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States and Terrorism: An Ambivalent Relationship
Programme
Conference Venue, Graduate lnstitute, Room A2
Thursday,
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9:30
May 2015
Welcome and lntroductions
Jussi Hanhimdki/Bernhard Blumenau
10:00
-
11
:30
Panel ! - The Cold War & Terrorism: Mvths and Misinterpretations
Chair: Jussi Hanhimdki, Graduate lnstitute
Thomas Riegler, Vienna -'Gladio-
yrh
and Reality"
Tobias Hof, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, US - 'Sfafe lnvolvement in RighlWing
Terrorism in ltaly and West Germany: Myth or Reality?"
Adrian Hdnni, University of Zurich, CH - "The JackalDrssecfed Carlos and the Myth of a Sovr'ef Terrorist
Conspiracy"
11:30
-
'12:00
Coffee break
12:00
-
13:00
Panel ll - The US and State (Sponsored) Terror
Chair: Andrea Chiampan, Graduate lnstitute
Barbara Zanchetta, Graduate lnstitute, CH, - "The lJnited Sfafes and 'Operation Condor': Cold War
or staLte sponsored terrorism?"
imperatives
Silke Zoller, Temple University, US, -'S/afes and A/on-Sfafe Actors in Counteftefforism"
13:00
- 14:30
Lunch break
14:30
- 16:30
Panel lll
-
Europe and Terrorism
Chair: Barbara Zanchetta, Graduate Institute
Felix Jimenez, Boston College, US - "Ihe Potitics of South American State Terrorism in 197as West
Germany"
Bernhard Blumenau, Graduate lnstitute, CH - "lJnholy Alliance. The Stasi-Hepp Connection and East
German Support for Western Right-Wing Terrorists."
Andrea Chiampan, Graduate lnstitute, CH - "Encountering Violence: State and Terror in ltaly's anni di
piombo"
Przemyslaw Gasztold-Se6, lnstitute of National Remembrance, Warsaw, PL, - "The Arms Trade,
Espionage and Embargoed Goods: Polish Military lntelligence and lnternationalTerrorism in the 1970s and
1980s"
16:30
-17:0O
17:00
Kevnote address
oh amedou, G radu ate I n stitute/ GCSP
At Qaeda to the lstamic State: The Evolution of Contemporary Traitsnational Terrorism"
M o h am m
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Coffee break
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Gonference dinner - Location tbd
Friday,
9:00
I
May 2015
- 10:30
Panel IV - Tra.Irsnational Terrorism and 'Natignal Liberation?
Chair: Bernhard Blumenau, Graduate lnstitute
Felicitas Fischer von Weikersthal, University of Heidelberg, D, - "Terrorists and Statesmen. Terrorism
and the Polish Fight for lndependence
lsabella Ginor/ Gideon Remez, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, lsrael, - "The KGB's Abduction
Program and the PFLP: New Evidence"
Daniel Rickenbacher, ETH Zurich, CH, - "The lslamicsfafe's Ambivalence: From Hybnd Warfare to
Transnationalism"
10:30
-
11
:00
Coffee break
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M o derati o n
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Roundtable discussion: State (Sponsored) Terrorism:
Former Trends and New Tendencies
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d o u. G rad u ate I n
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Yonah Alexander, lnter-University Center for Terrorism Studies, Washington, DC USA
Jussi Hanhimdki,.Graduate lnstitute
Frangois-Bernard Huyghe, lnstitut de Relations lnternationales et Strat6giques Paris, France
12:00
- 13:30
Lunch