Workshop: Democracy, State, Conflict

This workshop provides a context for discussing the determinants and mutual relationship between democracy, stateness, conflict, and repression.

Oplysninger om arrangementet

Tidspunkt

torsdag 5. december 2013, kl. 09:00 - fredag 6. december 2013, kl. 13:15

Sted

Building 1330, Room 124 (Lille Mødelokale)

This workshop provides a context for discussing the determinants and mutual relationship between democracy, stateness, conflict, and repression. The aim of the workshop is provide a forum for paper presentations and discussions for DEDERE members and a number of invited scholars. All papers should be circulated among the participants a week before the workshop, and all are expected to have read them and provide comments during the sessions. The presentations will be limited to 10 minutes, with about 50 minutes reserved for discussion.

Program 

Day 1
9.00-10.00 Merete Bech Seeberg (AU): Elections, Economic and State Capacities, and the Survival of Authoritarian Regimes
10.00-10.15 Coffee break
10.15-11.15 Agnes Cornell (University of Gothenburg): The Bureaucratic Foundations of Democratic Survival
11.15-12.15 David Andersen (AU): State and Democratic Stability during the Great Depression: Analyzing the ‘Swing States’
12.15-13.15 Lunch
13.15-14.15 Michael Seeberg (AU): Requisites of Regime Stability in Poor Democracies – The Contribution from Civil Society and Political Parties
14.15-15.15 Bertel Teilfeldt Hansen (Copenhagen University): The Impact on the Risk of Civil War Onset of the Presidency Shifting between Ethnic Groups
15.15-15.30 Coffee break
15.30-16.30 Lasse Lykke Rørbæk (AU): Ethnic Exclusion, Uprisings, and Regime Survival
16.30-17.30 Rasmus Fonnesbæk Andersen (University of Copenhagen): Family Values and Impartial Government – Findings from Split Ethnicities
18.30 Workshop dinner

Day 2

8.30-9.30 Henrikas Bartusevicius (AU): The Inequality-Conflict Nexus Re-Examined: How Does Inequality Cause Conflicts?
9.30-10.15 Abel Escribà Folch (Universitet Pompeu Fabra): The Organization of the Security Apparatus and Repression
10.15-10.30 Coffee break
10.30-11.30 Stability Jørgen Møller (AU), Svend-Erik Skaaning (AU) & Jakob Tolstrup (AU): Economic Sanctions and the Violation of Civil Liberties
11.30-12.30 Oisín Tansey (King’s College): The International Politics of Repression in the Arab Spring
12.30-13.15 Lunch 

Further info
Contact Svend-Erik Skaaning and see DEDERE's website