MINELRES: EuPRA conference: Europe as a Peaceful Power? Stadtschlaining, Austria,
July 13-17, 2002
MINELRES moderator
[email protected]
Tue Jun 25 10:17:42 2002
Europe as a Peaceful Power?
Stadtschlaining, Austria, July 13-17, 2002
The conference of the European Peace Research Association (EuPRA)
in co-operation with the Tampere Peace Research Institute (TAPRI)
and the Austrian Study Center for Peace and Conflict Resolution (ASPR)
Four days of plenaries, round tables, workshops and meetings on themes
relevant to European peace researchers and institutes - and relevant
to Europe and the world.
See:
http://www.uta.fi/laitokset/tapri/ajankoht.html and
http://www.aspr.ac.at
For information and registration, contact:
European Peace Research Association, c/o Tampere Peace Research
Institute
FIN-33014 University of Tampere, Finland, e-mail [email protected] For
accommodation, contact: [email protected] or [email protected]
OPENING SESSION AND RECEPTION
Saturday, 13 July 19.00
Words of welcome
Dr. Gerald Mader, President of the Austrian Study Center for Peace and
Conflict Resolution
Mr. Unto Vesa, President of the European Peace Research Association
Keynote speech: The World after September 11, Professor Johan Galtung
Reception in the Knights' Hall
PLENARY SESSIONS
Sunday, 14 July 9.00-10.30 Europe as a peaceful power?
Speakers: Prof. Wolf Dieter Eberwein, Wissenschaftzentrum Berlin
Prof. Otmar Holl, Austrian Institute for International Affairs
Prof. Zarko Puhovski, Zagreb University
Mr. Unto Vesa, Tampere Peace Research Institute
Monday, 15 July 20.00-21.30 How to get rid of terrorism? (open)
Tuesday, 16 July 16.30-18.00 The future of European peace research
This plenary is continued as the general conference of the EuPRA and
will deal with the relevant issues as required by the statutes of the
Association.
Tuesday evening: Wine party
WORKING GROUPS
Time-slots available for the sessions: on Sunday 14.30-16.00 and
16.30-18.00; on Monday 9.00-10.30, 11.00-12.30, 14.30-16.00,
16.30-18.00; on Tuesday 9.00-10.30, 11.00-12.30 and 14.30-16.00, i.e.
nine sessions at maximum for each, but the schedule and number of each
WG's sessions depends on the conveners as well as on the number of
participants and papers in each. On the basis of registrations it
seems some will have a series of sessions, while other might have one
or two.
WG1 Peace and War in South Eastern Europe, convener Prof. Hakan
Wiberg, COPRI, e-mail: [email protected]
WG2 War in the 21st Century: Reflections after Kosovo and the "Black
Tuesday", convener Mr. Pertti Joenniemi, COPRI, e-mail:
[email protected]
WG3 Terrorism and new forms of war, convener Mr. Unto Vesa, TAPRI,
e-mail: [email protected]
WG4 The Enlargement of the EU and NATO, chair tba
WG5 National Identity, Region Building and the Construction of Europe
in the Baltic Sea Region, convener Dr. Christopher Browning, COPRI,
e-mail: [email protected]
WG6 The role of NGOs in crisis-management, peace-building and
reconciliation, chair tba
WG7 Identities, minorities and ethnic conflicts, convener Carina
Korostelina, Crimean Institute of Peace, Ukraine, e-mail:
[email protected]
WG8 Critical reflections on military policy in Europe, conveners: Dr.
Patricia Bauer, Universitat Osnabruck, e-mail:
[email protected] and Dr. Michael Berndt, Universitat
Gesamthochschule Kassel, e-mail: [email protected]
WG9 EU and the Middle East, convener Mr. Amichai Magen, e-mail:
[email protected]
USEFUL INFORMATION
No registration fee. Voluntary contributions to EuPRA most welcome!
Early registration recommended. The planning of the final programme,
especially that of working groups, is considerably facilitated by your
as early registration as possible. Please send your registration sheet
to Unto Vesa, fax 358-3-223 6620 and inform the convener of the
working group in which you wish to present your paper, by sending him
or her your paper or at least an informative concise abstract.
The programme structure, especially as regards workshops, remains
flexible until the eve of the conference and can be revised in
accordance with the proposals from the participants.
How to get there? On Saturday, 13 July there is an opportunity to have
a free coach from Vienna to Schlaining, from the Vienna City Air
Terminal at Vienna Hilton Hotel, am Stadtpark at 13.00 and 16.00.
There is an ASPR representative meeting you there and guiding to the
coaches. The same coaches leave from Vienna Airport at 13.30 and 16.30
respectively. The meeting place there will be the information desk in
the arrival hall. In order to reserve a seat on these coaches, please
send the travel sheet to fax 43-3355-2662 or to e-mail address
[email protected]
Departure: Wednesday 17 July at 9 a.m., coaches to Vienna City and
Airport, but again: please, inform about your intention to make use of
this connection on the enclosed travel sheet.
If you cannot or will not make use of these coaches, please get
acquainted with the enclosed information on General information on
transport as well as Bus and train connections to Stadtschlaining,
Saturday 13th July 2002.
Accommodation. You find information on the two basic alternatives,
Hotel Burg Schlaining and House International on the enclosed sheet,
where you also find their web-pages and e-mail addresses. Please note
that you have to make your room reservations yourself!