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| 12 - 17 May - Visiting Researcher |
| Professor Richard W. Hu, Director of the Master of International & Public Affairs (MIPA) program at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) will visit Uppsala. (bio) |
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| 11-17 April - North Korean Delegation |
A 3-person delegation from the Institute for Disarmament and Peace, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea visited Uppsala. During their stay in Sweden, they participated in a conflict management workshop titled "Conflict Management - Towards Confidence Building and Trust". They also visited SIPRI as well as the Swedish Foreign Ministry.
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| 21 March - Workshop |
| Workshop on "Conflict Prevention and Management in the Taiwan Strait - Challenges and Opportunities", Stockholm. |
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| 13-14 March - Workshop (Taipei) |
| Conference ”Stockholm-Taipei 2007 International Conflict Management Conference - Managing Conflict for Modus Vivendi”, Taipei, Taiwan. |
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| 12 March - Conference (Taipei) |
| Conference ”Stockholm-Taipei 2007 International Conflict Management Conference - Managing Conflict for Modus Vivendi”, Taipei, Taiwan. |
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| 8 - 9 March - Conference (Tokyo) |
Conference on "The Need for Conflict Prevention and Conflict Management in Sino-Japanese relations" at Keio University, Tokyo Japan. [Click here] for more information.
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| 12 February - Workshop |
| Workshop on "The Role of Nationalism in Sino-Japanese Relations", Stockholm, February 12 2007. |
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8-9 February - Workshop participation
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| Niklas Swanström is participating in the the International Institute for Strategic Studies workshop on ‘Fostering International Dialogue on Korean Security’ in London, UK [agenda]. |
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| 2006 |
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| December - New Silk Road Paper |
| Silk Road Paper by Eric Teo Chu Cheow on Sino-Japanese Relations: Conflict Management and Resolution. |
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| 29 Nov - Silk Road Paper |
| New Silk Road Paper by Liu Lin on The North Korean Nuclear Test and Its Implications. |
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| 27 Nov- Silk Road Forum |
| Silk Road Forum on “China's Changing Policy on UN Peacekeeping Operations”, with Associate Prof. He Yin of China Peacekeeping CIVPOL Training Center, Armed Police Forces Academy, China. |
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| 13-14 Nov - Conference participation |
Mikael Weissmann is attending a conference on “Re-Thinking European Integration and East Asia Co-Operation” in Beijing, China. The conference is organized by the Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF), the China National Association for International Studies (CNAIS) and the China Foreign Affairs University and involved academic scholars, researchers, officials and journalists of the 39 member countries of ASEM.
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| 7 Nov - Silk Road Forum |
| Silk Road Forum with Prof. Kokubun, Director of the Institute of East Asian Studies, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan, on “The Politics of History in Sino-Japanese Relations”. The forum will be held at 14.00 hours in Sal 2, Gamla Torget 3, Uppsala. |
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| 2 Nov - Silk Road Forum |
| Silk Road Forum with Ms. Liu Lin on "China's defense policy and PLA modernization". |
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| 23 - 24 Oct - Conference participation |
| Niklas Swanström participated in the China Association for Military Science’s (CAMS) international forum on “Peaceful Development and Regional Security in The Asia-Pacific Region”, Xiangshan, Beijing, China, October 23-24 2006. He presented a paper entitled “Regional conflict prevention and conflict management: The need for China as the driving engine!”. |
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| 28 - 29 Oct - Conference participation |
| Mikael Weissmann is presenting a paper entitled "Linking Regionalization and Conflict Provention: the case of China in East Asia" at the conference "Chinese Diplomacy and International Relations Theory", School of International Relations and Public Affairs, Fudan University, Shanghai, China. |
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| 11 Oct - Silk Road Forum |
| Silk Road Forum on "Asia's Regional Security Architecture" with Dr Eric Teo. |
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| 06 Oct - Silk Road Forum |
| Silk Road Forum on "China-Southeast Asia relations" with Dr Eric Teo. |
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| 4 Oct - Silk Road Seminar |
| Silk Road Seminar on "Sino-Japanese relations" with Dr Eric Teo. |
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| 28 Sep - 17 Oct - Visiting Researcher |
