international conference

01-02-February-2008, LSE

Peace Movements in the Cold War and Beyond: An International Conference

This page provides a list of short biographies of our conference participants. This list will be updated regularly (last updated: 12 January 2008).

Alcalde, Javier
Javier Alcalde is currantly finishing his PhD in the European University Institute in Florence under the supervision of professor Donatella della Porta. Defense expected: Spring 2007. His PhD research analyses some of the current campaigns of the international peace movement on the topic of disarmament: landmines, child soldiers, small arms and cluster munitions. His research interests include the relationships between mass media and social movements, and the role of NGOs in the processes of international norm development. He has been a member of the Spanish peace organization Fundació per la Pau for more than ten years.

He has published articles in peer-review academic journals, including Revista Española de Investigaciones Sociológicas, Revista Internacional de Sociología, Transnational Review ‘il Dubbio’, Revista Política y Sociedad, Revista de Política Exterior, Revista de Gobernanza y Seguridad Sostenible and some policy papers and working papers in the Royal Elcano Institute of International and Strategic Studies. He has contributed to several collective books: K. Fahlenbrach, M. Klimke e J. Scharloth (ed. 2008) The ‘Establishment’ Responds - Power and Protest During and After the Cold War. Berghahn Books, New York/Oxford; 13-M : multitudes on line. 2005. Madrid: Los Libros de la Catarata, ed. Victor Sampedro; Dónde están las llaves? El movimiento okupa: prácticas y contextos sociales. 2004. Madrid: Los Libros de la Catarata, ed. Miguel Martinez and Ramón Adell; La pantalla de las identidades : medios de comunicación, políticas y mercados de identidad. 2003. Barcelona: Icaria. Col. Akademia, ed. Victor Sampedro.

Paper title:
Global Institutional Responses to the Peace Movement Demands After the Cold War





Andersson, Stellan
Stellan Andersson is a senior archivist in The Archives and Library of the Swedish Labour Movement in Stockholm (www.arbark.se), where he, for more than thirty years, has processed archives from leading social democratic personalities (Alva and Gunnar Myrdal, Olof Palme, Ingvar Carlsson etc.) and organizations (Social Democratic Party etc.) and guided scholars in their research. He has participated in the academic research program called “Sweden during the Cold War”, where he wrote a book on the early years of Swedish disarmament policy, Den första grinden. Svensk nedrustningspolitik 1961-1963 (2004). He wrote the comments in Ingrid Malm-Andersson: Olof Palme. En bibliografi (2001), and he is responsible for the web-site www.olofpalme.org. Together with Örjan Appelqvist he has edited and commented the book The Essential Gunnar Myrdal (2005).

Paper title:
”You can never say no to Noel-Baker.” Olof Palme on disarmament and the peace movement.





Arnold, Jacquelyn
Jacquelyn Arnold is a second year PhD student at London Metropolitan University. Her thesis is entitled ‘Public Protection in the Nuclear Age: British Civil Defence Policy 1945 – 1991'. Her doctoral research seeks to analyse the passive defence strategy of successive British governments and the ideology and influences behind British civil defence policies during the Cold War within a comparative and historical framework. Other areas of research interest include socio-cultural aspects of civil defence planning, post-war public information film-making in the UK and US and representations of national and political identity in pro-nuclear and defence propaganda.

Paper title:
Hot War in the Town Halls: Nuclear Free Local Authorities in the 1980s




Ballestrin, Luciana
Luciana Ballestrin has a Bachelor's in Social Sciences from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Porto Alegre, Brazil). Her undergraduate thesis is entitled "The INGO "ATTAC" in Brazil: the Porto Alegre center study" (2003). She obtained her Master's degree from the Political Science Graduate Program from the above university and her dissertation is entitled "State and NGO´s in Brazil: Agreements and Controversies related to Human Rights (1994-2002)". Currently she is a Ph.D. Political Science Candidate at the Political Science Graduate Program at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (2006-), (Belo Horizonte, Brazil). Her research interests include global civil society and fire arms disarmament in Latin America, with particular emphasis on Brazil.

Paper title: In Search of Another Concept of Peace in Contemporary Brazil: A Civil Society Approach to Disarmament





Barker, Paul
Paul Barker is a composer, conductor, stage director and author. His compositions include operas, music theatre, orchestral and chamber music, performed at major festivals, recorded and broadcast internationally. His 2003 commission for the Brodsky String Quartet and clarinettist Joan Lluna is entitled In Memoriam: for those who fall in time of war. As chamber music theatre it has been televised and performed in Spain, Mexico, Serbia, Holland and the UK. His book, Composing for Voice was published by Routledge in 2004. His grandfather served in the First World War, and his father served in the Second. He is currently Senior Lecturer in Music Theatre at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London. More information on www.paulbarker.net

Paper title:
Performance and War





Belitser, Nataliia
Nataliia Belitser, researcher at the Pylyp Orlyk Institute for Democracy, Kyiv, Ukraine, is author of a number of publications (in Ukrainian and English) concerning ethnopolitical conflict prevention/settlement, interethnic relations, minorities and indigenous peoples’ rights and related issues. Her research studies have focused on a potential separatist conflict in Crimea and the situation of formerly deported Crimean Tatar people during and after their repatriation. Her main publications on these issues are: “The Constitutional Process in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea in the Context of Interethnic Relations and Conflict Settlement” (2000), and “’Indigenous Status’ for the Crimean Tatars in Ukraine: A History of a Political Debate” (2003). Recently, her academic and public activities address also Transnistrian and other “frozen conflicts” in the post-Soviet space.

Paper title:
Peace and non-violence culture: the case of Crimean Tatars during and after the Cold War

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Bennett, Scott H.
Scott H. Bennett is Associate Professor of History at Georgian Court University, Lakewood, New Jersey, USA. He has published and spoken widely on peace history, radical pacifism, nonviolent social movements, and World War II conscientious objectors. He has written Radical Pacifism: The War Resisters League and Gandhian Nonviolence in America, 1915-1923 (2003), and edited Army GI, Pacifist CO: The World War II Letters of Frank and Albert Dietrich (2005). He is President of the Peace History Society.

Paper title:
James Peck and the Cold War: American Radical Pacifism and Grassroots Citizens Peace Activism





van den Berg, Dion
Dion van den Berg started working for IKV (Interchurch Peace Council) in 1980. He was actively involved in the development of municipal peace policy in the Netherlands. He has been in charge of various campaigns, has published about municipal peace policy and is at present one of the advisors to the UCLG Conference on City Diplomacy, Human Rights and Peacebuilding (Peace Palace The Hague, June 2008).

Paper title:
Local Governments' Support for the Peace Movement in the 1980s: the Example of Dutch Municipalities





Bolton, Matthew
Matthew Bolton's ongoing PhD in government at the London School of Economics researches the politics of foreign aid for landmine clearance in Afghanistan, Bosnia and Sudan. Before doing an MSc in development studies (research), also at the LSE, he worked as an aid worker in a variety of places including Bosnia and northern Iraq. His undergraduate degree from Graceland University in Iowa, USA, was in history and religion. He is author of Apostle of the Poor, a biography of an American missionary and humanitarian.

Paper title:
The Movements against Mines, Cluster Munitions and Explosive Remnants of War: The Indochinese Wars to the Present





Bracke, Maud
Maud Bracke did her undergraduate studies in History at the University of Leuven in Belgium, and has a Masters in International Relations from the University of Antwerp. She obtained her PhD from the European University Institute in Florence in 2004. She started working as a lecturer in Modern European History at the University of Glasgow the following year. She has recently published a book entitled Which socialism, whose détente? West European communism and the Czechoslovak crisis of 1968 with Central European University Press, Budapest. She has published articles on French and Italian communism, the Prague Spring, and “1968” in France and Italy. New research interests include changing collective memories of World War Two in Europe in the 1960s, the Hot Autumn in Italy and the rise of new political subjects, and the transformation of political utopia on the European left since 1989. She has been invited as speaker at conferences in Prague and Lisbon.

