'Overcoming the Sovereign Debt Crisis: Europe's Roadmap to Stability and Growth'

Speaker: Olli Rehn (Vice-President of the European Commission responsible for Economic and Monetary Affairs)

Venue:Seminar Room, European Studies Centre 70 Woodstock

Chair: Kalypso Nicolaïdis (ESC, DPIR)

Discussant: Max Watson (ESC)

European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road. Please contact european.studies@sant.ox.ac.uk or telephone 01865 274470

'Citizenship and obligation in the EU'

Speaker: Pavlos Eleftheriadis,

Venue:The Cube, Law Faculty

Justice and Democracy beyond the nation-state: lessons from and for Europe
Convenors: Dr Pavlos Eleftheriadis, Professor Cécile Fabre, Professor David Miller, Professor Kalypso Nicolaïdis and Professor Philippe van Parijs

OxPeace Day Conference: 'Disciplines of Peace'

Speaker: (Various)

Venue:Garden Quad Auditorium, St John’s College

Day-Conference Saturday 19 May 2012:  09.30 registration and coffee, ends by 17.30.

The Day-Conference will begin with two morning plenary speakers, Prof. Richard Caplan (Oxford, DPIR) on the definitions of peace making, building and keeping, and Dan Smith OBE of International Alert, on the practical skills needed in the field. 

The afternoon session will include two sets of two breakout sessions:

Law and Human Rights in relation to Peace
Religion and Theology in relation to Peace
AND
The discipline of Peace Studies 
Practical skills of peacemakers and builders

 Registration for the Saturday 19 May Day-Conference is free of charge (a small contribution of £4 per student, £8 per non-student will be asked on the day to cover the cost of sandwich lunch and refreshments). 

Preceded by Conference Dinner on Friday 18 May in Rewley House Dining Room.

 The Conference Dinner at Rewley House features guest speaker Simon Hughes, Liberal Democratic MP for Southwark and Bermondsey, who is co-chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Conflict Issues (APPGCI).

Created in 2006, the APPGCI has regular open meetings to promote dialogue between parliamentarians, Her Majesty's Government, and civil society on alternative methods of preventing and resolving violent conflict. The APPGCI discusses capacity building and resource allocation relating to conflict prevention, non-violent conflict resolution and peace building both in the UK and internationally, and brings together officials from the Department for International Development (DFID), the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) and the Ministry of Defence (MoD), various NGOs, academics, students and youth, members of the business community and the media.

Simon Hughes led the second-ever 90-minute debate in Parliament devoted to conflict prevention on 21 June 2011, crucial in the development of the government’s strategy in this area. Mr. Hughes will speak on the aim of APPCGI ‘to challenge traditional attitudes held in Parliament and HMG towards conflict’, by shifting focus to improving resource allocation and increasing capacity for early-warning and conflict prevention initiatives, and moving toward ‘an integrated top-down/bottom up approach with stronger involvement of local peace builders.’

Mr. Hughes is also a member of the Parliamentarians Network for Conflict Prevention. This global network of parliamentarians is dedicated to preventing conflict turning violent through the mobilization of global political will and resources. The Network seeks to apply its collective early warning capacity to raise government, media, and public attention to prospective violent conflicts. As a network member, Mr. Hughes is involved with collaboration between parliaments on issues of preventative action and human security, as well as international efforts to influence legislation to prevent conflict, and institutionalize preventative diplomacy

Any enquiries as to registration or requests for further information about the Dinner and Speaker or the Day-Conference should be sent to Trisha.Mittal@sant.ox.ac.uk.

Further information available on OxPeace at: http://cis.politics.ox.ac.uk/research/Projects/oxpeace.asp

Contact Trisha Mittal

'Europe and Migration: A Call for Action'

Speaker: Charles Clarke (Visiting Professor, University of East Anglia)

Venue:Seminar Room, European Studies Centre 70 Woodstock

This event is part of the Debating Europe in a Non-European World seminar series.

