Conflict as an Instrument in Internal Political Struggles. Secession Crises in the Post-Soviet Area

Conflict as an Instrument in Internal Political Struggles. Secession Crises in the Post-Soviet Area

Veranstalter
Ernst Fraenkel Professur für Vergleichende Demokratieforschung und Politische Systeme Osteuropas Prof. Dr. Silvia von Steinsdorff Institut für Sozialwissenschaften Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
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Ort
Berlin
Land
Deutschland
Vom - Bis
02.12.2010 - 04.12.2010
Deadline
15.07.2010
Von
Romy Werner, Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

In the framework of a DAAD Project on ‘conflict solution in Azerbaijan and Moldova’ at the Department of Social Sciences of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin we are inviting submissions for a conference on the topic “Conflict as an instrument in internal political struggles. Secession crises in the post-Soviet area”. The conference will be a significant step for researchers from the region, Germany and other countries to establish new collaborative links and networks across countries.

Deadline for submission of the abstracts is July 15, 2010. We welcome contributions focusing on the following topics:

Secession crises in post-Soviet states were shaped by heterogeneous dependencies and have different cause-effect relations. Most research on this topic is from an external perspective. This conference will focus on the internal perspective - the impact these conflicts have on the political regimes, political institutions, on the economy, the political culture, the society, and the process of consolidation. With the particular emphasis on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict we will deal with the directly involved states of Armenia and Azerbaijan and the relations between both countries. But also a comparative view on other conflicts like Abkhazia, Transnistria and South-Ossetia and the political systems of the involved countries seems to be worthwhile especially because of the wide differences concerning the initial situation, the course of conflict, and the actors involved in these conflicts.
The international dimension will be considered only in so far as the engagement of external actors played an important role during the numerous attempts towards a permanent establishment of peace. Primarily the conference will be devoted to the societal, political and economic impacts of these conflicts on the affected countries: to what extent can these conflicts be regarded as inheritances from the Soviet era, thus a special type of ‘post-colonial dispute’? What kind of impact do these unsolved issues have on the political development and the economic perspectives on (of) the countries involved? To what extent can the setbacks in the process of democratization be explained as a consequence of these (ethnic) conflicts? In this way the full range and the complexity of these actually not so frozen conflicts in the post – Soviet area will be illustrated.

Apart from the country examples we also welcome contributions with more theoretical approaches for the analysis of these conflict situations. The main focus of the submitted abstracts should be the direct relation between the use and influence of secession crises in internal political struggles.

We especially encourage young researchers to submit their proposals.
Abstracts must be no longer than 500 words and should be submitted by email to romy.werner@cms.hu-berlin.de until July 15, 2010.

Workshop for young researchers

Within the framework of the conference a workshop will take place for young postgraduates. Students and doctoral candidates are able to prepare themselves for the following conference and discuss preliminary outcomes and research questions. It is also intended to help graduate-level research students to overcome the academic isolation associated with PhD research, to ‘try’ their ideas and findings on wider audiences, and to establish new collaborative links across countries.

Abstracts should indicate the academic significance of the topic, relevance of conceptual literature, and analytical structure. In addition to the proposal (no longer than 500 words), applicants will be expected to provide a short statement of support from their supervisor (no more than 300 words) and a CV. Completed submissions can be made by email only to: romy.werner@cms.hu-berlin.de

Interested persons can also enroll by contacting romy.werner@cms.hu-berlin.de.

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Kontakt

Romy Werner
romy.werner@cms.hu-berlin.de

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Institut für Sozialwissenschaften
Unter den Linden 6
D-10099 Berlin
Telefon: (030) 2093-1639 / 1624
Fax: (030) 2093-1429

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