Papers presented at Research Workshop "Does Ethnic Conflict Exist? Globalization and Processes of Identity and Violence"

Georgii Derluguian (Senior Fellow, US Institute of Peace and Assistant Professor, Dept. of Sociology and Center for International and Comparative Studies, Northwestern University):
"The Prince, the Apparatchik and the Bourdieu Admirer: Three Warlord Trajectories in the Cultural-Political Fields of the Post-Soviet Caucasus"
Discussant: Greta Uehling

Chip Gagnon (Assistant Professor, Dept. of Politics, Ithaca College and Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow, Peace Studies Program, Cornell Univ.):
"Ethnicizing Politics: Violence and the Construction of Political Space in the Balkans"
Discussant: Ronnie Lipschutz

Maria Hadjipavlou-Trigeorgis (Visiting Scholar, Institute for European Studies, Columbia Univ. and Lecturer, Dept. of Political Science, University of Cyprus):
"The Role of Narrative in Understanding International Conflict: The Case of Cyprus"
Discussant: Stefan Senders

Ronnie Lipschutz (Professor, Board of Politics, Univ. of California at Santa Cruz):
"From Culture Wars to Shooting Wars: Is There Ethnic Conflict in the US?"
Discussant: Georgii Derluguian

Darini Rajasingham (Research Fellow, International Centre for Ethnic Studies, Colombo, Sri Lanka and SSRC-MacArthur Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for War and Peace Studies, Columbia University):
“Whose ‘Peace and Security' is it Anyway? Displacement in Sri Lanka and the National Order of Things”
Discussant: Martijn van Beek

Stefan Senders (Ph.D. candidate, Dept. of Anthropology, Cornell Univ.):
"Anxiety and the Social Fact: Writing Against Ethnic Identity"
Discussant: Naeem Inayatullah (Assistant Professor, Dept. of Politics, Ithaca College)

Greta Uehling (Ph.D. candidate, Dept. of Anthropology, University of Michigan):
“The Crimean Tatar National Movement: Defenders from ‘everyday hooligans’ or ‘bandits themselves’”
Discussant: Burcu Akan (Ph.D. candidate, School of International Service, American University)

Martijn van Beek (Assistant Professor, Dept. of Ethnography and Social Anthropology, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark):
"Beyond Identity Fetishism: Rethinking Community, Representation and Governance"
Discussant: Darini Rajasingham

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