corsi Isodarco 20-27 JANUARY, 2002

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UNIVERSITY OF ROME "TOR VERGATA"
UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO
ISTITUTO TRENTINO DI CULTURA
OPERA CAMPANA DEI CADUTI - Rovereto
FORUM TRENTINO PER LA PACE - Provincia Autonoma di Trento
UNION OF SCIENTISTS FOR DISARMAMENT - Section of Trento


Italian Pugwash Group
ISODARCO    Founded in 1966
INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ON DISARMAMENT AND RESEARCH ON CONFLICTS


15th WINTER COURSE


"SOUTH-EASTERN EUROPE: INTERNAL DYNAMICS AND EXTERNAL INTERVENTION"


ANDALO (TRENTO) - ITALY    20-27 JANUARY, 2002


ISODARCO has been organizing residential courses on disarmament and 

arms
control since 1966, and has already held twenty-two summer courses and
fourteen winter courses. The courses are intended for people already
having a professional interest in the problems of disarmament and
conflicts, or for those who would like to play a more active and
technically competent role in this field. The courses have an
interdisciplinary nature, and their subject matters extend from the
technical and scientific side of the problems to their sociological and
political implications.
This course will deal in particular with the current situation in South
Eastern Europe. Since the end of the Cold War in 1990, the Balkans
crises have been a constant anxiety to statesmen in Europe and the
United States as well as to the wider world. The break up of Yugoslavia
has led to wars in Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo. Now Macedonia
is on the brink of catastrophe.
This course will analyse the history and current situation in South
Eastern Europe in the light of the wider issues that it illuminates.
What is the role of nationalism in the modern State? Indeed, what is 

the
role of the state itself in the post-modern world of conflict
management, rule-based international society and the growth of
trans-national practice (including terrorism)? Is intervention, in
whatever form, as practised by the United Nations and NATO - and now 

the
European Union - the appropriate response and will economic
reconstruction, with promise of Union membership, resolve the Balkan
crisis?
These and other related issue will complete our investigation of the
situation in South Eastern Europe.



PRINCIPAL LECTURERS:


MARK P. ALMOND
Oriel College, Oxford University, U.K.


ALEXEI ARBATOV
Defense Committee, State Duma, Moscow, Russia


NADIA ARBATOVA
Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Moscow, Russia


PAOLO CALZINI
International Politics Department, University of Milan, Italy


DAVID CARLTON
International Studies, University of Warwick, Coventry, U.K.


DANIELE CONVERSI
University of Lincoln, U.K.


ANNEMARIE DUPRÉ
Coordinator, Migrant Refugees Service, Federation of Evangelic 

Churches,
Rome, Italy


HANNS-D. JACOBSEN
Former Professor of Political Science at the Free University of Berlin,
Germany


GEORGE JOFFÉ
Former Deputy Director, Royal Institute of International Affairs,
London, U.K.


FRANÇOIS RIGAUX
Professor Emeritus of International Law, University of Louvain, Belgium


ELIZABETH ROBERTS
Politics Department, University College, Dublin, Ireland


JACK SEGAL
Political Adviser, Brussels, Belgium


RADOVAN VUKADINOVIC
Director, International Relations, University of Zagreb,  Croatia


LAMBERTO ZANNIER, Counsellor, Italian Embassy, The Hague, Netherlands


Confirmations are expected from additional eminent scholars who have
been invited to lecture at the School. The Course will be articulated 

in
formal lectures, seminars offered by the participants, round tables and
general open discussions.



GENERAL INFORMATION:


A. English will be the working language of the School.
There will be approximately 60 participants. They are expected to 

attend
all lectures and seminars.


B. Applications should be submitted with the following information 

which
is compulsory also for those who have previously attended:
Full name, date and place of birth, gender, full address (including
E-mail address, telephone and fax numbers if available).  Present
nationality. Degree and/or other academic qualifications. Present
professional activities and work address.  Publication list  and field
of interest. In lieu of publications, a letter of recommendation from a
professor or a scholar in the field.
No special application form is required.


C. Applications can be submitted by letter or fax or E-mail and should
arrive not later December 10, 2001.
Applications should  be addressed to the Director of the School:


Prof. CARLO SCHAERF
Department of Physics
University of Rome "Tor Vergata"
Via della Ricerca Scientifica 1, I-00133 Rome, Italy
Tel.:  (+39) 06 72594560/1 Fax:  (+39) 06 2040309
E-mail:  isodarco at roma2.infn.it


D. Applications will be considered by the Organizing Committee on the
basis of the information submitted. All the applicants will be informed
of the Committee's decision as soon as possible but not later than
December 21, 2001.


E. Participants are requested to arrive at Andalo (Trento) on January 

20
and leave in the morning of January 27, 2002.


F. The nominal admission fee which includes attendance, accommodation
and full board is Lit. 350.000 (approximately US$ 170) and Lit. 250.000
(approximately US$ 120) for students without a salary up to the age of
26 who ask for it. Participants will be housed in double or triple
rooms. The admission fee for single rooms, if requested and available,
will be Lit. 600.000; participants asking to share a room with somebody
in particular, if this is possible, will be charged Lit. 100.000 extra
for each person.


G. The School is unable to provide any contribution towards travelling
expenses.


H. The Course will be held at Hotel Gruppo Brenta, Via Strigole 1, 

38010
Andalo (Trento), Italy. Tel.(+39) 0461 585813 and Fax (+39) 0461 

585269.


I. A limited number of family members can be accommodated at the Hotel
Gruppo Brenta. Room and board for each member is Lit. 600.000 for the
entire period. Admission of families is limited and will be examined on
an individual basis. Participants wishing to bring their families are
requested to submit their applications as soon as possible.


J. Participants wishing to introduce a seminar should enclose a short
abstract of their proposed contribution in their application. The
Director of the School will reserve some time for seminars considered
particularly relevant to the programme of the Course.


K. The Organizing Committee reserves the right to introduce any
necessary changes to the programme.


L. Please mention in your application if you need a visa, indicating to
which Italian Consulate you intend to apply. As it could take some time
to get a visa, it is advisable to apply for it immediately after being
accepted to attend the School.


More information on the School can be found on the Isodarco web page at
any of the following addresses:    www.roma2.infn.it/isodarco
www.isodarco.it


PAOLO CALZINI, DAVID CARLTON                                CARLO
SCHAERF
GEORGE JOFFÉ, GIANCARLO TENAGLIA


Directors of the Course
Director of the School



--
Prof. Carlo Schaerf,
Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita' di Roma "Tor Vergata"
Via della Ricerca Scientifica, I-00133 Roma, Italia
Tel. (+39) 06 7259 4561              Fax (+39) 06 2040309
E-mail:             schaerf at roma2.infn.it