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Working Group Members and Charges
to the Three Working Groups
INTERACADEMY WORKSHOP ON CONFLICTS IN
MULTIETHNIC SOCIETIES
DECEMBER 2001
Working Group on Collective Violence
Scholars have significant disagreements on the extent to which collec-
tive violence is a coherent, autonomous phenomenon or is an expression
of underlying processes and conflicts that are not intrinsically violent. At
one extreme are specialists who think of violence as a specialized business
reflected in guerilla warfare, arms flows, and violent entrepreneurs. At
the other extreme are specialists who consider ethnicity a cultural phe-
nomenon and who view violence as an occasional by-product of nonvio-
lent striving. Where in that range can we find the most promising leads
for further research?
Russian Participants:
· Coordinator: Valery A. Tishkov, Institute of Ethnology and
Anthropology, Russian Academy of Sciences
· Larissa L. Khoperskaya, Advisor to the Presidential
Representative in the Southern Federal District
· Viktor V. Bocharov, St. Petersburg State University
· Lev D. Gudkov, Russian Institute for the Study of Public Opinion
American Participants:
· Coordinator: Charles Tilly, Columbia University
· Stathis N. Kalyvas, University of Chicago
· Mark R. Beissinger, University of Wisconsin
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CONFLICT AND RECONSTRUCTION IN MULTIETHNIC SOCIETIES
Working Group on Culture, Identity, and Conflict
Many specialists interpret ethnic conflict as an outcome of identity
assertion or cultural change or both, often seeing new developments in
this regard as a consequence of worldwide political and economic reorga-
nization. What are the major competing ideas in this area, what types of
research do these ideas imply, and which ideas are the most promising
for further work?
Russian Participants:
· Coordinator: Aleksey Miller, Institute for Information in Social
Sciences, Russian Academy of Sciences
· Aleksandr Kamensky, Russian State University for Humanities
· Valikhan Merzikhanov, Saratov State University
· Leokadia Drobizheva, Institute of Sociology, Russian Academy of
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· Eduard D. Ponarin, European University at St. Petersburg
American Participants:
· Coordinator: Anatoly M. Khazanov, University of Wisconsin
· Matthew Evangelista, Cornell University
· Yoshiko M. Herrera, Harvard University
Working Group on Systematic Comparative Studies of Conflict
Events
In the former Soviet Union and elsewhere, scholars are examining
political conflict, including ethnic conflict, by preparing uniform descrip-
tions or catalogs of multiple events in different geographic and political
settings. What are the strengths and weaknesses in these approaches,
what are the alternatives, and what are promising new findings in such
studies?
Russian Participants:
· Coordinator: Vitaly Naumkin, Institute of Oriental Studies,
Russian Academy of Sciences, and International Center for
Strategic and Political Studies
· Aleksandr Shubin, Institute of World History, Russian Academy
of Sciences
· Ludmila Gotagova, Institute of Russian History
· Emil Pain, Institute of Sociology, Russian Academy of Sciences
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WORKING GROUP MEMBERS AND CHARGES
American Participants:
· Coordinator: Paul C. Stern, National Research Council
· Andrew Bennett, Georgetown University
· Edward W. Walker, University of California at Berkeley
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Each working group met at the National Academies on December 5
and 6, 2001, to prepare papers in response to the charges listed above.
These papers were presented at a plenary session on December 7, 2001.
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