Understanding Peace, Conflict and Violence: do we need new approaches?

This conference is organized to mark the integration of the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) with Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR).

Researchers from both institutions, together with international experts in the field, will share their understandings of 'the basics' of the broad fields of conflict, violence and peace studies. The conference programme is attached below.

Keynote speaker, Professor Johan Galtung, has been described as the 'father' of Peace Studies. His talk tackles the main theme of this conference, and is followed by a panel of speakers debating the significance of his approach, from feminist and other perspectives.

There will follow three workshops, on Religion, on Gender and on Learning from Experiences of War and Peace. This includes speakers from ISS-EUR and cases presented include Darfur and Palestine. The closing panel includes papers reflecting on 'the need for new approaches'. Professors Ko Colijn (Clingendael, EUR) and Professor Scott Gates (PRIO, Norway) are on the closing panel as speakers.

We look forward to a lively day, and hope to welcome you to the conference on 8 December. This day conference includes a special prize-awarding ceremony after lunch, for the Isaac Roet Prize (for more details see: http://www.epseu.org/isaacroetprize/competition2008.html). The conference is followed by a reception in the ISS bar.

If you are interested to register, or obtain further details, please see the full program (places are limited).

Please click on the link for the full programme.