5th Global Conference (2011)

5th Global Conference

Sunday 22nd May – Tuesday 24th May 2011
Warsaw, Poland

The programme for the conference is available below. Delegates are listed according to the session in which they appear. Clicking on the Session Title will take you to the abstracts (where available) for that session; it will open a new window as it does so. Each delegate is listed according to their affiliation.

Please note: the main programme is stored under the War and Peace project pages. For 2011 Ethics, Evil, Law and the State is a special track appearing within the War and Peace programme. As a page cannot appear in two locations in the WordPress system, we had no other choice than to arrange it in this manner.

Final Conference Programme

Sunday 22nd May 2011
from 12.30
Registration

13.30
Welcome and Opening Words
Niall Scott

14.00
Session 1: War’s New Challenges
Chair: Niall Scott

Redefining Combatancy in an Age of Terrorism: Implications for State Power and Individual Rights
Jonathan Hafetz

Developing Convergent Expectations in Slovenia’s Secession War
Karsten de Bruijne

15.30
Coffee

16.00
Session 2a: Title Thinking with Peace in Mind
Chair: A.J. Venter

A Complicated Distinction: The Philosophical Evolution of Thinking about War and Peace
Sean N. Kalic

Privatisation of Security: A strategy for Peace or War?
Andres Macias

Phenomenon of Frozen Conflicts:  Particularities of Development and Resolution
Hanna Shelest

Session 2b EELS 5: Title: Power, Discourse and Law
Chair: Paul-Sewa Thovoethin

A Symbol of State Power: Use of the Red Fort in Indian Political Trials
Kanika Sharma

Naxalite Ideology and State Identity in India: A Study of Developments of Discourse and Power Relations
Mohammad Nasir and Mohammad Nomani

The Analysis of Definition of Aggression Adopted in Kampala and its Practical Implication
Danijela Barjaktarović

17.30
Notices and Announcements

17.40
Wine Reception

Monday23rd May 2011
09.00
Session 3: Continentally Specific Conflicts?
Chair: Karsten de Bruijne

Self Determination Struggle or Self Aggrandisement? Reflection on Militancy in Selected African Countries
Paul-Sewa Thovoethin

Competing Paradigms Interpreting the South African Border War 1962-1989
A.J. Venter

10.30
Coffee

11.00
Session 4: War’s  New Challenges
Chair: Hannah Shelest

Classification of War
Çağla Gül Yesevi

Cyberwar and Cybercrime-Implications of a Vague Difference
Kai Denker

Cyberterrorism – The Borderless Danger
Banu Baybars-Hawks

12.30
Lunch

14.00
Session 5(a): Three Views on Victims of Conflict
Chair: Andres Macias

Irradiated Zombies Soldiers: Strategic Options for American Battle Commanders Whose Troops Have Been Exposed to Lethal Radiation
Robert  Jacobs

The Doubly Victimized: Failures of the Disarmament, Demobilization , and Reintegration Program for Girl Soldiers in Sierra Leone
Taylor Lauren Miller

Roma from Kosovo Forced to be Outsiders: A Decade of Exclusion (1999-2009)
Nicolas Ballesteros Lopez

Session 5(b)EELS 5: Violations, Violence and State Responsibility
Chair: Max Schaefer

State Responsibility for Sexual Exploitation and Abuse as Humans Rights Violations by Peacekeepers
Melanie O’Brien

The Evolution of International Humanitarian Law and Changing Dynamics of State Responsibility
Abhinandan  Pandhi and Smirti Suresh

Evils of Law; Ethics of Violence: A Look on the Derogatory Nature of Freedom of Assembly
Amin Parsa

15.30
Coffee

16.00
Session 6a: Thinking with Peace in Mind II
Chair:  Karsten de Bruijne

Banning Arms Trade as a Solution for World Peace
Omi Ongge

The Katyn Massacre and the Ethics of War: Negotiating Justice and Law
Vanessa Fredericks

Between Violence and the State: Overcoming Sovereignty Through Responsibility
Aminah Hasan

16.00
Session 6b EELS5: Drowning Voices of Desire, Anxiety and Freedom
Chair: Melanie O’Brien

The Individual, Society and the State as Mediator: An Introductory Approach to L.T. Hobhouse’s Ethical Liberalism
Carla Larouco Gomes

Between Anxiety and Enjoyment: Rendering the Law’s Real in Stalinist Jurisprudence
Cosmin Sebastian Cercel

An Ethics of Singularity: After Agamben and the Testimony of the Drowned
Max Schaefer

17.30
Sessions End

Tuesday 24th May 2011
09.00
Session 7: Writing on the Wall Art, Literature and Propaganda in War
Chair: Jonathan Hafetz

Propaganda: The Undefined Theatre of War
Juliana Amal Obonyo

Violence Threat and State Coercion: Conspiracy Theories and Secret Services in Romanzo Criminale, la seria
Daire Maria Ni Uanachain

Vietnam, Metonymy, Minimalist Prism: The Work of Chris Burden 1971-1975
Russell Stephens

10.30
Coffee

11.00
Session 8: Missing in Recognition
Chair: Robert  Jacobs

Picnolepsis and Forgetting Remembrance: Keeping War in the Public Psyche
Niall Scott

A People Immune to War
Judith Oleson

12.30
Lunch

14.00
Session 9a: The “War on Terror” and Civil Dissent
Chair: Taylor Lauren Miller

Baylee Brits, Diana Soto-de Jésus, Sterre van Rossem, Thijs Witty

Sabotage, pre-terrorism, civil war: the Tarnac affair

Part I. From a quiet crowbar to an explosive reaction
The discourse of (pre-)terrorism and the spectacle
Sterre van Rossem

Part II.  Towards Radical Praxis
Tiqqun, form-of-life and the ethics of civil war
Thijs Witty

Part III. Between Sabotage and Pre-Terrorism
Short Circuits and their Terrorizing Disruptions
Diana Soto de Jesús

15.30
Coffee

16.00
Session 10 EELS 5 : Repression, Subjugation and Displacement
Chair: Danijela Barjaktarović

“The Evil that Men Do Lives After Them”: State Policy and the Subjugation of Ireland’s Travellers
Aoife Padraígin Foley

Governmentality and/or Repression: Depoliticizing the Dissent of Labor Class in Turkey
D. Burcu Eğilmez

17.30
Development Meeting  and closing remarks

18.00
Conference Ends