PRELIMINARY SCHEDULE
2006 CONFERENCE
GLOBALIZATION AND PEACEBUILDING
DATE AND LOCATION
6-8 NOVEMBER 2006
RADISSON SAS, UPPSALA
SWEDEN
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DAY ONE
OVERVIEW
11:00 – 12:00 Registration
12:00 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 14:00 Welcome: Ashok Swain
14:00 – 14:45
Keynote: Hamdy Abdel Rahman Hassan (Chair: Ramses Amer)
14:45 – 15:00 Coffee
15:00 – 17:00 Session One: Panels 1, 2 & 3
18:00 Dinner
SESSION ONE
PANEL 1: INTERNATIONAL LEGAL NORMS AND THE GLOBAL WAR ON TERROR
Coordinator: Ramses Amer
Ramses Amer
Department of Political Science, Umeå University
Pre-emptive Self-defence New Legal Principle or Political Action?
Mikael Baaz
Department of Law, Gothenburg University
The Bush Doctrine and the Dismantling of International Law, International institutions and International Regimes
Annika Björkdahl
Department of Political Science, Lund University
To practice what they preach: International transitional administrations and the paradox of norm promotion
Mikael Eriksson
Department of Political Science, European Union Institute (EUI)
Implementing EU Targeted Sanctions in Fragile Societies: Political Symbolism vs. Effective Enforcement.
Daniel Strandow
Special Program on the Implementation of Targeted Sanctions, Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University
Sanctions and Civil War: Targeted Measures for Conflict Resolution
PANEL 2: THE STATE OF CONFLICT RESOLUTION IN NEPAL: REVIEWING THE PAST FOR THE FUTURE
Coordinator: Fiona Rotberg
Fiona Rotberg
Environmental Security in Asia Project, Central Asia-Caucasus Institute - Silk Road Studies Program, Uppsala University & Johns Hopkins University
Environmental Security and Intrastate Conflicts: The Case of Nepal
Ramesh Kumar Sharma
Peace Secretariat, Government of Nepal
Changing realities and Challenges of the Peace Process of Nepal
Zhang Li
Sichuan University, P. R. China
The Prospect of Conflict Management and Nation-building in Nepal: China’s Perspective and Tentative Interests
Kristine Eck
Dept of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University
Why War? The Escalation of Violence in Nepal
PANEL 3: EURASIA, NARCOTICS AND THE GLOBAL ILLICIT ECONOMY
Coordinator: Svante Cornell
Svante Cornell
Central Asia-Caucasus Institute - Silk Road Studies Program, Uppsala University & Johns Hopkins University
Narcotics and Armed Conflict: Interaction and Implications
Niklas Swanström
Central Asia-Caucasus Institute - Silk Road Studies Program, Uppsala University & Johns Hopkins University
The New Opium War in China!
Erica Marat
Central Asia-Caucasus Institute - Silk Road Studies Program, Uppsala University & Johns Hopkins University
The State-Crime Nexus in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan: Organized Crime, Drug Trafficking, and Corruption in the Post-Soviet Period
Yin He
China Peacekeeping CIVPOL Training Center, Armed Police Academy in Langfang, China
The Chinese Strategy on Drug Control
DAY TWO
OVERVIEW
09:15 – 9:45 Keynote: Oliver Richmond (Chair: Karin Aggestam)
09:45 – 12:30 Session Two: Panels 4, 5 & 6
10:30 – 10:45 Coffee
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 14:45 Keynote: Niraja Gopal Jayal
(Chair: Maj-Lis Föller)
14:45 – 17:30 Session Three: Panels 7, 8 & 9
15:30 – 15:45 Coffee
17:30 – 18:15 Keynote: Henning Melber
(Chair: Anders Nilsson)
19:00 Dinner
SESSION TWO
PANEL 4: GLOBALIZATION AND CHALLENGES TO DEVELOPMENT
Coordinator: Ashok Swain
Jonathan Hall & Ashok Swain
Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University
Diasporas, Extremism and Civil War
Åsa Stenman
Institute of Iberoamerican Studies, Gothenburg University
Migrant Remittances, Gender and Development: The Case of El Salvador
Milissão Nuvunga
Department of Peace and Development Research, School of Global Studies, Gothenburg University
African States and the Making of the New World Order
Anders Nilsson
School of Social Science, Växjö University
Preventive Security
Aliona Kornijenko
Department of Political Science, University of Helsinki
International Law: the Case of the Georgian-Abhazian Conflict
Anand Mavalankar
Department of Political Science, University of Baroda, Gujurat state, India
Globalisation and Predicament of Development in the Ex-Third World
PANEL 5: THIRD PARTY CONFLICT PREVENTION
Coordinator: Erik Melander
Erik Melander
Dept of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University
Middle Powers as Third Parties
Isak Svensson
Dept of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University
Do Mediators Go where they are Needed the Most?