Paper title:
Revolution or Peace? The Vietnam movement in Europe and the challenge of radical anti-imperialism




Brathagen , Kjersti
Kjersti Brathagen is a doctoral candidate at the University of Oslo who is part of the Research Project "A Norwegian Peace Tradition". She is an LSE alumni, with a BSc in International and International Relations (1999) and a MSc in International Relations (Research) (2000). After finishing a MA thesis in Norway on the legal trials of the leadership of the women's organisation of the Norwegian fascist party, Nasjonal Samling, she has moved on to study the development of human rights instruments after World War II. Her PhD thesis, which is to be finished this summer, has the working title "Towards the end destination of the pilgrimage of states, Norway and the internationalisation of human rights, 1944-1953".




Buirski, Jeanette
My name is Jeanette Buirski. In early1990, and as a former activist with European Nuclear Disarmament, I was involved with Mary Kaldor in launching European Dialogue in the UK - a network to reach out to Europe in parallel to the Helsinki Citizens Assembly. The HCA had not as yet launched but did so later that year. I have been Director of ED until this year.

We have remained true to our roots in the 'peace movement' and sought to address ethnic conflict and intolerance as powerful drivers of global conflict today -

European Dialogue works to support vulnerable minorities and other excluded communities in the UK and across Europe in their struggle to combat intolerance, discrimination and racism. Through innovative, high-quality pilot projects, research and publications, we support the genuine, sustainable empowerment of vulnerable groups, in the interests of equality and diversity.

European Dialogue website





Burke, Patrick
Patrick Burke is a lecturer in Politics and International Relations at the University of Westminster in London. In the 1980s he was an active member of two British peace groups, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) and European Nuclear Disarmament (END). He recently completed a PhD thesis on END; he’s now trying to turn the thesis into a book. He has written and edited, alone or with others, a number of books and articles on social movements in general and peace movements in particular, and on nuclear weapons.

Paper title:
European Nuclear Disarmament and the East-West Dialogue of the 1980s




Butcher, Martin
Martin Butcher, International Security Consultant. Martin is former director of security programs for the US Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) and has worked with the British American Security Information Council (BASIC) on both sides of the ocean as staff member, interim Director and board member. He spent 8 years in Brussels, first with NATO Alerts Network, and then as founder and Director of the Centre for European Security and Disarmament (CESD). He coordinated a Europe-wide network of parliamentarians from Brussels, and founded CESD, providing much of the research and writing for the first European Parliament report on non-proliferation and disarmament in 1995. His recent work as a consultant has included an in-depth briefing on US policy toward Iran for the government of Bahrain, and working regularly on NATO issues for the Acronym Institute. Martin's career began with the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND). At CND, Martin organized the Student CND network, was active in planning and organizing major events. He was the organizer of the 1987 European Nuclear Disarmament Convention.



Butcher, Sandra Ionno
Sandra Ionno Butcher, Director, Pugwash History Project, International Pugwash and Joint Executive Secretary, British Pugwash Group. She is researching a full-length publication on the history of Pugwash, at the request of the late Joseph Rotblat. She worked in the national office of Student Pugwash USA for nearly eight years, as National Student Activities Coordinator, and as national executive director for nearly six years. She worked as senior analyst and as interim research director for the British American Security Information Council, where she focused on nuclear weapons issues and arms trade policy. Sandy also served as part-time consultant to the Italian School on Disarmament and Research on Conflict. She has an M.Litt in Strategic Studies from the University of Aberdeen and a B.A. in history from Colgate University.




Cappelli, Francesca
Francesca Cappelli is currently studying for a MA in History of International Relations at London School of Economics. She graduated in History with a final thesis on the 2nd Hague Peace Conference of 1907 and the Italian public opinion titled “The Peace of States, the Peace of Citizens: the Second Hague Peace Conference (1907) and Its Coverage by the Italian Press”, at the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy at the University of Milan (Italy) in December 2006. The main aim of this research was to identify the dialectical relationship between public opinion and foreign policy, both on the national and on the international context. Her interest lies especially in the field of Cultural History, History of International Law as the evolution and expansion of a European set of values and principles, and History of Social Movements up to the World War I, with a particular attention to the 19th century pacifist movement. While studying in Italy she collaborated and worked for 10 years with various local NGOs, especially devoted to child development and addressing intercultural issues, in undertaking different roles from assistant, coordinator, trainer and member of management committee.




Chmielewski, Wendy
Wendy Chmielewski is the George Cooley Curator of the Swarthmore College Peace Collection. Dr. Chmielewski's areas of research include the role of women in the nineteenth and twentieth century peace movements and the role of women in U.S. intentional communities. Her published work on peace efforts includes two articles: “`Binding Themselves the Closer to Their Own Peculiar Duties’: Gender and Women’s Work for Peace, 1818-1860,” Peace and Change: Journal of the Peace History Society; and “`Mid the Din a Dove Appeared’: Women’s Work in the Nineteenth-Century Peace Movement,” in OverHere: A European Journal of American Culture, Vol. 17, Issue 2, Winter 1997. She is a co-editor of a forthcoming volume of essays on new scholarship on Jane Addams, Jane Addams and the Practice of Democracy, to be published by the University of Illinois Press in the fall of 2008. Dr. Chmielewski's current research includes the role of women in transatlantic British and U.S. peace and social reform movements in the first half of the nineteenth century, and will be the subject of a forthcoming article in the journal Peace and Change. Dr. Chmielewski is a past president of the Peace History Society.

Paper title:
Speak Truth to Power: Religion, Race, Sexuality and Politics during the Cold War





Ceci, Giovanni Mario
Giovanni Mario Ceci was born in Rome in 1979. He defended his Ph.D. final dissertation on Christian Democratic Party toward political violence, terrorism and subversive phenomena (1969-1978) at the University of Rome “Roma Tre”, in July 2007. His areas of expertise are Fascism and historiography on Fascism, Italian terrorism and the Christian Democratic Party during the Seventies. Besides having written essays on the Euro-missiles crisis, he has recently edited a Correspondence between Renzo De Felice and George L. Mosse for the journal of history Mondo Contemporaneo and is going to publish soon a book on Renzo De Felice, Historian of Politics.

Paper title:
The Italian Catholic World and the Christian Democratic Party facing the dilemma of Euro-missiles





Cinar, Ozgur Heval
Ozgur Heval Cinar is a barrister. And, he is currently a PhD candidate and Graduate Teaching Assistant in the Department of Law at the University of Essex. His doctorate topic is about the issue of conscientious objection in human rights law and the case of Turkey.




Cox, Michael
Professor Michael Cox has lectured at Queen's University, Belfast (1972-1995), California State University at San Diego (1986), The College of William and Mary in Virginia (1987-1989), the Department of International Politics, Aberystwyth (1995-2001), The Catholic University of Milan (2003 and 2004) and the University of Melbourne (2004). In 2003 and 2004 he was a visiting professor at the Centre for Defence and Strategic Studies in Canberra, Australia. He was appointed to a Chair at LSE in 2003.

Professor Cox is the author, editor and co-editor of several books including Superpowers at the Crossroads (1990); US Foreign Policy after the Cold War: superpower without a mission (1995); The Ideas of Leon Trotsky (1995); Rethinking the Soviet Collapse (1998); The Eighty Years Crisis: international relations, 1919-1999 (1998); The Interregnum: controversies in world politics, 1989-1999 (1999); American Democracy Promotion (2000); EH Carr: a critical appraisal (2000); A Farewell to Arms: from long war to long peace in Northern Ireland (2000); EH Carr: The Twenty Years' Crisis: introduction to the study of international relations (2001) (ed); Empires, Systems and States: great transformations in international politics (2002); and How Might We Live? global ethics for a new century (2002).

