Tampere 2022 – Programme

  12:00 to 12:30

  Main Building Main Entrance 

REGISTRATION

  12:30 to 13:30

  Main Building A210

HYBRID – OPENING STATEMENTS 

Opening statements by:

• Tarja Väyrynen (TAPRI)
• Unto Vesa (EuPRA)
• Anitta Kynsilehto (Finnish Peace Research Association)
• Matt Meyer (IPRA)

  14:00 to 15:00

  Main Building A210

HYBRID- KEYNOTE 

Matt Meyer, Secretary General of International Peace Research Association (IPRA): “Decolonizing Peace Research: Reports from a Field on the Verge of Expansion”

  15:30 to 17:00

  Main Building E019

PEACE AND ARTS – WORKSHOP

Hanne Tjersland and Ilaria Tucci – The Body as Resource for Peace Facilitators

  15:30 to 17:00

  Main Building A05

DISARMAMENT AND PEACE

Chairs: Unto Vesa, Emeritus Researcher, TAPRI, Tampere University and Maria Mekri, Executive Director, Safer Globe

• Marzhan Nurzhan – The role of expertise in shaping politics of nuclear knowledge. A case study of think tanks
• Unto Vesa – The present security situation in Europe
• Rony Matti Ojajärvi – The Social Struggle between Finnish Peace Movements and the Lutheran State Church in Finland 1919–1932

  15:30 to 17:00

  Main Building A06

METHODS AND APPROACHES TO PEACE RESEARCH – Factors Influencing War and Peace

Chairs: Bayan Arouri, Doctoral Researcher, TAPRI and Bram J. De Smet, Doctoral Researcher, TAPRI, Tampere University

• Nenad Stekić – Concealed Armed Conflicts Transformation: Excerpt From a Delphi Study
• Katariina Harjunpää – A linguistic and interactional approach to distributed agency in mediation

  15:30 to 17:00

  Main Building A07

ONLINE SESSION 1 – Aspects of Overlooked Civil Societies 

Chair: Marko Lehti, Senior Researcher, TAPRI, Tampere University

• Joyce Apsel – Bonds that Hold; Bonds that Break:  Teaching Albert Camus’ The Plague during Covid-19 – Insights, New Vocabularies and Critiques
• Eva Segura – After totalitarian thinking: what thinking can do
• Tae-Kyung Kim and EJR Cho – Characteristics of Disaster Risk Reduction Governance Under the Kim Jong Un Regime and Implications for Policies toward North Korea
• Ria Chae (Yale University Council on East Asian Studies) – Imagining the Future of Korea in the 1970s — The Genealogy of Korean Intellectual Discourse on Peaceful Reunification

  15:30 to 17:00

  Main Building A08

ONLINE SESSION 2 – Security and Gender 

Chair: Annick Wibben, Professor, Swedish Defence University

• José-Manuel Moreno-Mercado, Óscar G. Luengo and Javier García-Marín – Current challenges of Media and Conflict Studies: Securitization as a Media Frame in Spanish Press Portrayal of Syrian War
• Natasha Singh Raghuvanshi & Jenna Sapiano – Rethinking the role of the Security Council for feminist activism: The WPS agenda after 20 years (preferably 1.6)
• Jussi Heikkilä – Patrimony of Brothers in Arms: Comment on “Introducing the Historical Gender Equality Index”

  15:30 to 17:00

  Main Building A31

ACTIVISM, RIGHTS AND PEACE

Chair: Angel Iglesias Ortiz, Post-Doctoral Researcher, SPARG/TAPRI, Tampere University

• Anitta Kynsilehto and Camilla Marucco – Access to rights regardless of one’s status: Steps towards enhancing social justice
• Elisabeth Olivius – “On the Border, I Learned How to Advocate”: Borderlands as Enabling Political Spaces for Myanmar Women’s Activism

  15:30 to 17:00

  Main Building A32

FEMINIST PEACE RESEARCH – UN WOMEN, PEACE & SECURITY

Chair: Tarja Väyrynen, Director Professor, TAPRI, Tampere University

• Bénédicte Santoire – Between War, Militarization, and Nationalism: The Necessity of Feminist Peace Research for/in post-Soviet Europe
• Nora O Stenius – Counting Mothers, Monsters and Whores: Indicators Constructing the Ideal Wo(men), Peace and Security Actant
• Laura Sulin – The UN Women, Peace and Security Agenda – a conceptually challenged framework

  9:15 to 10:30

  Main Building A1 

HYBRID – WELCOMING GREETINGS

Daniela Irrera, President of EuPRA (Associate Professor, University of Catania)

