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ILAS (Liverpool) Annual Conference 2004
POST WAR VIOLENCE AND CONFLICT: LATIN AMERICA IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE
to be held at the Foresight Centre, University of Liverpool 9-10 September
2004
Registration Cost: £80 (includes lunch and refreshments for both days)
£60 (concessionary and members of SLAS)
Participants should register BEFORE 31 August 2004
For more information please contact Mo Hume ([log in to unmask])
THEME OF CONFERENCE
The conference addresses the many expressions of violence that appear to
characterize societies emerging from political conflict. Individual case
studies have highlighted that far from decreasing after war, levels of
violence often increase, with new and existing expressions such as crime,
sexual violence and domestic abuse coming to the fore.
The escalation of intra-state and regional conflicts in recent decades,
together with growing global concern on issues of security, have meant that
the issues of conflict resolution and peace-building are growing
disciplines of both practical and theoretical significance.
To date, much of the scholarship to emerge has failed to examine the
residual conflicts or, indeed, new expressions of violence that are common
to post-war contexts. Historic patterns of violence, such as its gendered
expressions, have also been left out of most analyses. This has led to
certain myopia in both theoretical and policy approaches to peace building,
restricting it to its institutional framework or merely addressing
political conflict.
This conference seeks to bring together scholars and practitioners from a
variety of disciplines and regions to discuss some of the major issues
concerning problems of long-term violence.
Conference Programme: Post war conflict and violence: Latin America in
Comparative Perspective
Thursday 9 September
12.30 pm: registration and lunch.
1.30: Welcome address: Nikki Craske Director, ILAS
2pm -3.30pm
Session 1. GOVERNANCE, CONFLICT AND VIOLENCE
Chair: Ronnie Munck
Cath Collins, ILAS, University of London Prosecuting Pinochet' -
Post-transitional Justice ReIrruptions in the Americas
Natascha Adama,Centre for Third World Studies, University of Ghent What
happens after the failure of Institutions and Party Systems in Latin-
America? The Rise Predatory State
Ulrich Oslender, Department of Geography, University of Glasgow From
collective land titles to geographies of terror: black communities on
Colombia's Pacific coast and forced displacement
3.30pm - 4pm: Tea/coffee
4pm -5.30pm
Session 2. HISTORIC PATTERNS OF VIOLENCE
Chair: Andy Davies TBC
Graeme Simpson, Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (South
Africa) Title to be confirmed
Miguel Cruz, UCA, El Salvador Normalised Violence: Exploring the
Development of a Culture of Violence in Central America
Rhys Kelly, Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford Theorising
Memory Work as Conflict Resolution Practice
Friday 10 September 2004
9am: Coffee
9.30 am - 11am
Session 3. VIOLENCE AND THE EVERYDAY
Chair: Lewis Taylor
Luz Villareal, GSEU, University of Liverpool: The Role of Civil Society in
the Colombian Conflict.
Jenny Pearce, Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford
Peace-building on the Periphery: The Case of Huehuetenango, Guatemala
Cathy McIlwaine, Everyday Violence in Latin America: Experiences from
urban Colombia and Guatemala
11am - 11.30am - Coffee/ Tea
11.30am - 1pm
Session 4. GENDER AND VIOLENCE
Chair: Nikki Craske
David Toombs Irish School of Ecumenics Trinity College, Dublin The Ethics
of Speaking of the Unspeakable
Mo Hume, ILAS, University of Liverpool Privileging Violence: The Gendered
Dynamics of Tolerance
Honor Fagan, Department of Sociology, National University of Ireland,
Maynooth Feminist Transformative Politics and The Logic of Revelation in
the Face of Globalising War
1pm - 2pm: Lunch
2pm - 4pm
Session 5. RESEARCHING VIOLENCE AND CONFLICT
Chair: Mo Hume
Mauricio García, Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford A
Collective Action for Peace Database: A New Research Tool for Assessing
Peace Mobilization in Colombia
Wim Savenije, FLACSO El Salvador Urban Youth Violence: Victims and
Aggressors Intertwined
Anita Shrader, ILAS, University of Liverpool Participant Action Research
(PAR) in the Study of Parental Violence Towards Children in Guatemala City
Andy Higginbottom, Middlesex University Solidarity Research as
Methodology: The Crimes of the Powerful Colombia
4pm -4.30pm: tea/coffee
6. ROUNDABLE: BEYOND VIOLENCE?
Chair TBC
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Mo Hume
Institute of Latin American Studies
University of Liverpool
Bedford Street South
Liverpool L69 7WW
Tel: +44 151 794 3340
Fax:+44 151-794-3080
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