More information at the Cold War Studies Centre (LSE) website





Della Porta, Donatella
Donatella Della Porta is professor of sociology in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the European University Institute, where she teaches courses on political sociology, transformations in democracy, social movements and civil society as well as qualitative methods and research designs. She has received a Diplome d’Etudes Approfondies at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales of Paris and a Ph.D in political and social sciences at the European University Institute in Florence. In 1990 she received a Career Development Award of the H.F. Guggenheim Foundation; in 1997 a Stipendium of the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung. She has conducted research, among others, at Cornell University, Ithaca N.Y, and at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung. She directs the DEMOS project (Democracy in Europe and the Mobilisation of the Society), financed under the VI FP by the EC and has been national coordinator for the EC sponsored research projects Transformation of Environmental Activism (TEA, IV FP); The Contentious Politics of Unemployment (UNEMPOL, FP V) and The Europeanization of the Public Sphere (EUROPUB, FP V). She has directed a project of comparative research on control of public mass demonstrations in Europe and one on the police in Italy. Her main research interests concern social movements, political violence, terrorism, corruption, police and policies of public order. On these issues she has conducted investigations in Italy, France, Germany and Spain and is involved in several comparative projects on citizenship and social movements. Among her publications are: The Global Justice Movement, Paradigm, 2007; (with Massimiliano Andretta, Lorenzo Mosca and Herbert Reiter), Globalization from Below, The University of Minnesota Press; (with Abby Peterson and Herbert Reiter), The policing transnational protest, Ashgate 2006; (with Manuela Caiani), Quale Europa? Europeizzazione, identità e conflitti (Il Mulino, 2006); (with Mario Diani), Social Movements: an introduction, 2nd edition, Blackwell, 2006; (with Sidney Tarrow), Transnational Protest and Global Activism, Rowman and Littlefield, 2005; (ed.), Comitati di cittadini e democrazia urbana, Cosenza, Rubbettino, 2004, (con Herbert Reiter), La protesta e il controllo. Movimenti e forze dell’ordine nell’era della globalizzazione, Berti/Altreconomia, 2004; (con Maurizio Cotta e Leonardo Morlino), Fondamenti di scienza politica, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2004; D. della Porta and M. Diani, Movimenti senza protesta?, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2004, D. della Porta and H. Reiter, Polizia e protesta, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2003; D. della Porta, I new global, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2003; M. Andretta, D. della Porta, L. Mosca and H. Reiter, Global, noglobal, new global. Le proteste contro il G8 a Genova, Roma, Laterza, 2002 (also in German by Campus Verlag); D. della Porta and S. Rose-Ackerman (eds.), Corrupt exchanges, Baden-Baden, Nomos Verlag, 2002; D. Della Porta, Introduzione alla scienza politica, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2002; D. Della Porta, I partiti politici, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2001; M. Cotta, D. della Porta, L. Morlino, Scienza politica, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2001; D. della Porta, M. Greco, A. Szakolczai (eds.), Identità, riconoscimento, scambio. Saggi in onore di Alessandro Pizzorno, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2000; D. della Porta, A. Vannucci, Un paese anormale, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 1999; D. della Porta, H. Kriesi and D. Rucht (eds.), Social Movement in a Globalizing World, New York, Macmillan, 1999; D. della Porta, M. Diani, Social Movements: An Introduction, Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1999; D. della Porta, A. Vannucci, Corrup Exchanges, Aldine de Gruyter, 1999; D. della Porta, La politica locale, Bologna, Il Mulino, 1999; D. della Porta and H. Reiter (eds.), Policing Protest. The Control of Mass Demonstration in Western Democracies, Minneapolis, The University of Minnesota Press; D. della Porta e M. Diani, I movimenti sociali, Roma, Nuova Italia Scientifica, 1997; D. della Porta, Movimenti collettivi e sistema politico in Italia, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 1996; D. della Porta, Social Movements, Political Violence and the State, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1995 (Honorable Mention for the Distinguished Scholarship Award of the Collective Behavior and Social Movements Section of the American Sociological Association in 1996); D. della Porta, Y. Meny (eds.), Démocratie et corruption en Europe, Paris, La Découverte, 1995 (published also in Italian by Liguori, in Portuguise by Inquerito, and in English by Pinter); D. della Porta, A. Vannucci, Amministrazione pubblica e corruzione. Risorse, meccanismi, attori, Bologna, Il Mulino 1994; D. della Porta, Lo scambio occulto. Casi di corruzione politica in Italia, Bologna, Il Mulino, 1992.

Paper title:
The Peace Movement in comparative perspective: Mobilizing structures and strategic choices





Devic, Ana
Ana Devic is a lecturer in sociology and anthropology at the University of Glasgow. She held teaching and research posts at the University of Aarhus (Denmark), University of Bonn (Germany), Brown University (USA) and Bilkent University (Turkey). Ms. Devic obtained her first degree in economics in her home town of Novi Sad (then SFR Yugoslavia), her master's degree in the politics of development at the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague, and her Ph. D. in sociology at the University of California in San Diego. Ana Devic specializes in the sociology and politics of ethnic divisions, nationality, citizenship, multiculturalism and transnationalism, and their links with state-building and state- challenging. She conducts her field work in the region of former Yugoslavia and Eastern Europe, where she is particularly interested in the reframing of social and political conflicts in the transition from socialism to post-socialism, especially the consequences surrounding issues of globalization and Western interventions (military, humanitarian and developmental) in civil society building and democracy promotion programs. Ana Devic's work on antiwar and antinationalist women's groups and non-commercial and documentary films in the former Yugoslavia and its successor states is part of her discontent with nationalism studies' methods of analyzing civil society actors. She has published in National Identities, Ethnopolitics, International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society, and Anthropology of East Europe Review, and has edited a volume Nationalism, Multiculturalism and Democracy with the University of Bonn European Integration Series.

Paper title:
Undesirable Peaceniks: Women’s Anti-War Activism and Anti-Nationalism in Yugoslavia’s Successor States




Edsforth, Ronald
Ronald Edsforth is the Chair of Globalization Studies in the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies program and a Professor in the History Department at Dartmouth College where he has been teaching for the last fifteen years. After receiving his PhD in History from Michigan State University in 1982 Professor Edsforth's books and work on public television documentaries earned him recognition as a leading expert on the ways the making of its mass consumer economy changed the political culture of the United States. In 1999, Professor Edsforth began developing new courses on globalization and on the history of the global peace movement. Since 2000, when he published a book on the New Deal, these global history subjects have become the principal focus of his research. The paper that Professor Edsforth is presenting at the conference is drawn from his current book project, "World Wars, Global Peace Culture: A Political History of Globalization."

Paper title:
The Cold War and Global Proliferation of nonviolent politics




Ekelund, Øyvind
Taking part in the research project 'The Norwegian Peace Tradition' at the Forum for Contemporary History, University of Oslo, Øyvind Ekelund completed his MA-thesis at on the Norwegian peace movement during the early Cold War years. His main interests are post WWII peace activism and the anti nuclear weapons movement. Øyvind Ekelund is currently with the International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO) writing a book on peace research.




Fowle, Mark
Mark Fowle is a first year doctoral student in the Department of Politics and International Studies at Warwick University. His thesis focuses on the role played by transnational networks of peace advocates in the former Yugoslavian states since 1992, and will argue that such 'transnational peace networks' broaden participation and enhance dialogue about understandings and practices of security enabling transformative ideas about peace to enter the international system. By including formally neglected groups in debates about security, these networks serve as agents of 'emancipation'. He is also interested in historical precursors to these networks, particularly European peace movements during the 1980s.




Fragiskatos, Peter
Peter Fragiskatos is a PhD Candidate at the University of Cambridge. His dissertation analyses the causes and changing nature of the Kurdish questions in Iraq and Turkey through the lens of conflict analysis, international relations theory and social movement theory. His research interests include: theories of conflict and peace; non-state actors (especially transnational civil society movements; secessionist movements and insurgency movements); majority-minority relations (especially in post-conflict settings); international human rights; democratisation; and Middle East politics.