KEYNOTE 

Annick Wibben, Professor, Swedish Defence University: “Peace research in times of nearby war: Feminist perspectives on peace and war”

  11:00-12.30

  Main Building A1

HYBRID SESSION – ROUNDTABLE – REVISITING THE MOTHERHOOD MYTH 

Chairs: Leena Vastapuu, Associate Senior Lecturer, Swedish Defence University and Annick Wibben, Professor, Swedish Defence University

• Priscyll Anctil Avoine
• Marie Migeon
• Elina Penttinen
• Elena Spasovska

  14:00 to 15:30

  Linna Room 5014

METHODS AND APPROACHES TO PEACE RESEARCH – The Role of Narrative

Chair: Cæcile Jensen, Doctoral Researcher, TAPRI, Tampere University

• Emma Fredriksson – The politics of imagination: analysing security expertise in the Swedish rearmament as fiction
• Ihntaek Hwang – Imagining national security differently through the South Korean military refusers: the potential of our human bodies and aesthetics
• Roy Tamashiro – Survivor-Witness Narratives for Empowering Peace in Troubling Times

  14:00 to 15:30

  Linna Room 6042

ONLINE SESSION 3 – Indigenous Resistance and decolonization 

Chair: Camilla Marucco, Doctoral Researcher, University of Turku

• Stellan Vinthagen: A territorial rebellion – the case of the Zapatista communities of autonomy
• Dorian Williams and Stellan Vinthagen: Resistance to contemporary military occupation and colonization: An overview of the existing literature
• Brandon Swann: Bottom-up pedagogies of activist-schools as part of liberatory social movements
• Jess Notwell: Decolonising Peace: Lessons in Co-Resistance

  14:00 to 15:30

  Linna Room 5027

ONLINE SESSION 4 – Crisis, Peace and Conflicts 

Chair: Unto Vesa, Emeritus Researcher, TAPRI, Tampere University

• Itır Toksöz – The Role of non-State Actors in Peaceful Use of Outer Space
• Fatemeh Shayan (University of Isfahan, [email protected]) – Conflict and Terrorism: Case Study of Jundallah and Jeish ul-Adl in Iran
• Gianmarco Pisa: In time of crisis, in search for peace

  14:00 to 15:30

  Linna Room 5026

METHODS AND APPROACHES TO PEACE RESEARCH – Challenging dominant discourses in peace research

Chair: Bram J. De Smet, Doctoral Researcher, TAPRI, Tampere University

• Sofie Rose – Continuums of Violence: How Stigmatization against Children Born of War affects Sustainable Peace
• Selina Gallo-Cruz: Feminism, Power, and Empowerment in Nonviolent Studies
• Maisa Borg – Destination vaccination? Emotions, visuality, and securitization in social media videos for and against the COVID-19 vaccine
• Jenny Hedström and Elisabeth Olivius – Tracing temporal conflicts in transitional Myanmar: life history diagrams as methodological tool

  14:00 to 15:30

  Linna Room 6017

PEACE EDUCATION – Contemporary Challenges for Peace Education

Chair: Marko Lehti, Senior Researcher, TAPRI, Tampere University

• Crispin Michael Cole Hemson – Educating teachers for peace and justice in a context of violence and oppression
• Nils Vidar Vambheim – Inter-group boundaries, prejudice, and conflict.  Do Educational interventions work?
• Maarten van Alstein – Peace Education in Times of Polarization

  14:00 to 15:30

  Linna Room 6031

HYBRID SESSION -ARTS AND PEACE – Transformative Power of Arts 

Chairs: Angel Iglesias Ortiz, Post-Doctoral Researcher, SPARG/TAPRI and Ilaria Tucci, Doctoral Researcher, TAPRI, Tampere University

• Nicole Fox – Memorializing A Global Pandemic: Honoring Loss and Collective Trauma
• Yelyzaveta Glybchenko – Coloring Outside the Lines: Imaginary Reconstitution of Security in Yemen through Image Transformations
• Ilaria Tucci & Hanne Tjersland – The Body as Resource for Peace Facilitators – reflections

  14:00 to 15:30

  Linna Room 6032

CONFLICT TRANSFORMATION – Building and exploring sustainable peace on the ground

Chair: Vadim Romashov, Doctoral Researcher, TAPRI, Tampere University

• Jack Shepherd – Exploring a unifying approach to peace through tourism: The Case of Abraham in Israel-Palestine
• Stephanie Thiel – Countering Right-Wing Violence and Group-Related Enmity: A Civil Society Approach
• Šárka Kolmašová: “If not now, then when?” – R2P advocates and the crisis in Myanmar

