MONTREAL/February 11, 2005—
Peace and Conflict Resolution Web Site
As part of the ongoing Peace and Conflict Resolution series, Concordia University will present Postconflict Nation Building: Is Market Democracy the Answer?, a lecture by Roland Paris, an authority in the fields of peacekeeping and post-conflict peacebuilding missions, international institutions and global governance. The lecture will take place on Tuesday, February 15, 2005, at 11:45 a.m., in the D.B. Clarke Theatre, on the basement level of the Henry F. Hall Building (1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West).
Since the end of the Cold War, the international community has developed post-conflict peacebuilding as a standard response to restoring order after ethnic and civil wars. Peacebuilding attempts to promote stable, democratic societies with market-based economies in the wake of protracted violent conflict. However, standard approaches to
post-conflict peacebuilding may undermine efforts to promote stable peace, instead causing renewed conflict and killing.
In his public lecture in Professor Paris will explain how peacebuilding can threaten peace, and will suggest solutions. He will also examine how rapid democratization and economic liberalization can have destabilizing results, provoking renewed conflict in war-shattered states. Paris will show how these problems were manifested in peacebuilding missions such as those in Cambodia, Bosnia, and Rwanda. He will make the case for an alternative, a more gradual approach of “institutionalization before liberalization.” His analysis has current relevance for peacebuilding efforts in countries such as Afghanistan, Iraq, and Haiti.
Roland Paris was educated at the University of Toronto, the Sorbonne, Cambridge University, and Yale University, where he received his Ph.D. 1999. He has been a visiting researcher at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, D.C., and has won three awards for his undergraduate and graduate teaching since he joined the faculty at the University of Colorado. His book At War's End: Building Peace after Civil Conflict (Cambridge University Press) won the Eugene M. Kayden Award for best book manuscript by a faculty member at the University of Colorado. He is a native of Canada and a former policy analyst in the Privy Council Office of the Canadian government.
For more information about this lecture contact at Dr. Michael Lipson, Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science, at (514) 848-2424, ext. 2129
For updates on the Peace and Conflict Resolution series, please contact Laurie Lamoureux-Scholes at peace@alcor.cocnordia.ca
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Tanya Churchmuch
Senior Media Relations Advisor
Concordia University