Paper title:
Putting Genocide on the Map: Transnational Civil Society and the Darfur Crisis




Gittings, John
John Gittings worked at The Guardian as foreign leader-writer and East Asia editor (1983-2003), and is an associate of the Oxford Research Group and of the Centre of Chinese Studies at SOAS. His book includes Superpowers in Collision, with Noam Chomsky and Jonathan Steele (1984), and The Changing Face of China (2005). He is now helping to edit the International Encyclopaedia of Peace (OUP, forthcoming).

Paper title:
Broadening the Peace Agenda for the 21st Century





Goddeeris, Idesbald
Idesbald Goddeeris is Assistant Professor of Imperial and (Post)Colonial History at the K.U.Leuven and Visiting Professor at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow. He studied Slavic Studies (MA 1994) and History (MA 1997, PhD 2001). His research focuses on the history of migration, the Cold War, and transnational identities.

Paper title:
Solidarity or Peace? Polish exiles and Solidarnosc activists towards the peace movement





Grossman, Guy
Guy Grossman is a doctoral candidate of political science at Columbia University, NYC. He is one of the founders of "Courage to Refuse" (http://www.seruv.org.il/english/default.asp), an Israeli social movement of ex-combatants who refuse to serve in the Occupied Territories, and call for an immediate ending of the military occupation. Guy Grossman holds an LLB in Law and an MA in political philosophy from Tel Aviv university. His main research interests include the political Economy of Africa and the Middle East, Globalization and Social Service Provision, and Rural Development. He has also published extensively in Hebrew and English newspapers and journals on conscientious objection in the Israeli context and on Israeli politics.

Paper title:
Courage to Refuse: Opportunities, Limits and Impact





Grachev, Andrei
political analyst and journalist, Russia (born 1941, Moscow,) – Graduated in History from the Moscow Institute of International relations (1964), Ph. D in history, Academy of Social Sciences, Moscow (1976) Andrei Grachev was Editor of the international magazine “World Youth” in Budapest (Hungary) and vice-chairman of the Committee of Youth Organizations of the USSR. Consultant and Deputy Director of the International Department of the Central Committee of CPSU and adviser for Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev. He was later appointed assistant and official Spokesman of the President of the USSR until his resignation in December 1991.

Political scientist – in 1992-1995 he was senior research fellow in the Institute of World Economy and International relations, Russian Academy of Science, (Moscow). Andrei Grachev was teaching as the Visiting Professor at the Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto, and Directeur d'etude associe at Universite Paris VIII, St Denis, Universite Paris I, Pantheon, Sorbonne, Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris. He was a Research fellow in Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politic (SWP), Ebenhausen/ Isar, Germany and Senior Researcher at St Antony’s College, Oxford..

He published several books in Russian, French and English: "Porajenie ili Urok.(Experience of the leftist youth movements in Europe of the 60s)", 1975, "New International Order of Communication", 1982, "Tupiki Politicheskogo Nasiliia", 1980, "Political extremism", 1982, ., "Dal'she bez Menya: Uhod Presidenta", Progress/Cultura, 1993, "Kremlievskaya Khronika", ECSMO, 1994, Moscow « L'Histoire Vraie de la Fin de l'URSS", ed. du Rocher, Paris, 1992 "Final Days. The Inside Story of Collapse of the Soviet Union", Westview Press, Boulder, Co. USA, 1995, "Meeting of Civilizations: Clash or Dialogue?", UNESCO, Paris, 1996 “La Chute du Kremlin. L’empire de non-sens.» Ed Hachette, Paris « L’Exception russe. Staline, est-il mort?” ed. du Rocher, Paris. « Le mystere Gorbachev. La terre et le destin » Paris, 2004, ed. du Rocher Dr.Andrei Grachev, Dr Chiara Blengino, Dr. Rossella Stievano. (eds) « 1985- 2005. Twenty Years that Changed the World », Editori Laterza 2005 Presently Dr. Andrei Grachev is editorialist for the “Novaya Gazeta” (Russia) and the Chairman of the Scientific Committee of The World Political Forum (Turin, Italy)




Halpern, Martin
Martin Halpern is a professor of history at Henderson State University in Arkansas. Prior to joining the Henderson faculty in 1990, he was a researcher and administrator with the Michigan Department of Public Health where he served as the project director of the Task Force on Minority Health Affairs and was responsible for the writing and publication of Minority Health in Michigan: Closing the Gap (Michigan Department of Public Health, 1988). He is the author of two books, UAW Politics in the Cold War Era (State University of New York Press, 1988), and Unions, Radicals, and Democratic Presidents: Seeking Social Change in the Twentieth Century (Greenwood Press, 2003). Halpern received his Ph.D. in history from the University in Michigan. He participated in the movement against the Vietnam War in New York and Michigan, served as a civil rights worker with the West Tennessee Voters Project in 1965, and was an organizer in the Black Action Movement strike of 1970 and the Graduate Employees Organization (GEO) strike of 1975 at the University of Michigan. He has been active in the movement against the Iraq War.

Paper title:
Left-Progressive Coalitions in the Era of the Vietnam War: The Anti-War Movement at the University of Michigan





Hauner, Milan L.
Historian Milan L. Hauner, is the author and co-editor of ten books and more than 100 scholarly articles on the modern history of India, Central Asia, Czechoslovakia, Germany, and Russia. He grew up in Prague where he studied history at Charles University and completed his PhD. Leaving at the time of the Soviet invasion in 1968 he settled in England, studying for his second PhD in Cambridge. He then joined St.Antony's College in Oxford and lived in London from 1974, working in the Research Dept. of Amnesty International. Two years later he joined the German Historical Inst. in London as “wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter,” before leaving for the United States in 1980 to join his family. Thereafter he has been affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where his wife is professor of African languages and associate dean. He has taught and done research at various universities in England (Warwick, L.S.E., Open U.), Germany (Freiburg, Leipzig) and America (Philadelphia, Berkeley, Hoover Inst.,Stanford, Georgetown, Chicago, Columbia) - and after 1990 again in Eastern Europe. Recently he has edited several unpublished manuscripts of the former Czechoslovak president Edvard Beneš, and reconstructed President Beneš’s wartime Memoirs 1938-45 in three volumes.

Paper title: Charter 77 and Western Peace Movements (1980-84)





Hershberg,James G.
James G. Hershberg is Associate Professor of History and International Affairs at George Washington University; former director of the Woodrow Wilson Center's Cold War International History Project; and author of *James B. Conant: Harvard to Hiroshima and the Making of the Nuclear Age* (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993) and numerous journal articles on cold war and nuclear history. He is currently working on manuscripts on the Vietnam War and the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Paper title:
Eugene McCarthy's Polish Connection: The Anti-Vietnam War Movement Leader's Secret Communist Contacts during his Presidential Campaign, 1967-68





Hogebrink , Laurens
Laurens Hogebrink (1942) studied theology in Utrecht and New York. He was director of the Dept. on Church and Society of the Netherlands Reformed Church and headed the Europe/North America Bureau of the new Protestant Church in The Netherlands (a recent merge of three denominations). He is a former board member of the Dutch Interchurch Peace Council (IKV) and he chaired its international committee during the years of the missile crisis in Europe and the development of contacts with dissidents in C. and E. Europe. After the end of the Cold War he initiated a series of seminars on how the churches in both East and West were dealing with this recent past. His international ecumenical experience has included membership of commissions of the World Council of Churches and of the Conference of European Churches. He has retired from church office and is currently engaged in research of the relations between the churches in Europe and the European Union.

Paper title:
Ökumene und Kalter Krieg. Erfahrungen und Mechanismen


"The Ecumenical Movement and the Cold War Experiences and Mechanisms" (English summary)





Holmes, Amy Kristine
Amy Kristine Holmes is Ph.D. student at The Johns Hopkins University in the Sociology Department. She also has an M.A. degree in political science from the Free University of Berlin in Germany. Her dissertation is entitled: "Contentious Allies: Social Unrest and the American Military Presence in Germany and Turkey 1945-2003", which is based on recently declassified archival documents and interviews. Among her publications is Imperial Jihad: On Fundamentalism, Rogue States, and New Wars, a book she co-edited in German that grew out of a symposium founded after 9/11.