  15:45 to 17:15

  Linna Room 5026

PEACE AND TECHNOLOGY

Chair: Bram J. De Smet, Doctoral Researcher, TAPRI, Tampere University

• Maria Mekri – Digital Peacemaking and Innovation: AI, Data and Beyond
• Yelyzaveta (Lisa) Glybchenko – Virtual Peacetech: Designing VR Pieces as Tools for Grassroots Peacework 

  15:45 to 17:15

  Linna Room 5027

MOBILITY, SECURITY AND BORDERS – Global Institutional Responses

Chair: Nils Vidar Vambheim, Associate Professor, University of Tromso

• Lena Merkle – Cross-border Cosmopolitanism in Times of Conflict
• Ville Savoranta – Whose security does the Common Security and Defence Policy support?

  15:45 to 17:15

  Linna Room 6017

FEMINIST PEACE RESEARCH – Intersectionality and Peace

Chair: Daniela Irrera, Associate Professor, University of Catania

• Tiina Vaittinen – The unspoken yet prevalent leakages in spaces of exception: Incontinence care in humanitarian emergencies
• Berg Elin – From Silence to Pride: Re-imaginations of Gender and Sexuality in the Swedish Armed Forces
• Carrie Reiling & Leena Vastapuu – Intersectionality in Feminist Peace Research: One Discipline, Multiple Lifeworlds

  15:45 to 17:15

  Linna Room 6031

HYBRID SESSION – PEACE PERSPECTIVES 

Chairs: Angel Iglesias Ortiz, Post-Doctoral Researcher, SPARG/TAPRI and Ebru Sevik, Doctoral Researcher, TAPRI, Tampere University

• Victor Nascimento-Miyano – Ranking on the wall, which university is the best of all? Global South universities’ domestication of higher education rankings
• Ana Maria Tarazona Galvis – The co-existence of peace and violence as part of the everyday in Cauca, Colombia: Dynamics of peace promoted by local agents after the peace agreement of 2016
• Karoliina Lehtola – That One Case I Will Never Forget: Refugee Law Project in Tackling Conflict-related Sexual Violence Against Men in Uganda
• Anton Stalchenko – The Use of Geopolitical tools to achieve geoeconomic means: Case study Russia-Ukraine Interactions in January 2022
• Nina Kolarzik and Eva Holzinger – People’s Experiences of Climate Change and Changing Climates throughout Europe

  15:45 to 17:15

  Linna Room 6042

ONLINE SESSION 5 – Citizenships across the borders 

Chair: Stephanie Thiel, Doctoral Researcher, University of Konstanz

• Saila Heinikoski – Pandemic responses in the North: How did Nordic countries approach European rules and recommendations in the Covid-19 crisis?
• Stella Cheong – Reinventing Peacebuilding Citizenship Education in a post-COVID era
• Faouzia Zeraoulia – Civil Society Organizations, Peacebuilding Process, and Reconciliation in Algeria: Strategies, Mechanisms, and Constraints
• Mohammadamin Alboghobaysh – Peaceful Immigration: The Role of Afghan Immigrants in Expanding Inter-Regional Cooperation

  15:45 to 17:15

  Linna Room 6032

CONFLICT TRANSFORMATION – Emerging concepts and approaches in conflict transformation and peacebuilding

Chair: Vadim Romashov, Doctoral Researcher, TAPRI, Tampere University

• Natalia Djandjgava – Promotion of Good Governance: Essential Prerequisite for Social Peace
• Tanja Tamminen – Problem finding dialogue: the concept of “meaning” and the fusion of horizons
• Antonella Cariello  and Gentiana Susaj – Empowerment Self Defense as A Sustainable Peace-Building Approach: The Impact of Delivering ESD Trainings to Young People in Albania

  9:00 to 10:00

  Linna Room K104

HYBRID – KEYNOTE 

Helga West, Doctoral Researcher, University of Helsinki: “The Truth and Reconciliation Commission Concerning the Sámi People – Structural Justice or Threat?”

