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• 17 oct 2013

  18 oct 2013

  Montreal

  Conference, symposium - Geography

  Borders, Walls and Security

  Thirty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the question still remains “Do good fences still make good neighbours”? Since the Great Wall of China, construction of which began under the Qin dynasty, the Antonine Wall, built in Scotland to support Hadrian’s Wall, the Roman “Limes” or the Danevirk fence, the “wall” has been a constant in the protection of defined entities claiming sovereignty, East and West. But is the wall more than an historical relict for the management of borders? In recent years the wall has been given renewed vigour all around the world, whether in North America, in Europe (with the Greek border fence), in Asia (for instance in India) or in Middle East. But the success of these new walls in the development of friendly and orderly relations between nations (or indeed, within nations) remains unclear. What role does the wall play in the development of security and insecurity? Do walls contribute to a sense of insecurity as much as they assuage fears and create a sense of security for those ‘behind the line’? Exactly what kind of security is associated with border walls?

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• 20 jui 2013

  Montreal

  Call for papers - Political studies

  Peace missions and their detractors

  Le colloque vise à examiner la nature précise de la crise des missions de paix, les dynamiques entre pouvoir et contre-pouvoir (ou entre pouvoir et résistance) et les formes variées et complexes que prennent les missions de paix du point de vue des intervenants et du point de vue des « récipiendaires » locaux afin de débattre pour qui et pour quoi, exactement, la paix est-elle maintenue, imposée et / ou consolidée. Qu'il s'agisse de l'Union européenne, de l'Union africaine, ou de l'Organisation internationale de la Francophonie, les avantages et les désavantages des coopérations multilatérales avec (ou sans) l'Organisation des Nations unies sont complexes et recoupent les aspects politiques, normatifs, logistiques, organisationnels et légaux.

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