Community Conflicts in the Post-Soviet Era
June 1, 2005, Nicosia, Cyprus

Supported by INTAS.

Organised in the framework of the PEACE-COM Meeting, ‘Peace Processes in Community Conflicts; From Understanding the Roots of Conflicts to Conflict Resolution’, June 2-3, 2005.

Agenda

Morning Sessions (10:00-13:30) Chair: Ronald J. Pohoryles
10:00 - 10:15	Welcome and Introduction
10:15 - 11:30	Session I: Cross-Cutting Issues Impacting on Contemporary Community Conflicts Ethnic Dimension of Conflict Studies and the Conception of the Historical, Nikolay Trofimov. Download Paper Explaining the Choice of Religious Denomination, Boris E. Wiener. Download Paper Shaping Social Imagination in the Post-Soviet Belarus, Aleksei Medvetsky. Discussant: Elise Feron
11:30 - 11:45	Coffe Break
11:45 - 13:30	Session II. Community Conflicts (1): Bulgaria, Moldova, Ukraine, Poland Politics of Ethnic and Nationalist Confrontation in Retreat in the Bulgarian Transition: The Violent Ethnic Conflict that did Not Take Place, Maria Bakalova. Download Paper Identity and Nationalism in Transnistria, Natalia Cojocaru Burden of Past: The Ukrainian-Polish Conflict of 1943-1944 in Contemporary Public, Academic and Political Debate in Ukraine and Poland, Georgyi Kasianov. Download Paper Repatriation as a Source of Community Conflicts; The Case of Crimean Tatars in Ukraine, Sergiy V. Kurbatov. Download Paper Discussant: Liana Giorgi
13:30 - 14:30	Lunch Break
Afternoon Sessions (14:30-18:00) Chair: Liana Giorgi
14:30 - 16:15	Session III. Community Conflicts (2): Caucasus and Central Asia Abkhazian-Georgian Conflict and Internally Displaced Persons, Nana Sumbadze and George Tarkhan-Mouravi. Download Paper The Effectiveness of Third Party Intervention into the Georgian-South Ossetian Conflict, Alexandur Balas. Download Paper Tolerance and Regional Peace Building; Comparative Analysis of Survey Results in Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan, Anahit Mkrtchyan. Download Paper Language, Identity and Conflict in Kazakhstan, Juldyz Smagulova. Download Paper Discussant: Andrei Rezaev
16:15 - 16:30	Coffee Break
16:30 - 18:00	Session IV. Community Conflicts (3): Russia Russia and its Minorities: An Outlook of Existing and Potential Ethno-Political Conflicts, Alla Yazkova. Download Paper Identity Conflict in the Roumean Community: The Elite vs. the Public, Ksenia Viktorova. Download Paper The Nenets People and Oil; Community Conflicts on the Island of Kolguev in the Post-Soviet Era, Alexander Davydov, Galina Mijajlova and Mikhail Kokorin. Download Paper Discussant: Ronald Pohoryles

The PEACE-COM meeting begins officially on the 2nd June and continues on the 3rd June. The first day is devoted to the presentation of community conflicts in the European Union countries as well as the discussion of a comparative report cutting across several conflict situations in Europe today. The second day is devoted to comparative methodology with regard to actors, actions and peace accommodation efforts. This will be combined with a visit to the East Mediterranean University in the Northern part of Cyprus.

INTAS workshop participants are encouraged to participate at the first (open) day of the PEACE-COM meeting on 2nd June and welcome to attend the second’s day methodological discussions (3rd June) if they so wish. As the 3rd June meeting is associated with a visit to the North of Cyprus, INTAS workshop participants should inform the workshop organizers if they are attending on this day so that this can be taken into account in the transportation arrangements.

The strategic workshop will be completed with a half-day session on 4th June to discuss the publication of the proceedings of the workshop and a possible common proposal under the ongoing INTAS Open Call 2005-2006 for application of the PEACE-COM comparative framework to the case studies / issues covered by this workshop.

Venue

University of Cyprus
75 Kallipoleos Avenue, Nicosia
Room A007 (Main Courtyard)

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