OxPeace invites you to its seventh annual Day-Conference: ‘Peace and the UN at 70’
Saturday 9th May 2015 (end of Second Week, Trinity Term)
Venue: St John's College, Oxford. 09.00 for 09.30 start; ends 17.30
Updated information: speaker changes
Please return the attached Registration Form to Jeremy Cunningham: cunningham.jeremy@gmail.com
We also invite you to the Conference Dinner, with guest speaker Rt Hon Lord Malloch-Brown, on the evening of
Friday 8th May, 7 for 7.30 pm at Rewley House, corner of Wellington Square and St John St.
Day-Conference Sat 9 May 2015 : Programme, 09.30 - 17.30 (registration 09.00)
Registration for the Sat 9 May Day-Conference is free of charge (a small contribution of £5 per student, £10 per nonstudent will be asked on the day to cover the cost of the refreshments and the sandwich lunch). You are welcome to
walk in on the day, but please register beforehand if possible, it helps with organization and catering. Thanks!
09.30: ‘Peace and the UN at 70’ (Plenary)
Edward Mortimer was UNSG Kofi Annan's Director of Communications. He is a fellow of All Souls and President of the British
Association of Former UN Civil Servants. He was Senior Vice President of The Salzburg Global Seminar 2007-2011, and is a
member of the Advisory Council of Independent Diplomats. He is an Advisory Board member for the Institute for Historical
Justice and Reconciliation. Before joining the United Nations he was a columnist and leader writer for the Financial Times.
Hilde Johnson, member, UN High Level Panel on Review of Peace Operations; Special Representative of the UNSG for South
Sudan -2011-2014, formerly Dep. Exec. Director, UNICEF: on ‘Protection of civilians, with special emphasis on South Sudan’.
Discussant: Professor Richard Caplan, Professor of International Relations, Oxford.
11.30: Two parallel breakout sessions:
Justice, Peace and Reconciliation in the Great Lakes: Chair: Dr Annette Idler (CCW Pembroke Coll); Dr Julia Viebach (JRF,
Mansfield Coll; Career Development Lecturer in Criminology): transitional justice in Rwanda; Dr Henning Tamm (Fellow in
Politics, Nuffield Coll) on the DRC; Dr Patricia Daley (School of Geography & the Environment, Oxford) on post-conflict Burundi.
New Directions in the Study of UN Peacebuilding: Chair: Dr John Gledhill, with doctoral and post-doctoral students: Ellen
Ravndal on the Institution of the UN Secretary General; Kate Roll on Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR) in
Timor–Leste; Allard Duursma on UN mediation in African civil wars; and Dana Landau on peacebuilding in Kosovo.
14.00: ‘Religion in peace and conflict: extreme warmaking, dedicated peacebuilding’ (Plenary)
Professior Alpaslan ÖzerDem, Director, and Laura Payne, Research Associate, Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations,
Coventry University, present current research on religious (particularly Anglican) conflict prevention worldwide.
Imam Monawar Hussain, Islamic Tutor at Eton College, on ISIL and Islamic responses to extremism.
16.00: Peace and the Proposed UN Sustainable Development Goals
Jonathan Granoff, Global Security Institute, on development and peace; Sunil Suri, Saferworld, on security and peace.
Chair: Dr Isabella Bunn, international lawyer, Regent’s Park College.
Conference Dinner: Friday 8 May
The Conference Dinner is on Friday 8 May, 7 for 7.30 pm at Rewley House, the speaker is Rt Hon Lord Malloch-Brown.
The cost per person is £35, but the first 15 students to apply will pay only £10 for a subsidized place. Confirmation of
a place and instructions on how to pay will be sent to you via email. Tickets first come, first served; places are limited
so please apply as soon as possible. Dress code: Smart casual.
All enquiries to Conference Organiser, Jeremy Cunningham: cunningham.jeremy@gmail.com
Best wishes, Jeremy Cunningham.
See below for registration form
‘Peace and the UN at 70’, Saturday 9th May 2015 (end of Second Week, Trinity term)
Venue: St John's College, Oxford. 09.00 for 09.30 start; ends 17.30
Registration Form
Please fill out this form and send it as an attachment to Conference Organiser, Jeremy Cunningham:
cunningham.jeremy@gmail.com with email subject line: OxPeace Conference Registration
Or post to: Jeremy Cunningham, 86 Hamilton Road, Oxford, OX2 7QA
Or pidge by Messenger to: Serkan Birgel, St Catherine’s College (St Catz)
Please register as soon as soon as possible.
For all participants:
I am registering for the Dinner: Yes/no …………………………
I am registering for the Day Conference: Yes/No …………..
To be filled out by all attendees:
Name (capitals):
College (if appropriate) or postal address:
Phone No:
Email address:
Status (academic staff/student/non-student):
Course if student (undergraduate/master’s/doctoral):
There is no Day-Conference fee, but you are asked to contribute on the day to the cost of the sandwich lunch, tea and
coffee: £ 5 for students, £ 10 for non-students.
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OxPeace Conference Dinner Registration Friday 8 May
**To be filled out by all wishing to attend the pre-Conference Dinner and Speaker, 7 for 7.30 pm, Friday 8 May
in Rewley House, corner of St John St and Wellington Sq. Places are limited. **Cost: £35 for non-students, £10 if you
are a student and among the first 15 students to register, full price thereafter** Payment for the dinner must be
made in advance: you will be contacted with payment details.
I wish to attend the dinner (yes/no): ………………………….
Are you a current student? (yes/no)………………….
I wish to bring a guest to the dinner (yes/no): …………….
Is your guest a student? (yes/no): ……………………….
Any dietary requirements:……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
A confirmation email with payment information will be sent to you. Students will be informed whether they should
pay the subsidized rate or full cost of dinner. Payment in advance will be required.