building peace

Breakout session on 'The Role of International and Regional Organizations in Peacemaking, Peacebuilding and Peacekeeping', third talk: Dr Jochen Prantl, Oxford University, reflects on a lack of effective learning from peacebuilding experience. This paper highlights the structural impediments to effective coordination and learning in peacebuilding. While the post Cold-War security environment fostered the merger of the security and development agendas and seemed to call for stronger multilateral and multi-level (IGOs, states, NGOS, beneficiaries) partnerships to meet the challenges of managing conflict and building peace, the record has been underwhelming thus far. Review of lessons-learned exercises focusing on coordination illustrates that similar errors and weaknesses are identified in various conflicts, similar lessons are drawn from them, and the same errors and weaknesses re-emerge in later conflicts. This pattern suggests a deeper underlying problem, which will be addressed in the paper.

Dr Anke Hoeffler, Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford University, gives the second plenary address. She speaks from her work with Professor Paul Collier on the need of the poorest countries for assistance both with development and with structural security, and how to provide both in an acceptable and effective manner.

Dr Anke Hoeffler, Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford University, gives the second plenary address. She speaks from her work with Professor Paul Collier on the need of the poorest countries for assistance both with development and with structural security, and how to provide both in an acceptable and effective manner.

Michael von der Schulenburg will discuss the shortcomings of the UN Charter to regulate foreign military interventions and paradoxes in UN peacekeeping The character of wars is changing. Today, wars between nation-states have largely disappeared and armed conflicts between states and belligerent non-state actors have become predominant. But has the international community found the right answers to deal with such intrastate armed conflicts? Schulenburg will argue, no. In a future world of 11 billion people, intra-state conflicts are likely to increase. Finding better answers to address this is becoming, and will continue to be, ever more pressing. But would this be possible in a world of increasing great-power rivalries? Mr Schulenburg will discuss the shortcomings of the UN Charter to regulate foreign military interventions and paradoxes in UN peacekeeping as well as ambiguities in determining the legitimacy of embattled governments and in responding to armed non-state actors. He will review problems of interpreting self-determination and identifying national identities and describe resulting difficulties in implementing ceasefire and peace agreements or in writing national constitutions and holding elections. Michael von der Schulenburg, former UN Assistant Secretary General with political affairs with 34 experience working for the UN and the OSCE in many of the world’s trouble spots such as in Haiti, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, Iraq and Sierra Leone with shorter assignments in Syria, Somalia, the Balkan and the Sahel. His experience involved the whole range of UN activities from development and humanitarian assistance to management, political affairs and peacekeeping.

Polly Higgins gives a talk in parallel session D - Environmental Peace and Conflict. Part of the 2016 Oxpeace conference.

Prof Roger Mac Ginty (Manchester Univ) gives a talk for the first plenary session -Studying Peace and Studying Conflict: Complementary or Competing Paradigms? Part of the 2016 OxPeace conference.

Dr Liz Carmichael closes the 2015 OxPeace Conference.

Chris Naylor, A Rocha, gives a talk for the OxPeace 2013 conference: The Future of Peace Building.

Azzam Alwash, Iraq, gives a talk for the OxPeace 2013 conference: The Future of Peace Building.

Yossi Leshem, Israel, gives a talk for the OxPeace 2013 conference: The Future of Peace Building.

Cyril Obi gives a talk for the OxPeace 2013 conference: The Future of Peace Building.

Sarah von Billerbeck gives a talk for the OxPeace 2013 conference: The Future of Peace Building.

Sacha Meuter gives a talk for the OxPeace 2013 conference: The Future of Peace Building.

Yoav Bornstein and Elizabeth Jadon (Israel/Palestine) gives a talk for the OxPeace 2013 conference: The Future of Peace Building.

Koji Nakamura, Konan University, Japan, gives a talk for the OxPeace 2013 conference: The Future of Peace Building.

Massimo Caneva, University of Rome, gives a talk for the OxPeace 2013 conference: The Future of Peace Building.

Annette Idler, gives a talk for the OxPeace 2013 conference: The Future of Peace Building.

Anja Shortland, University of Rome, gives a talk for the OxPeace 2013 conference: The Future of Peace Building.

Dr Carolyn McAskie OC, University of Ottawa, first UN Asst SG for Peacebuilding and head of the UN Peacebuilding Commission gives the first keynote on how the UN has spent over a decade and a half realizing an integrated approach to peacebuilding.

A plenary session from the 'Building Peace' conference organized by the Oxford Network for Peace Studies and hosted by St John's College, Oxford on 15 May 2010. Professor Johan Galtung - Norwegian sociologist and 'father' of academic peace studies - offers a contextual example of applied peace studies. Professor Galtung is the Co-Director of the Transcent Research Institute, which he co-founded in 1993 after founding of the Oslo-based International Peace Research Institute (PRIO) in 1959 and serving as a Professor of Peace and Conflict Research at Oslo University from 1969-1978.