Reconstructing National Identity Post-Conflict
An Examination of Public Diplomacy Methods
November 9, 2018
USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
Wallis Annenberg Hall Auditorium
The Conference
All day conversation
09 November 2018
09:00 am - 03:30 pm
Following a conflict, whether it be brought on internally or externally, a nation-state must begin to build community, institutions (political, economic, and social), housing, and businesses to join geopolitical dialogues and the global market economy. But, how does a nation do this without transmitting the conflict down through generations or alienating parts of their population, leaving an opening for continued conflict? The Society of Public Diplomats’ conference will examine six countries, in various geographic regions, to discuss methods used to reconstruct a country’s national identity that has been previously branded by war, and the role public diplomacy plays in recasting that image globally.
Speakers
Agenda
Breakfast
09:00 am -09:30 am
Check in and breakfast
Opening Remarks
09:30 am - 10:00 am
Dena Taha and Kerry Velez, Conference Co-chairs
Nicholas J. Cull, Director of the Master of Public Diplomacy Program, USC Annenberg
Elizabeth McKay, Diplomat in Residence, USC Center on Public Diplomacy
Collective Remembering
10:00 am - 11.30 am
Moderator:
Douglas Becker, Assistant Professor of International Relations, USC Dornsife
Panelists:
Neven Andjelic, Senior Lecturer in International Relations and Human Rights, Regent’s University London (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Sara Brown, Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, USC Shoah Foundation (Rwanda)
Donald Miller, Director of Strategic Initiatives, USC Center for Religion and Civic Culture (Rwanda)
Badema Pitic, Program Specialist, USC Shoah Foundation (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Moving Forward, Creating a New Identity
11:30 am - 12.45 pm
Moderator:
Edgardo Perez Morales, Assistant Professor of History, USC Dornsife
Panelists:
Mauricio Izquierdo, Director of International Projects, Universidad Minuto de Dios (Colombia)
Bojan Petrovic, Lecturer, UC Irvine Social Sciences (Iraq)
Lunch
12:45 pm - 01.45 pm
Lunch
Identity Transcending Borders
01:45 pm - 03.00 pm
Moderator:
Robert Banks, Clinical Associate Professor of Public Diplomacy, USC Annenberg
Panelists:
Nicholas J. Cull, Director of the Master of Public Diplomacy Program, USC Annenberg
George Dutton, Director of Center for Southeast Asian Studies, UCLA (Vietnam)
Frank Zerunyan, Professor of Practice of Governance, USC Sol Price School of Public Policy (Armenia)
Closing Remarks
03:00 pm - 03.15 pm
Dena Taha, Conference Co-chair
Kerry Velez, Conference Co-chair