformation as Depicted in Japanese Anime”
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Ndubuisi Eugene Nnamani, Department of Music, University of Alberta, Canada
“The Structure of Conflict and Percepts of Resolution: Music as Cross-Cultural Medium”
Thursday August 21, Lecture Hall 2, 15:00-17:15
Session 3.7.2 Conflict and the Media: Reflections on the Carton Affair
Kutlay Yagmur, Department of Language and Culture Studies, University of Tilburg, Netherlands
“The Role National and Ethnic Media in the Escalation of Socio-Cultural Conflict”
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Lasse Lindekilde, Department of Social and Political Science, European University Florence, Italy
“Muslim Claims-Making in Context: Comparing the Danish and the Swedish Caricatures Controversies”
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Henrik Bødker, Department for Information and Media Science, University of Aarhus, Denmark
“The Cartoon Affair, Democratic Muslims, and Newspaper Competition”
Thursday August 21, Lecture Hall 1, 17:30-18:30
Panel Session: Conflicts in Denmark
Moderated by
Søren Viemose, Kaløvig Center for Research and Training in Conflict Management,
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Per Mouritsen, Center for Journalism, University of Aarhus,
Astrid Gade Nielsen, Director of Communications, Arla,
Jan Øberg, Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Research, Sweden,
Vibeke Vindelov, Center for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, University of Copenhagen.
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