Workshop
"PEACEBUILDING IN PRACTICE: A Simulation of Economic Reconstruction"
10:00 - 13:00 Teaching Hub (via Corridoni, 20)
The workshop is designed as a simulation in which participants will create a strategic economic recovery plan for a country affected by conflict. During this activity, they will examine the primary financial and social challenges that arise in the post-conflict period, focusing on the strategies and development models that are most appropriate for this context.
Participants will explore financial instruments, infrastructure investments, and growth policies, emphasizing the dynamics of economic stabilization and the measures necessary to ensure a strong and sustainable recovery.
The workshop will involve an interactive decision-making process where participants must balance economic priorities, social needs, and international constraints to develop effective and realistic solutions, thereby testing their strategic and negotiation skills.
Matteo Migheli
Matteo Migheli is a Professor of development economics and microeconomics at the University of Turin. His research interests include economic development in Southeast Asia, China, and India, as well as the application of experimental techniques in the microeconomics of labor and decision-making under uncertainty.
He has published articles in international journals, including the Cambridge Journal of Economics and the Journal of Development Studies. Additionally, he has collaborated with the World Bank on development projects in Eastern Europe. Migheli is also a member of the scientific committees for both the Turin-based Observatory on Emerging Economies and the Institute for Asian Studies.
Conference
"Between Ambitions and Struggles: Self-Determination of the Communities of the Middle East"
15:00 - 17:00 Teaching Hub (via Corridoni, 20)
The conference will explore the intricate socio-political factors and difficulties surrounding self-determination for various Middle Eastern communities. By deeply examining their struggles, goals, and relationships with states, the event aims to provide a comprehensive and unique understanding of their role and geopolitical impact in the region.The conference will explore this topic by adopting a particular focus on three distinct groups.
First, the issue of the political self-determination of the Kurds in the states of Turkey and Syria, a central issue for geopolitical dynamics and minority rights, will be analysed.
Next, the multi-confessional coexistence of the Palestinian community in Palestine and Israel will be discussed.
Finally, the panel will focus on the Yazidis and their struggle for affirmation as a religious minority.
The conference aims to stimulate constructive debate on how to promote the inclusion, protection and self-determination of minorities in the Middle East, offering a comprehensive
view of their ambitions and future prospects.
Simone Zopellaro
Born in Ferrara, Simone Zoppellaro is a researcher and journalist. He is a regular contributor to MicroMega and serves as an ambassador for the GARIWO Foundation. He is the author of two books, “Armenia oggi” and “Il genocidio degli yazidi”, published by Guerini e Associati in 2016 and 2017 respectively. Together with Daniele Bellocchio, he co-produced a documentary film aired by the Swiss public broadcaster RSI and TV2000.
Zoppellaro currently teaches at the University of Stuttgart and serves as the Academic Coordinator at the Italian Cultural Institute in Stuttgart.
Claudia De Martino
Claudia De Martino is postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Contemporary and Digital History at the University of Luxembourg. Beforehand, she used to be Research Associate at the Chair of Postcolonial Studies at the CORIS Department of La Sapienza University.
She has previously worked as Postdoc at the University of Naples “L’Orientale”,in the project EUSPRING, as Research Fellow in a network of Mediterranean universities (UNIMED),and as a Teaching Assistant at the Chair of European and Mediterranean History at the Roma Tre University.
At the early stage, she was recipient of a Scholarship at the HebrewUniversity (2008), was visiting fellow at the Van Leer Institute in Jerusalem (2009) and obtained her PhD in Social History of the Mediterranean at the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice in 2012.
She is the author of three books that have been published in Italian.
Davide Grasso
Davide Grasso is a researcher in sociology at the Department of Cultures, Politics and Society at the University of Turin. His research focuses on the political use of cultural heritage, socio-political mobilizations in the age of the climate imperative, and insurrectionary
movements in conflict zones.
He has published books and articles on the war in Syria, the Syrian constitutional process, and confederalist movements in Kurdistan,
among other topics.
Conference
"European Defence at the Challenge of Integration: Technological Dependencies, Shrinking Budgets and Institutional Lacks"
17:00 - 19:00 Teaching Hub (via Corridoni, 20)
In connection with the current debates on rearmament and the creation of a European army, the session aims to explain the state of the art of European defence, i.e. both the military capabilities of its nation-states and the prospects for regional integration.
In the first part, the historical, geopolitical and institutional context in which European Defence has developed will be introduced: the development of its institutions, relations with NATO and the US, and the political powers available to supranational actors.
Three closely related and more technical sub-topics
could be then explored:
1) The limits of European armies from a financial point of view: current budgets and national investment capacities as well as political constraints.
2) The state of the art of European industry: its technological and procurement dependencies, its degree of integration at firms level, joint R&D investments and joint projects, and its technological level in comparison to other major powers.
3) The state of the art of the operational sphere (strategic enablers): equipment, command and control structures, etc. that would allow (or prevent) a common European mission concerning the territorial defence of large spaces.
Antonio Missiroli
Dr. Antonio Missiroli served as NATO Assistant Secretary-General for Emerging Security Challenges between 2017 and 2020. Prior to that, he was the Director of the European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS) in Paris (2012-17) and worked at the Bureau of European Policy Advisers (BEPA) of the European Commission (2010-2012), as Director of Studies at the European Policy Centre in Brussels (2005-2010), as Senior Research Fellow at the W/EU Institute for Security Studies in Paris (1998-2005), as well as a professional journalist on European affairs.
He has also taught at the College of Europe in Bruges (2010-20), Sciences Po in Paris (since 2013), the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna in Pisa (since 2017) and SAIS Europe in Bologna (2009-13, and again since 2022).
Dr. Missiroli holds a PhD in Contemporary History from the Scuola Normale Superiore (Pisa) and a Master’s degree in International Public Policy from SAIS/Johns Hopkins.
Andrea Locatelli
Andrea Locatelli is Professor at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan, where he teaches Political Science and Strategic Studies. He has a PhD in Political Science from the University of Florence, Italy. Prior to joining Università Cattolica, he was a scholar-in-residence at Carleton University (Ottawa, Canada) and was a post-doc fellow at the University of Bologna.
He has also been Visiting Professor at Novosibirsk State University (Novosibirsk, Russia), Pázmány Péter Catholic University (Budapest, Hungary), the University of Ghana (Accra, Ghana) and SciencesPo (Menton campus, France). His research has been published in several journals including Global Policy, Political Science Quarterly, International Peacekeeping, Contemporary Security Policy and European Security.
Daniela Irrera
Daniela Irrera is Professor of Political Science and International Relations at the Centre for High Defence Studies, National Defence University, Rome, as well as Visiting Professor of Political Violence and Terrorism and Civil Society and Sustainability at the OSCE Academy in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, and member of the Academic Board of the PhD School at the European Defence and Security College (ESDC), in Brussels.
She has authored and co-edited 11 books and more than 70 publications in the field with primary research focuses on action and influence on global politics by non-state actors, both positive (civil society organisations and NGOs) and negative (organised crime and terrorism).
She currently serves as co-convenor of the BISA Working Group on Foreign Policy and is also a member of the Management Committee of the COST CA21133 – Globalization, Illicit Trade, Sustainability and Security (GLITSS) and leads the Working Group 2: Platform: the governance of illicit trade.