Magnus Öberg, Frida Möller, & Peter Wallensteen
Dept of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University
Conflict Prevention in Ethnic Conflicts 1990-1998
Prince Mashele
Institute for Security Studies, Pretoria, ZA
Globalization and Peace-building in Africa
Cyril Obi
Post-Conflict Transition, the State and Civil Society in Africa Project, Nordic Africa Institute
Re-examining the Roots of War in West Africa in a Globalizing World
Maria Småberg
Department of History, Lund University
“Peacemakers” from the “Bridge Church"
PANEL 6: POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS AND PEACEBUILDING
Coordinator: Anna Jarstad
Anna Jarstad & Ralph Sundberg
Dept of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University
Peace by Pact: The Theory and the Data of Peace Agreement Implementation
Anna Jarstad & Desirée Nilsson
Dept of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University
Political Pacts for Peace?
Manuela Aguilar
Department of Peace and Development Studies, Växjö University
Between Coexistence and Reconciliation: Nicaragua Fifteen Years after the End of its Civil War
Tarekegn Adebo
Life and Peace Institute (LPI)
Post-Conflict Peacebuilding Local Governance
Michael Schulz
Department of Peace and Development Research, School of Global Studies, Gothenburg University
Hamas between Sharia rule and Democracy
Patrik Johansson
Department of Political Science, Umeå University
On Repatriation and Peace: How to Operationalize Repatriation as a Necessary Condition
Joakim Öjendal & Mona Lilja
Department of Peace and Development Research, School of Global Studies, Gothenburg University
In Search of Political Legitimacy in Cambodia: Reconstruction in a Post-conflict Society
SESSION THREE
PANEL 7: BUILDING PEACE THROUGH HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE RULE OF LAW: IN SEARCH OF COMMON GROUND
Coordinators: Katarina Mansson and Richard Sannerholm
Gudmundur Alfredsson
Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Lund
Katarina Mansson
Irish Centre for Human Rights, National University of Ireland (Galway) & Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Lund
UN Peace Operations as Norm Entrepreneurs: The Challenge of Achieving Communicative Action on Human Rights
Richard Sannerholm
Faculty of Law, University of Örebro
Beyond Criminal Justice: Promoting Rule of Law in Post-conflict Societies
Linnea Bergholm
Department of International Politics, University of Wales, Aberystwyth
The African Union and its Commitment to Non-Indifference: Can the AU Be an Actor for the Promotion of Human Security?
Susanne Alldén
Department of Political Science, Umeå University
Internalizing the Culture of Human Rights: The Search for Justice for Women in Post-Conflict East Timor
Karen Brounéus
Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University
Rwanda: The Gacaca Process and Psychological Health
Cecilia Hellman
Swedish National Defence College
Builiding Peace the Right Way- a Swedish Perspective
PANEL 8: PANDEMICS AND SECURITY
Coordinator: Maj-Lis Föller
Maj-Lis Föller
Institute of Iberoamerican Studies, Gothenburg University
An introduction to the panel Pandemics & Security
Pieter Fourie
Department of Politics & Governance, University of Johannesburg
The Securitization of AIDS: The Evolution of the Concept and the Construction of the 'Enemy'
Kristina Jönsson
Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Lund University
Global Security vs. Global Health: An Asian Perspective
Tomas Ries
Swedish Institute of International Affairs
Pandemics: Threat or Salvation?
Philip Onyebujoh
UN Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR), WHO Geneva
Discussant
PANEL 9: ENVIRONMENTAL AND NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AND CONFLICT PREVENTION
Coordinator: Joakim Öjendal
Joakim Öjendal
Department of Peace and Development Research, School of Global Studies, Gothenburg University
Where Decentralization Meets Democracy: Can Civil Society Enhance Accountability from Local Governements in Cambodia?
Ashok Swain
Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University
Protected Areas as Peace Parks
Sanjoy Patnaik
Regional Center for Development Cooperation (RCDC), India
Protected Areas and Local Conflict
Neil Powell
Unit for Environmental Communication, Department of Landscape Planning, Swedish University of Agriculture Sciences
Conflict Management as an Emerging Property of Social Learning: Insights into Managing Water Resource Dilemmas in Contested Contexts
DAY THREE
OVERVIEW
09:00 – 10:30 Reporting From Panels
10:30 – 10:45 Coffee
10:45 – 12:30 Roundtable Discussion: Regional Lessons for a Global Peace
Gladys Lechini
Hamdy Abdel Rahman Hassan
Alfred G. Nhema
Hari Singh
12:30 – 13:00 Thanks
13:00 – 14:30 Lunch
INFORMATION ON KEYNOTE & ROUNDTABLE SPEAKERS
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Alfred G. Nhema
Executive Secretary, Organization for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa (OSSREA), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Ashok Swain
Coordinator, Swedish Network of Peace, Conflict and Development Research, and Professor of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University
Gladys Lechini
Coordinator, South-South Program, Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales (CLACSO) Latin American Council of Social Sciences, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Hamdy Abdel Rahman Hassan
Professor of Political Science, Faculty of Economics & Political Science, Cairo University, Egypt
Hari Singh
Executive Secretary, APISA Secretariat, Strategic Studies and International Relations Program, School of History, Politics and Strategic Studies, Universiti Kebangsaan, Malaysia
Henning Melber
Executive Director, Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation, Sweden
Larry Swatuk
Associate Professor, Harry Oppenheimer Okavango Research Centre, University of Maun, Botswana
Niraja Gopal Jayal
Professor, Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
Oliver Richmond
Professor and Director of the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, School of International Relations, University of St. Andrews, Scotland