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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
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Lieberman, Robbie (Southern Illinois University)
Peace and Freedom before the Vietnam War: anticommunism and the African American Perspective on Nuclear Weapons
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Young, Nigel (Editor in Chief International Ecyclopedia of Peace, OUP)
CND - The classic phase 1958-65
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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
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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
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Zaidi, Waqar (Imperial College London)
Rethinking the Origins, Character and Significance of Post-war atomic internationalism
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Topic 2: The Vietnam Anti-War Movement and its Legacy in the 1970s - Panel 2a

Chair: John Gittings
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Halpern, Martin (Henderson Sate University)
Left-Progressive Coalitions in the Era of the Vietnam War: The Anti-War Movement at the University of Michigan
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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"
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Irving, Nick (University of Sydney)
Left Behind - the decline of the Communist Party in Australia and the emergence of the "New Left"
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Topic 2: The Vietnam Anti-War Movement and its Legacy in the 1970s - Panel 2b

Chair: Mick Cox (LSE)
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Bracke, Maud (University of Glasgow)
Revolution or Peace? The Vietnam movement in Europe and the challenge of radical anti-imperialism
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Lembcke, Jerry (Holy Cross College)
Spat-upon Veterans, Abandoned POWs, and 'Hanoi Jane': Vietnam and the Making of America's 'Great Betrayal' Narrative
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Sneh,Itai (John Jay College of Criminal Justice)
From Vietnam to Carter: Attempts to Reverse Realpolitik
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Topic 3: Peace Movements in the 1980s - Panel 3a

Chair: Arne Westad (LSE)
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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
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Arnold, Jacquelyn (London Metropolitan University)
Hot War in the Town Halls: Nuclear Free Local Authorities in the 1980s
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Goddeeris, Idesbald (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
Solidarity or Peace? Polish exiles and Solidarnosc activists towards the peace movement
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Kaldor, Mary and Mient Jan Faber (LSE and University of Amsterdam)
Why the Peace Movement Didnt Fail: A Response to Joffe
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Topic 3: Peace Movements in the 1980s - Panel 3b

Chair: Nigel Young
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Nuti, Leopoldo (University of Roma Tre)
The Nuclear debate in Italian politics in the 1980s
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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"
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van den Berg, Dion (IKV Interchurch Peace Council)
Local Governments' Support for the Peace Movement in the 1980s: the Example of Dutch Municipalities
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Peace, Roger (Florida State University)
Peace Movements and the Cold War in the Third World: The Case of Sandinista Nicaragua
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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
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Hogebrink, Laurens (IKV)
The Ecumenical Movement and the Cold War Experiences and Mechanisms
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Chmielewski, Wendy (Swarthmore College Peace Collection)
Speak Truth to Power: Religion, Race, Sexuality and Politics during the Cold War
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Moro, Renato (Università Roma Tre)
Catholic Church, Italian Catholics and Peace Movements: the Cold War years, 1945-1961
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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"
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McArthur, Robert (University of Melbourne)
Christ and Australia's Cold War: Political Activism as an Expression of Faith
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Legerer, Anton (European University Florence)
The German Protestant Antonement Service instrumentalized during the Peace Movement of the early 1980s by both German governments
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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
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Petithomme, Mathieu (European University Institute)
The 1992-1993 International Peace Movement for Somalia: Humanitarian Assistance or Military Intervention?
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Bolton, Matthew (LSE)
The Movements against Mines, Cluster Munitions and Explosive Remnants of War: The Indochinese Wars to the Present
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Alcalde, Javier (European University Insitute, Florence)
Global Institutional Responses to the Peace Movement Demands After the Cold War
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Topic 6: East-West Dialogue - Panel 6

Chair: Ferenc Miszlivetz
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Burke, Patrick (University of Westminster)
European Nuclear Disarmament and the East-West Dialogue of the 1980s
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Hauner, Milan (University of Wisconsin (Madison))
Charter 77 and Western Peace Movements (1980-84)
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Jarman, Peter (Transnational Foundation for Peace, Sweden)
East-West Dialogue: Possibilities and Limitations
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Ivancheva, Mariya (Central European University, Budapest)
Civil Society as a discursive frame: Vaclav Havel's 'Anatomy of Reticence' as a case study
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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
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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
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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
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Olcott, Jocelyn (Duke University)
Star Power: disarming Cold War Politics at the 1975 International Women's Year Conference
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Devic , Ana (University of Glasgow)
Undesirable Peaceniks: Women’s Anti-War Activism and Anti-Nationalism in Yugoslavia’s Successor States
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Topic 8: Concepts of Peace - Panel 8a

Chair: James Skelly


Edsforth, Ronald (Dartmouth College)
The Cold War and Global Proliferation of nonviolent politics
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Gittings, John (Oxford Research Group)
Broadening the Peace Agenda for the 21st Century
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Ogawa, Akihiro (Stockholm University)
Japan's Pacifism: the current debate on Japan's constitutional revision and grassroots peace movements
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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
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Barker, Paul (Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London)
Performance and War
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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
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Rangil, Teresa Tomas (Ecole Normale Superieure de Cachan)
Foreign Affairs as Domestic Affairs: Conflict Resolution at the University of Michigan, 1952-1959
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Tal, David (Syracuse University)
US Nuclear Disarmament Policy and Public Opinion
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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
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Guy Grossman (Columbia Univeristy)
Courage to Refuse: Opportunities, Limits and Impact
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Cortright, David (Fourth Freedom Forum; Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies)
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Skelly, James (Baker Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies at Juniata College in Pennsylvania)
The Problematic Character of Conscientious Objection
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Topic 11: Peace Movements and Germany - Panel 11

Chair: Patrick Burke
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Spohr Readman, Kristina (LSE)
Protest, puppets and power political players: the peace movement, the German question and high politics in the 1970s
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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
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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
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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
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Nehring,Holger (University of Sheffield)
Challenging the imaginary war. A reassessment of the place of peace movements in Cold War history
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Zieman, Benjamin (University of Sheffield)
The Designation of Peace. Symbolic Politics of West German Peace Movements, 1945-1990
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Joensson, Jibecke (European University Institute, Florence)
The Idealization of Peace: International Security and Peace Movements
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All other participants

Brathagen, Kjersti (Forum for Contemporary History at the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History at the University of Oslo)
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Butcher, Martin
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Butcher, Sandra Ionno (Director, Pugwash History Project)
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Cappelli, Francesca (LSE)
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Cinar, Ozgur (Law Department, University of Essex)
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Cox, Mick (LSE)
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De Keersmaeker, Goedele (Global Governance Research Group, Ghent University)

Ekelund, Øyvind (International Peace Research Institute Oslo)
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Fowle, Mark (PhD student, Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick) More
 
Grachev, Andrei
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Jeffrey, Alex (Lecturer in Human Geography, The School of Geography, Politics and Sociology, Newcastle University) More
 
Johnson, Rebecca (Acronym Institute for Disarmament Diplomacy) More
 
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) More
 
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)
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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) More
 
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)
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Wilhelmsen, Anette (Forum for Contemporary History at the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History at the University of Oslo)
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Wilson, Henrietta (freelance researcher, specialising in weapons of mass destruction disarmament)
 
Willis, Elizabeth A.









 



  


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