  10:30 to 12:00

  Linna Room K108

ARTS AND PEACE – Images, Bodies and Borders

Chair: Tarja Väyrynen, Professor Director, TAPRI, Tampere University

• Angel Iglesias Ortiz & Ilaria Tucci – Humanizing the border through art expression: Everyday actions and everyday items as artistic threshold of peace at the border
• Eleonora Marzani – Transforming reality through art: exploring the concept of monstrosity (University of Évora / CHAIA  
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• Hanne Tjersland – Dance as an Embodied and Relational Means to Unfold Peace

  10:30 to 12:00

  Linna Room K109

HYBRID SESSION – DIASPORA AND PEACE – Identities and diasporas 

Chair: Élise Féron, Senior Researcher, TAPRI, Tampere University

• Zahra Edalati – The Experience of being a Muslim woman in a so-called country of “gender equality”, Finland; “Am I a ‘good’ woman?”
• Bruno Lefort – Conflicted identities: negotiating alterity and belonging among young people from the Lebanese diasporas in Montreal

  10:30 to 12:00

  Linna Room K110

ONLINE SESSION 6 – Historical perspectives in peace and conflict studies 

Chair: Daniela Irrera, Associate Professor, University of Catania

• EJR Cho – The politics of red: challenging Cold War taboos during the 2002 Football World Cup in South Korea
• Bahar Baser and Shivan Fazil – “They Hear Us but They Do not Listen to Us”: Youth Narratives on Hope and Despair in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq
• Ane Marie Ørbø Kirkegaard – In search of Peace beyond the Enlightenment, the Spanish Golden Age and the consequences of the Reconquista
• Hendrik Bullens – Paradise Lost: how (non-)violent were our ancient forebears? And what it means for Peace Research

  10:30 to 12:00

  Linna Room K112

FEMINIST PEACE RESEARCH – Women’s Roles and Peace

Chairs: Bayan Arouri, Doctoral Researcher, TAPRI, Tampere University and Camilla Marucco, Doctoral Researcher, University of Turku

• Jusaima Moaid-azm Peregrina – Understanding the Complexities of Women’s Inclusion in the Syrian Peace Process
• Annick Wibben – Women’s Participation in War; Feminist Frames
• Marjaana Jauhola & Minna Lyytikäinen – At the new feminist dawn? Revisiting the Decade for Women (1975-1985) and alternative visions for peace in the work of Hilkka Pietilä

  13:30 to 15:00

  Linna Room K108

HYBRID SESSION – SUSTAINABILITY, ENVIRONMENT AND PEACE – Activism, Policy-making and Environmental Peacebuilding 

Chair: Ebru Sevik, Doctoral Researcher, TAPRI, Tampere University

• Eva Wissenz – Global warming pressure: each one of us is a peace maker
• Tae-Kyung Kim & Haein Cho – Exploring Common Ground for SDGs Implementation Toward Peacebuilding: Text Mining Analysis of VNRs and Implications for Sustainable Peace on the Korean Peninsula
• Ariadna Romans i Torrent – The Advocacy Trap – What struggles will the green youth activism face in the 21st century?

  13:30 to 15:00

  Linna Room K109

HYBRID SESSION – DIASPORA AND PEACE – Everyday Peace, Resilience and Diasporas 

Chair: Élise Féron, Senior Researcher, TAPRI, Tampere University

• Cæcilie Svop Jensen – Second and 1,5 generation Somalis in Finland: Exploring perceptions of ‘homeland’ conflict
• Anna Kreikemeyer and Vadim Romashov – International organizations’ misinterpretation of local peace processes: The case of everyday cooperation of Armenians and Azerbaijanis in a borderland of Georgia 
• Élise Féron and Bahar Başer – Nagorno-Karabakh and Diasporic Discursive Wars

  13:30 to 15:00

  Linna Room K110

CIVIL SOCIETY AND PEACE – The Multi-Faceted Role of Civil Society in Peace and Conflict

Chairs: Nils Vidar Vambheim, Associate Professor, University of Tromso and Ihntaek Hwang, Doctoral Researcher, TAPRI, Tampere University

• Arsalan Bilal – Post-2001 Afghanistan War and the Role of Civilians: A Study of How Civilians Function as Active Agents in Shaping and Reshaping Conflicts
• Ole Martin Gaasholt – The many faces of civil society in Northern Mali
• Tonny Kirabira – Peace vs Justice? Civil Society influence on Post-Conflict reconciliation and transitional justice in Uganda
• Md Aslam Hossain – Civil Society Movement for Rohingya Integration in Bangladesh

  13:30 to 15:00

  Linna Room 6042

ONLINE SESSION 7 – Interdisciplinary approach to coexistence, nonviolence and conflict 

Chairs: Craig Brown, Affiliate Researcher, University of Massachusetts, Amherst and Anna Sofia Suoranta, Doctoral Researcher, TAPRI, Tampere University

• Esin Düzel – Theoretical Remarks about Everyday Peace and Challenges of Intersectionality
• Samia Chabouni – The role of Rwandan women in peace building and the state-reconstruction after genocide
• Fatemeh Shayan (University of Isfahan, [email protected]) – Migration from Yemen to Europe and the Related Threat

  10:00 to 12:30

  Linna Building K104

HYBRID – CLOSING SESSIONS