DAY 1: MONDAY, 3 AUGUST 2009 | |
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| 9:30AM - 10:00AM | Registration @ The Foyer, University Club, UWA |
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| 10:00AM - 11:00AM | Opening Session |
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| 11:00AM - 11:30AM | Morning Tea @ The Foyer |
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| 11:30AM - 1:00PM | Session One: Democracy, Militancy and Suicide Bombings |
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| Prof Mohammed Waseem, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan |
| Pakistan: Democracy in the Age of Terrorism |
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| Emeritus Prof Riaz Hassan, Flinders University, Australia |
| Suicide Bombings in Pakistan |
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| Prof Mumtaz Ahmad, Hampton University, USA |
| Islam and Militancy in Pakistan |
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| 1:00PM - 2:00PM | Lunch Break @ The Foyer |
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| 2:00PM - 3:30PM | Session Two: Militancy in the North |
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| Ms Mariam Abou Zahab, Sciences Po, France |
| Sectarianism and Talibanism in the NWFP |
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| Dr Adeel Khan, University of New England, Australia |
| Religious Militancy and the Pakistan Army |
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| Ms Farhat Taj, University of Oslo, Norway |
| Militancy in FATA: Causes and Implications for Pakistani Citizens |
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| 3:30PM - 4:00PM | Afternoon Tea @ The Foyer |
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| 4:00PM - 5:30PM | Session Three: Militancy in Pakistan- Domestic and Regional Dynamics |
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| Prof Amin Saikal, Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, ANU, Australia |
| Afghanistan and Pakistan: The Question of Pashtun Nationalism? |
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| Assoc Prof Musarrat Jabeen, University of Balochistan, Pakistan |
| Post 9/ 11 Balochistan in Peace: Conflict Spectrum and International Dimensions |
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| 5:30PM - 6:30PM | Book Launch by Hon. Kim Beazley, Winthrop Professor, UWA @ The Foyer |
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| Amin Saikal, The Rise and Fall of the Shah: Iran from Autocracy to Religious Rule, Princeton University Press, 2009. The book will be available for sale by the UWA Co-op Bookshop |
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| 6:30PM - 9:00PM | Conference Dinner, The University Club, UWA |
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DAY 2: TUESDAY, 4 AUGUST 2009 | |
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| 8:30AM - 9:00AM | Registration @ The Foyer, University Club, UWA |
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| 9:00AM - 10:30AM | Session Four: Islam, Pakistan and Jihadi Logic |
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| Dr Ayesha Siddiqa, Strategic Analyst, Islamabad, Pakistan |
| The Expanding Frontier of Terrorism in Pakistan |
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| Dr Aneela Babar, Monash University, Australia |
| The Eight Year Old Insurgent: How hybrid seminaries are ushering Pakistan's Islamic Revolution |
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| Prof Samina Yasmeen, Centre for Muslim States & Societies, UWA |
| Women and Jihad and Lashker-e-Taiba: Reading the Texts |
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| Dr Tahmina Rashid, RMIT, Australia |
| Gendering Militancy: Role of Women and Puritan's Transnational Networks |
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| 10:30AM - 11:00AM | Morning Tea @ The Foyer |
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| 11:00AM - 12:30AM | Session Five: Dealing with Militancy in Pakistan |
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| Prof Pervais Iqbal Cheema, National Defence University, Islamabad, Pakistan |
| Governance and Counter-Terrorism |
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| Prof Tahir Hijazi, Comsats University, Pakistan |
| Poverty, Unemployment and Terrorism |
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| Prof James Trevelyan, School of Mechanical Engineering, UWA |
| Engineering in Countering Militancy in Pakistan |
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| 12:30PM - 1:30PM | Lunch Break @ The Foyer |
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| 1:30PM - 3:00PM | Session Six: India-Pakistan and Militancy Issue |
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| Dr Christopher Snedden, Deakin University, Australia |
| The Kashmir Issue: A Cause for Militancy in Pakistan |
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| Prof Bharat Karnad, Centre for Policy Research, India |
| Militancy in Pakistan: Implications and Possible Strategies for India |
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| Dr Smruti Pattanaik, Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, India |
| Militancy in Pakistan: Exploring a Regional Approach to the Problem |
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| 3:00PM - 3:30PM | Afternoon Tea @ The Foyer |
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| 3:30PM - 4:30PM | Session Seven: Dealing with Militancy: The International Dimension |
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| Mr Haider Mullick, Joint Special Operations University, USA |
| US Policies Toward Pakistan's Counterinsurgency/ Counter- Militancy Campaign |
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| Dr Jakub Zajaczkowski, University of Warsaw, Poland |
| Pakistan: The European Perspective at the Turn of the 21st Century |
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| Prof William Maley, Asia Pacific College of Diplomacy, ANU, Australia |
| Militancy Along the Pakistan-Afghanistan Border: An Australian Perspective |
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| 4:30PM - 5:30PM | Session Eight: Dealing With Militancy: Domestic Solutions |
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| Prof Michael Humphrey, Sydney University, Australia |
| Islam on the Frontier: A Political Sociology of Violence |
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| Mr Moeen Cheema, Faculty of Law, ANU, Australia |
| Militancy, Orthodoxy & 'Rule of Law': Reconstructing the De-Islamization of Pakistan's Laws |
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| 5:30PM - 6:00PM | Concluding Remarks: Prof Samina Yasmeen, UWA |
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