1. UNIVERSITYOFKENT
BRUSSELSSCHOOLOFINTERNATIONALSTUDIES
Conflict Termination to
Conflict Recurrence
BSIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
PROGRAMME
Thursday 7 April All sessions will take place in the BSIS academic building
0830 – 0900 Registration and Breakfast
0900 – 0945 Opening Remarks and Keynote
Dr. Joost Hiltermann, Program Director, Middle East and North
Africa, International Crisis Group
0945 – 1100 Post-conflict return migration
1100 – 1120 Break
1120 – 1235 Does it diminish risk? DDR and conflict recurrence
Moderator
Tarila Marclint Ebiede, PhD Researcher, Centre for Research on
Peace and Development, University of Leuven
Panellists
Dr. Judith Verweijen, Researcher, The Nordic Africa Institute
Professor Alpaslan Ozerdem, Director, Centre for Peace and
Reconciliation Studies, Coventry University
Dr. Walt Kilroy, Associate Director, Institute for International Conflict
Resolution and Reconstruction, Dublin City University
Sofie Vindevogel, Researcher, Ghent University & Centre for Children
in Vulnerable Situations
1235 – 1330 Lunch

2. UNIVERSITYOFKENT
BRUSSELSSCHOOLOFINTERNATIONALSTUDIES
1330 – 1430 Surviving in silence: male survivors of gender based sexual
violence in post-conflict societies
Panellists
Dr. Élise Féron, University Researcher, Tampere Peace Research
Institute, University of Tampere
Dr. Emanuela Mangiarotti, Visiting Research Fellow, BSIS
Dr. Heleen Touquet, Lecturer, KU Leuven
1430 – 1450 Break
1450 – 1600 Who is a victim? Who is a perpetrator? Transitional justice in
post-conflict societies
Moderator
Dr. Valérie Arnould, Senior Research Fellow, EGMONT Institute
Panellists
Dr. Alette Smeulers, Lecturer, Tilburg Law School
Dr. Maire Braniff, Lecturer, University of Ulster
Dr. Sari Kouvo, Human Rights and Gender Adviser, Crisis
Management Planning Directorate, EEAS
1600 – 1800 Networking Reception
Friday 8 April
0900 – 0930 Registration and Breakfast
0930 – 0945 Opening Remarks and Keynote
Dr. Jamie Shea, Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Emerging
Security Challenges, NATO
0945 – 1100 Where is your AK-47 going? Casting a shadow over the
international arms trade
Moderator
Dr. Yvan Guichaoua, Program Director, International Conflict
and Security, BSIS
Panellists
Savannah de Tessières, Coordinator, United Nations Panel of
Experts on Libya
Tomas Baum, Director, Flemish Peace Institute
Dr. Max Mutschler, Senior Researcher, Bonn International Center
for Conversion
1100 – 1130 Snack break

3. UNIVERSITYOFKENT
BRUSSELSSCHOOLOFINTERNATIONALSTUDIES
1130 – 1245 Managing frozen conflicts in the former Soviet Union: solutions
Moderator
Dr. Tom Casier, Academic Director, BSIS
Panellists
Dr. Bruno Coppieters, Head of the Department of Political
Science, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Gustav Gressel, Visiting Fellow, European Council on Foreign
Relations
Dr. Anna Bara, Project Officer, International Centre for
Migration Policy Development
Dr. Licínia Simão, Assistant Professor, University of Coimbra
1245 – 1315 Keynote and Closing Remarks
1315
H.E. Denis Robert, Canadian Ambassador to the Kingdom of
Belgium and to the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
Closing Reception
INFORMATION
Date
7-8 April 2016
Language
All sessions and conference materials will
be in English
Venue
University of Kent
Brussels School of International Studies
Espace Rolin, Boulevard Louis Schmidt 2a.
1040 Brussels, Belgium
Conference Chairs
Ms. Oznur Alturk and Ms. Katie Rowan
ukbconf@kent.ac.uk
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