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Ending Wars


Monday 23rd September

14h00           Opening and Introduction – John Alderdice (UK)

14h15           What Sustains and Ends Wars – Scott Atran (USA)

15h00           Israel: On the Cusp – Padraig O’Malley (USA)

15h45           Tea/Coffee

16h15           A World without War - Sundeep Waslekar (India) & Richard Caplan (UK)

17h15           Preventing War as Ending War - International Dialogue on History - Rafał Rogulski (Poland)

19h00           Dinner in the Arlosh Hall
Tuesday 24th September

09h00           Trauma, distrust, humiliation and how war (never) ends - Eugen Koh (Australia, on-line)

09h45           The Importance of being ‘Propaganda-Minded’: Key Lessons on Ending Wars from the Malayan Emergency (1948-60)” - Kumar Ramakrishna (Singapore)

10h30           Tea/Coffee

11h00           Why war prevention matters – Gabrielle Rifkind (UK)


11h45           Ending war, but beginning peace? - Alain Tschudin (South Africa)

12h30           Lunch

13h45           From toxic echo chambers to barrier-crossing networks: Humanizing AI - Hasan Davulcu (USA) & Michael Cowan (USA)

14h45           Ending Wars in Liquid Times - Eva Grosman (UK)

15h30           Tea/Coffee

16h00           Subnational Diplomacy as ‘positive fragmentation’: Our best hope for peaceful collapse of the nation-state? – Alison Holmes (USA)

16h45           The end wars; fight the algorithm – Koert Debeuf (Belgium)

17h30           ‘Generosity of Spirit’: too much to ask? – John Alderdice (UK)

19h00           Dinner in the Arlosh Hall
Wednesday 25th September

09h00           Political and psychological effects of political public art in conflict zones - Leora Sotto (Israel) & Caryl Sibbett (UK)

09h45           Solving Global Problems Requires Global Cohesion – Harvey Whitehouse (UK)

10h30           Tea/Coffee

11h00           Play the players for winning peace: a contribution from complexity analytics – Bilal Ayyub (USA)

11h30           Reviewing the conference – Deniz Ülke Arıboğan (Turkey) in conversation with John Alderdice (UK)

12h30           Lunch and Close of Conference

With thanks to the staff of Harris Manchester College, Oxford, for all their help and with sincere appreciation to ARTIS International, ARTIS Europe, The Concord Foundation, the Global Humanity for Peace Institute at the University of Wales, Trinity St David, and the Dr Moises and Mrs Mimi Lemlij Foundation for their sponsorship of, and support for, the CRIC 2024 – our 11th Annual Conference.