Conference Program

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1: 00 Opening Remarks

Session 1 : Military Interventions and the End to Mass Atrocities: Conditions for Success and Failure

Chair Prof. Michael Spagat, Royal Holloway, University of London

1:05 Dr. Thorsten Gromes, Peace Research Institute Frankfurt, Germany

Examining the Effects of Humanitarian Military Interventions

1: 20 Dr. Bridget Conley, Tufts University, USA

How Mass Atrocities End: Military Interventions and Withdrawals

1:35 Prof. Christopher Coyne, George Mason University, USA

The Limits to Military Interventions: The Political Economy Perspective

1:50 Ms. Vanessa Meier, Oxford University, UK

Trading One Problem for Another? External Military Assistance and Rebels' Use of Terrorist Tactics in Civil Wars

2:05 Chair's Remarks and General Discussion

20 minutes break

Session 2 : Peacekeeping and Prospects for Peace and Development

Chair Prof. Arzu Kibris, University of Warwick, UK

2 :40 Prof. Raul Caruso, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Italy

Economic Drivers and Aspects of Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding

2:55 Dr. Jessica Di Salvatore, University of Warwick, UK

Peacekeeping Missions and Post-War Security Challenge- From Crime to Urban Unrest

3:10 Dr. Lisa Hultman, Uppsala University, Sweden

Using Out-of-Sample Prediction to Evaluate the Impact of Peacekeeping

3:25 Chair's Remarks and General Discussion

10 minutes break

Session 3 : Policing the Planet: The Effects of US Military Interventions and Military Aid on Conflict

Chair Dr. Lisa Hultman, Uppsala University

3:50 Dr. Daniel Meierrieks, WZB Berlin Social Science Centre, Germany

US Military Aid and Anti-American Terrorism

4:05 Dr.Vasja Badalič, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

The Re-conceptualization of Individual Preventive Self-Defence and Its Impact on Civilians

4:20 Luqman Saeed, Royal Holloway (University of London), UK

The Impact of Drone Warfare on Suicide Bombing in Pakistan

4:35 Chair's Remarks and General Discussion

4: 50 Concluding Remarks