The annual conference of Millennium: Journal of International Studies will take place on 20-21 October 2007 at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). The conference will explore the concept of peace in International Relations (IR).PEACE IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

The formative purpose of IR was not simply to understand the problem of war and prevent its reoccurrence, but to cultivate the conditions for peace. Over time this concern has been lost. The field of peace studies flourishes, but is somewhat detached from the core of IR theory. Consequently, peace has become under-theorised within IR, and is addressed only tangentially in mainstream IR debates. The most prominent engagement with the concept of peace in recent IR scholarship, Democratic Peace Theory, simply defines peace as the absence of intentions for war. This conference aims to bring peace back into the discipline, while providing a more sophisticated conceptualisation of what peace might mean beyond the absence of interstate war. Yet the relationship between war and peace must not be ignored. An expanded notion of peace cannot lose sight of the paradoxical notion of making peace through war, a feature of international politics from the Pax Romana to wars of humanitarian intervention. The purpose of the conference is to provoke discussion and debate with a view to arriving at a richer understanding of peace and, in the process, to recapture a concept once at the heart of IR. (Please see below for programme and registration details)

Panel Themes Include:

* Studying Peace: Critical Approaches to Peace Research * The Politics of Peace * Interrogating the Liberal Democratic Peace * Peace in the Just War Tradition

Keynote Speaker:
Professor Jean Bethke Elshtain, University of Chicago

Opening Address: Professor Christopher Coker, London School of Economics Closing Address: Professor Oliver Richmond, University of St. Andrews

REGISTRATION:

Tickets: Academics £50; Students £25
Pre-register by: 12 October 2007  (registration forms can be found on the Millennium website: www.e-millennium.ac)

For further information and registration details, please contact the conference organisers at: millennium.conference@lse.ac.uk

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PROGRAMME:

SATURDAY 20 OCTOBER 2007

9.00 - 10:00 Registration & Tea/Coffee

10:00 -10:10 Welcome and Introduction

10:10 - 11:00 Opening Address: Professor Christopher Coker, LSE

11:00-12:30 Panel Session 1.1: Critical Approaches to Peace Scholarship

* Chair/Discussant: Karin Aggestam (Lund University) * Vanessa Pupavac (University of Nottingham): 'From Peace Studies to War Studies: The Psychologising of War & Peace' * Andrew Rigby (Coventry University): 'Peace Studies in the UK: A Personal Reflection' * Matti Jutila, Samu Pehkonen, Tarja Vayrynen (Tampere Peace Research Institute): 'Resuscitating a Discipline: An Agenda for Critical Peace Research' * Josh Brem-Wilson (University of Bradford): 'Methodology and Peace: An Appraisal of the Implications of Different Methodological Positions for the understanding of peace with IR'

11:00 -12:30 Panel Session 1.2: Revisiting Positive Peace

* Chair/Discussant: Oliver Ramsbotham (University of Bradford) * Antoine Bousquet (LSE): 'The Politics of Potentiality: Problematising 'Positive Peace'' * David Roberts (University of Ulster): 'Bringing (Positive) Peace to International Relations'. * Hugh Miall (University of Kent): 'Peaceful Change and World Politics' * Carolyn Stephenson (University of Hawaii): 'Peace, Power, and International Politics'

12:30-13:30 Lunch

13:30-15:00 Panel Session 2.1: The Politics of Peace

* Chair/Discussant: Angharad Closs (Durham University) * Douglas Bulloch (LSE): 'For Whom Nobel Tolls? An Interpretive Account of the Migration of the Concept of Peace as perceived through the Solemn Eyes of Norwegian Lawmakers'. * Jorg Meyer, Dirk Wiemann (University of Magdeburg and University of Tübingen): 'The Concealed Violence of Modern Peace(-Making)' * Julian L. Junk & Joachim Blatter (University of Konstanz and Rotterdam): 'Peace Entrepreneurs and International Intervention - Navigating Between Negotiation Arenas and Discursive Fields: the Case of Sudan' * Tomas Baum (Flemish Peace Institute, University of Antwerp): 'Enlightened peace-mongers? Accounting for the discord between morality and politics'

13:30 -15:00 Panel Session 2.2: Regulating Peace: The Laws and Norms of War

* Chair/Discussant: Kirsten Ainley (London School of Economics) * Stephanie Carvin (Royal Holloway): 'An Instrument of Thy Peace? "Lawfare" and The Risks of Forcing * Peace by Regulation' * Ritu Mathur (York University): 'A Humanitarian Perspective on Peace and Disarmament' * Martin Fischer (Carlton University): 'A Responsibility to Peace. Moving the Responsibility to Protect Norm Building Process Forward: Evidence from Darfur'

15:00-15:30 Coffee Break

15:30-17:00 Panel Session 3.1: Imagining a Post-modern Peace

* Anna M. Agathangelou (York University): 'Necro-Ontologies and Homo-Virile Slaughter-Economies: Peace and Intimimations of Peace and Substantive Democracy, By Way of War' * Rosemary Shinko (Bucknell University): 'Is Peace Possible within a Postmodern Analytic of Agonism?' * Louiza Odysseos (University of Sussex): 'Elusive Peace, Tangible Coexistence: Everydayness, Self and Other'

15:30-17:00 Panel Session 3.2: Just Peace?

