PROGRAMME
After conflict?
Spoils of war and the emergent
international disorder in the Arab World
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Opening session
Spoils of Civil War –
Bringing the Arab World back in?
Wednesday, March 6th , 2024, 19:00
Venue: Bruno Kreisky International Forum, Armbrustergasse 15, 1190 Vienna
The public keynote panel joins two eminent intellectuals and actors in the international arena, to discuss current challenges in the Arab world. Before them are issues of political disarticulation, state capture, civil wars and proxy wars in the region, and their international extensions, including the erosion of international norms and frameworks, in what is emerging as global disorder and the conditions of a new cold war with variable geographies.
Notes of Welcome
Gertraud Auer Borea d’Olmo, Secretary General, Bruno Kreisky Forum, Vienna
Hillary Wiesner, Program Director, Arab Region Research and Scholarship, Carnegie Corporation New York
Nadia Al-Bagdadi, Professor, Central European University; Co-Founding Director, SFM project, Vienna
Speakers
Tarek Mitri (Beirut) President, St. George University, Beirut
Former Director, Issam Fares Center for Public Policy and International Affairs (American University of Beirut); Former Special Representative of UN Secretary-General Representative to Libya; former Minister of Information, former Minister of the Environment, former Minister of Culture and former Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs, Lebanon; former Coordinator for Interreligious Relations and Dialogue at the World Council of Churches.
Ghassan Salamé, (Paris) Trustee of the International Crisis Group
Former UN Secretary-General Special Representative to Libya and Head of the UN Support Mission for Libya; former Founding Dean of the Paris School of Public Affairs; former Minister of Culture, Lebanon.
Moderator
Aziz Al-Azmeh, University Professor emeritus, Central European University; Co- Founding Director, SFM, Vienna
Thursday, March 7th, 2024, 9:30-17:00
Venue: Central European University, Quellenstrasse 51-53, 1100 Vienna
9:30 – 11:00
Auditorium
Roundtable 1
Spoils of war: where are the margins now?
Part I
Before this roundtable are the dynamics emerging from civil conflict in countries in the Arab Mashreq at both inter- and intra-state levels. These dynamics were and are rearranging the margins within changing societies marked by over a decade of war, preceded by decades of multi-level state violence. The global implications of these dynamics deeply entangle the entire region, Europe and North America with the local and international transposition of political into religious and cultural cleavages, by demographic displacement and by proxy wars.
Speakers
Harout Akdedian, Visiting Scholar, Portland State University
Rabie Nasser, Co-Founder of the Syrian Center for Policy and Research, University of Vienna
Aziz Al-Azmeh, CEU, SFM, Vienna
Agnes Favier, Professor, European University Institute, Florence
Moderator
Nadia Al-Bagdadi, CEU, SFM, Vienna
11:30 – 12:30
Auditorium
BOOK LAUNCH
Spoils of War in the Arab East:
Reconditioning Society and Polity in Conflict, vol. 1
London: Bloomsbury/I.B. Tauris, 2024
Presented by the co-editors Aziz Al-Azmeh and Harout Akdedian
Comments by
Rüdiger Lohlker, Professor, University of Vienna
Gudrun Harrer, Senior Editor, Der Standard, Vienna
Announcement on
Spoils of War, vol. 2: Gendering the Body Politics in the Middle East and North Africa, London: Bloomsbury, I.B. Tauris, forthcoming in 2024 by editor Nadia Al-Bagdadi
15:30-17:00
Auditorium
Roundtable 2
Joint Roundtable with The Syrian Center for Policy Research
(Beirut and Vienna)
Socio-economic solidarities in times of protracted
conflict in Syria
After more than 13 years of conflict in Syria, the need for independent, participatory, and critical knowledge production that upholds the role of the society is inevitable. In this panel, the Syrian Center for Policy Research discusses the socio-economic challenges including conflict economies and social degradation from the lens of social solidarity, which can be a critical foundation for social congruences between Syrians to transcend the conflict.
The Syrian Center for Policy Research (SCPR) is an independent, non-governmental, and non-profit think tank, which undertakes public policy-oriented research to bridge the gap between research and policy making process. SCPR aims to develop a participatory evidence-based policy dialogue to achieve policy alternatives that promote sustainable, inclusive, and human-centered development. For more information: https://scpr-syria.org
Speakers
Rabie Nasser , Syrian Center for Policy and Research
Ramia Ismail, Senior Researcher, Syrian Center for Policy and Research, University of Vienna
Moderator
Klaudia Wieser, PhD Candidate, University of Vienna, and the Syrian Center for Policy and Research,
Friday, March 8th, 2024
Roundtable 3
Spoils of war: where are the margins now?
Part II
closed meeting of experts by invitation only
