World Order and Peace

International conference on the occasion of Prof. Dr. Harald Müller's retirement on13th and 14th October 2016

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After almost twenty years as Executive Director at PRIF and Head of Research Department I “International Security and World Order”Harald Müller resigns in October 2016. On this occasion, PRIF organizes the international conference “World Order and Peace” on13th and 14th October 2016.

The aim of this scientific conference is to review certain topics of peace research of the last decades, questioning which of these issues and problems are still relevant in a world that “has gotten out of joint”. On what can and should peace research keep an eye, what knowledge has remained essential and which questions have been answered by now? Amongst other topics, the constitution of institutions and the resulting chances for cooperation, the democratic peace and the questions of global justice will be examined. This conference is funded by the German foundation for peace research.

Due to the limited capacity of available places, participation is granted by invitation only.

 

Program:

Day 1 (Oktober 13, 2016)

13:00–14:00 Small lunch buffet 
14:00–15:30

Opening: Farewell of Harald Müller as Executive Director

Greeting address:
Prof. Dr. Nicole Deitelhoff, Director of Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF)

Welcoming addresses:
State Secretary Ingmar Jung, Hessen State Ministry of Higher Education, Research and the Arts, State of Hesse
Vice President Prof. Dr. Tanja Brühl, Goethe University Frankfurt
Dr. Thomas Held, German Foundation for Peace Research
Prof. Dr. Sebastian Lentz, Director of the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography, Leibniz Association
Dr. Patricia Flor, Federal Government Commissioner for Disarmament and Arms Control, Federal Foreign Office

Keynote speech: 
Prof. Dr. Thomas Risse, Professor of International Relations and Director of the Center for Transnational Relations, Foreign and Security Policy at the Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science at the Freie Universität Berlin

Reply:
Prof. Dr. Harald Müller, former Director of PRIF

15:30–15:45Coffee break
15:45–17:15

Panel 1: Norms, Institutions and Cooperation

Chair: 
Dr. Simone Wisotzki, Member of the Executive Board, PRIF

Panelists:
Prof. Dr. Tanja Brühl, Professor for International Relations and Peace Processes, Vice-President Goethe-University Frankfurt
Prof. Dr. Andreas Hasenclever, Professor for Peace Research and International Politics, University of Tübingen
Prof. Dr. Richard Ned Lebow, Professor of International Political Theory, King's College London

17:15–17:30Coffee break
17:30–19:00

Panel 2: Democratic Peace / Democratic Wars

Chair:
Dr. Niklas Schörnig, Vice Chair of the Research Council, PRIF

Panelists:
Prof. Dr. Piki Ish-Shalom, Associate Professor at the Department of International Relations, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Prof. Dr. Beate Jahn, Professor of International Relations, University of Sussex
Dr. John MacMillan, Senior Lecturer at Brunel University London
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Wagner, Professor of International Security, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

20:00Reception at the Römer (Town Hall) – By Invitation Only 

 

Day 2 (Oktober 14, 2016)

9:30–11:00

Panel 3: Arms control in Crisis? The example of the NPT

Chair:
Prof. em. Dr. William Walker, former Prof. at the University of St Andrews

Panelists:
His Excellency Dr. Nabil Fahmy, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Egypt
Prof. Dr. Judith Reppy, Professor Emerita and Graduate School Professor at Cornell University
Prof. Dr. Scott D. Sagan, Caroline S.G. Munro Professor of Political Science at Stanford University

11:00–11:15Coffee Break
11:15–12:45

Panel 4: Justice, Peace, and Governance

Chair:
Adj. Prof. Dr. Jonas Wolff, Head of Research Department IV, PRIF

Panelists:
Prof. Dr. Andrew Hurrell, Montague Burton Professor of International Relations at Oxford University
Dr. Nina Tannenwald, Faculty fellow at the Watson Institute and Director of the International Relations Program, Brown University
Prof. Dr. David Welch, Professor in Global Security at the Centre for International Governance Innovation, University of Waterloo

12:45–14:00Lunch buffet 
14:00–15:30

Closing Discussion

Chair:
Prof. Dr. Klaus Dieter Wolf, Professor for International Relations, Institute of Political Science, Technische Universität Darmstadt and former Executive Director of PRIF

Panelists:
Prof. Dr. Nicole Deitelhoff, Professor of International Relations and Theories of Global Orders and Executive Director of PRIF
Prof. Dr. Richard Ned Lebow, Professor of International Political Theory, King's College London
Prof. Dr. Harald Müller, Professor of International Relations, Goethe-University Frankfurt, former Executive Director of PRIF
Prof. Dr. Thomas Risse, Professor of International Relations and director of the Center for Transnational Relations, Foreign and Security Policy at the Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science at the Freie Universität Berlin

 

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