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.

Abstract

 

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”  

Abstract

 

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”  

Abstract

 

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

Abstract

 

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”

Abstract

 

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”

Abstract 

 

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”

Abstract

 

Yoram Lubling / Elsebet Jegstrup, Department of Philosophy, Elon University, USA

“Backwards into the Future: Buber, Levinas, and the Original Encounter”

Abstract

 

Anne -Marie Søndergard Christensen, Department of Philosophy, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark

“The Role and Importance of Innocent Guilt in the Aftermath of Conflicts”

Abstract

 

Claudia Welz, Centre for Subjectivity Research, Copenhagen

Identity as Self-Transformation: Emotional Conflicts and their Metamorphosis in Memory”

Abstract

 

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”

Abstract

 

Nell Walton Senter, Department for Philosophy and Social Work, Jackson State College, USA

“Social Transformation of Conflict”

Abstract

 

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”

Abstract

 

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”

Abstract

 

Chuz Chuz Eberendu, School of Politics, Queens University Belfast, Ireland

“The Dynamics of Narratives and Ethno-Political Conflicts in Nigeria”

Abstract

 

Hala W. Mahmoud, Department for Social Psychology, Cambridge University, UK

“The Role of Conflict in Identity Transformations”

Abstract

 

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”

Abstract

 

Sung Yong Lee, Department of Politics, University of York, UK

“The Impact of Cultures of External Interveners on Civil War Peace Negotiations”

Abstract

 

Geetanjali Mukherje, Department for Public Administration, Cornell University, USA

“Is True Reconciliation Impossible in Ethnically Divided Societies?”

Abstract

 

Fiona Alison Wright, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden

“Bridging Cultural Perspectives with the Common Goal of Sustainability”

Abstract

 

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”

Abstract

 

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”

Abstract

 

Heribert Adam, Department for Political Sociology, Simon Fraser University, USA,

South African Lessons for Israeli/Palestinian Peacemaking”

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Abstract

 

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”

Abstract

 

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”

Abstract

 

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”

Abstract 

 

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”

Abstract

 

Nara Arutchyan, Department of English, Yerevan State Linguistic University, Armenia

"Transforming Cultural Conflicts -Through Communication”

Abstract

 

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”

Abstract

 

Padma Jayawera , Ministery of Constitutional Affairs and National Integration, Colombo, Sri Lanka,

“Language as a Tool of Reconciliation and Ethnic Harmony”

Abstract

 

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”

Abstract

 

Rasmus Ugilt, Department of Philosophy and the History of Ideas, University of Aarhus, Denmark

“The Ontology of Terrorism”

Abstract

 

Jon Boiesen, Department of Philosophy and the History of Ideas, University of Aarhus, Denmark

“The Politics of Friendship-The Politics of Exclusion?”

Abstract

 

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"

Abstract 

 

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”

Abstract 

 

 

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?”

Abstract

 

Victor Ojakorotu, Monash University, South Africa

“Environmental Crisis, Identity struggle and Politics of Exclusion in the Niger Delta of Nigeria”

Abstract

 

Kiikpoye Kingdom Aaron, University of Port Hartcourt,

“Oil TNCs and Intra-community Conflicts in the Niger Delta: Does the Company Matter?”

Abstract

 

Chris Groves, Cardiff University, UK

“Environmental Futures and Value Conflicts"

Abstract

 

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"

Abstract

 

Hyun Jee Oh, School of Journalism, University of Missouri, USA

“Expansion on Media Framing of Conflict: Content Analysis of South Korean Hostage Case”

Abstract

 

Zeynep Altundag, Mubera Yksel, Department of Radio, Television and Cinema, Kadi Has University, Turkey

“Conflict Transformation as Depicted in Japanese Anime”

Abstract

 

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”

Abstract

 

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”

Abstract

 

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,

with

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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Updated 14.8.2008 / By johanna seibt
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