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international conference
01-02-February-2008, LSE
Peace Movements in the Cold War and Beyond:
An International Conference
This is a list of confirmed participants (as of 31 January 2008). We are
expecting further confirmations and will update the list regularly.
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Topic 1: Peace Movements in the Early Cold War
Topic 2: The Vietnam Anti-War Movement and its Legacy in the 70s
Topic 3: Peace Movements in the 1980s
Topic 4: The Church and Peace Movements
Topic 5: Post Cold War Peace Movements
Topic 6: East-West Dialogue
Topic 7: Women's Peace Movements
Topic 8: Concepts of Peace
Topic 9: The Role of Peace Research
Topic 10: Peace Movements and Conscientious Objection
Topic 11: Peace Movements and Germany
Topic 12: Theory and Practice of Peace Movements
All other participants
Topic 1: Peace Movements in the Early Cold War - Panel 1a
Chair: Kristina Spohr Readman (LSE)
Bennett, Scott (Georgian Court University)
James Peck and the Cold War: American Radical Pacifism and Grassroots Citizens Peace Activism
Lieberman, Robbie (Southern Illinois University) Peace and Freedom before the Vietnam War: anticommunism and the African American Perspective on Nuclear Weapons

Young, Nigel (Editor in Chief International Ecyclopedia of Peace, OUP) CND - The classic phase 1958-65


Topic 1: Peace Movements in the Early Cold War - Panel 1b
Chair: Arne Westad (LSE)
Ullrich, Weston (The Carlbrook School) The British Government and the Second World Peace Congress: A Case Study in The Role of Perception in Cold War Policy Making

Spina, Raphaël (Ecole Normale Supérieure (Cachan)) Yves Farge and the first years of the French Peace Movement, from the committed citizen to the fellow traveller, a biographical approach

Zaidi, Waqar (Imperial College London) Rethinking the Origins, Character and Significance of Post-war atomic internationalism

Topic 2: The Vietnam Anti-War Movement and its Legacy in the 1970s
- Panel 2a
Chair: John Gittings

Halpern, Martin (Henderson Sate University) Left-Progressive Coalitions in the Era of the Vietnam War: The Anti-War Movement at the University of Michigan

Hershberg, James G. (George Washington University) "Eugene McCarthy's Polish Connection: The Anti-Vietnam War Movement Leader's Secret Communist Contacts during his Presidential Campaign, 1967-68"

Irving, Nick (University of Sydney) Left Behind - the decline of the Communist Party in Australia and the emergence of the "New Left"
Topic 2: The Vietnam Anti-War Movement and its Legacy in the 1970s
- Panel 2b
Chair: Mick Cox (LSE)
Bracke, Maud (University of Glasgow) Revolution or Peace? The Vietnam movement in Europe and the challenge of radical anti-imperialism
Lembcke, Jerry (Holy Cross College) Spat-upon Veterans, Abandoned POWs, and 'Hanoi Jane': Vietnam and the Making of America's 'Great Betrayal' Narrative
Sneh,Itai (John Jay College of Criminal Justice) From Vietnam to Carter: Attempts to Reverse Realpolitik
Topic 3: Peace Movements in the 1980s - Panel 3a
Chair: Arne Westad (LSE)

Anderson, Stellan (Labour Movement Archives and Library, Stockholm)
"You can never say no to Noel-Baker." Olof Palme on disarmament and the role of the peace movement
Arnold, Jacquelyn (London Metropolitan University) Hot War in the Town Halls: Nuclear Free Local Authorities in the 1980s

Goddeeris, Idesbald (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
Solidarity or Peace? Polish exiles and Solidarnosc activists towards the peace movement

Kaldor, Mary and Mient Jan Faber (LSE and University of Amsterdam)
Why the Peace Movement Didnt Fail: A Response to Joffe

Topic 3: Peace Movements in the 1980s - Panel 3b
Chair: Nigel Young

Nuti, Leopoldo (University of Roma Tre) The Nuclear debate in Italian politics in the 1980s

Wallis, Tim (International Alert) "The Road to Reykjavik: Evaluating the Impact of European and American Peace movements on the Decision to Remove Land-Based Missiles from Europe"
van den Berg, Dion (IKV Interchurch Peace Council)
Local Governments' Support for the Peace Movement in the 1980s: the Example of Dutch Municipalities
Peace, Roger (Florida State University)
Peace Movements and the Cold War in the Third World: The Case of Sandinista Nicaragua