Paper title:

Direct Action: Maneuver Obstructions and Base Blockades in the American Sector of Germany during the Last Decade of the Cold War




Irving, Nick
Nick Irving is currently working on a PhD at the University of Sydney entitled 'Global Thought, Local Action: A Transnational Reassessment of the Australian Anti-Vietnam War Movement'. The thesis attempts to re-imagine the local Australian protest movement against the Vietnam War as part of a larger, global movement, encompassing activists in the United States, England, Europe and South East Asia. He completed a Bachelor of Arts with Honours at the University of Sydney in 2004.

Paper title:
Left Behind - the decline of the Communist Party in Australia and the emergence of the "New Left"





Ivancheva, Mariya
Central European University, Budapest

Paper title:
Civil Society as a discursive frame: Vaclav Havel's 'Anatomy of Reticence' as a case study





Jarman, Peter
Dr Peter Jarman served as the Europe Secretary of Quakers in Britain from 1982 to 1991 focussing mainly on establishing dialogue amongst a wide range of contacts in the Communist states of Central and Eastern Europe, and in the Soviet Union, which he visited about thirty times before being appointed with his wife Roswitha as Quaker representatives in Russia from 1991 to 1994. He participated in most of the END conventions. On their return to the UK they continued their support and involvement with people affected by the civil wars in the North Caucasus, particularly in North Ossetia, Ingushetia and Chechnya, a concern that is still ongoing. Peter is an associate of the Swedish Transnational Foundation for Peace with whom he has engaged in post war peace education and mediation exercises in the Balkans. Before 1982 Peter taught and did research as a physicist in universities and institutions in Australia, the USA, Switzerland and the UK.

Paper title: East-West Dialogue: Possibilities and Limitations





Jeffrey , Alex
Alex Jeffrey is a political geographer based in the School of Geography, Politics and Sociology at Newcastle University. His research interests include the governance of post-conflict environments, particularly Bosnia-Herzegovina, and the role of non-governmental organisations in fostering democratization. Details of publications on these themes can be found at: www.ncl.ac.uk/gps/staff/profile/alex.jeffrey




Johnson , Rebecca
Rebecca Johnson is director of the Acronym Institute for Disarmament Diplomacy, which publishes the international security journal Disarmament Diplomacy. An expert on security regimes and arms control, her approach has linked policy analysis and work with the United Nations and various governments with civil society activism and community development, for which she has received nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize. Dr Johnson holds a PhD from the London School of Economics (LSE), and was recently appointed expert consultant for the Middle Powers Initiative, after serving as senior advisor to the International WMD Commission, chaired by Hans Blix (2004-06) and Vice Chair of the Board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (2001-07).

In addition to reporting on developments in the nuclear non-proliferation regime and various UN and treaty review processes, recent publications include:
- Worse than Irrelevant? British Nuclear Weapons in the 21st Century by Rebecca Johnson, Nicola Butler and Stephen Pullinger (Acronym Institute, October 2006), followed by various articles critiquing the Government’s White Paper on Trident.
- Europe’s Space Policies and their Relevance to ESDP, published by the European Parliament (External Policies), October 2006;
- ‘Changing Perceptions and Practice in Multilateral Arms-Control Negotiations’, in John Borrie and Vanessa Martin Randin, Disarmament as Humanitarian Action, (UNIDIR, United Nations, Geneva, 2006);
- ‘Do as I say, not as I do’: From nuclear non-proliferation to counter-proliferation’, in W.P.S.Sidhu and Ramesh Thakur, Arms Control after Iraq, United Nations University Press, (New York, 2006);
- Disarmament, WMD and Terrorism, in A. Drakulich (ed), Global Agenda 60: Special Anniversary edition, (United Nations Association USA, 2005);
- Advocates and Activists: Conflicting Approaches on Non-proliferation and the Test Ban Treaty in Ann Florini (ed), The Third Force: The Rise of Transnational Civil Society, (Japan Center for International Exchange and Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington D.C. 2000).




Jönsson, Jibecke
Jibecke Jönsson is a doctoral researcher in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the European University Institute Florence, Italy, working on issues of legitimacy and UN peacebuilding in the Balkans. Previously, she was a Program Assistant at the United Nations University Office in New York. She holds an M.Phil. in International Relations from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques, Paris, on reconciliation and transitional justice in Bosnia-and-Herzegovina. She earned her BA (Hons) in Politics and International Relations with French from the University of Kent at Canterbury and the Institut d’Etudes Politiques/ Université Pierre Mendès France in Grenoble. Publications include ‘Elements of a Roadmap for a Politics of Apology’ (with Jean-Marc Coicaud), in The Age of Apology: Facing up to the Past (Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007), ‘From Foes to Bedfellows: Reconciling Security and Justice’ (with Jean-Marc Coicaud), The Whitehead Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations, 8(1): 2007, and a book review of The Limits of International Law by Goldsmith and Posner (with Jean-Marc Coicaud), in globallawbooks.org. Whilst at the International Service for Human Rights, Geneva, she published various articles in the Human Rights Monitor.

Paper title:
The Idealization of Peace: International Security and the Peace Movement





Kaldor, Mary
Mary Kaldor is Professor and Director of the Centre for the Study of Global Governance, London School of Economics and Political Science. She previously worked at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), and the Science Policy Research Unit and the Sussex European Institute at the University of Sussex. Her books include The Baroque Arsenal (1982) The Imaginary War (1990) New and Old Wars: Organised Violence in a Global Era (1999) Global Civil Society: An Answer to War (2003). She was a founder member of European Nuclear Disarmament (END), founder and Co-Chair of the Helsinki Citizen’s Assembly, and a member of the International Independent Commission to investigate the Kosovo Crisis, established by the Swedish Prime Minister and chaired by Richard Goldstone, which published the Kosovo Report (Oxford: OUP) in autumn 2000. Mary Kaldor was also convenor of the study group on European Security Capabilities established at the request of Javier Solana, which produced the Barcelona report, 'A Human Security Doctrine for Europe.'

Paper title:
Why the Peace Movement Didn't Fail: A Response to Joffe (with Mient-Jan Faber)




Kjelling, Anne Cecilie
Anne Cecilie Kjelling. Head Librarian, Norwegian Nobel Institute since 1987, employed there since 1972, also in charge of the Norwegian Nobel Committee's historical archives. Previously worked at the New York Public Library, at the (Norwegian) Central Bureau of Statistics Library, Horten Public Library, and the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Library. Member of Arbeitskreis Historische Friedensforschung, Peace History Society (International Board member), IPRA's Peace History Commission (Board Member, 1994-2007), ACUNS, and several Norwegian library associations (also founder of local branch, and former board member).




Knagenhjelm, Johan
Johan Knagenhjelm is a first year PhD student at the LSE, from where he also has a Bachelor and Masters degrees, both in International Relations and History. In his Masters Thesis, Johan used Keck and Sikkink’s “boomerang effect” model of the dynamics of transnational advocacy networks to analyse the role of South African civil society in the inception of the British Anti-Apartheid Movement. He is now researching Internet-based transnational advocacy networks and their impact on state decision-making, with a particular focus on the use of the Internet by the mid-to-late 1990s “anti-MAI” network that emerged to lobby against the proposed Multilateral Agreement on Investment between the OECD countries.




Legerer, Anton
Anton Legerer, M.A. in Social Psychology, Department of Psychology at the University of Vienna, PhD History and Civilization at the European University Institute, Firenze. Currently independent researcher, author and lecturer in Vienna.

Paper title:
The German Protestant Antonement Service instrumentalized during the Peace Movement of the early 1980s by both German governments





Lembcke, Jerry
Jerry Lembcke is the author of "The Spitting Image: Myth, Memory, and the Legacy of Vietnam" and "CNN's Tailwind Tale: Inside Vietnam's Last Great Myth." In 1969 he was a Chaplain's Assistant assigned to the 41st Artillery Group in Vietnam. He is currently Associate Professor of Sociology at Holy Cross College in Worcester, Massachusetts where he continues to work on the role of gender in the construction of post-war betrayal narratives.

