The Conflict Research Society\u2019s 2015 Conference will take place at the University of Kent on 14-15 September. The conference marks the 100th anniversary of CRS co-founder John Burton\u2019s birth, and the conference is an opportunity to explore John Burton\u2019s legacy and to discuss the latest developments in peace and conflict research and practice.<\/p>\n
Plenary events:<\/p>\n
The plenary sessions will include presentations by:<\/p>\n
Scott Gates
\n(Research Professor, Former Director of the Centre
\nfor the Study of Civil War, PRIO, Norway)<\/p>\n
Kevin Clements
\n(Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies, Otago University, New
\nZealand and Director of the New Zealand National Centre for
\nPeace and Conflict Studies)<\/p>\n
Kathleen Cunningham
\n(Assistant Professor, University of Maryland;
\nWinner of the CRS Book of the Year Prize
\n\u2018The Politics of Self-Determination Groups\u2019)<\/p>\n
Panels:<\/p>\n
Panels will include:<\/p>\n
John Burton Centenary
\n(Chair: John Groom, University of Kent)<\/p>\n
Migration and Conflict
\n(Feargal Cochrane, University of Kent)<\/p>\n
Practitioners Panel
\n(We welcome practising mediators, facilitators, people
\nworking on conflict issues in NGOs to participate.)<\/p>\n
Values, World Society and Modelling
\n(Gordon Burt, Conflict Research Society)<\/p>\n
For more details on the conference please visit the Conflict Research Society website<\/a>.<\/p>\n Conference programme<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Conflict Research Society\u2019s 2015 Conference will take place at the University of Kent on 14-15 September. The conference marks the 100th anniversary of CRS … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37326,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[131004,131002],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37326"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":429,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions\/429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}