Program

 

Day 1 November 27 (Thursday)	Arrival & Registration
Around 4.00 p.m.	Check-in
6.00 p.m.	Dinner
7.30 p.m.	Opening Event
Day 2 November 28 (Friday)	Nuclear Weapons & Terrorism
7.15 a.m.	Breakfast
8.30 a.m.	Plenary session
8.30 a.m.	Lori Postema: Welcome
8.45 a.m.	Herman Spanjaard: Opening
8.55 a.m.	Krista van Velzen: European & Dutch Nuclear Weapon Policy
9.25 a.m.	Victor W. Sidel, MD: Nuclear Weapons and Public Health
10.10 a.m.	Kees Homan: Terrorism
10.40 a.m.	Mustafa Ghanim: Resilience Project
10.50 a.m.	Break
11.30 a.m.	Workshops round I
12.30 p.m.	Lunch
1.30 p.m.	Workshops round II
3.30 p.m.	Break
4.15 p.m.	Workshops III
5.45 p.m.	Break
6.30 p.m.	Dinner
7.30 p.m.	Cultural Night
Day 3 November 29 (Saturday)	Interfaculty day: different views on war and peace
8.00 a.m.	Breakfast
9.00 a.m.	Plenary Session
9.15 a.m.	Caecilie Buhmann: Health and Peace
9.45 a.m.	Erella Grassiani: The process of Othering
10.30 a.m.	Break
10.45 a.m.	Leon Wecke: Legitimation of militairy operations
11.30 a.m.	ESR Elections
12.00 p.m.	Lunch with Posterexposition
1.30 p.m.	Workshops IV
3.30 p.m.	Boattour in Amsterdam
8.00 p.m.	Dinner in Amsterdam
Day 4 November 30 (Sunday)	Climate
8.00 a.m.	Clean up your rooms!
8.30 a.m.	Breakfast
9.15 a.m.	Plenary session
9.15 a.m.	Oleksandra Koval and Anastsiya Lyakh: Chernobyl
9.40 a.m.	Alex Rosen: Young doctors in IPPNW
9.55 a.m.	Lori Postema: Information about Target X
10.15 a.m.	Peer de Rijk: Arguments against Nuclear Energy
10.30 a.m.	Break
10.45 a.m.	Ronald Schram: Arguments pro Nuclear Energy
11.00 a.m.	Paneldiscussion about Nuclear Energy
11.50 a.m.	Lori Postema: Closing words
12.00 p.m.	Lunch
1.30 p.m.	Target X

Erella Grassiani about ‘The process of Othering’: 

In this lecture I will discuss the issue of “othering”, which is often used by anthropologists when indicating the production of an “Other” by a certain group of people. When this other is constructed, (s)he is often given negative characteristics to differentiate him/her from the collective “Us”. Such processes can easily lead to making this other into an enemy and even into a demonized other. In my opinion these processes of othering are central when we try to understand violence and conflict in today’s world. In this lecture I will use my own research on Israeli soldiers in the Occupied Palestinian Territories and their mechanisms of “othering” the Palestinians as a case study.

 

Leon Wecke: ‘Legitimation of militairy operations’:

Leon Wecke is polemologst and active in CICAM and in SSMP. The judgement of miliatairy violence: the image and opinion of authorities are important in this judgement.  In most cases (aware or not aware) this opinion is supported by media and other organizations.

 

Kees Hohman: ‘Terrorism’:

Maj. Gen. (ret.) RNLMC Kees Homan (MA/ LL M) is former director of the Netherlands Defence College. His research at Clingendael Institute focuses on international Security Issues and a wide range of strategic and military studies. At present, General Homan’s research projects include Afghanistan, NATO’s new strategic concept and the effect of climate change on security. General Homan is a regular commentator for Dutch and foreign public news services.

A historical perspective, four waves of modern terrorism can be identified: 1. The anarchic wave; 2. The anti-colonial wave; 3. New Left terrorism; and 4. The religious wave.  The religiously-driven terrorists of the current era are distinguished from their more secular predecessors in their desire to kill large numbers of people on an indiscriminate base. Unlike the anarchists, today’s terrorists hope to kill as many people as possible. Structural factors that may promote the continuation of this new terrorist activity are globalization, the structure of the international system, demography and technology. Nevertheless, one has to be very skeptical about efforts to anticipate the future of terrorism.