IPRA Sydney 6-10 July 2010 

The conference is made up of plenary sessions, which focus on specific issues that continue to influence the peace and conflict process significantly, as well as panels and roundtables organised by IPRA's Commissions and Working Groups, plus special events. For further information on the ipra 2010 conference please refer to: http://www.iprasydney2010.org/About_conference.html

The Development and Peace Commission has organized 4 panels and 1 roundtable (business meeting): Some of the papers are online available in the Download Area. Please also have a look at the panel overviews where you can find the abstracts as well as pdf files of the papers.

Panel 1 

Hybrid Political Orders, Peacebuilding and State Formation: Experiences from Africa, the Pacific and Asia

Chair: Anne Brown, University of Queensland, ISSR, ACPACS

Discussant: Martina Fischer, Berghof Research Center for Constructive Conflict Management

Presenters:

• Volker Boege, Australian Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies (Peacebuilding and state formation in post-conflict Bougainville)
• Morgan Brigg/Jodie Curth, School of Political Science & International Relations, University of Queensland (Policy Disorder or Evolving Hybridity? Post-conflict Capacity Development in Solomon Islands)
• Herbert Wulf, Institute for Development and Peace, University of Duisburg Essen, Germany (Misguided State Building: The Case of Afghanistan)
• Tobias Debiel, Institute for Development and Peace, University of Duisburg Essen, Germany (Global Governance meets Local Politics: On Western State-building and the Resilience of Hybrid Political Orders)

Panel 2 

Session 2: Wednesday July 7:  11:00 - 12:30

Local Alternatives to the ‚Liberal Peace‘ Approach

Chair: Tobias Debiel, Institute for Development and Peace, University of Duisburg Essen, Germany

Discussant: Herbert Wulf, Institute for Development and Peace, University of Duisburg Essen, Germany

Presenters:

• M. Anne Brown/Alex Freitas Gusmao, University of Queensland, ISSR, ACPACS/ National University of Timor Leste (Local democratization in post-conflict societies - East Timor)
• Martina Fischer, Berghof Research Center for Constructive Conflict Management (Civil Society and State Formation in Post War Bosnia-Herzegovina)
• Oliver Richmond, University of St. Andrews, School of International Relations (Towards a Post-liberal Peace)

Panel 3

Session 3: Wednesday July 7: 16:00 - 17:30

Peace and Development at the Local and Community Level

Chair: Herbert Wulf, Institute for Development and Peace, University of Duisburg Essen, Germany

Discussant: Kevin Clements, University of Otago

Presenters:

• Michael Canares, Sydney-based project manager for the Geneva-based Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue (In Violence as it is in Peace: The Changing Face of Entrepreneurship in Post-Martial Law Rural Philippines)
• Ayub Sajid, Organization for Development and Peace(ODP) (An Analytical Study on the Situation of Peace in the District of Dera Ghazi Khan, Punjab, Pakistan)

• Claudia L. Hale/Ann Shoemake, Ohio University (Preserving Peace and Harmony When Your Neighbor is Fighting: The View from South Kalimantan)

Panel 4

Session 5: Thursday July 8: 14:00 - 15:30

Surviving Armed Violence and Building Peace

Chair: Volker Boege, Australian Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies

Discussant: Tobias Debiel, Institute for Development and Peace, University of Duisburg Essen, Germany

Presenters:

• Albie Sharpe, Interfaculty Institute of International Studies, Ritsumeikan University (Health Security Interventions in Sri Lanka: Evaluating the Peace-Building Outcome)
• Aime Saba, AusAID (Preventing Conflicts in Africa through Democracy-building? An analysis of recent developments)
• Cate Buchanan, Sydney-based project manager for the Geneva-based Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue (Surviving armed violence: Developing a research agenda, and evidence base for policy and programming)
• Helen Ware, University of New England (West Africa: What is known of the relationship between peace & development)
• Aurangzaib Alizai, Asian Institute of Technology (Renegotiating Gendered Ideologies during Forced Displacement)

Business Meeting

Session 6: Friday, July 9: 11.00-12.30

Venue: poster gallery of the Center for Peace and Conflict Studies (CPACS)

Related Papers on Peacebuilding in Developing Countries

Serge Loode, University of Queensland, Australian Center for Peace and Conflict Studies (ACPACS) / ISSR
(Working in complex communities: what peacebuilding can learn from complex systems science)
Paper to be presented at the 2010 IPRA Global Conference ‘Communicating Peace', University of Sydney,
Australia, 6-10 July 2010 (Peacebuilding and Conflict Resolution Commission)

Albert W. Harris: Population Transfer and the Mediation of Insurgent Conflict

download the Development and Peace Commission Programme: