[ecrea] Understanding Conflicts-Cross-Cultural Perspectives

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>Understanding Conflicts-Cross-Cultural Perspectives
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>August 19-23, 2008, Aarhus, Denmark
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>An international, interdisciplinary research conference
>on the diversity of conceptions and cultural images of conflicts
><http://www.understandingconflicts.net>www.understandingconflicts.net
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>This event is the first of a series of large 
>international interdisciplinary meetings that 
>will bring together researchers from different 
>cultural background working on the analysis and 
>transformation of conflicts due to cultural, 
>ethnic, and religious diversity. Our invited 
>speakers are international lead figures in 
>conflict research, sociology, political science, 
>anthropology, psychology, philosophy, sociology, 
>the history of ideas, theology, and religious studies.
>
>Conflicts are part of human life--depending on 
>the competences of all participants, they may 
>lead into harmful disturbance or be the source 
>of authentic social innovation.  Recently the 
>public focus has been on conflicts due to 
>cultural (including ethnic and religious) 
>diversity.  Often overlooked, however, is the 
>fact that different cultures not only generate 
>conflicts but also impose on agents different 
>'conflict cultures --preferences for certain 
>types of conflict dynamics (war, settlements, 
>reconciliation) and predispositions for certain 
>forms of epistemic approach (rational analysis, 
>psychological hermeneutics, deep 
>orientation).  Attention to differences in 
>cultural images of conflicts--the agentive 
>understanding of sources, dynamics, and possible 
>transformations of conflicts--is of central 
>significance for conflict transformation in societies with cultural diversity.
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>Keynote Speakers: <http://www.yale.edu/polisci/people/sbenhabib.html>
>Russell 
>Hardin<http://www.eomega.org/omega/faculty/viewProfile/a5bc3133f91fa7e11401c1da84985725/>
>Pumla Goboda-Madikizela<http://www.peres-center.org/ArticleResume.asp?id=2352>
>Ron Pundak <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amina_Wadud>
>Amina Wadud
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>Invited Speakers:<http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zygmunt_Bauman>
>Zygmont Baumann, Dept. fo Sociology, University 
>of Leeds, Great Britain<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_E._Connolly>
>William Connolly, Dept. of Political Science, 
>John Hopkins University<http://icar.gmu.edu/faculty_ddruckman.html>
>Daniel Druckman, Dept. of Public and 
>International Affairs at George Mason 
>University, USA, and School of Political Science 
>and International Affairs, University of 
>Queensland, Australia.<http://www.umass.edu/peacepsychology>
><http://www.tc.columbia.edu/faculty/index.htm?facid=pc84>Peter 
>Coleman, International Center for Cooperation 
>and Conflict Resolution, Columbia University
><http://www.gmu.edu/departments/crdc/gopinbio.html>Marc 
>Gopin, Center for World Religions, Diplomacy, 
>and Conflict Resolution, George Mason University
>Ervin Staub, Dept. of Psychology, University of 
>Massachusetts, USA<tohp://www.geoec.org/conference/keynote-2005.html>
>Toh Swee Hin, Multi-Faith Centre of Griffith 
>University in Brisbane, Australia<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alain_Touraine>
>Alain Touraine, School for Advanced Studies in 
>the Social Sciences, Paris, 
>France<http://www.transnational.org/About/j_oberg.html>
>Jan Oberg, The Transnational Foundation for 
>Peace and Futures Research, 
>Sweden<http://brynmawr.edu/peacestudies/faculty/Ross/ross.html>
>Marc Howard Ross, Dept. for Peace and Conflict 
>Studies, Bryan Mawr University, 
>USA<http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Anthropology/SocialCultural/?view=usa&ci=9780195309485>
>Douglas P. Fry, Dept. for Social Sciences, Åbo University, Finland
>Dorothee Schlenke, Dept. of Theology, 
>Pedagogical University Freiburg, 
>Germany<http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/ikg/mitarbeiter_wissenschaftler.htm>
>Levent Tezcan, Faculty of the Humanities, 
>University of Tilburg<http://www.diis.dk/sw12089.asp>
>Thomas Brudholm, Danish Institute for 
>International Studies, Copenhagen<http://www.teol.ku.dk/english/>
>Martijn Van Beek, Institute for Anthropology, 
>Archeology, and Linguistics, University of Aarhus
>Kees Van Kooten Niekerk, Department of Theology, 
>University of 
>Aarhus.<http://www.jur.ku.dk/afd2/2002beretning/02medarbejdere/vv.htm>
>Vibeke Vindelov, University of Copenhagen, 
>Center for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, Law
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>Organisers: LSI-Group "Process, Person, and 
>Society", Division Causality and Motivation, 
>SophiaEuropa Network, Metanexus Institute.
>Research Unit "Interculturality and Conflict 
>Studies," Department of Philosophy and the 
>History of Ideas, University of Aarhus.
>Main coordinators: Johanna Seibt, Jesper Garsdal, Steen Wackerhausen.
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>For further information see: 
><http://www.understandingconflicts.net>www.understandingconflicts.net
>Or contact: <mailto:(filseibt /at/ hum.au.dk)>(filseibt /at/ hum.au.dk)
>
>Johanna Seibt
>Ph.d., Dr. phil. habil.
>Associate Professor
>Philosophy Department
>University of Aarhus, Denmark
>
>Mailing address:
>Aarhus Universitet
>Institut for Filosofi og Idehistorie
>Bygn.1467, 6. sal, kontor 620
>Nobelparken
>Jens Chr. Skousvej 7
>8000 Aarhus C
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>Phone: + 45  8942 2216
>Direct Phone: + 45 8942 1976
>Fax.: + 45 8942 2223
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><http://person.au.dk/en/filseibt@hum>http://person.au.dk/en/filseibt@hum
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>
>
>Johanna Seibt
>Philosophy Department
>University of Aarhus, Denmark
>
>Mailing address:
>Aarhus Universitet
>Institut for Filosofi og Idehistorie
>Bygn.1467, 6. sal, kontor 620
>Nobelparken
>Jens Chr. Skousvej 7
>8000 Aarhus C
>
>Phone: + 45  8942 2216
>Direct Phone: + 45 8942 1976
>Fax.: + 45 8942 2223
>
><http://person.au.dk/en/filseibt@hum>http://person.au.dk/en/filseibt@hum
>

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