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The Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS) has the pleasure of inviting you to a seminar on:Critical Peace and Conflict StudiesWednesday, 9 May 2012, 9.30-12.00 |
| Background What does critical peace and conflict studies look like today, and where are they going? While international peace-building practice has been increasingly bureaucratized and emptied of explicitly political considerations of the meaning of peace, critical analytical approaches to the field have been dominated by the notion of securitization and the Copenhagen school of security studies. But other approaches have emerged during the past two decades. This seminar will look at different trends in the field in order to raise discussion about how the tradition of peace and conflict studies is currently being revitalized. Given that political and analytical changes during the past decade have challenged state-centric norms and theories of peace and state building, the seminar will give particular attention to the issue of authority, notions of ‘hybrid orders’, as well as ideas of informal, nested, outsourced, overlapping or fragmented sovereignty. The seminar forms part of the Peace, Conflict and Authority initiative at DIIS (website under construction) Speakers Tobias Hagmann, Visiting Scholar, University of California, Berkeley Finn Stepputat, Senior Researcher, DIIS Ulla Holm, Senior Researcher, DIIS Programme 09.30-09.40 Introduction 09.40-10.10 Critical Peace and Conflict Studies – Looking Back and Ahead Tobias Hagmann, Visiting Scholar, University of California, Berkeley 10.10-10.40 ‘Hybrid Peace’ and Sovereign Practice Finn Stepputat, Senior Researcher, DIIS 10.40-11.00 Coffee Break 11.00-12.00 Open Discussion Chair: Ulla Holm, Senior Researcher, DIIS Practical Information The seminar will be held in English. Participation is free of charge, but registration is required. Please use our online registration form no later than Tuesday, 8 May 2012 at 12.00 noon. |
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