Monday 12th August - Friday 16th August 2002
Prague, Czech Republic

Conference Programme
The draft 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 for that session. Each delegate is listed according to their affiliation.

Monday 12th August 2002

Keynote Address - The Future of Violence
Professor Joseph Drew, Anglo-American College

Coffee

Session 1: Conflict, Discourses and the Langauge of Violence
Randall Hall - Justifying Violence: Ninety Years of Explanations for a 1912 Court-Room Massacre in Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains

Sabah Sali - The Dogma of State Violence: Saddam-Style

Kathleen Young - The Translation of Violence: The Anthropologist as Madwoman

Wine Reception

Tuesday 13th August 2002

Session 2: Dogma, Legitimacy and Violence
Asher Idan - Ethnicity, Nationalism and Globalisation: Three Modes of Technologies of Violence

Chris Macallister - The (Re)Legitimisation of State Violence in Britain and the USA

Richard Jackson - The Social Construction of Internal War: Towards a Framework of Understanding

Coffee

Session 3: Religion, Heresy and Violence
Peter Day - Ploughshares into Swords

Brian Sandberg - The Infection of Heresy: Religious Conquest and Confessional Violence in Early Modern France

Mike McFarland - Religion, Conflict and the Secular

Lunch

Session 4: Gang Violence, Soccer Hooligans and Uncivil Society
Catherine Leung - An Analysis of Gang Violence - A Subcultural Perspective

Przemyslaw Piotrowski - Soccer Hooliganism in Poland: The Extent, Dynamism and Psychosocial Conditions

Ebenezer Obadare - White-Collar Fundamentalism: Youth, Religious Violence & Uncivil Society in Nigeria

Tea

Session 5: Contexts of Violence
Martha Apostolidou - The Role of Health education in the Prevention of Violence in the Family

Suruchi Thapar-Bjorkert - ‘Killing Fields’; Gender, Caste and Violence in North India

Miri Cohen - Identification of Elderly People at High Risk of Abuse or Neglect by their Care-Givers

Wednesday 14th August
No formal programme today.

Trip to Terezin
Founded in 1780, the fortress town was built by Emperor Joseph II to block a Prussian invasion of Prague.

The Gestapo took over the fortress in 1940. A year later, residents were evacuated and the first contingent of Czech Jews arrived. It featured in the propaganda film The Führer Gives the Jews a Town, and was the site of several International Red Cross inspections.

We know that over 150,000 people passed through Terezin on the way to Auschwitz-Birkenau (today the Jewish community numbers less than 800). Liberated by the Red Army in May 1945.

The trip will include guided visits to the fortress; Muzeum ghetta; ghetto; cemetery and Valley of the Nations.

Thursday 15th August

Session 6: Sexual Assault, Violence and the Abuse of Women
Nomi Rotbard - Sexual Assault

Anna Sklepova - Sexual Violence

Mpho Tshesane - A South African Criminologist’s on Selected Aspects of the Abuse of Women

Coffee

Session 7: Gender, Dating & Legal Violence
Alan Bougere - Physical Aggression in the Context of Dating Relationships

Bill Munro - The Concept of ‘Dangerousness’ and Sex Offenders

Jennifer Suchland - Public Morality and the Impossibility of a Violent Act

Lunch

Session 8: Violence and the Place of Politics
Eep Fatah - The Military, Violence, and Democratic Transition: Post-Soeharto Indonesia

John Moukas - High Politics vs Violence: The Kosovo Compromise - Russian Foreign Policy and the 1999 NATO Air Strikes Against Yugoslavia

Sabelo Sabinda - Ethnicity, Nationalism and Sub-nationalism: Racism and Violence

Tea

Session 9: Masculinity and Violence
Victor Arrocha - The Deconstruction of Machismo through Education

Matias Waldemar - Cultural Concepts of Masculinity

Friday 16th August

Session 10: Trauma, Frailty and Prevention
Gwyneth Bodger - The Holocaust and Hiroshima: Representations of the Technologies of Murder

Rob Fisher - Loving the Human at the Foundations of Violence and Peace

Ruth Firer - Preventative Remedy: Tolerance Education

Coffee

Session 11: Narratives, Politics & Education for Peace
Mike Fosdal - Violence into Politics

Jerome Gellman - Educating Away from Violence: Referential Directness vs Obliqueness

Elissa Teeple - Deconstructing Cultures of Violence to Build Cultures of Peace: Challenges and Opportunities

12.45pm Development Meeting
Agenda:
a) e-mail discussion group
b) publication process
c) e-journal
d) next conference
e) any other items

1.00pm Conference close