Wars of Former Yugoslavia:
The Sociology of Armed Conflict at the Turn of the Millennium
6-8 December 2002
Zagreb, Croatia
City Hall, Cirilometodska 5
Thursday, December 5, 2002.
19.00 Reception for participants at the City Palace"Dverce", Katarina Zrinska square 6
Friday, December 6, 2002.
10.00-10.15 Welcoming remarks
Gvozden Flego, Minister of Science and Technology of the Republic of
Croatia
Davorka Matic, President of the Croatian Sociological Association
10.15-11.30 Keynote speakers
J. David Singer, The Etiology of Interstate
War: A Natural History Approach
Martin van Creveld, Treading Water:
Women in the Military
discussion
12.15-12.30 coffee break
12.30.-13.10
Peter Liotta, The Future of War: It Doesn't
Look Good
Keith Doubt, Reflections on War as Sociocide
discussion
13.45-16.00. lunch break
16.00-16.40
Slaven Letica, Transitional or Structural
Terrorism and Phenomenology of War in Croatia
James Sadkovich, Arguments, Persuasion,
and Anecdote: The Usefulness of History to Understanding Conflict
discussion
17.15-17.30 coffee break
17.30-18.10
Sabrina P. Ramet, Under the Holy Tree: The Inculcation of Neurotic
and Psychotic Syndromes as a Serbian Wartime Strategy, 1986-1995
Anton Bebler, On the Causality of the
Latest Wars in the Balkans
discussion
Saturday, December 7, 2002.
10.00-11.15 Keynote speakers
Edward N. Luttwak, US Military Intervention
in the Post-heroic Era
Daniel Nelson, Language, Identity, and
War
discussion
12.00-12.15 coffee break
12.15-13.15
Max Haller, War and National Identity
Ruth Seifert, Gender and the Military
in the Aftermath of Conflict
Nexmedin Spahiu, Wars in the Balkans and
Kosovar Identity
discussion
13.15-15.30 lunch break
15.30 -16.10
Mirko Petric, Inge Koludrovic, The Marriage
of War and the Internet: The Croatian Experience
Erik Melander, Forced Expulsion of Civilians
in Armed Conflict - The Case of Bosnia-Herzegovina, 1992-95
discussion
16.45-17.00 coffee break
17.00-18.00
Natalija Bašić, "Being a Soodier" During the War in Croatia
and BH. Social Identity, Images of the Enemy, and the Meaning of Violence
Charles Ingrao, Delegitimizing Multiculturalism: The Role of Politicians,
Media and Academics in the Ethnic Disaggregation of Central Europe
Darie Cristea, The Clash of Categories and the Remaking of Local Prototypes:
The Case of the Past Decade Yugoslav Disintegration
discussion
Sunday, December 8, 2002
10.00-11.00
Matjaz Klemencic, Typology of Armed
Conflicts on the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia in the 1990s
Tonci Kuzmanic, Their ("Balkan")
and Our Wars: Elements of Genealogy"
Miroslav Hadzic, Political (Im)potence
of the War Army
discussion
11.45-12.00 coffee break
12.00-13.00
Sime Pilic, Social Change and the Consequences
of War
Kruno Kardov, Consequences of War on Social
Life in the City of Vukovar
Nina Glavina, The Situation with Mines
in Macedonia
discussion
13.45-16.00 lunch break
16.00-16.40
Tomislav Smeric, Zunec Ozren, Croatian
Officers' Opinions About Croatia's Politico-Military Integrations
Zvonimir Mahecic, Challenges of Reform
and the Reduction of Croatian Armed Forces: Politics of Personnel Management
as a Consequence of War Events and of the Establishment of Croatia's Armed Forces
discussion
17.15-17.30 coffee break
17.30-18.10
Ante Vuckovic, Gordan Crpic, Religion
and Reconciliation at the Level of Rhetoric and Reality
Vine Mihaljevic, A Socio-Religious
Analysis of the Acivities of Military Chaplains
discussion
18.45 Conference closure