FREITAG, 20. NOVEMBER 2015 | 07.00 p.m.
Opening
Aula am Wilhelmsplatz

Welcome

  • Prof. Dr. Ulrike Beisiegel, President University of Goettingen
  • Prof. Dr. Ulrich Bartosch, Chairman VDW
  • Prof. Dr. Ayelet Shachar, Director MPI-MMG, Goettingen



Greetings
Stefan Wenzel, Minister of the Environment for the State of Lower Saxony

Panel of the cooperating partners
Chair: Prof. Dr. Ulrike Beisiegel, President University of Goettingen

  • Rolf-Georg Köhler, Mayor of Göttingen
  • Dr. Wilhelm Krull, Chairman of the Foundation Council of the University of Goettingen
  • Prof. Dr. Andreas Pott, Director of IMIS, University of Osnabrueck
  • Prof. Dr. Gabriele Gien, President of the Catholic University Eichstaett-Ingolstadt
  • Fritz Güntzler, Member of German Parliament



Keynotes

  • Giusi Nicolini, Mayor of Lampedusa, (solicited)
  • Dr. Ranabir Samaddar, Calcutta Research Group
  • Thomas Gebauer, CEO of medico international e.V., Frankfurt/Main






Saturday, 21th of NOVEMBER 2015 | 09.30 a.m.
Introductory papers
Zentrales Hörsaalgebäude, room 010

09.30 - 10.00 Uhr
Welcome
Prof. Dr. Ulrike Beisiegel, President University of Goettingen

Peace Studies Perspectives on Humanitarian Wars
Prof. Dr. Lothar Brock (em.), Goethe-University Frankfurt/Main, VDW

The Genesis of Global and European Flight and Asylm Policies
Prof. Dr. Petra Bendel, University of Erlangen-Nuernberg

Discussion

Break 10.50 - 11.15 a.m.


11.15 a.m. - 12.30 p.m.
Diasporas, Transnational Political Spaces and Development
Prof. Dr. Stephanie Schütze, Political Science, Free University Berlin

Mobility Beyond Borders and Social Issues in the 21st Century
Prof. Dr. Thomas Faist, University of Bielefeld

Discussion

12.30 p.m. - 01.30 p.m. Lunch Break
Zentrales Hörsaalgebäude

01.30 p.m. - 04.00 p.m. Discussion Forums
Forum I: Humanitarian Interventions / New Wars
Room 006
Chair: Dr. Simone Wisotzki, Hessian Foundation for Peace and Conflict Studies

Panel:

  • Martin Glasenapp, medico international e.V., Frankfurt/Main
  • Prof. Dr. Andrea Nachtigall, Ernst-Abbe-Hochschule Jena
  • Dr. Léonie Newhouse, MPI-MMG, Goettingen




Forum II: Peace Logic instead of Security Logic? Ways Out of a Security-based Immigration and Refugee Policy
Room 001
Chair: Prof. Dr. Sabine Hess, University of Goettingen

Panel:

  • Prof. Dr. Thomas Groß, European Legal Studies Institute and IMIS, University of Osnabrück
  • Simon Kolbe, Caritas Eichstaett
  • Karl Kopp, Pro Asyl e.V.
  • Nina Perkowski, University of Edinburgh




Forum III: Migration, Diaspora and Development
Room 007
Moderation: Prof. Dr. Stephan Klasen, Universität Göttingen

ReferentInnen:

  • Dr. Stephan Dünnwald, Bavarian Refugee Council, Munich
  • Prof. Dr. Thomas Fischer, Catholic University Eichstaett-Ingolstadt
  • Lucia Muriel, moveGLOBAL e.V.



Forum IV: Human Security - a perspective for sustainable ecological and social security?
Room 005
Chair: Prof. Dr. Nicole Ahuja, University of Goettingen

Panel:

  • Prof. Dr. Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez, University of Giessen
  • Karin Pape, Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO) (solicited)
  • Prof. Dr. Hannes Schammann, University of Hildesheim
  • TRESOR De Voix Des Migrants



Forum V: Climate Induced Migration - Between Horror Scenario and Real Challenge
Room 105

Chair: N/N

Panel:

  • Marlene Becker, University of Goettingen
  • Prof. Dr. Hartmut Graßl (em.), MPI-M, Hamburg, VDW
  • Prof. Dr. Jürgen Scheffran, University of Hamburg, VDW




16.00 - 16.30 p.m. Coffee Break
Zentrales Hörsaalgebäude


Final Panel Room 010
Presentation of the Forum Results

07.30 p.m.
Pubic Debate:

Chair: Dr. Ulrike Bosse, NDR Info

  • Prof. Dr. Petra Bendel, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
  • Staatsministerin Aydan Özoğuz, Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Migration, Flüchtlinge und Integration (solicited)






SONNTAG, 22. NOVEMBER 2015 | 10.30 UHR
Responsibility of science for a new peace-led migration policy
Paulinerkirche, Vortragssaal

Welcome Prof. Dr. Ulrike Beisiegel, President of the University of Goettingen

In Memoriam Prof. Dr. Jürgen Schneider, University of Göttingen and VDW
Dr. Reiner Braun, VDW

Keynotes
Chair: Prof. Dr. Ulrich Bartosch, Catholic University Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, VDW

  • Prof. Dr. Brzoska, Scientific Director of the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg
  • Prof. Dr. Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker, Co-Präsident Club of Rome



Panel Discussion

  • Prof. Dr. Sabine Hess, University of Göttingen
  • Prof. Dr. Paul Mecheril, Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg
  • Dr. Almut Steinbach, Volkswagen-Foundation / The Expert Council of German Foundation on Integration and Migration (solicited)
  • Sophia Wirsching, Brot für die Welt
  • Dr. Simone Wisotzki, Hessian Foundation for Peace and Conflict Studies