This fourth conference in an established and successful series hosted by the IMA will, like its predecessors, provide an international forum for sharing current work in conflict research and analysis. Contributions have been accepted from speakers in a wide range of disciplines who are extending both theory and practice in conflict transformation.

The conference begins in the morning of Monday 28th June and concludes with lunch on Wednesday 30th June. Bed and breakfast accommodation at St Anne's College is available on 27th, 28th and 29th June. The conference fee includes a reception and conference dinner on 29th June but no dinner is provided on 28th.

Three keynote sessions and a concluding panel discussion provide a collective focus for the event. For the most of the remaining time the conference will be twin-streamed to provide adequate air-time for speakers and debate. Thematic sessions of 2-3 papers will be in such fields as: military operations, non-state actors, mediation, civil war, peace-building, mediation, military-political, information warfare. Approaches will include: gaming, fieldwork, conflict modelling, discourse analysis, grounded theory and decision support. Conflict over natural resources - notably water - is addressed in a significant number of the accepted papers.

The final programme is show below.

Time	Mon 28 June	Time	Tue 29 June	Time	Wed 30 June
9.30 -14.30	Registration	9.00	Parallel Session 4 (2 x 2 Presentations)	9.15	Parallel Session 8 (2 x 2 Presentations)
10.15	Welcome by Conference Chair
10.30	Keynote: Roger Forder
11.30	Coffee Break	10.30	Coffee Break	10.45	Coffee Break
11.45	Parallel Session 1 (2 x 2 Presentations)	10.45	Parallel Session 5 (2 x 2 Presentations)	11.00	Keynote: Mary Crannell
11.45	Parallel Session 1 (2 x 2 Presentations)	12.15	Keynote: Donal O'Neill	12.00	Panel with Keynote Speakers
13.15	Lunch	13.15	Lunch	13.00	Closing remarks by Conference Chair
14.15	Parallel Session 2 (2 x 2 Presentations)	14.15	Parallel Session 6 (2 x 2 Presentations)	13.15	Lunch
15.45	Tea break	15.45	Tea Break	13.15	Lunch
16.00	Parallel Session 3 (2 x 2 Presentations)	16.00	Parallel Session 7 (2 x 3 Presentations)	14.00	Available for group meetings
17.30	End	18.15	Free time	15.00	Depart

		19.30	Reception/Dinner

Keynote speakers in order of appearance

Roger Forder

“Conflict Transformation: an Operational Research Perspective”

Donal O'Neill

"Learning through Role Play about Decision-Making in Multi-Issue, Multi-Stakeholder Contexts"
Mary Crannell

"Afghanistan: A Nation of Conflicting Narratives"

PARALLEL SESSIONS – MONDAY

Parallel Session 1: 11.45-13.15 : Monday 28^th June

1.A) Political-military

Location: Lecture Theatre

Colin Irwin

The Utility of Political-Military Gaming in Understanding Conflicts

Elin Marthinussen

A small nation perspective on progress assessment in a multinational operation

1.B) Analysing Transformation

Location: Seminar

Sara Cobb

Modeling Conflict Transformation using Narrative Attributes

Clementine Burnley

Quantitative Tools for Conflict Risk Assessment and Conflict Early Warning at National and Subnational Level

Parallel Session 2: 14.15-15.45 : Monday 28^th June

2.A) Theory-building

Location: Lecture Theatre

Gordon Burt

Challenging fundamental flaws: conflict, complexity and mathematical social science

Thomas Spielbuechler

Conflict-Analysis beyond Monocausal Models

2.B) Information

Location: Seminar

Jacob Jacob

The role of Information Intervention in Conflict transformation: the case of the Democratic Republic of Congo

Grazia Concilio

Mediation Entities in Spatial Planning Conflicts

Parallel Session 3: 16.00-17.30 : Monday 28^th June

3.A) Fieldwork

Location: Lecture Theatre

Saskia Baas

Recruitment processes among armed movements in Sudan

Victor Svetlov & Jim Bryant

Reflections on analyses of the Georgia-South Ossetia conflict

3.B) Non-violence

Location: Seminar

Ellen Furnari

Nonviolent Peaceforce in Action: A study in violence prevention and related theory

Andrew Okun

Nonviolence as Force Protection for Rebels

PARALLEL SESSIONS – TUESDAY

Parallel Session 4: 9.00-10.30 : Tuesday 29^th June

4.A) Military-political

Location: Lecture Theatre

Becky Austin

Modelling Conflict: A holistic tool to determine an effective strategic approach for the resolution of conflict

Deborah Goodwin

The constraints of zero sum thinking in resolving conflict

4.B) Drama theory

Location: Seminar

Jim Bryant

Conflict transformation as the handling (or mishandling) of dilemmas

Parallel Session 5: 10.45-12.15 : Tuesday 29^th June

5.A) Data Analysis

Location: Lecture Theatre

Michael Moore

Sideshows and Preludes: Conflicts to which the State is not a Party

Ana-Maria Duta

The Global Atlas on Natural Resources and Conflicts

5.B) Graph model

Location: Seminar

Marc Kilgour

The Graph Model for Conflict Resolution: An Update

Amer Obeidi

Perceptual Graphs for Modeling Dynamic Conflicts with Asymmetrical Outcomes

Parallel Session 6: 14.15-15.45 : Tuesday 29^th June

6.A) Mediation

Location: Lecture Theatre

Erin Dyer

Lessons for Transformative Mediation in a non-Western World

Isabel Phillips

Heuristics and bias in commercial mediation

6.B) Water

Location: Seminar

Phil Taylor

Empirical Analysis of Current Operations to Support Planning

Parallel Session 7: 16.00-18.15 : Tuesday 29^th June

7.A) Emotion Location: Lecture Theatre
Federico de Sisto and Grace Kyoon	Re-imagining mediation: the role of emotions in bridging conflict
Bilyana Martinovski	Emotion's Functional Potential in Conflict Transformation
Korey Dyck	Make Belief Happen: Mapping the Practice of Interreligious Dialogue for Peacebuilding – a New Typology for the 21st Century

7.B) Decision Support Systems Location: Seminar
Jason Levy	Advances in conflict resolution teaching and learning: an introduction to GMCRII
Brooke Abrahams	Providing Online Decision Support for Owners Corporation Disputes
Jason Levy	A Framework for Evaluating the Pedagogical Effectiveness of Decision Support Systems for Conflict Transformation

PARALLEL SESSIONS – WEDNESDAY

Parallel Session 8: 9:15-10.45 : Wednesday 30^th June

8.A) Military Operations

Location: Lecture Theatre

Simon Purton

What’s in a name? Or, why half of winning a war is agreeing what it is…

8.B) Modelling

Location: Seminar

Rachel Julian

Overcoming the challenge of causality and attribution in conflict transformation projects in order to show results and evaluate outcomes.

Brigitte Beauzamy

The challenges of transnational non-violent direct action in community conflicts: the case of peace French mobilizations in Israel/Palestine