Peacemakers’ Ideas about Making and Maintaining Peace

Chairman of the organizing committee: Helge Pharo
The conference will be in English. Participation by invitation only.

Short summary

This roundtable conference will take the form of a series of conversations among the members of a small invited group of leading peacemakers and scholars from Europe and the United States. The conversations will focus on several broad questions from the scholarly literature on peacemaking - with sessions on the causes, negotiations, and aftermaths of conflicts, as well as on some of the moral dilemmas central to peacemaking. These discussions will then provide the primary material for a book, which will consist of a set of intellectual biographies of those peacemakers who take part in the roundtable conference.  

The overarching goal of both the book and the conference is to arrive at novel perspectives, informed by personal experience, on the challenges of creating and maintaining peace. We would like to build a bridge between the ideas and experiences of high-ranking practitioners of diplomacy and the academic debate on peacemaking. We think the conference and the book will provide an important contribution to our understanding of peacemaking.