* Chair/Discussant: Rachel Kerr (Kings College)
* Ville Päivänsalo (University of Helsinki): 'Towards Peaceful Justice: Balancing Global Rights and Responsibilities' * Karin Aggestam& Annika Bjorkdal (Lund University): 'Just or Virtual Peace?' * David Western (Brown University): 'The Empathetic Peace: Vision, Methods, and Comparison to the Just Peace, in Reference to Recent Research on Northern Ireland' * Kristine Höglund& Mimmi Soderberg Kovacs (Uppsala University): 'Just Peace, or Just Peace: Assessing the Quality of Peace'

17:10 Keynote Speech: Professor Jean Bethke Elshtain, University of Chicago

18:30 Reception

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9:30-11:00 Panel Session 4.1: Security & Peace

* Joseph Campos (University of Hawaii): 'Peace, Security, and Virtue: The National Security State and Global Interpenetration'. * Jacobus Delwaide & Jorg Kustermans (Katholieke Universiteit): 'Beyond the Absence of War: a relational understanding of peace' * Uzzi Ohana (LSE): 'Securitising the white dove with the olive branch: Can securitisation studies foster peace?'

9:30-11:00 Panel Session 4.2: Causes of Peace

* Chair/Discussant: Havva Kök (Hacettepe University) * Iain Atack (Irish School of Ecumenics): 'Peace, Pacifism and Nonviolent Action' * Paul Joseph (Tufts University): 'Are Americans Becoming More Peaceful? The Influence of "Thin" Peace Sentiment in the U.S. Public on the War in Iraq'

11:00-11:30 Coffee Break

11:30-13:00 Panel Session 5.1: Peace as Process

* Adrian Hyde-Price (University of Bath): 'Rethinking the Concept of Peace: Reflections on the Middle East Peace Process' * Peter Komorowski (American Military University): 'The Role of Reconciliatory Institutions in Achieving Peace in South Africa' * Jan Selby (University of Sussex): 'Peace Processes: A Genealogy and Critique' * Sarah Williams (LSE): 'The Ontology of a Constructivist Analysis of Peace Processes'

11:30-13:00 Panel Session 5.2: Managing Peace

* Chair/Discussant: Michael Pugh (University of Bradford) (tba) * Philip Cunliffe (Kings College): 'Towards Perpetual Police: Power and the Limits of Peacekeeping' * John Heathershaw (University of Exeter): 'From Peace to 'Peacebuilding': International Intervention for Virtual World Order' * Laurent Goetschel& Tobias Hagmann (Swisspeace & University of Zurich): 'From ideology to technocracy: Norms of peace and the evolution of the peace-building agenda since 1991'

11:30-13:00 Panel Session 5.3: Cultures of Peace

* Chair/Discussant: Anna Halafoff (Monash University) * Chandra Dev Bhatta (University of Berne): 'Understanding the Concept of Peace in Hindu Statecraft' * Olya Gayazova (Depauw University): 'Peace in the Chinese Ontology of International Relations' * Nele Noesselt (University of Vienna): 'Concepts of Peace in International Relations -A Chinese Perspective'

13:00- 14:00 Lunch

14:00-15:30 Panel Session 6.1: 'Interrogating the Liberal Democratic Peace'

* Chair/Discussant: Kimberly Hutchings (London School of Economics) * Margit Bussmann & Gerald Schneider (University of Konstanz): 'Against the Grain: Why and How the "Democratic Peace" Explains Positive Cooperation' * Chiara Ruffa & Christian Büger (European University Institute): 'The night where all the cows are dark? Cultures, practice and the multiplicity of peace' * Andreas Behnke (University of Reading): 'Liberal Peace as the Graveyard of the Political. A Critique of Kant's 'Zum Ewigen Frieden'' * Cara Daggett (Johns Hopkins University): 'Democracy and War: The Other Side of the Democratic Peace Theory'

14:00-15:30 Panel Session 6.2: Peace in the Just War Tradition

* Chair/Discussant: Jennifer Welsh (University of Oxford) * Cian O'Driscoll (University of Glasgow): 'Consequences Paid in Blood? War, No War, Peace, and the Invasion of Iraq' * Tony Lang (University of St. Andrews): 'Punishment and Peace: Critical Reflections on Countering Terrorism' * Mark Evans (Swansea University): 'Peace, Justice and Sovereignty: Some Tensions in the Theory and Practice of Jus Post Bellum'

15:30-16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 Closing Address: Professor Oliver Richmond, University of St. Andrews


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