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Knowledge and Power in 21st Century Armed Conflicts

  • 3744 av Jean-Brillant, local 6420 Montréal Canada (map)

Friday, December 13 – roundtables – registration required.

9:00 – Welcome

Panel 1 (9:15-10:45) - What’s a war, and what can be done about it? (Leads/animators: Theodore McLauchlin, Lee Seymour and Jennifer Welsh)

● Pablo Kalmanovitz, ITAM

● Helen Kinsella, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

● Sarah Parkinson, John’s Hopkins University

10:45-11:00 – Coffee

Panel 2 (11:00-1:00) - Misinformation and disinformation in civil wars (Leads/animators: Jean Lachapelle, Sarah-Myriam Martin-Brûlé, and Alexandre Pelletier)

● Yvan Ilunga, Salve Regina University

● Richard Nielsen, MIT

● Daniel Silverman, Carnegie Mellon University

● Ora Szekely, Clark University

1:00-1:45 – Lunch

Panel 3 (1:45-3:15) - Defining peace: Inclusion and multivocal visions of peace (Leads/animators: Marie-Joëlle Zahar and Lou Pingeot)

● Cedric de Coning, NUPI

● Sophie Haspeslagh, King’s College London

● Maria Martin de Almagro, University of Ghent

3:15-3:30 – Coffee

Panel 4 (3:30-4:45) - Power and knowledge in peacekeeping (Leads/animators: Lou Pingeot and Marie-Joëlle Zahar)

● Marsha Henry, Queen’s University Belfast

● Nicolas Lemay-Hébert, Australian National University

4:45-5:15 – Wrapup discussion

To register for the roundtables, or to ask for more information, please contact emmanuelle.rousseau.1@umontreal.ca

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