Europe: peace and war

Indeed, the question of peace and war has constantly accompanied history. It raises problems that are theoretical (what is peace?, what is war?, is war inevitable?, is war the cunning of reason?), ethical (is there a just war?, how to behave in the face of a manifestly unjust war?), political (is politics the pursuit of peace or the management of conflict for power?), legal (how is peace and war considered in current European constitutional arrangements? what does international law prescribe for the avoidance and/or legitimate conduct of war?, what norms does the military criminal law of war pose in an attempt to contain the inhumane effects of war?), and also economic (do wars generally economically impoverish entire peoples in order to financially enrich certain categories?).

The problems to be considered, therefore, are as many as there were many reasons for the choice of the topic to be studied in depth with the contribution of scholarly contributions from scholars from different countries (Austria, France, Italy, Portugal, Germary/United Kingdom, Spain, Hungary) and their serious and in-depth discussion.

There is more. Even in the present time there are several wars going on, which arise from different motivations and appetites. Among these those that most involve (directly or indirectly) Europe should be considered the Russia/Ukraine war (which involves issues of civilization, political, military and economic) and the Israel/Palestine war, which continues to make evident a difficult coexistence between peoples and states and whose repercussions are also significant for many European countries.

Under the patronage of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers and the Municipality of Bolzano.
With the support of the Autonomous Region of Trentino-South Tyrol and the Südtiroler Sparkasse Foundation.

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Please note: the Friday morning session will be held at hall 2 of Parkhotel Laurin!

Program

Thursday, November 7, 2024 3:30 p.m.

Michael RAINER (Univ. of Salzburg) President of the Institute
Opening of the proceedings and greeting of the participants

Giovanni CORDINI (Univ. of Pavia) Director of the Institute
Introduction to the Conference

Greetings from local authorities

SPEAKERS

Paolo SAVARESE (Univ. of Teramo)
What is peace?

Pedro VELEZ (Univ. Europeia of Lisbon) online
Of (illusory) peace in the liberal state

Giulio Maria CHIODI (Univ. of Insubria)
War as a cunning of reason according to Gnostic theories (particularly according to Hegel)

COMMUNICATIONS

Cyrille DOUNOT (Univ. of Toulouse) online
The evolution of the doctrine of just war

Friday, November 8, 2024 9:30 a.m.

SPEAKERS

Miguel AYUSO (Univ. Comillas, Madrid)
The classical natural law condition of peace

Carlos PEREZ DEL VALLE (Univ. Abat Oliba, Barcelona)
Is international criminal law a system for the protection of human rights?

COMMUNICATIONS

Alessandro VENTURI (Univ. of Pavia) online
War in the current European constitutional orders

Rudi DI MARCO (Univ. of Padua)
The war in the Italian Constitution

Giulia BAJ (Univ. of Pavia)
The concept of war and non-state armed groups

DISCUSSION

Friday, November 8, 2024 3:30 p.m.

SPEAKERS

Jan BENTZ (Univ. of Oxford) to be confirmed
Just war: sacred enterprise or ideological deception?

Edmund WALDSTEIN (Heilingenkreuz Hochschule, Austria)
Just war and private self-defense

Consuelo MARTINEZ-SICLUNA Y SEPULVEDA (Univ. Complutense of Madrid) online
Resistance as defense and the problem of conscientious objection

COMMUNICATIONS

Hoppal BULCSU (Univ. Corvinus, Budapest).
Mitteleuropa: some moments of peace from the 19th century to the present day

Christophe REVEILLARD (Univ. Paris IV) online
The post-Cold War security system: a projection toward war?

Franco TAMASSIA (formerly Univ. Cassino) online
Retaliation: legal, political and philosophical profiles

INTERVENTIONS

Patrizia MACCHIA (University of Turin)
Michele SANFILIPPO (University of Parma)

Saturday, November 9, 2024 9:30 a.m.

SPEAKERS

Franco FEDERICI (Army Corps General - Military Adviser to the President of the Council of Ministers of the Italian Republic)
Defense and deterrence armaments as instruments of peace

Giorgio BATTISTI (Army Corps General) online.
Russia-Ukraine war: a 20th century conflict fought with 21st century technologies

COMMUNICATIONS

Juan CAYON (Univ. del Diseño y la Tecnologia de Madrid) to be confirmed
European defense and postmodern times

Giovanni FRANCHI (Univ. of Teramo) online
The Russia/Ukraine war: the role of “anticommunism” of “Western” countries in supporting Ukraine

INTERVENTIONS