NIAS-Nordic Institute of Asian Studies with its alliance partners will organize a panel on "East Asian Peace 1979-" for the European Alliance for Asian Studies at the 6th International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS)
6-9 August 2009, Daejeon, Korea.
You are invited to attend!
Theme of the panel: East Asian Peace since 1979
East Asia has been relatively peaceful since 1979. Peace in East Asia since 1979 forms a stark contrast not only to the previous period but also to other regions. How could East Asia make a transition to this relative peace? Is the current peace likely to be durable?
Presentations
Stein Tønnesson, Director Peace Research Institute of Oslo: EXPLAINING THE EAST ASIAN PEACE, 1979-2009
Dr. Tønnesson's presentation discusses how historians and social scientists may go about seeking to explain that there has been so relatively little war in the East Asian region since 1979. The presentation will lay down the foundations of an international research program aimed at explaining East Asian Peace 1979-.
Timo Kivimäki, Senior Researcher, NIAS - Nordic Institute of Asian Studies: EAST ASIAN PEACE: IS IT JUST A MATTER OF DEFINITION
Dr. Kivimäki investigates the justification of the notion East Asian Peace from the point of view of alternative operationalizations and answer two questions:
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Does it make sense to talk about East Asian Peace? It is real?
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What can we know about the "profile" of this peace? Is it authoritarian, democratic, Orwellian, or comprehensive and non-violent peace?
Mathilda Lindgren, Associate Professor, Uppsala University: EAST ASIAN PEACE AND THE NONVIOLENT CAMPAIGNS FOR GOVERNMENTAL OR TERRITORIAL CHANGES.
Ms. Mathilda Lindgren's presentation will explore the empirical patterns of unarmed insurgencies - that is, nonviolent campaigns for governmental or territorial changes - to explore the extent to which East Asia have been heading towards a region of basically peaceful societies since 1978. The presentation will reveal that conflicts still exist in East Asia, but that they have been either been replaced by intractable, low-intensity, territorially based armed battles, or transformed into large-scale nonviolent and unarmed challenges of government.
Discussants: Prof. Ren Xiao (Fudan University) & Dr. Jordi Urgell (Autonomous University of Barcelona)
Chair: Prof. Thommy Svensson (SSAAPS)
Registration: http://www.icas6.org/Registration/m_01.html
Information about ICAS: http://www.icassecretariat.org/
Information about ICAS 6: http://www.icas6.org/introduction/m_01.html & http://www.icassecretariat.org/about-icas-6
Time of the Panel: 7 August, 13:00 - 15:00
Peace and Conflict Studies Network of the ASEM Education Hub together with Yonsei University will organize a full day conference in Seoul (instantly after ICAS conference) on
"Long Peace of East Asia since 1979 and West Europe since 1945: Comparison and Implications"
- Venue: Allen Hall, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea
- Date: August 10, 2009.
- Coordinators: Timo Kivimäki (ASEM peace network), Chung-in Moon and Jong-gun Choi (Yonsei Univ.)
- Dissemination of conference outcomes: A special cover feature in Global Asia (preferably Winter issue 2009) by inviting selected articles.
- Registration to the conference: http://www.tnpcn2009.niasconferences.net/
- In addition to presentations of leading Asian and European Scholars, Graduate Students can present their research related to stable structures of peace in the parallel session of the conference. The parallel sessions will be lead by some of Asia's and Europe's leading scholars of East Asian and/or West European security. Abstracts can be sent to the conference portal http://www.tnpcn2009.niasconferences.net/ and presentations will be selected by July 15, 2009. All those submitting abstracts are automatically accepted to participate in the conference, while those selected for paper presentations will be informed shortly after the selection.
