On the road towards European Armed Forces?

Changes of national security cultures between homeland defence and missions

abroad since 1991

Program

Sunday, April 22

 Introduction: Bernhard Chiari (Potsdam); Nicola Labanca (Siena)

Monday, April 23

 9.00

Panel 1:    Current Military History and it’s sources (Chair: Ineke Deserno, Brussels)

Panel 2:  The role of Armed Forces after1991 inthe national and internationalcontext (Chair: Jörg Hillmann, Brussels; Rüdiger Schiel,  Potsdam)

ca.15.30

Panel 3:  Case Study ISAF. Problems of international stabilization efforts and current historical projects (Chair: Ben Schoenmaker, Leiden; Arthur ten Cate and Thijs Brocades Zaalberg , Den Haag)

Panel 4:  Experience of war and individual coping strategies of soldiers in combat  (Chair: Giuseppe Caforio, Pisa)

Tuesday, April 24

 9.00

Panel 5:    Corporate Identity and self-understanding of Armed Forces (Chair: Fatima Farina, Urbino; Burkhard Köster, Potsdam)

Panel 6:    Armed Forces as learning Institutions, and their connection with the interventional societies (Chair: Mesut Uyar, Ankara; Wolfram Jäger, Potsdam)

14.30

Panel 7:    Armed Forces and Society (Chair: Torunn Laugen Haaland, Oslo; Armin Müller, Marburg)

Panel 8:    Military History as connecting link between Armed Forces, Sciences, and Politics? (Chair: Marco Mondini, Trento;  Ben Schoenmaker, Leiden)

afterwards            Concluding Remarks