Dear colleagues,

Please find below the program of the ICU Social Science Research Institute symposium on "Political Violence, Human Security and the Civilizing Process" with keynote speaker Professor Andrew Linklater, the Woodrow Wilson Chair of International Politics at the University of Aberystwyth (UK).
All are welcome.

For more details see: http://subsite.icu.ac.jp/ssri/

Title: "Political Violence, Human Security and the Civilizing Process"
Date and Time: February 22 (Sat), 2014, 13:00-16:00
Location: International Conference Room, 2nd floor, Kiyoshi Togasaki Memorial Dialogue House, ICU.

Main sponsors: Social Science Research Institute (SSRI, ICU).

Language: English

Speakers and Presentations:
Prof. Andrew Linklater (University of Aberystwyth, UK) "Standards of Self-Restraint in World Politics"

Dr. Giorgio Shani (Director, SSRI)
"Civilizing Process or Civilizing Mission? Toward a Post-Western Understanding of Human Security"

Biographies:

Professor Andrew LINKLATER is Woodrow Wilson Professor of International Politics, University of Aberystwyth, UK. Professor Linklater has been one of the most innovative thinkers in International Relations, introducing critical and ethical elements into the discipline which has forced it to rethink many of its basic assumptions. Educated at Aberdeen, Oxford and the London School of Economics (LSE), he joined the Department of International Politics at Aberystwyth as the 10th Woodrow Wilson Professor in January 2000.
Author of numerous books and journal articles on International Relations, Professor Linklater is probably best known for the following works: Men and Citizens in the Theory of International Relations (Macmillan 1982); Beyond Realism and Marxism: Critical Theory and International Relations (1990); The Transformation of Political Community: Ethical Foundations of the Post-Westphalian Era, (Polity Press 1998); and Critical Theory and World Politics:
Sovereignty, Citizenship and Humanity (Routledge 2007).
In 2006, he also jointly authored, with Hidemi Suganami, The English School of International
Relations: A Contemporary Reassessment (Cambridge University Press). He is currently completing a three volume series on the problem of harm in world politics.
The first volume, The Problem of Harm in World
Politics: Theoretical Investigations was published by Cambridge University Press in 2011 and the second Harm in World History will be out soon.

Dr. Giorgio SHANI is Director of the Social Science Research Institute and Senior Associate Professor of Politics and International Relations at International Christian University, Tokyo, Japan. He is author of Sikh Nationalism and Identity in a Global Age (Routledge 2007) and co-editor of Protecting Human Security in a Post 9/11 World (Palgrave 2007).
Recently, he served as Chair of the Global Development Section of the International Studies Association (ISA) and has just finished a book on Religion, Identity and Human Security (Routledge April 2014) which forms the basis of this presentation.

Directions to ICU and a campus map can be found here:

http://www.icu.ac.jp/en/access.html
http://www.icu.ac.jp/en/info/facilities.html

Best wishes,

Giorgio Shani
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Dr. Giorgio Shani
Director, Social Science Research Institute, Associate Director of the Rotary Peace Center, International Christian University,
3-10-2 Osawa, Mitaka, Tokyo 181-8585, Japan
Tel: +81 (0)422-33-3708, Fax: +81 (0)422-33-3229 http://researchers.icu.ac.jp/Profiles/6/0000527/prof_e.
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http://icu.academia.edu/GiorgioShani

New Book: Religion, Identity and Human Security (Routledge 2014) http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415509060/
http://www.amazon.co.uk/-/e/B001HP3QB2
http://www.amazon.co.jp/-/e/B001HP3QB2