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11.12.2024 | Frankfurt am Main
Workshop

Peace theory in times of war. From where – to where?

Workshop

Program:

10:15 am Beginning of the Workshop; Welcome

10:30-11:30 a.m. Anacrusis

1. talking about peace in war/Speaking peace in war – what for? (input Lothar Brock/ Hendrik Simon)

Discussion in the Forum

11:30-11:45 a.m. Coffee Break

11:45-13:15 Panel 1: German peace theory/Theorizing peace in Germany

2. view from the outside/Looking from the outside in (input Matthew Specter)

3. beyond iB or: Peace as a Process. What does that mean? /Beyond iR: Regarding Peace as Process. What does that mean? (input Thorsten Bonacker/Mariam Salehi)

Discussants: Lothar Brock and Hendrik Simon

13:15-14:45 Lunch

14:45-16:15 Panel 2: Unlearning and Emancipation in Peace Theory

4 Peace – a civilizing project? Peace – a civilizing project? (input Mathias Albert)

5. de-colonial perspectives on peace / Decolonial Peace Theory (input María Cárdenas Alfonso)

6. Gender und Friede / Gender and Peace (input Simone Wisotzki)
Discussant: Jonas Wolff

16:15-16:30 Coffee Break

16:30-18:00 Panel 3: Peace and War after the “Turning Point”

7. Friedensethik nach der Zeitenwende/Peace ethics after the turning point (input Christopher Daase)

8. Zeitenwende und Völkerrecht / Turning point and international law (input Thilo Marauhn)

9 Peace, War and Social Discourse / Friede und sozialer Diskurs (input Nicole Doerr)

Discussant: Stefan Kroll

Afterwards: Dinner

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