Events

TITLE: "Celebrating the Nation: the Politics of Commemoration in the Arab World" at 10:30 a.m.
SPEAKER: Elie Podeh, Chair of Islam and Middle East Studies and Senior Research Fellow at the Harry S. Truman Institute for Advancement of Peace at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
DATE: Tuesday, November 24, 2009
PLACE: 341 Eggers Hall
TITLE: "The Arab Plan: A Missed Opportunity" at 4:00 p.m. 
Co-sponsored by PARCC and the Middle Eastern Studies Program of Syracuse University. 

TITLE: The East Asia Program presents~"Does Democracy ‘Tame’ the Radicals? Lessons from Asia and Other Regions"
SPEAKER: Miriam Elman, Associate Professor of Political Science, and Affiliate of PARCC
DATE: Friday, Nov. 20th at 12:00 pm
PLACE: 341 Eggers Hall. Lunch will be served
In a 2008, the journal Asian Security published a symposium on the topic “Faith and Security: the Effects of Democracy on Religious Political Parties”. The symposium, which Professor Elman guest edited, explored how access to patronage, power, and policy moderates the ideologies and strategies of religious political parties over time, and identified both the mechanisms that lead to this ‘taming effect’ and the conditions under which extremism may not be quelled merely by a party’s participation in government. In this talk, Professor Elman will provide an overview of the symposium’s findings, both with regard to the Asian region and other cases. She looks forward to constructive criticism on this project, and suggestions for next steps.

TITLE: "The Paradoxes of Atonement: Rhetoric, Historical Memory, and State Apologies"

SPEAKER: Bradford Vivian, Assistant Professor, Communication and Rhetorical Studies, Graduate Program Coordinator Communication and Rhetorical Studies

DATE: Wednesday, November 18th at 11:30 a.m.

PLACE: 400 Eggers Hall, the PARCC Office Suite

Dr. Vivian will present ongoing research concerning the recent trend of state apologies for historical injustice in international relations.  In particular, he will examine the role of particular forms of political rhetoric and the symbolism of historical memory in both creating and inadvertantly complicating opportunities for justice and enhanced international relations. 
 

TITLE: "Downscaling Industrial Society for a Sustainable World: Preparing for Successful Conflict Management"
SPEAKER: Visiting Scholar, Professor Isidor Wallimann
DATE:  Wednesday, November 11th at 11:30 a.m.
PLACE: 400 Eggers Hall, the PARCC Office Suite
The global warming discourse points to the limits of an industrial society based on carbon fuels. Yet, the focus on climate change tends to suppress other dimensions important in attaining ecological and social sustainability. All point to the need to downscale industrial society. Downscaling industrial society will be associated with significant conflict potential (as is true should the present course be continued). In this context, a discussion of the major fields of conflicts to be expected is of great importance if only to better prepare for successful conflict management. It will also be important for coming through this phase in history with a minimal loss of human lives. Reference: ON THE EDGE OF SCARCITY: ENVIRONMENT, RESOURCES, POPULATION, SUSTAINABILITY, AND CONFLICTS. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press 2002 (Michael N. Dobkowski and Isidor Wallimann, eds.)

TITLE: Negotiate or 'Let it Burn?' Deconstructing Arguments Regarding the 'Best' Way to End Civil Wars
SPEAKER: Caroline A. Hartzell, Professor of Political Science at Gettysburg College
DATE: Wednesday, November 10th at 4:00 p.m.
PLACE: 402 Maxwell Hall 
A number of scholars have claimed that post-civil war peace is likely to last longer if a conflict ends in a military victory for one side. Focusing on the distinction between civil war outcomes and civil war settlements, Hartzell argues that how a war ends is less important for the future of peace than the terms adversaries agree to at a war’s end. Caroline Hartzell's research interests include the design of civil war settlements and post-conflict quality of the peace issues.  She is the co-author of Crafting Peace: Power-Sharing Institutions and the Negotiated Settlement of Civil Wars. 

 TITLE: What the ‘Axis of Evil’ Did to Iran
SPEAKER: Matt Bonham, Professor of Political Science
DATE: Wednesday, November 4th at 11:30 a.m.
PLACE: 400 Eggers Hall, the PARCC Office Suite
Professor Bonham will report on research based on interviews with members of the oppositional elite in Iran.

 TITLE: MuniGov2.0: Collaborative Governance Online
SPEAKER: Ines Mergel, Assistant Professor Public Administration
DATE: Wednesday, October 28th at 11:30 a.m.
PLACE: 400 Eggers Hall, the PARCC Office Suite
Professor Mergel will present first findings of a PARCC-sponsored project on collaborative networking in the public sector on the virtual world Second Life. The results are based on interviews with the founding members of MuniGov2.0 and their perceptions of collaborative governance.  Professor Mergel’s research focuses on informal social networking in the public sector and the use of social networking sites for collaboration, participation and transparency in government. 

TITLE: CNY Speaks Final Syracuse Mayoral Forum
DATE: Tuesday, October 27th from 6:00-9:00pm
PLACE: Sophistications (441 S Salina St.) 

TITLE: Justice and Reconciliation in Sierra Leone: Grand Project to Help by Imposing What We Think We Know
SPEAKER: Gearoid Miller, Doctoral Candidate in the Social Science Program and Research Assistant at PARCC
DATE: Wednesday, October 21st at 11:30 a.m.
PLACE: 400 Eggers Hall, the PARCC Office Suite 
Researching post-conflict reconciliation processes in West Africa. Millar's research focuses on how alternate concepts of justice, truth, reconciliation, and peace complicate the application of western derived peacebuilding projects constructed on normative western conceptions of these social goods.

