1st Global Conference (2002)

Conference Programme and Abstracts

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.

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Draft Programme – 09/07/02

Tuesday 16th July

Keynote Address: Roles and Identities in Old and New Wars
Professor Paul Gilbert

Tea

Session 1: Terrorism, Assassination & Freedom Fighters
Shibnath Banerjee – Terrorism: Condemned or Condoned
Michael Gross – Assassination: Killing in the Shadow of Self-Defence
William Ejalu – African Freedom Fighters or Terrorists/War Criminals: How does International Law Solve this Controversy?

Wine Reception

Dinner

Session 2: Transitions in Perceptions of War
Paul Doerr – November 1918 as a Transition in 20th Century War Termination
Chris Macallister -The Changing British Sensibility Towards War as Reflected in Contemporary Cinema’s Depiction of World War Two
Alexander Watson – Fear in Combat and Combating Fear: British and German Troops in Endurance Warfare, 1914-1918
Wednesday 17th July

Session 3: Globalization, Authority & Triggers of Conflict
Bradd Hayes – System Perturbation: Conflict in the Age of Globalization
Paul Kan – Globalization and the Just War Tradition: The Challenge of Legitimate Authority and World Order
Danny Sriskandarajah – Greed, Grievance and Globalization: The Political Economy of Ethnic Conflict

Coffee

Session 4: Ideology, Rhetoric & Causes of War
Susan Sample The Impact of Ideational Interests on State Behaviour and the Outcome of Militarised Disputes
Steven Schroeder – ‘We’ is as Problematic as ‘What’: A War of Words
Ineba Bobmanuel – We are the War: An African Psychological and Sociological Perspective of the Causes of Wars

Lunch

Session 5: Policy, Community and Exclusion
Deborah Gomez The Exclusion of American Nurses in the Imagery of Liberation
Chad Pearson – “Strikes are like war”: Wartime Memory, Class Conflict, and Community in Post-war Pittsfield, Massachusetts
Raymond Westphal – Years of Uncertainty: Defence Expenditures & Politics 1922-24

Tea

Session 6: Imagination, Technology and the Challenges of War
Richard Byrne – The Machinery of the Imagination: Modern Technologies in Imaginative Interpretations of the Experience of the Great War on the Western Front
Carol Burke – Future War
Martin Bayer – Playing War in Computer Games – Images, Myths, and Reality

Lunch

Session 7: Humanity, Frailty and Violence
Jones Irwin – A Life of War – Pasolini’s Sal’o on the Inextricability of Humanity and Violence
Rob Fisher – Loving the Human and the Need for Recognition
Thursday 18th July

Session 8: History, Technology & Peace
Nikolas Gardner – Telegraphs, Telephones and Automobiles: British Commanders and Modern Communications Technology in 1914
Samuel Adeyemi – Technology with Peace
Maura Conway – What is Cyberterrorism?

Coffee

Session 9: Heroism, Violence & Disobedience
Deb Narayan Bandyopadhyay – Devalorising War and Heroism
M. C. Smith – “You Have To Shoot Somebody”. A Paradigm Shift in Heroism: The Victoria Cross and the Great War
Asa Kasher – Civil Disobedience and Military Ethics

Lunch

Session 10: The Challenges of Peace
Agata Dziewulska – Bottom-Up Approach and Subsidiarity: Remedies for Post-Conflict Peace Building in Bosnia?
Edward Horgan – Peace and Virtual Peace; The Challenges to War
Oleg Piletsky – The Role of Security-Communities in the Prevention War

Tea

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

Conference Closes