Basque Visiting Fellowship Workshop: 'The European External Action Service and the Changing Global Diplomatic System'

Speaker: Noé Cornago and Graham Avery (Convenors)

Venue:Seminar Room, European Studies Centre 70 Woodstock

'Justice, Solidarity and the EU's Financial/Monetary Institutions'

Speaker: Kalypso Nicolaïdis & Juri Viehof

Venue:Law Board Room, Faculty of Law

Justice and Democracy beyond the nation-state: lessons from and for Europe
Convenors: Dr Pavlos Eleftheriadis, Professor Cécile Fabre, Professor David Miller, Professor Kalypso Nicolaïdis and Professor Philippe van Parijs

Screening and discussion of 'Beynelmilel' (The International)

Speaker: Ece Temelkuran (Freelance journalist)

Venue:Seminar Room, European Studies Centre 70 Woodstock

Convenors: Kerem Öktem and Laurent Mignon

'Solidarity, distributive justice and fairness'

Speaker: Andrea Sangiovanni (KCL)

Venue:The Cube, Law Faculty

Justice and Democracy beyond the nation-state: lessons from and for Europe
Convenors: Dr Pavlos Eleftheriadis, Professor Cécile Fabre, Professor David Miller, Professor Kalypso Nicolaïdis and Professor Philippe van Parijs

'Linguistic Justice for the EU: linguistic convergence versus linguistic territoriality'

Speaker: Philippe Van Parijs

Venue:The Cube, Law Faculty

Justice and Democracy beyond the nation-state: lessons from and for Europe
Convenors: Dr Pavlos Eleftheriadis, Professor Cécile Fabre, Professor David Miller, Professor Kalypso Nicolaïdis and Professor Philippe van Parijs

'The Global Crisis of the Advanced Economies - Challenges for the Central Banks and for European Governance'

Speaker: M. Jean-Claude Trichet (Gouverneur Honorifique Banque de France), Lord Patten of Barnes (Chancellor, University of Oxford)

Venue:Nissan Lecture Theatre, St. Antony's College

Convener: Jane Caplan

(Places available on a first come first served basis.)

'The Two Sudans after One Year'

Speaker: (Various)

The Sudanese Programme

[Sponsored by the Middle East Centre and Africa Studies Centre]

Conference on

“The Two Sudans after One Year”

Nissan Lecture Theatre, St. Antony’s College

Saturday 23^rd June 2012

9.00 am – 7.00 pm

Provisional Programme

  9.00 – 10.00                    Coffee and Registration [The Buttery]

10.00 – 10.15                    Opening Remarks

Session 1

10.15- 11.00                     Professor Al-Tayib Zain Al-Abdin (University of Khartoum, Republic of Sudan)

“The Suspended Issues Between the Two Sudans: A Way to Peace or Conflict”

11.00 - 11.30                     Coffee [Buttery, Hilda Besse Building]

Session 2

11.30 – 12.15                    Speaker (details will follow)

12.15 – 1.00                      Responses from:

Dr Lual Deng  ( Managing Director, Ebony Centre for Strategic Studies, Juba, Republic of South Sudan)

Professor Karrar Abbadi  (Vice-Chancellor, Omdurman Ahlia University, Omdurman, Republic of Sudan)

1.00 – 2.30                        Lunch [Dinning Hall, St. Antony’s College]

Session 3

2.30 – 4.00                        Q&A and Comments from participants

4.00 – 4.30                        Tea [Buttery, Hilda Besse Building]

Session 4

4.30 ­­- 6.00                         Q&A and Comments from participants

6.00 – 7.00                        Reception [The Buttery, Hilda Besse Building]

End of Conference

In case of queries, please contact Dr Ahmed Al-Shahi at:

Ahmed.al-shahi@sant.ox.ac.uk

Tel: 01865- 284707

Please Observe

The Sudanese Programme follows the Chatham House Rule:

“When a meeting, or part thereof, is held under the Chatham House Rule, participants are free to use the information received, but neither the identity nor the affiliation of the speaker(s), nor that of any other participants, may be revealed”