Yale Bulletin and Calendar

April 23, 2004|Volume 32, Number 27

New research on human conflict
is focus of international conference

Human conflict, in all its dimensions, and how it is tamed will be the topic of an international conference on "Order, Conflict and Violence" taking place at Yale Friday-Saturday, April 30-May 1.

The conference was convened by Ian Shapiro, the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor and chair of political science, and Stathis Kalyvas, the Arnold Wolfers Professor and director of the Program on Order, Conflict and Violence at the Yale Center for International and Area Studies (YCIAS).

"The study of violent conflict and political order has always been at the center of social science, but research during the past few years has helped advance our understanding of these phenomena," says Kalyvas. "The conference on Order, Conflict and Violence provides an opportunity to take stock of new findings while attempting to bring together several research agendas that are undertaken in isolation."

"Order, Conflict and Violence" will bring together a distinguished group of scholars from all over the world representing a diversity of disciplines and methodological approaches.

The conference is sponsored by the Department of Political Science and YCIAS and is open to all members of the Yale community. It will be held in Rm. 101 of Linsly-Chittenden Hall, 63 High St. A list of participants and a schedule of conference activities is available at www.yale.edu/ycias/ocvprogram.

This event is just one in a series of conferences being sponsored as part of Yale's Political Science Initiative on Rethinking Political Order. Others in the series have been held on "Problems and Methods in the Study of Politics"; "Crafting and Operating Institutions"; and "Identities, Affiliations and Allegiances." Future conferences are planned on "Distributive Politics" and "Representation and Popular Rule." Books based on the conference proceedings will be published by Cambridge University Press.

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