Low expectations?
Luogo: University of Trento, Department of Sociology and Social Research, Via Giuseppe Verdi, 26 - Meeting room (sala riunioni) 3rd Floor
The notion of “stability” and the practice of “stability operations” experienced a resurgence in the last decade. The United Nations, with operations in Haiti, in the Central African Republic, in the Democratic Republic of Congo and in Mali has re-framed the lexicon and practice of its interventions in this direction. NATO has been similarly focusing on “projecting stability” as one of the cornerstones to guarantee the Alliance’s security.
The reasons for such re-framing are diverse. The lengthy, costly and casualty-heavy wars in Afghanistan and Iraq inevitably led to intervention fatigue. In the last decade or so, either interventions in conflict-ridden countries did not take place (as in Syria) or were based on minimal footprint (as in Libya), at least compared to the previous large-scale operations with ambitious social, economic and political engineering goals. In this evolving context, the conceptual and operational parameters of these stabilization interventions are still opaque.
This workshop aims at dissecting how these “new” practices emerged and are unfolding, how they have been analysed in the academic literature, what are their sub-components (e.g. what role civil-military relations or intelligence play in these operations), and how they are linked to the broader security and development discourse.
Program
Day 1, Friday, February 2nd
13:00 pm | Light Lunch |
2:00 pm |
Roberto Belloni (University of Trento) & Francesco N. Moro (University of Bologna) |
2:15 pm |
Stefano Costalli (University of Florence) & Francesco N. Moro (University of Bologna) |
3:15 pm |
Jana Krause (University of Amsterdam) |
4:15 pm | Coffee break |
4:30 pm |
Marina Henke (Northwestern University, USA) |
5:30 pm |
John Karlsrud (Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, Oslo) |
6:30 pm | End of Day 1 |
8:00 pm | Social dinner |
Day 2, Saturday, February 3rd
9:00 am |
Mats Berdal (King’s College, London) |
10:00 am | Luca Raineri (Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa) & Francesco Strazzari (Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa & Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, Oslo) Hybrid orders and stabilisation efforts in the Sahelo-Saharan space |
11:00 am | Coffee break |
11:15 am | Roberto Belloni (Trento) & Irene Costantini ("L’Orientale" University of Napoli) Iraq 2003-2017: changing approaches to stability |
12:15 pm | Discussion on future prospects |
1:00 pm | Light lunch |
2:00 pm |
Tavola Rotonda - Roundtable (in Italian): Participants:
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Convenors:
- Roberto Belloni, University of Trento
- Francesco N. Moro, University of Bologna