PROGRAMS

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Day 1, Friday, July 5th, 2013

10.20 – 10.30
Welcome address and opening remarks by Dean Masanori Naito
10.30 – 12.00
Session 1   :         Identity, Conflict, and Cohesion (Explores theoretical dimensions of conflict and identity)
Chaired by: Hisae Nakanishi(Professor, Graduate School of Global Studies, Doshisha University)
1.        Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew Strathern  (Professor, Cromie Burn Research Unit, Department of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA)
“Identities as Problems, Identities as Solutions”
2.        Dr. Tamara Kohn(Department of Social and Political Sciences, University of Melbourne, Australia)
“Refiguring the Gaze: Identities through Practice andConnection”
3.        Gary Gregg (Professor, Department of Psychology, Kalamazoo College, Michigan, USA)
“Culture and Identities”
13.30 – 16.30 (break at 15.00 – 15.15)
Session 2   :         Building Capacities for Utilizing Identities in Promoting Peace and Cohesion (Explores existing practical projects, approaches and interventions that somehow utilize an understanding of identity dynamics)
Chaired by: Sukehiro Hasegawa (Former Special Representative for Secretary-General, UN Mission Timor Leste)
1.        Ellen Kaplan (Professor, Chair of Theatre and Expert on Performance/Conflict Resolution, Smith College, Northampton, MA, USA)
“Reconstituting IdentityThrough Narrative: Practical initiatives in theatre to develop narratives ofself and community”
2.        Richard Chenhall (Senior Lecturer in Medical Anthropology, Center for Health and Society, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Australia)
“Living the Social Determinants”
3.          Dabiru Sridhar Patnaik (Associate Professor and Director,  Center for Post Graduate Legal Studies; Executive Director, Center for South Asian Legal Studies Jindal Global Law School, O.P. Jindal Global University, India)
“Shaping The Contours of PeaceBuilding: Implications of Culture and Identity for International Law”
4.          Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew Strathern  (Professor, Cromie Burn Research Unit, Department of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh, PA, United States of America)
“Identities in Conflict and Conflict Mediation:Contrasting Cases from Ireland and Papua New Guinea”
5.        Ryoji Tateyama (Professor, Visiting Fellow, the Institute of Energy Economics, Japan)
“Newly Emerging Identity among Younger American Jewish Generations and the Palestine Question”
Day 2, Saturday, July 6th, 2013

10.00 – 12.30
Session 3   :         Identity-based Solution: Regional Perspectives (Explores various world conflict/cohesion-building contexts exposing how identities are at play in maintaining a state of conflict or sectarianism).
Chaired by: Pierre Sane (President of Imagine Africa, Former Secretary General, Amnesty International, Assistant Secretary General, UNESCO);
1.        Waleed Al-Modallal (Professor, Department of Political Science, Faculty of Commerce, The Islamic University in Gaza, Palestine)
“The conflict between Jews,Muslims and Christians on the land of Palestine and the impact of national andreligious identity in this conflict in the light of the rise of religiousmovements in the region and worldwide”
2.        Andrew Dawson (Professor, Anthropology, Social and Political Sciences, University of Melbourne, Australia)
“Identity sameness andpiracy in ethnic conflict: the case of Bruce Lee in the post-warre-symbolization of Bosnia and Herzegovina”
3.        Jonathan C. Momba (Professor, Department of Political and Administrative Studies, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia)
“Centralized State Power Identity Crisis and Conflictin Africa”
4.        Bouzid Boumediene (Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Oran, Algeria)
“Identity and the Conflict in the Sahel: Contrasting Interpretation of War and Peace”
5.        Fredrick Fawn (Senior Lecturer, School of International Relations, University of St. Andrews, UK)
“Transforming Conflict and Building Cohesion throughIdentity: The Challenges of the Abkhaz-Georgian Case”

13.30 – 15.00
Session 4   : Engaging Identities: Proposing New Tools, Techniques, and Intervention (Explores how to apply a systematic set of theories and methodologies to proposed interventions focused on targeting identities in a given region)
Chaired by: Bruce White  (Associate Professor, The Institute for The Liberal Arts, Doshisha University)
(1) Emibaeva Nazgul, (2) Megumi Ingaka, (3) Aya Kaino, (4) Kaho Suzuki, (5) Atsushi Takabatake,(6)  Ojha Guneshwor

15.00 – 15.15 Break

15.15 – 16.30 Round up Discussion

16.30               Program end

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