<span xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:st1="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: bold;" lang="EN-US">Diminishing Conflicts in the Asia-Pacific. <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: bold;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-US">This one day workshop is the culmination of a 2008 College of Asia and the Pacific seminar series on the diminution of ethnic conflicts in the Asia-Pacific region. A host of country and area specialists provided close studies of why conflict has, or has not, faded in a large number of cases. The workshop is intended to focus on intensive comparison across cases, search for common trends and causal factors, and identify key divergences. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;" lang="EN-US">Friday 30 January 2009, 9:00 to 10:30 Hedley Bull Lecture Theatre 1<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;" lang="EN-US">Public plenary session. <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;" lang="EN-US">DIMINISHING CONFLICTS: How do we talk to each other and what do we gain by doing so?<o:p></o:p></span></font></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-US">The session will outline the origins and development of the project, emphasize its cross-regional, cross-disciplinary nature and invite discussion from the floor. (Initiated by Edward Aspinall, Robin Jeffrey and Anthony Regan).<o:p></o:p></span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;" lang="EN-US">11 am to 5 pm Reading Room, Political and Social Change, Level 4, Hedley Bull Centre<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;" lang="EN-US">Intensive workshop on individual cases</span></font></b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-US">11 am to 12 noon Edward Aspinall – Aceh<o:p></o:p></span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-US"> Anthony Regan – Bougainville and Nagaland. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-US">12 noon to 1 pm Christopher Snedden – <st1:place w:st="on">Kashmir</st1:place><o:p></o:p></span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-US"> Susan Harris-Rimmer – <st1:place w:st="on">East Timor</st1:place><o:p></o:p></span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-US"> Nicole Haley - PNG<o:p></o:p></span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;" lang="EN-US">1 pm to 2 Lunch – participants to forage on their own<o:p></o:p></span></font></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-US">2 to 3 Matthew Allen and Sinclair Dinnen – Solomons<o:p></o:p></span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-US"> Michael Cookson – Papua<o:p></o:p></span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-US"> Jon Fraenkel - <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Fiji</st1:country-region></st1:place><o:p></o:p></span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-US">3 to 4 John Braithwaite – Maluku<o:p></o:p></span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-US"> Robin Jeffrey – <st1:place w:st="on">Punjab</st1:place><o:p></o:p></span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-US">4 to 5 Lessons and possible future direction of the project<o:p></o:p></span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 11pt; 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