Events
Diminishing Conflicts Series (2008)
Friday 30th January
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Hedley Bull Centre, Corner of Liversidge St and Garran Road
This workshop is to be held in conjunction with
Asia Pacific week.
A conversation series in the College of Asia and the Pacific.
Tuesdays, from 5pm, in the APCD Lecture Theatre 1.29, Hedley Bull Centre
What it’s all about:
Why do conflicts within states sometimes wane (e.g., Khalistan, Free Quebec)? Are they simply smashed by superior state force? Do generations run out of energy? Do skilful governments ameliorate injustice? Do foreign interventions and peace mediations work? Do foreign backers stop backing? What combination of all these?
Such questions tax many of us in the College, and we bring to bear on them the lenses of every discipline from history and anthropology to economics and strategic studies.
'Diminishing Conflicts', therefore, seemed a fruitful theme for a series of winter conversations, inspired by the successful 'Keywords' conversations of last winter.
Each week in 'Diminishing Conflicts' (the ambiguity of the title is intentional) a speaker will discuss an example where internal conflicts have waned, diminished or apparently disappeared. Speakers will attempt to explain why. Audiences will be invited to intervene.
28 October - PNG: Southern Highlands: Nicole Haley
21 October - East Asia: Historical conflict and reconciliation: Tessa Morris-Suzuki
14 October - Timor: Susan Harris-Rimmer
7 October - Pakistan: Paul D’Arcy
30 September - Papua: Mike Cookson
23 September - Kashmir: Christopher Snedden
15 September - Southern Philippines: Ron May
9 September - Nagaland (Northeast India): Anthony Regan
2 September - Chittagong Hills: Bina D’Costa
26 August - Communal conflicts in Indonesia (Maluku, North Maluku and Central Sulawesi): John Braithwaite/h3>
19 August - Solomon Islands Matthew Allen and Sinclair Dinnen.
12 August - Burma: Des Ball
5 August - Fiji: Jon Fraenkel
29 July - Bougainville: Anthony Regan
22 July - Punjab: Robin Jeffrey
15 July - Aceh: Edward Aspinall
All of the sessions will be recorded, where possible.