Paper title:
Spat-upon Veterans, Abandoned POWs, and 'Hanoi Jane': Vietnam and the Making of America's 'Great Betrayal' Narrative





Lieberfeld, Daniel
Daniel Lieberfeld teaches peace studies and conflict resolution at the Graduate Center for Social and Public Policy at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. He is currently writing on the Israeli anti-war movement "Four Mothers—Leaving Lebanon in Peace" and editing a special issue on anti-war movements for the International Journal of Peace Studies. Published work includes Talking with the Enemy: Negotiation and Threat Perception in South Africa and Israel/Palestine (Praeger, 1999); articles in The Journal of Peace Research, The American Behavioral Scientist, Middle East Policy, Negotiation Journal, Peace Review, and other journals; and chapters in Paving the Way: Contributions of Interactive Conflict Resolution to Peacemaking in Protracted Ethnopolitical Conflicts (Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, 2005), Negotiation and World Transformations: Ten Challenges to Meet, Ten Opportunities to Seize (Paris: Publibook, 2008), and other edited volumes on conflict resolution and peace studies.

Paper title:
Israel's "Four Mothers" Movement and the Lebanon War





Lieberman, Robbie
Robbie Lieberman was Director of the Peace Studies Program at the University of Missouri from 1984-1991, and is currently a full professor in the history department at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, where she has won awards for her teaching, scholarship, and service. Lieberman’s areas of interest include war and peace, social movements, and music. Her publications include "My Song Is My Weapon:" People's Songs, American Communism and the Politics of Culture (University of Illinois Press, 1989), which won the Deems-Taylor Award from ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers);"The Strangest Dream:" Communism, Anticommunism and the U.S. Peace Movement, 1945-1963 (Syracuse University Press, 2000); and Prairie Power: Voices of 1960s Midwestern Student Protest (University of Missouri Press, 2004). She is currently working on a co-edited volume on anticommunism and the black freedom movement as well as a monograph about the relationship between the U.S. peace and civil rights movements in the years prior to the Vietnam War.

Paper title:
Peace and Freedom before the Vietnam War: anticommunism and the African American Perspective on Nuclear Weapons





Lloydlangston, Amber
Educated at McMaster University, the University of Toronto, and the University of Ottawa, I joined the Canadian War Museum as an assistant historian in January 2004. Initially hired to help in the development of the permanent exhibitions for the CWM’s new building, which opened in May of 2005, I am now curating a temporary exhibition exploring the history of peace advocacy in Canada, which is tentatively slated to open in 2010. In addition to studying the history of peace advocacy in Canada, I also have an abiding interest in the history of Canadian women and science.




McArthur, Robert
Robert McArthur is a PhD candidate at the University of Melbourne, Australia. His thesis, which has just been submitted for examination, explores the political activism of three Christian ministers - the Reverends Alfred Dickie, Frank Hartley and Victor James - all of whom were prominent members of the Australian peace movement that emerged after the Second World War
Paper title:
Christ and the Australian Cold War: peace activism as a reflection of God’s Will





Moro, Renato
Renato Moro is Professor of Contemporary History, Director of the Ph.D. School in Political Sciences and Vice-Rector for Research at Roma Tre University. He is also co-editor of «Mondo contemporaneo. Rivista di storia». In 2000-2002 he has been National Coordinator of the COFIN Program on “War and Peace from Giolittian to Republican Italy: Foreign Policy, Political Culture and Trends in Public Opinion”. He previously was Professor of History of Political Parties and Movements at University of Camerino. Professor Moro is the author, editor and co-editor of several books including La formazione della classe dirigente cattolica (1979), G. Bottai – G. De Luca, Carteggio 1940-1957 (1989); Dalla Fuci degli anni '30 verso la nuova democrazia (1991), Renzo De Felice. Studi e testimonianze (2002); La Chiesa e lo sterminio degli ebrei (2002); Cattolicesimo e totalitarismo. Chiese e culture religiose tra le due guerre mondiali (Italia, Spagna, Francia) (2004), Fascismo e franchismo. Relazioni, immagini, rappresentazioni (2005), Guerra e pace nell’Italia del Novecento. Politica estera, cultura politica e correnti dell’opinione pubblica (2006). He is currently working on a book on the history of peace movements and has published a first critical survey: Sulla «storia della pace», in «Mondo contemporaneo», 3, 2006, 97-140.

Paper title:
Catholic Church, Italian Catholics and Peace Movements: the Cold War years, 1945-1962





Nehring, Holger
Holger Nehring is a lecturer in Contemporary European History at Sheffield University. He studied at Tübingen University (Germany), the London School of Economics and at Oxford (as a Rhodes scholar). He serves as the associate editor of the journal 'Contemporary European History' and as the Vice-Chairman of the German Peace History Association. His main research interests lie in the social, political and cultural history of post-World War II Europe, with a special emphasis on the social history of the Cold War in Britain and Germany since 1945. He has published widely on Cold War peace and social movements and is currently working on a book on the peace movements in the two Germanys in the 1980s. His 'Politics of Security', a transnational history of the British and West German anti-nuclear-weapons protests in the 1950s and early 1960s, is due to appear with OUP shortly. Together with Helge Pharo (Oslo), he is currently editing 'Imagining Peace in Twentieth-Century Europe', due to come out as a special issue of Contemporary European History in autumn 2008.

Paper title:
Challenging the imaginary war. A reassessment of the place of peace movements in Cold War history




Nuti, Leopoldo
Leopoldo Nuti is Professor of History of International Relations at the University of Roma Tre and Director of CIMA, an Italian Inter-university Center for Cold War Studies. Prof. Nuti has been a Fulbright student at George Washington University (MA, class of ’86), /NATO Research Fellow, /Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute, /Research Fellow/ at the CSIA, Harvard University, /Research Fellow /for the /Nuclear History Program, /Senior Research Fellow at the Norwegian Nobel Institute, and Visiting Professor at the /Institut d’Etudes Politiques /in Paris. He has published extensively in Italian, English and French on US-Italian relations and Italian foreign and security policy. His latest book is a history of nuclear weapons in Italy during the Cold War, /La sfida nucleare. //La politica estera italiana e le armi nucleari, 1945-1991/ (September 2007).

Paper title:
The Nuclear debate in Italian politics in the 1980s






Ohanjanyan, Karen
Coordinator of Nagorno-Karabakh Committee of "Helsinki Initiative-92"

Paper title:
Some Approaches in Shaping New Peace Concepts





Olcott, Jocelyn
Jocelyn Olcott is an Assistant Professor of history at Duke University. She received her AB from Princeton University in 1992 and her PhD from Yale University in 2000. She is the author if Revolutionary Women in Postrevolutionary Mexico (Duke University Press, 2005) and the co-editor of Sex in Revolution: Gender, Politics, and Power in Modern Mexico (Duke University Press, 2006). She is currently working on a book on the 1975 International Women's Year Conference in Mexico City, under contract with Oxford University Press.

Paper title:
Star Power: disarming Cold War Politics at the 1975 International Women's Year Conference





Ogawa, Akihiro
Akihiro Ogawa is an assistant professor in the department of Japanese studies at Stockholm University, Sweden. He received a Ph.D. in Anthropology from Cornell University (2004) and then conducted postdoctoral work at Harvard University (2004-2006). His main research interests are political anthropology, social movements, civil society, and public sphere. His first book, The Failure of Civil Society?: The Third Sector and the State in Contemporary Japan, is forthcoming from State University of New York Press.