| Dr Eric Teo, Council Member, Singapore Institute of International Affairs (SIIA) is visiting Uppsala. He is also Adjunct Professor at the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies (IDSS), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He will do research on Sino-Japanese relations as well as give talks concerning Asia's economic and security developments. |
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| Sep 2006 - May 2007 - Visiting Researcher |
| Visiting Researcher Associate Prof. He Yin from China Peacekeeping CIVPOL Training Center; Armed Police Academy in Langfang, China is visiting Uppsala. Professor He's visit is sponsored by the Swedish Institute. |
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| 31 Aug - Silk Road Forum |
| Silk Road Forum on Cross-Strait Relations and Conflict Management, with Prof. Peter Tzeng, Uppsala. |
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| 31 Aug - Silk Road Forum |
| Silk Road Forum with Major Liu Lin from the Academy of Military Science, Beijing. |
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| 28 Aug - 6 Sep - Visiting Researcher |
| Visiting Researcher Prof. Peter Tzeng from Tatung University in Taiwan is visiting Uppsala. |
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| 20 Aug - 30 Nov - Visiting Researcher |
| Visiting Researcher Major Liu Lin from the Academy of Military Science in Beijing is visiting Uppsala. |
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| July 2006 - June 2007 - Visiting Researcher |
Mikael Weissmann is a visiting Peking University and Renmin University, Beijing, China. During his time in China he is conducting research on conflict and security in East Asia, with special emphasise on the role and impact of informal structures and processes in regional conflict prevention. He is also be teaching International Relations and Research Methodology.
The stay is funded by the Swedish School of Advanced Asia Pacific Studies. Support has also been received from "Stiftelsen Paul och Marie Berghaus donationsfond" of Gothenburg University, Sweden. |
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| 28 June - Conference Report |
| The report from the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program Conference in Stockholm December 16-17 2005 on Comparing Different Approaches to Conflict Prevention and Management: The Korean Peninsula and the Taiwan Strait by Sofia K. Ledberg has been published. [Click here] to download the report. |
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| 30 May - New Silk Road Paper |
| A new Silk Road Paper by Quansheng Zhao titled China’s New Approach to Conflict Management: The Cases of North Korea and Taiwan has been published. |
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| 24 May - Silk Road Seminar |
| Mikael Weissmann presented a paper on Informal Processes and Conflict Provention in East Asia. The seminar was held at 10:00 in the Silk Room at the Uppsala office. For more information contact Mikael Weissmann (mweissmann /at/ silkroadstudies.org). |
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| 3 - 4 May - Conference Participation |
| Mikael Weissmann participated in the 2006 PhD Student Symposium on Peace and Conflict Studies, The Swedish National Defence College, Stockholm, Sweden. He presented a paper titled Peace and Security: the Role and Impact of Informal Mechanisms in Conflict Provention. |
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| 1 May - New Project Coordinator |
| Sofia K. Ledberg replaced Emma Björnehed as coordinator for the Conflict Management in Northeast Asia project. Björnehed will in the future be focusing more of her time on Nepal and on political violence. |
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| 5 April - PM on Conflict Prevention |
| Mikael Weissmann presented a paper on the role and impact of informal mechanisms on conflict prevention in East Asia at the General Seminar of the Department of Peace and Development Research, School of Global Studies, Gothenburg University, Sweden, 5 April 2006. |
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| 6 - 17 Mar - SUPRA Nordic Scholarship |
| Mikael Weissmann has received one SUPRA Nordic Scholarship from the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (NIAS) and will be visiting the institute in Copenhagen, Denmark, for the period 6 –19 March, 2006. During his stay at NIAS Weissmann will be preparing a paper on informal conflict prevention mechanisms in Northeast Asia. |
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| Feb - Guest Researcher |
Dr. Zhang Tiejun was a Guest Researcher in Uppsala. Dr. Zhang is the Deputy Director of the Department of European Studies at Shanghai Institute for International Studies, Shanghai, China.
For more information visit his personal webpage. |
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| Jan - Feb - Guest Researcher |
Dr. Jaewoo Choo was a Guest Researcher in Uppsala. He is Assistant Professor/Chinese Foreign Policy at the Department of Chinese Studies at Kyung Hee University, Seoul, South Korea.
During his stay in Sweden Dr. Choo will conduct research on the topic "Understanding ‘developing states’ in Chinese foreign policy: Central Asian case" [more information].
He did also give a number of lectures and visited a number of departments and institutes in Sweden and Denmark. |
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| Dr. Choo's visit has been made possible through a scholarship from the Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education (STINT). |
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