[ALBSA-Info] Event in London

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From: Dejan Djokic <ddjokic at ssees.ac.uk> 

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON 
School of Slavonic and East European Studies
POST-KOSOVO BALKANS: PERSPECTIVES ON RECONCILIATION 
Workshop organized by Centre for South East European Studies (CSEES) and 
Nash Albanian Studies Programme
A one-day workshop on reconciliation in the Balkans is to be held at 
School of Slavonic and East European Studies, UCL, on 18 March 2000. The 
participants will address the issue of reconciliation from a perspective of 
political theory, anthropology and history. The aim of the workshop is to 
present relevant 
current research and to address following questions: What is 
reconciliation? Can and should theories of reconciliation developed in 
relation to other conflict and post-conflict areas (eg. Northern Ireland, 
South Africa) be applied to the Balkans? Is reconciliation in the Balkans 
possible and how to achieve it?
For more details contact the convenors: Dejan Djokic, PhD candidate and 
History Tutor, SSEES/UCL (d.djokic at ssees.ac.uk) or Stephanie 
Schwandner-Sievers, Alex Nash Teaching Fellow in Albanian Studies, 
SSEES/UCL (sschwand at ssees.ac.uk).

Programme
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON 
SCHOOL OF SLAVONIC AND EAST EUROPEAN STUDIES
POST-KOSOVO BALKANS: PERSPECTIVES ON RECONCILIATION 
Workshop organized by Centre for South East European Studies and Nash 
Albanian Studies Programme 
Saturday, 18 March 2000, 9:00-17:00 
Room 336, SSEES, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

9:00 Registration 
9:30 Welcome by Michael Branch, Director, SSEES 
9:35 Introduction by Wendy Bracewell, Director, CSEES 
Session One: Theoretical perspectives (chair: Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers)
9:45 Mari Fitzduff (INCORE, University of Ulster) 
The Challenges Beyond Violence: Reflections on the Study of 
Conflict Resolution and Reconciliation
10:30 Coffee/Tea break
Session Two: Historical perspectives (chair: Wendy Bracewell) 
10:45 Renee Hirschon (Oxford) 
History, Myth and the Nation State: Reviving Lost 
Anatolian Voices
Peter Siani-Davies (SSEES/UCL) 
Civil War and Reconciliation in Greece
Dejan Djokic (SSEES/UCL) 
The Second World War II: Reconciliation Among Serbs and Croats 
and the Disintegration of Yugoslavia 
13:00 Lunch break
Session Three: Current perspectives (chair: Dejan Djokic)
14:00 Cynthia Cockburn (City University, London) 
Women's Organizations in Post-War Bosnia-Herzegovina: 
Issues of Democracy 
Joanna Hanson (FCO) and Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers (SSEES/UCL) 
The Impact of the Kosovo Crisis on Albanian Mutual Perceptions
15:30 Coffee/Tea break
15:45 Radovan Haluzik (Charles University, Prague and SSEES/UCL) 
Narratives of Hatred and of Reconciliation in Kosovo
Gerlachus Duijzings (SSEES/UCL) 
New Myths are Needed: Reconciliation in Kosovo as an 
Intellectual Challenge
Final discussion
17:00 Wine

RSVP to convenors: Dejan Djokic (d.djokic at ssees.ac.uk) and 
Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers (sschwand at ssees.ac.uk) 
Admission: #10. Free to SSEES students and staff, paid-up members of 
South East European Studies Association. Other students, OAP, UB40: #5.