Paper title:
Japan's Pacifism: the current debate on Japan's constitutional revision and grassroots peace movements






Orr, James
James Orr specializes in remembrance of World War II in the formation of Japanese national identity, with particular interest in the overlap between politics and culture. He is the author of The Victim as Hero: Ideologies of Peace and National Identity in Postwar Japan (University of Hawaii Press, 2001), a study of how "victim consciousness" came to dominate the politics of war remembrance and support the popular image of Japan as a demilitarized, peace state. His current book project treats intellectual life in the Showa era (1926-1989), focusing on the career of international law scholar Yasui Kaoru, a public intellectual who was an establishment apologist for wartime Japanese policy in the 1930s, the leader of Japan's anti-nuclear peace movement in the 1950s and 1960s, and the premier Japanese proponent of Kim Il-Sungism, or juche, in the 1970s. In the short term James Orr has been researching gender and civic subjectivity in the postwar peace movement, postcolonial sensibilities in the different treatment given ethnic Korean and Taiwanese imperial servicemen by the postwar state and by Yasukuni Shrine, and the use of popular music in politicizing and mobilizing students and workers in war and in peace. As associate professor and sometime Chair of the Department of East Asian Studies at Bucknell University, Orr teaches a broad range of courses on Japanese history, East Asian civilization, international relations, and war in East Asia.

Paper title:
Peace Maidens, Peace Matrons: Gender and Political Subjectivity in Japan’s Anti-Nuclear Peace Movement





Peace, Roger
Roger Peace recently completed his doctorate at Florida State University, specializing in the history of American foreign relations. His dissertation, "U.S. Citizen Opposition to the Contra War," complements his years of work with peace and social change organizations in the U.S. He is the author of A Just and Lasting Peace: The U.S. Peace Movement from the Cold War to Desert Storm (Chicago: Noble Press, 1991.)

Paper title: Peace Movements and the Cold War in the Third World: The Case of Sandinista Nicaragua





Petithomme, Mathieu
European University Institute

Paper title:
The 1992-1993 International Peace Movement for Somalia: Humanitarian Assistance or Military Intervention?





Pharo, Helge
Helge Pharo, (Dr.Philos.) is Professor of International History, and Co-director Forum for Contemporary History, University Oslo. He is Research Director of the Project "The Norwegian Peace Tradition" and published widely on various aspects of post World War II Norwegian policy including foreign economic policy and the history of development aid, as well as on economic and sports history and on US foreign policy. Prof Pharo is Consultant to the Norwegian Nobel Committee.




Rainio-Niemi, Johanna
Johanna Rainio-Niemi is doctoral candidate at the Department of Social Science History, University of Helsinki. Her doctoral thesis (submitted to pre-examination) examines domestic consensus-building strategies and traditions of state in post-1945 Austria and Finland in comparative and trans-national history perspectives. The empirical focus is on the institutional arenas of economic policy making and, secondly, on the concept-building aimed at the introduction of public consensus regarding the core principles of small state neutrality in the Cold War era. In 2008, Rainio-Niemi works on a biographical project focusing on the Nordic welfare state policies in the Cold War context. She is affiliated with the Nordic Centre of Excellence, The Nordic Welfare State – the Historical Foundations and Future Challenges at the University of Helsinki.

Paper title:
Peace Builders in the Cold War: case of Heikki Waris and the East-West dialogue in the early 1970’s context




Rangil Tomas, Teresa
Teresa Tomas Rangil obtained degrees in Economics and Sociology at the Ecole Normale Supérieure (Cachan, France). She is currently doing a PhD in History of Economic Thought at Economix (Université Paris X) and her dissertation discusses the “economic foundations of conflict theory since 1945”. She is also a visiting student at the Centre for Philosophy of the Natural and Social Science (LSE). Her interests include International Relations theory and the history of peace research movements.

Paper title: Foreign Affairs as Domestic Affairs: Conflict Resolution at the University of Michigan, 1952-1959





Ringsby, Per Jostein
Per Jostein Ringsby is working on a Ph.D-project at Forum for Contemporary History at the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History at the University of Oslo. His project is looking at the history of The Scandinavian Peace Movements between 1880 and 1940, from the early beginning of organised peace work in Scandinavia and too The Second World War. The main organisations in this project will bee the three most powerful public peace movements in Denmark (The Danish Peace Society), Sweden (The Swedish Peace and Arbitration Society) and Norway (The Norwegian Peace Society).




Rubinson , Paul
Paul Rubinson is a PhD candidate in U.S. history at the University of Texas at Austin. His dissertation, “‘Crucified on a Cross of Atoms’: Scientists, Nuclear Weapons, and the Cold War, 1950–1989,” examines the conflicts between science, foreign policy, religion, and the nuclear disarmament movement during the Cold War. He is currently a Predoctoral Fellow at Yale University International Security Studies.

Paper title:
An Emotional Grassroots Offensive”: Religion, Science, and the Arms Race in the 1980s





Rost Rublee, Maria
Maria Rost Rublee is an assistant professor at the University of Tampa in Tampa, Florida. She received her PhD from the George Washington University in Political Science in 2004. Rublee conducts research on states that could have developed nuclear weapons, but chose not to – including Egypt, Japan, Germany, Sweden, Libya, and Turkey. She uses both constructivism and social psychology to understand how state elites conceptualize the value of nuclear weapons, and how that conceptualization can change over time. Currently an Assistant Professor of Government and World Affairs at the University of Tampa, Rublee teaches classes in nuclear proliferation and other topics in international relations. She has published in journals such as Comparative Political Studies, and her book, Nuclear Norms, will be published by the University of Georgia Press in Fall 2008.

Paper title: Peace NGOs & Nuclear Policy in Early Cold War Japan




Skelly, James
James Skelly is currently a Senior Fellow at the Baker Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies at Juniata College in Pennsylvania; Coordinator for Peace & Justice Programming for BCA, an international education organization; and, Visiting Professor of Peace Studies at Magee College of the University of Ulster in Derry, Northern Ireland. He holds a BA from the University of Minnesota, and an MA and PhD from the University of California, San Diego. He has served in administrative and research positions at the University of California's Institute on Global Conflict & Cooperation; New York University's Center for War, Peace and the News Media; the Institute of International Studies, at the University of California, Berkeley; and, the European University Center for Peace Studies in Austria. His research and teaching interests include a focus on the moral and political dilemmas of soldiers which arose from his own involvement in soldiers' movements, his refusal to serve as a military officer in Vietnam, and a subsequent lawsuit against the United States Secretary of Defense, Skelly v. Laird, which helped to redefine the criteria for in-service conscientious objection.

Paper title:
The Problematic Character of Conscientious Objection




Sneh, Itai
Tenured at the Department of History John Jay College of Criminal Justice of the City University of New York, Prof. Itai Sneh completed his doctoral studies at Columbia University. He also holds a law degree and a Masters in Eastern European Jewish History from McGill University in Montreal, Canada, and a B.A. in Jewish History (with minors in International Relations, Biblical Studies and Yiddish Language and Culture) from Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel. His research interests, presentations and publications include articles and lectures on the history of human rights, U.S. politics, international law, American foreign policy, terrorism, genocide, the Vietnam War, and the Middle East. His forthcoming book with Peter Lang Publishers is The Future Almost Arrived: Why Jimmy Carter Could Not Change U.S. Foreign Policy. His Torture Through the Ages is under contract with the Praeger division of Greenwod Press.

Paper title:
From Vietnam to Carter: Attempts to Reverse Realpolitik





Spina, Raphaël
Raphaël Spina is a former pupil of the Ecole Normale Supérieure de la rue d’Ulm (2000-2005). Agrégé d’Histoire (2003). History assistant at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan (2005-2008). Works on the building of Stalin’s cult inside the French Communist Party (2002) with Marie-Pierre Rey (Université Paris-I, Panthéon-Sorbonne), on the Compulsory Work Scheme during WWII (since 2005) with Olivier Wieviorka (ENS Cachan), and on the biography of Yves Farge (1899-1953), a resistant and pacifist leader.

