Chair: Prof. Tuomo Melasuo (tuomo.melasuo[at]uta.fi)
Coordinator: Mr Gibril Massaquoi (gibmass[at]yahoo.com)
During last decades the profiles of crises and conflicts have evolved significantly and also the debate on development in the era of globalisation is taking new paths. This working group will, in one hand, examine how our understanding of these key concepts – crisis, conflict, development – is changing. Today the relationship between development and crisis or conflict might open new avenues to very different directions. Conflicts, if non-violent, and crises might also give opportunities for new kind of development, in the field of governance and environment, for instance. We very much welcome more theoretical contributions to these kind of changes.
But, on the other hand, the relations between development and crisis or conflict concern today very concretely many societies all over the world. We welcome case studies which concentrate on the situation where crisis and development affect each other very clearly. It is obvious that often they are very much interlinked, an economic or environmental crisis leading to a conflict which deteriorates even more the development options, and vice versa.
THURSDAY 11.2.
Session I (14.00-15.30)
Helka Lamminkoski (SOAS London, UK & Kehys ry, Finland): “Conflict Development Nexus”
Mohammad Jacim Uddin & Laila Ashrafun (University of Helsinki): “Democracy, Dictatorship and Development: The case of Bangladesh”
Session II (16.00-17.45)
Douglas Swann (University of Tampere): “Youth Development Programs: its role in providing social security”
Gibril Massaquoi (Ashwood University Texas & Tampere Adult Education Centre): “Youth and Empowerment Enhances, Development Strides in Peace Building: The case study of the Mano River Basin in West Africa”
FRIDAY 12.2.
Session III (9.00-11.00)
Karim Maïche (University of Lapland): “EU, Possibility and Threat? – Dimensions of Algeria-EU energy relations”
Ishak Mia (Tampere Peace Research Institute): “The Water Security Challenge for Bangladesh in the Context of Growing Conflict
with India over Trans-boundary Rivers: Approaches of Regional Cooperation Towards the Achievement of a Peaceful Solution”