Tuesday 2nd September

9.15-9.25 Welcome by Professor Hugh Miall on behalf of CARC and by Profesor Jim Bryant on behalf of the CRS

9.30-11.00 The Middle East: radical disagreement, asymmetric warfare and negotiation

• The phenomenology of radical disagreement and the very idea of conflict complexity - Oliver Ramsbotham, Bradford School of Peace Studies.
  
  
• Victory is Futile: the Danger of Applying Traditional Expectations to Asymmetric Warfare and Israel’s osing Streak - Orit Gal, strategy consultant
  
  
• The negosystem model - Moty Cristal, Nest Consulting  

9.30-11.00 Language and conflict: keywords, frameworks and metaphors

• Radicalisation and Democracy: Keywords for our times? Lesley Jeffries, Huddersfield University

• Conflict Participation Frameworks - Jim O'Driscoll, Huddersfield University
  
  
• From conflict to conciliation: Disarming metaphors - Lynne Cameron, Open University

11.00-11.30 Tea/Coffee

11.30-13.00 Europe: security, defence and crisis management

• The contribution of the EU crisis management system to a better and safer world - Natália Leal, Kent University.
  
  
• National Ethnic Movements in Western Europe - future independent states or the victory of ESDP? -António Ramos, Lisbon University.

11.30-1.00 Social conflict and cooperation

• Structure and the Evolution of Cooperation in Complex Social Networks - Gregory Todd Jones, Georgia State University.
  
  
• Emergence of Cooperation in Two-Level Systems - Hugh Miall, Kent University.
  
  
• Paradox Lost – Explaining and Modeling Seemingly Random Behavior in Social Dilemmas - Joe Oppenheimer, Maryland University., USA

1.00-2.00 Lunch

2.00-3.00 Restorative justice; compelxity models - players from afar

• Victim-Offender-Mediation in Germany - Ulrike Tabbert, Germany.
  
  
• Complexity Models and Conflict: A Case Study from Kosovo - Glenda Eoyang and Lois Yellowthunder,Human Systems Dynamics Institute, Minnesota, USA.

2.00-3.00 Data and models: subtleties and limitations

• Long Term Consequences of Military Intervention - Francisco Gutierrez, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
  
  
• Lanchester models and the Battle of Britain- Ian Johnson and Niall Mackay (speaker), York University .

3.00-3.30 Tea/Coffee

3.30-4.30 Networks and resistance; international involvement

• Networks, Resistance, and Lines of Flight in the Global Periphery - Athina Karatzogianni, Hull University.
  
  
• Players from Afar: A Study of International Involvement in the Sri Lankan Conflict - Chaminda Weerawardhana, University François-Rabelais, France.
  

3.30-4.30 Contemporary conflict, compelxity models and the hermeneutic net

• Common characteristic of modern-day human conflicts - Mike Spagat et al., Royal Holloway College, London University.
  
  
• Internationalised contemporary conflict, complexity and the hermeneutic net - Armando Geller, Manchester Metropolitan University.

4.30-5.00 Review and Prospect 1: How would you like to carry forward the work of the conference?

5.15 A commemoration of Keith Webb's life and work (1944-2008)

An obituary for Keith Webb was written by Professor John Groom and appears in 'European Political Sceince,' June 2008, Volume 7, No.2, pages 250-251.

You can view the obituary here.

 

7.00 Conference Dinner