Peace After War

The first lecture, entitled 'Our Experience', takes place at 5pm tomorrow and will be based on Bildt's seven lessons of state-building. The lecture will be Balkan-centric, but will also offer perspectives on other operations.

The second lecture, entitled  'Our Prospects', will take place at 6.30pm and will centre on the challenges further down the road in state-building and how the development of international and national instruments could help.

On Wednesday, 2 March there will be a seminar at the Umney Theatre, Robinson College from 10.00am-1.00pm and from 2.30pm-4.00pm, with four specially invited respondents who will each give a short presentation discussing the issues raised during the lectures. Questions and answers from the audience will follow each presentation. Please book a place for the seminar by calling 01223 332368, as numbers are limited.

The Tanner Lectures aim to advance and reflect upon scholarly and scientific learning related to human values. They were established in 1978 by the American scholar, industrialist and philanthropist, Obert Clark Tanner. Clare Hall, Cambridge is one of nine institutions worldwide to be honoured with a permanent Tanner Lectureship.

2005 Tanner Lectures:

'Our Experience'
5pm, March 1
Babbage Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site, Downing Street, Cambridge. This lecture will be based on Bildt's seven lessons of state-building. It will draw heavily on the Balkan experience, but will also include perspectives on other operations.

'Our Prospects'
6.30pm, March 1
Babbage Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site, Downing Street, Cambridge. This lecture will focus on the challenges further down the road in state-building and how the development of international and national instruments could help.

Tanner Seminar:

March 2
Umney Theatre, Robinson College, Cambridge
(Session One: 10am-11.15am; Session Two: 11.45am-1pm; Session Three: 2.30pm-4pm)

Chair
Professor Geoffrey Hawthorn, Professor of International Politics in the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, and Head of the Department of Politics at the University of Cambridge.

Respondents

Professor Paul Kennedy
Paul Kennedy has studied and written about global affairs for more than 30 years. He is an expert in military strategy, and provides world leaders with thoughts on how best to manage global affairs, diplomacy and international relations.

Dr Brendan Simms
Brendan Simms is Reader in the History of International Relations at Peterhouse, Cambridge and the author of ‘Unfinest hour: Britain and the destruction of Bosnia’ (Penguin, 2001).

Dr Glen Rangwala
Glen Rangwala is a lecturer in international politics at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Trinity College. His book, ‘Iraq in fragments: the legacy of occupation’, will be published by Hurst Publishers in 2005. He has been a columnist for the Independent and the Guardian. He has also published on a number of other themes, including Palestine and Israel, international humanitarian law, theories of globalisation and comparative human rights law.

Dr Marc Weller
Marc Weller is a University Lecturer in International Law and International Relations in the Centre for International Studies, and a Fellow of the Lauterpacht Research Centre for International Law and of Hughes Hall. He is also Director of the European Centre for Minority Issues and has acted as a legal advisor to several governments and as an expert for the Council of Europe and the United Nations. He has been involved in a number of inter-ethnic peace processes in Europe and beyond.