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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.
To view
this presentation, click here.
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: Terrorism in North Africa: Threats,
Vulnerabilities and Capacities to Prevent and Combat It
SPEAKER:
Professor Haykel Ben
Mahfoudh
DATE: Wednesday, October 7, 2009 at 11:30 a.m.
PLACE: 400 Eggers Hall, the PARCC Conference Room
Professor Ben Mahfoudh is a Civic Education and Leadership
Fellow (CELF) from Tunisia at Syracuse University. His talk
will focus on the nature of the threat in North Africa; the
state of national responses; and some of the steps taken to
date to address these gaps. He will then discuss the
problematic of tensions between text and context that issues
like political violence and conflictuality raise.
TITLE: Converging Paradigms
in Modern Asymmetric Warfare
SPEAKER: William C. Banks, Director of Institute
for National Security and Counterterrorism (INSCT) and
Professor of Law and Public Administration
DATE: Wednesday, September 30th at 11:30 a.m.
PLACE: 400 Eggers Hall, the PARCC Office Suite
Professor Banks will focus on recent trends that show
convergence of norms between International Humanitarian Law
(IHL) and Human Rights Law (HRL); between the jus ad bellum
(justness of the cause) and jus en bello (IHL); and between
international criminal law and domestic law. According to
him, the convergence creates some serious problems in
regulating conflicts but it also reflects adaptations that
may make conflict more humane. Professor Banks is recognized
internationally as an expert in constitutional law, national
security law, and counterterrorism
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: Conflict Management
Center's First Fall Workshop
DATE: Saturday, September 12, 2009
TIME: 9:00 a.m.- 5:00 p.m.
PLACE:
204 Maxwell Hall
DESCRIPTION: This workshop will cover the basics of the PARCC
conflict resolution model utilized in most CMC trainings.
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!
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