Topic 4: The Church and Peace Movements - Panel 4a
Chair: Mient-Jan Faber (University of Amsterdam)
Ceci, Giovanni Mario (Università Roma Tre)
The Italian Catholic World and the Christian Democratic Party facing the dilemma of Euro-missiles

Hogebrink, Laurens (IKV)
The Ecumenical Movement and the Cold War Experiences and Mechanisms

Chmielewski, Wendy (Swarthmore College Peace Collection) Speak Truth to Power: Religion, Race, Sexuality and Politics during the Cold War

Moro, Renato (Università Roma Tre) Catholic Church, Italian Catholics and Peace Movements: the Cold War years, 1945-1961

Topic 4: The Church and Peace Movements - Panel 4b
Chair: David Cortright
Rubinson, Paul (University of Texas at Austin) "An Emotional Grassroots Offensive": Religion, Science and the Arms Race in the 1980s"

McArthur, Robert (University of Melbourne) Christ and Australia's Cold War: Political Activism as an Expression of Faith

Legerer, Anton (European University
Florence) The German Protestant Antonement
Service instrumentalized during the Peace Movement
of the early 1980s by both German governments

Topic 5: Post Cold War Peace Movements - Panel 5
Chair: Miriam Struyk
Fragiskatos, Peter (Cambridge University) Putting Genocide on the Map: Transnational Civil Society and the Darfur Crisis

Petithomme, Mathieu (European University Institute) The 1992-1993 International Peace Movement for Somalia: Humanitarian Assistance or Military Intervention?

Bolton, Matthew (LSE) The Movements against Mines, Cluster Munitions and Explosive Remnants of War: The Indochinese Wars to the Present

Alcalde, Javier (European University Insitute, Florence)
Global Institutional Responses to the Peace Movement Demands After the Cold War

Topic 6: East-West Dialogue - Panel 6
Chair: Ferenc Miszlivetz

Burke, Patrick (University of Westminster) European Nuclear Disarmament and the East-West Dialogue of the 1980s

Hauner, Milan (University of Wisconsin (Madison)) Charter 77 and Western Peace Movements (1980-84)

Jarman, Peter (Transnational Foundation for Peace, Sweden) East-West Dialogue: Possibilities and Limitations

Ivancheva, Mariya (Central European University, Budapest) Civil Society as a discursive frame: Vaclav Havel's 'Anatomy of Reticence' as a case study

Rainio-Niemi, Johanna (University of Helsinki) Peace Builders in the Cold War: Professor Heikki Waris (1901-1989), the East-West Dialogue and Finnish Neutrality Policies

Topic 7: Women's Peace Movements - Panel 7a
Chair: tba
Orr, James (Bucknell University)
Peace Maidens, Peace Matrons: Gender and Political Subjectivity in
Japan’s Anti-Nuclear Peace Movement

Shapiro, Jessica Ariela (King's College, University of London) "Women in Black": the Internal Other
Topic 7: Women's Peace Movements - Panel 7b
Chair: Hakan Seckinelgin (LSE)
Lieberfeld, Daniel (Duquesne University)
Israel's "Four Mothers" Movement and the Lebanon War

Olcott, Jocelyn (Duke University) Star Power: disarming Cold War Politics at the 1975 International Women's Year Conference
Devic , Ana (University of Glasgow) Undesirable Peaceniks: Women’s Anti-War Activism and Anti-Nationalism in Yugoslavia’s Successor States
Topic 8: Concepts of Peace - Panel 8a
Chair: James Skelly
Edsforth, Ronald (Dartmouth College) The Cold War and Global Proliferation of nonviolent politics

Gittings, John (Oxford Research Group) Broadening the Peace Agenda for the 21st Century

Ogawa, Akihiro (Stockholm University) Japan's Pacifism: the current debate on Japan's constitutional revision and grassroots peace movements
Topic 8: Concepts of Peace - Panel 8b
Chair: tba
Belitser, Natalija
Peace and non-violence culture: the case of Crimean Tatars during and after the Cold War

Barker, Paul (Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London) Performance and War

Ohanjanyan, Karen (Coordinator of Nagorno-Karabakh Committee of "Helsinki Initiative-92") Some Approaches in Shaping New Peace Concepts
Topic 9: The Role of Peace Research - Panel 9
Chair: Helge Pharo

