[ALST-L] Workshop: Post-Kosovo Balkans, Perspectives on Reconciliation, London, 18.3.2000

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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.