TITLE: State of the State in New York Labor Relations
SPEAKER: Kevin B. Flanigan and Mary Krause from the Public Employment Relations Board (PERB)
DATE: Monday, October 19th from 2:30-4:30 p.m.
PLACE: Public Events Room, 220 Eggers Hall
Representatives from the Public Employment Relations Board (PERB) will present a workshop and lead discussion on the background and current trends in negotiations and dispute resolution in the Public Sector from the perspective of neutral third parties. Subjects will include the (1) background and practice under the Taylor Law governing labor-management relations and negotiations, (2) dispute resolution processes including mediation and alternative dispute resolution (ADR) and (3) public policy aspects and issues currently facing the parties in negotiations and the neutrals who serve them, particularly during difficult economic times.

TITLE: Intervening to Build Peace? Peacebuilding Strategies and Violence in War-to-Peace Transitions
SPEAKER: Marie-Joelle Zahar, Associate Professor of Political Science and Research Director of the Francophone Peace Operations Network at the Centre for International Research and Studies at the University of Montreal.
DATE: Thursday, October 15th at 4:00 p.m.
PLACE: 204 Maxwell Hall
Professor Zahar's research interests include conflict resolution, civil wars, peacekeeping and post-conflict reconstruction.  She is a specialist of militia politics and war economies.  A former consultant for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and adjunct faculty member at the Pearson Peacekeeping Centre, she served on the board of directors of the Canadian Political Science Association, on the executive committee of the Canadian Consortium on human Security, and as research director of the Middle East Network at the Centre d'etudes et de recherches internationales of the Universite de Montreal. 
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TITLE: Need to Contain Afghanistan
SPEAKER: Dr. Isaac Kfir, Lecturer at the  Lauder School of Government & Senior Research Fellow at the International Institute for Counter Terrorism, Herzliya, Israel
DATE: Wednesday, October 14th, 11:30am-12.30pm
PLACE: 400 Eggers Hall, the PARCC Office Suite 
Dr. Isaac Kfir will examine the recent debate over the request for additional US troops for the conflict, arguing that more troops will not alleviate Afghanistan’s problems. The focus will be on the Afghan Jihad and its affect on Pashtun culture, which has direct bearing on the current troubles in Afghanistan. Dr. Isaac Kfir is a Schusterman Visiting Fellow at Syracuse University, Maxwell School of Public Administration / Institute for Counter-Terrorism (INSCT).

TITLE: Understanding Oneself, Respecting Others: Use of Mindfulness-Based Communication to Promote Self-Awareness, Flexibility, and Empathy
SPEAKER: Dan Huston, Professor at NHTI, Concord’s Community College
DATE: Wednesday October 7, 2009 from 6:30-9:30p.m.   Pre-registration requested*
PLACE: 204 Maxwell Hall, Syracuse University
During this hands-on, participatory workshop, participants will learn how combining mindfulness with communication theory can develop abilities some scholars refer to as emotional intelligence.   Together, we will explore how these abilities can be used to practice basic conflict management skills.  Participants will be provided with personalized materials to help them improve these skills.  They will also be led through a guided meditation (or two) in order to experience first-hand the practicality and power of such a practice. Professor Dan Huston has been incorporating mindfulness meditation and emotional intelligence into his communications curriculum for over a decade.  He has published on the subject, regularly presents at conferences, and conducts workshops to help people improve their communication skills.  Dan received training at the renowned Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, founded by Jon Kabat-Zinn, and was awarded the 2008 Chancellor’s Award for Teaching Excellence at NHTI, Concord’s Community College.
* To register or for more information on this FREE workshop, email the Conflict Management Center at: e-cmc@maxwell.syr.edu

TITLE: Theories of Performance
SPEAKER: Colin Talbot, Professor from Manchester Business School
DATE: Thursday, September 24th
TIME: 12:00 p.m. and 4:00 p.m.
PLACE: 400 Eggers Hall, the PARCC Office Suite
Professor Talbot will discuss his upcoming book Theories of Performance at noon, followed by a Question and Answer Session at 4:00 p.m..   

TITLE: Rational Cooperation
SPEAKER: Edward McClennen, Professor of Philosophy
DATE: Wednesday, Sept. 23rd at 11:30 a.m.
PLACE: 400 Eggers Hall, The PARCC Office Suite
Imagine a group of persons who choose to cooperate with one another on purely pragmatic grounds and who are fully intelligent and knowledgeable about their situation. How will they distribute the mutual gains from their cooperation?  The received view, due to the game theorist Nash, is that such persons will agree upon an optimal distribution that reflects the threat advantage and bargaining power of each participant. This is a profound mistake.  In this talk I defend an alternative account of rational bargaining according to which the gains from cooperation will be distributed equally, unless an unequal distribution can be shown to work to the mutual advantage of all participants.

TITLE: CNYSpeaks: The Promises and Pitfalls of Local Civic Deliberation
SPEAKER: Tina Nabatchi, Assistant Professor- Public Administration; Grant Reeher, Professor- Political Science; Greg Munno- Syracuse Newspapers
DATE: Wednesday, Sept. 16th at 11:30 a.m.
PLACE: 400 Eggers Hall, The PARCC Office Suite

TITLE: PARCC Open Orientation

DATE: Wednesday, Sept. 9th at 11:30 a.m.

PLACE: 204 Maxwell Hall

DESCRIPTION: Learn about our program’s Certificate of Advanced Study in Conflict Resolution, our Conflict Management Center trainings, Conversations in Conflict Studies Lecture Series, Current PARCC Publications, and opportunities for you to get involved.  All interested students welcome!