Rangil, Teresa Tomas (Ecole Normale Superieure de Cachan) Foreign Affairs as Domestic Affairs: Conflict Resolution at the University of Michigan, 1952-1959

Tal, David (Syracuse University) US Nuclear Disarmament Policy and Public Opinion

Topic 10: Peace Movements and Conscientious Objection - Panel 10
Chair: Felicity Hill (tbc)
Takemura, Hitomi (Irish Centre for Human Rights, National University of Ireland, Galway) Rights and Duties of the Individual to Disobey Manifestly Illegal Orders under International Law

Guy Grossman (Columbia Univeristy)
Courage to Refuse: Opportunities, Limits and Impact

Cortright, David (Fourth Freedom Forum; Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies)
tba
Skelly, James (Baker Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies at Juniata College in Pennsylvania) The Problematic Character of Conscientious Objection

Topic 11: Peace Movements and Germany - Panel 11
Chair: Patrick Burke

Spohr Readman, Kristina (LSE) Protest, puppets and power political players: the peace movement, the German question and high politics in the 1970s

Suzuki, Hitoshi (Universität Duisburg-Essen,
Germany) Trade Unions as a Peace Movement?: the ideas of Euratom, the European Trade Union Network and debates of how to exclude nuclear armament from German rearmament, 1950-1960

Holmes, Amy (Johns Hopkins University)
Direct Action: Maneuver Obstructions and Base Blockades in the American Sector of Germany during the Last Decade of the Cold War
Topic 12: Theory and Practice of Peace Movements - Panel 12
Chair: Mary Kaldor
Della Porta, Donatella (European University Institute, Florence) The Peace Movement in comparative perspective: Mobilizing structures and strategic choices

Nehring,Holger (University of Sheffield) Challenging the imaginary war. A reassessment of the place of peace movements in Cold War history

Zieman, Benjamin (University of Sheffield) The Designation of Peace. Symbolic Politics of West German Peace Movements, 1945-1990

Joensson, Jibecke (European University Institute, Florence) The Idealization of Peace: International Security and Peace Movements

All other participants
Brathagen, Kjersti (Forum for Contemporary History at the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History at the University of Oslo)

Butcher, Martin

Butcher, Sandra Ionno
(Director, Pugwash History Project)

Cappelli, Francesca (LSE)

Cinar, Ozgur
(Law Department, University of Essex)

Cox, Mick (LSE)

De Keersmaeker, Goedele (Global Governance Research Group, Ghent University)
Ekelund, Øyvind (International Peace Research Institute Oslo)

Fowle, Mark (PhD student, Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick)

Grachev, Andrei

Jeffrey, Alex (Lecturer in Human Geography, The School of Geography, Politics and Sociology, Newcastle University)

Johnson, Rebecca (Acronym Institute for Disarmament Diplomacy)

Kavan, Jan
Kempster, Tony (Vice-president of the International Peace Bureau (Geneva) and Chair of the Movement for the Abolition of War)
Kjelling, Anne Cecilie (Head Librarian, Norwegian Nobel Institute)
Lloydlangston, Amber (Canadian War Museum/Musée canadien de la guerre)

Nias, Peter (The Peace Museum, Bradford)
Novis, Gemma
Nwaokeleme, Maryanne (Head of the Women’s Commission/Outreach Office, African Youth for Transparency (AYFT), Nigeria)
Pharo, Helge (Forum for Contemporary History at the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History at the University of Oslo)

Roberts, Andy (European Dialogue)
Ringsby, Per Jostein (Forum for Contemporary History at the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History at the University of Oslo)
Oguejiofor, Okonkwo Christian (Post-graduate student, Centre for European Research and International Strategies (CERIS), Brusssels, Belguim)
Simmons, Noah (Ph.D. candidate, The Graduate Center, City University of New York)
Struyk, Miriam (Free University Amsterdam and IKV Pax Christi)

Tagliaferro , Anna
Vermeer, Andréa (PhD student, University of Amsterdam and Member of the Centre of Conflict Studies at the University of Marburg in Germany)
Westad, Arne (LSE)

Wilhelmsen, Anette (Forum for Contemporary History at the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History at the University of Oslo)

Wilson, Henrietta (freelance researcher, specialising in weapons of mass destruction disarmament)
Willis, Elizabeth A.
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