Conference Program
Thursday, April 27, 2017
8:30am - 9:00
am Registration and Breakfast
9:00am -
9:10am
Opening Remarks
Dr. Klara Bilgin,
Dean, School of Public and International Affairs Virginia International
University
9:10am -
10:00am Morning Keynote
Address
Christopher Mondini,
Vice –President Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers Rethinking
Regions in the Internet Age: How to Govern the Internet?
10:00am - 11:00pm
Panel
I - International Security and State
Challenges (i)
Emma Grace,
Faculty, The Chicago School of Processional Psychology Attitudes
Toward International Security and Terrorism in the United States, Iraq, Libya,
and Yemen
Indu Saxena Countering Terrorism
in South Asia: A Call for Reconnecting Nation- states
Taner Dogan, Ph.D. Candidate, City University of London, Illiberal Democracy in the
Context of Islamist Movements
Shirin Saeidi, Faculty, George Mason University Citizens of God: Hezbollah Supporters and the Post-2009 Man in
Iran
Dr. Emrullah Uslu, Discussant
11:00am-12pm Panel II -
International Security and State Challenges
Hany Eldeib, Faculty,
Virginia International University Egypt -
Hub of Stability or Hornet's Nest?
Oksana Klepikova,
Ph.D. Candidate, University of Passau Germany and Elisei Boguslavskii, George Washington University, Legal Positivism and Challenges of Law
Appropriation, Corruption, and Economic Development on the case of Value Added
Tax on exports in Germany and Kazakhstan
Alisher Ahmedov, Analysis of International Transport
Corridor’s Development in Central Asia
Dr.
Emrullah Uslu, Discussant
12:00pm -
1:00pm Lunch and Lunchtime Book
Presentation
Mark Silinsky, Faculty, United States Army War College Jihad and the West - Black Flag over Babylon
1:00pm – 2:00pm Afternoon Keynote Address
Sourabh Gupta, Resident Senior Fellow Institute of China-America Studies,
The Evolving Geo-Politics of the
Asia-Pacific Region and the Rise of China
2:00pm – 2:30pm Coffee Break
2:30pm – 4:00pm Panel III- China in Focus and
Community Transformations I
Badrinath Rao, Associate Professor,
Kettering University, Hindu Majoritarianism
and the eclipse of Minority Rights: Assessing the threats to India’s Survival
as a Democratic Nation-State.
Amna
Mahmood,
Post-doctoral Fellow, University of North Carolina, Changing Power Dynamics in
South China Sea: Growing Power of China, US Concerns and Implications for the
Region
Shintaro
Hamanaka, Research
Fellow, Who Want to create the region? Membership Politics and the Boundaries
of Regions.
4:00pm -
5:30pm Panel IV - China in Focus and Community
Transformations II
Faustine Fabwire, Senior Policy Adviser,
Bread of the World Fragile Environment,
Resilient Communities: Snapshot of Bread for the World Institute 2017 Hunger
Report
Hao Zhang, Ph.D Candidate, Johns
Hopkins University, Following the State:
The Rise of Chinese Overseas Contractors in Infrastructure Construction
Mu-Chiao Chiu, School of Conflict
Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University, Dialogue between Chinese and Taiwanese Youth: Practices in Facilitating
for Youth in the Taiwan Strait Context and Key Findings
Sansar Tsakhirmaa, Ph.D. Candidate, Johns
Hopkins University, Comparative
Ethnically and Territorially-Based Autonomy in China and Russia
6:00pm
- 7:30pm Barbecue and Networking
Friday, April 28, 2017
9:00am - 10:00am
Morning Keynote
Address
Kwaku Nuamah, African Security Political Development Expert, American
University, Confronting Challenges to Democracy in Africa: Lessons from the
2016 Elections in Gabon, Gambia and Ghana
10:00am - 12:00am Panel V- Security and Political Developments in Africa
Sunmolu Peters, Faculty, Strayer University, The Impact of the Gambian Crisis on the Growth of Democracy in West
Africa
Astrid Ruiz-Ramon, CEO
of Afrikalabelle, Dangerous Times Call
for Smart Security and Reinforced Development
Yvan Ilunga, Division of Global Affairs, Rutgers University, The Construct of Legal and Political norms
by Non-State Actors in the Pursuit of Security and Political Stability in
Africa
Ademola Onafuye,
Virginia International University, Understanding
the Text and the Context for Insurgency in Nigeria: A Case Study of the Rise of
Boko Haram
12:00pm – 12:30pm
Video Presentations
Conference Contact: Dr.
Klara Bilgin, email: kvbilgin@viu.edu, Ph.
(703) 591-7048
If you are VIU friend or
associate you may use a discounted registration (50% off)
Use discount code 50%OFF at the registration site.
Organizers,
School of Public and International Affairs
Center for Democracy and International Affairs
Virginia International University
4401 Village Dive
Fairfax, VA 22030
