CONFERENCE COMPARING GLOBAL CONFLICTS
TO BE HELD MARCH 26 AND 27

A two-day conference that will compare three international conflicts will be held on March 26 and 27 at Bryn Mawr and Haverford Colleges. The conference will bring together expert and student panels to discuss the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, India and Pakistan’s conflict over Kashmir, and the conflict over Northern Ireland.

The 2004 Conference on Comparative Study of Conflict, titled Linked by Conflict, United for Peace, is free and open to the public, but participants must pre-register on the conference Web site at http://www.haverford.edu/ccsc or by calling (610)795-6960.

The conference includes a Friday keynote address by University of Pennsylvania political scientist Ian Lustick in Room 243 of the Park Science Building at Bryn Mawr; Saturday’s schedule includes three panel discussions, lunch and tea at Haverford's Chase Hall, Room 104. The event is sponsored by the Peace and Conflict Studies Program of Bryn Mawr and Haverford Colleges, Bryn Mawr College’s Center for International Studies and Center for Ethnicities, Communities and Social Policy, the Global Dialogue Institute, and various Bryn Mawr and Haverford events funds.

The conference schedule:

Friday, March 26

Keynote address: "Embedded Intractability: Getting to Rationality in Ethno-Political Conflicts"
Room 224, Park Science Building, Bryn Mawr College, 7:30 p.m.

Ian Lustick
Bess W. Heyman Chair, political science department, University of Pennsylvania

Lustick will talk about how long and polarizing ethnic conflicts become institutionalized by groups, making it difficult to make policy changes on either side. His research focuses on the future of Jerusalem and great power rivalry in the Middle East.

Saturday, March 27

Panel: "Peace Processes: Similarities, Differences and Lessons"
Room 104, Chase Building, Haverford College, 11 a.m.

• John Darby, professor of comparative ethnic studies, Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, the University of Notre Dame, and former director and senior research fellow at the Initiative on Conflict Resolution and Ethnicity (INCORE), Northern Ireland
  Darby has written extensively on the conflict in Northern Ireland, including the recent co-edited volume, The Management of Peace Processes (2000).
  
• Victoria Schofield, author and media commentator
  A United Kingdom resident, Schofield has written several books on Kashmir including Kashmir in the Crossfire (1996) Kashmir in Conflict (2000) Kashmir in Conflict, revised (2003). She has written on Indo-Pakistani relations for numerous South Asian newspapers and journals and is a frequent commentator for BBC, as well as for other television and radio networks.

Lunch 12:30 pm.

Panel: "Common Themes: Religion, Territory and Identity in Conflict"
Room 104, Chase Building, Haverford College, 2 p.m.

• R. Scott Appleby, John M. Regan Jr. Director, Professor of History, Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, the University of Notre Dame
  Appleby is the author of The Ambivalence of the Sacred: Religion, Violence and Reconciliation (2000), and editor of Spokesman for the Despised: Fundamentalist Leaders of the Middle East (1997). He was co-director of the Fundamentalism Project, an international public policy study conducted by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences from 1988 to 1993.
  
• Marc Gopin, James H. Laue Professor of World Religions, and director of the new Center on World Religions, Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution, George Mason University Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution
  Gopin has lectured and trained in conflict resolution in Switzerland, Ireland, India and Israel, as well as at several academic institutions, and trained students from more than 25 countries in peacemaking strategies. He conducts research on values dilemmas as they apply to international problems of globalization, clash of cultures, development, social justice and conflict.

Tea 3:30 pm.

Panel: "Student Perspectives: Personal Accounts from the Conflict Zones"
Room 104, Chase Building, Haverford College, 3:45 p.m.

• India: Anirudh Suri ’06 Haverford College
• Pakistan: Nadine Murtaza’06 Bryn Mawr College
• Israel: Yuval Orr ’07 Haverford College

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