Seminar: Kritiske freds- og konfliktstudier

TIME: Wednesday, 9 May, 9.30 – 12.00

VENUE: Danish Institute for International Studies, Main Auditorium, Strandgade 71, ground floor, Christianshavn, 1401 Copenhagen K

What does critical peace and conflict studies look like today, and where are they going?

TIME: Wednesday, 9 May, 9.30 – 12.00

VENUE: Danish Institute for International Studies, Main Auditorium, Strandgade 71, ground floor, Christianshavn, 1401 Copenhagen K

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

The seminar will be held in English.

Participation is free of charge, but registration is required. Read more about the seminar and use the online registration form on the website no later than Tuesday, 8 May at 12.00 noon.

Please await confirmation by e-mail from DIIS for participation.