Paper title:
Yves Farge and the first years of the French Peace Movement, from the committed citizen to the fellow traveller, a biographical approach





Spohr Readman, Kristina
Dr Kristina Spohr Readman is Lecturer in International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She gained her B.A. from the University of East Anglia - with a year abroad at Sciences Po, Paris - where she read European Studies, Economics, and French, before moving on to study for her M.Phil. and Ph.D. in History at Peterhouse, Cambridge. After completion of her Ph.D., she worked as a research fellow in the Private Office at NATO headquarters in Brussels. From September 2001 she was a Junior Research Fellow in History at Christ's College, Cambridge, until she joined the LSE in September 2004. Dr Spohr Readman has published articles in the Historical Journal, Cold War History, Journal of Strategic Studies, Journal of Baltic Studies and White House Studies, and is author of Germany and the Baltic Problem after the Cold War: The Development of a New Ostpolitik 1989-2000 (London/New York: Routledge, 2004) and editor of Building Sustainable and Effective Capabilities: A Systemic Comparison of Professional and Conscript Forces (Amsterdam: IOS, 2004). She is co-book reviews editor at the Journal of Contemporary History.

Paper title:
Protest, puppets and power political players: the peace movement, the German question and high politics in the 1970s

Link to personal website





Struyk, Miriam
Miriam Struyk works as a policy advisor for the Dutch peace organization IKV Pax Christi and teaches at the IKV Special Chair on Human Security at the Free University in Amsterdam. Her expertise is human security, with special focus on the Balkans and the southern Caucasus. At the moment her main work evolves around the global campaign against cluster munitions.




Suzuki, Hitoshi
Hitoshi Suzuki is researcher of the Universität Duisburg-Essen in Germany. He received his Ph.D. (History and Civilization) from the European University Institute in Florence. His dissertation looked into the role played by the trade unions in the Schuman Plan negotiations and Jean Monnet’s presidency of the ECSC. His current academic interests are in European integration history and international relations in the post-war period. Special focus is on international network of interest groups and organisations, especially in fields of welfare state policies and social policy. He is currently working on the historical process of how Italian immigrant workers were integrated into German trade unions and their workers’ society under policies of European integration.

Paper title:
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





Takemura, Hitomi
Hitomi Takemura is a PhD candidate at the Irish Centre of Human Rights, National University of Ireland, Galway. Her main research interest lies in the sphere of international criminal law. She is expecting her PhD degree from NUIG in 2008 and will start lecturing public international law in a Japanese university from April 2008

Paper title:
Rights and Duties of the Individual to Disobey Manifestly Illegal Orders under International Law





Tal, David
David Tal is an Associate Professor of History and International Relations at Syracuse University. Professor Tal received his BA, MA, and PhD degrees in History from Tel-Aviv University, and his book: The American Nuclear Disarmament Dilemma 1945-1963 will be published in 2008 by the Syracuse University Press.

Paper title:
US Nuclear Disarmament Policy and Public Opinion





Ullrich, Wes
Wes Ullrich is currently an instructor in History and Political Science at The Carlbrook School in Virginia where he teaches courses on US Foreign Policy, Soviet History, Globalisation and US Government. He received his MA with distinction in International Relations History at LSE, and his BA from Queen's University (Canada) in 2004. Other current research interests include the effects of the Cold War on globalisation

Paper title:
The British Government and the Second World Peace Congress: A Case Study in The Role of Perception in Cold War Policy Making





van den Berg, Dion
IKV Pax Christi, Netherlands

Paper title:
Local Governments' support for the Peace Movements in the 1980s: the example of Dutch municipalities




Wallis, Tim
Tim Wallis has a PhD in Peace Studies from Bradford University and is currently Training Director at International Alert. During the 1980s he played a major role in the campaign to stop construction of a Cruise Missile base at RAF Molesworth in Cambridgeshire. He then did extensive research into the impact of such campaigns for his PhD and went on to apply this research to the work of Peace Brigades International, Peace News magazine, the National Peace Council and Peaceworkers UK. At International Alert he is responsible for recruitment, training and assessment of people going into peace and conflict work and coordinates the European Group on Training for Civilian Crisis Management (EGT). He is also a co-founder and former co-chair of the Nonviolent Peaceforce and has written extensively on the contribution of unarmed civilians to international peacekeeping operations and the protection of human rights defenders.

Paper title:
The Road to Reykjavik: The impact of European and American Peace Movements on the Decision to Remove Land-Based Missiles from Europe.





Westad, Odd Arne
Professor Odd Arne Westad is convenor of the Department of International History at LSE and director of the Cold War Studies Centre. He studied history, philosophy and modern languages at the University of Oslo and received his PhD in history from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Dr Westad served for eight years as Director of Research at the Norwegian Nobel Institute. He has taught at LSE since 1998, mostly on Cold War history and the modern history of East Asia.

More information at the Cold War Studies Centre (LSE) website





Wilhelmsen, Anette
Anette Wilhelmsen is a MA student in history at the University of Oslo, Norway. The subject of her thesis is "How was the idea about the United Nations as a cornerstone in Norwegian foreign and security policy established in the period 1945-1953?" The MA thesis is a part of the project called "The Norwegian Peace Tradition". The project is headed by Professor Helge Ø. Pharo at the University of Oslo.




Young, Nigel
Nigel Young is Editor-in-Chief of the forthcoming Oxford University Press International Encyclopedia of Global Peace and Conflict, nonviolence and transformation (2008) and also now Research Professor in Peace Studies at Colgate University in New York. From 1985-2004, he was Professor of Sociology and of Peace Studies and served as Director of the Peace Studies Program Emeritus at Colgate. He holds a BA and MA in Modern History from Oxford University and a PhD from the University of California at Berkeley in International Studies. Nigel has held several prior university positions including Reader and Deputy Head of School of Peace Studies at the University of Bradford (1973-1983) and Lecturer in Political Science at the University of Birmingham (1968-1973). He also was a Senior Research Fellow at the International Peace Research Institute in Oslo, Norway (1981, 1983 and 1984). Nigel was a founding member of CND (1958) and CND London Region Organiser (1962-1964). His publications include: An Infantile Disorder: The Crisis and Decline of the New Left (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1976); National State and War Resistance (Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1978); Campaigns for Peace: The British Peace Movement in the 20th Century (with Richard Taylor, Manchester University Press, 1987); Pacifism in the Twentieth Century (with Peter Brock, University of Syracuse, 1999); and numerous articles and book chapters.

Paper title: CND – the classic phase l958-65





Zaidi, Waqar
Waqar Zaidi is a final-year PhD candidate at the Centre for the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine at Imperial College, London. His PhD is focused on thinking about science and technology within liberal internationalist projects for the reconstruction of international relations between 1918 and 1950. He is, in particular, investigating the relationship between proposals for the internationalisation of aviation in the interwar period, proposals for the international control of atomic energy in the early postwar period, and concurrent international relations theorising in relation to science and technology.

Paper title:
Rethinking the Origins, Character and Significance of Post-war atomic internationalism





Ziemann, Benjamin
Dr Benjamin Ziemann is Reader in Modern History, University of Sheffield, Department of History and Privatdozent at Ruhr-Universität Bochum. His main areas of research are History of the First World War and of Mass-Violence in the Twentieth Century; Historical Peace Research; Twentieth Century German Catholicism; Theory of History. Dr Ziemann's main publications: War Experiences in Rural Germany, 1914-1923, Oxford. New York: Berg 2007; (ed.), Peace Movements in Western Europe, Japan and the USA during the Cold War, Essen: Klartext 2007; (ed.), Perspektiven der Historischen Friedensforschung [Perspectives for Historical Peace Research], Essen: Klartext 2002; (co-editor, with Miriam Dobson), Reading Primary Sources. The Interpretation of Texts from 19th and 20th Century History, London: Routledge 2008; Katholische Kirche und Sozialwissenschaften 1945-1975, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2007. He is currently preparing a comparative monograph on peace movements during the Cold War.

Paper title:
The Designation of Peace. Symbolic Politics of West German Peace Movements, 1945-1990


Link to his recent publication Peace Movements in Western Europe, Japan and the USA during the Cold War (Klartext, 2007)