Comprehensive Conflict Resolution: Connecting Academic 'Silos'

Start Date

Thursday October 13, 2022

End Date

Friday October 14, 2022

Time

2:00 pm - 12:00 pm

Location

This SSHRC Connection Grant workshop seeks to bring together a small group of experts to discuss the fact that peace processes do not operate with a clear understanding of the varied and comprehensive elements of conflict resolution, or the impact that those elements have on each other in achieving desired goals.

This problem is in part due to the 'siloed' approach through which many experts on conflict resolution approach their work: security experts work on security, human rights and transitional justice experts on human rights and justice, constitutional design specialists on power-sharing or on autonomy arrangements, and so on.

The workshop has two main objectives: First, to develop an understanding of the 'comprehensive' nature of conflict resolution, with its seven key dimensions: power-sharing; autonomy; refugee returns; security sector reform; disarmament, demobilization and re-integration; transitional justice; and economic reconstruction. Second, to explore how the different dimensions impact on each other in either positive or negative ways, and what the best approach is to provide lasting conflict resolution that satisfies stability and justice concerns.

Thursday 13 October

13:00鈥14:14           Lunch

14:15鈥14:20           CCR Workshop welcome and brief introductory remarks 鈥 Stephen Larin

14:20鈥15:45           CCR Panel 1 (E202)

Ian O鈥橣lynn: 鈥淰etoes Rights in Power-Sharing Democracies: A Justificatory Test鈥

Dawn Walsh: 鈥淐aring is Sharing: Why Independent Commissions in Post-Conflict Societies Have Powersharing Arrangements鈥

15:45鈥16:00           Coffee break

16:00鈥17:30           Keynote address (B201)

John McGarry & Brendan O鈥橪eary, 鈥淢ediation and Advisory Work in Deeply Divided Places鈥

End of day鈥檚 events, end of IPSA colloquium

Friday 14 October

9:30鈥11:15             CCR Panel 2 (E202)

(Coffee service begins outside the room at 9:15)

Neophytos Loizides: 鈥淐an institutions shape preferences so ethnic grievances be accommodated? Conjoint experiments as counterfactuals鈥

Allison McCulloch: 鈥淕etting Things Done? Process, Performance, and Decision-Evasion in Consociational Systems鈥

Samantha Twietmeyer: 鈥淐oming Together or Staying Apart: Implications of the Green Line for Negotiations in Cyprus鈥

11:15鈥11:30           Coffee break

End of events

Attendance is open to all.