Conference Title: ‘Beyond the Ivory Tower: IR and the Real World’
Panel Title: ‘IR’s Deep Impact: Ethnic Conflict Research and Policy Making/Formulation’
Panel Organizer: Hannes Artens – Lecturer in War and Security Studies, University of Hull
This panel seeks to investigate and critically examine the role of academic researchers of ethnic conflict as protagonists in conflict dynamics, and consequently the impact this has on policy making and formulation. In line with the overall conference theme, particular emphasis will be given to situating the discipline of IR, and its epistemological underpinnings in the context of ethnic conflict research and analysis as well as to probe intersections between academia and political praxis.