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Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2000 18:47:16 +0100 (BST)
From: Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers <sschwand at ssees.ac.uk>
Subject: 'Balkan security' conference at SSEES



BALKAN SECURITY: VISIONS OF THE FUTURE

The Centre for South-East European Studies at the School of Slavonic and
East European Studies, University College London is convening a two-day
conference on 16-17 JUNE 2000 entitled: Balkan Security: Visions of the
Future.

The venue will be Room 336, Third Floor, North Block, Senate House, Malet
Street, London. WC1E 7HU. The registration fee is GBP 30 for two days and
GBP 20 for one day. The conference is free for all students on proof of
identity. Cheques should be made payable to the Centre for South-East
European Studies

To register please send an email to security.conference at ssees.ac.uk or a
fax to 020 7862 8643. Full details of the conference can also be found at
http://www.ssees.ac.uk/security.htm

Sponsors include: The British Academy, Nash Fund, Austrian Airlines,
BACEE, British Council. The convenors are Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers &
Peter Siani-Davies, and the preliminary programme is as follows:


FRIDAY 16 JUNE 2000

9.00 Registration

9.30 Opening
Professor Michael Branch (Director, SSEES)
Dr Wendy Bracewell (Director, Centre for South-East European Studies, SSEES)

9.50 Opening Address:
Chair: Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers (SSEES)
Pandeli Majko (Member of the Albanian Parliament and Former Prime
Minister of Albania), New Security in the Balkans

10.30 Regional Perspectives
Chair: tba
Professor Mary Kaldor (LSE) Security problems in the Balkans and EU/NATO
perceptions
Dr James Gow (King's) Modernising Hellenic Security Policy

11.30 Coffee/Tea

12.00 Minorities I
Chair: Professor George Schopflin, (SSEES)
Professor Stefan Troebst, (Leipzig) Factors of Escalation and
De-escalation in Ethnic Conflicts: An Overview of Theoretical Approaches
Dr Stefan Wolff (Bath), External Minorities and the Long-term Stability
of Balkan Security Arrangements

1.00 Lunch

2.00 Minorities II
Chair: Dr Vesna Popovski (SSEES)
Stephan Muller (Advisor on Minority Affairs, OSCE Mission in Kosovo), At
the Crossroads - Roma in the Balkans
Dr Dejan Jovic (Florence), The fear of becoming a Minority as a Motivator
of Conflict

3.00 Crime, Corruption and Policing
Chair: Jim Headley (SSEES)
Professor Aleksandar Fatic (Belgrade) Stability and Corruption in
Southeastern Europe
Arianit Koci (Leicester & BBC) Structural Reform in the Albanian Police:
Towards a Seamless Divorce between Policing and Politics?

4.00 Tea/Coffee

4.30 Yugoslavia
Chair: Dr Peter Siani-Davies (SSEES)
Discussant: Dejan Djokic (SSEES)
Dr Miroslav Hadzic (Belgrade), The Security Capacity of the Federal
Republic of Yugoslavia
Dr Jasna Dragovic-Soso (SSEES), Western Policy and the Consolidation of
the Milosevic regime

6.00 Wine and Buffet

SATURDAY 17 JUNE 2000

10.00 Balkan Reconstruction?
Chair: tba
Xavier Devictor (Acting Head, World Bank Liaison Office, Kosovo), Title
to be announced*
Dr Sumantra Bose (LSE), The Failure of the Dayton Process in
Bosnia-Hercegovina
Fabian Schmidt (Suedost Institut, Munich), Security Projects Related to
the Stability Pact

11.30 Coffee/Tea

12.00 Other Securities
Chair Dr Vassilis Fouskas (Kingston)
Dr Marija Anteric (King's) & Dr Richard Clarke (Birkbeck), Refugees,
Civil Society and the Law - Theoretical Possibilities and Practical
Reality - Issues for Balkan Security
Vanessa Pupavac (Nottingham), Resecuring the Community?

1.00 Lunch

2.00 Keynote Address
Chair: Professor Bernd Fischer (Indiana)
Shkelzen Maliqi (Writer and Political Analyst, Prishtina), Critical
Reflections on the Albanian Question

2.45 Local Perspectives
Chair: tba
Professor Steven Sampson (Lund), Does Civil Society have anything to do
with Security? NGO Development in Albania, Kosovo, Bosnia and Romania
Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers (SSEES), Local Security Perceptions and
Strategies in post-war Kosovo

3.45 Tea/Coffee

4.30 Media
Chair: tba
Discussant: tba
Astrit Salihu (Prishtina), The impact of the media on security in
post-war Kosova
Adelheid Feilcke-Tiemann (Deutsche Welle), The Media in War

5.45 Closing Session
Participants to be announced.

6.30 Wine

*The speaker will be addressing the conference in a personal capacity and
his comments will not necessarily reflect World Bank policy.

The convenors gratefully acknowledge the support of The Elizabeth Barker
Fund of the British Academy, The Nash Fund, Austrian Airlines, The
British Association for Central and Eastern Europe and The British
Council in funding this event.



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