After two intense days of panels, the Winning Peace Conference 2018 came to end. For everyone who couldn't make it and for everyone who would like a recap, we asked the moderators of the five main conference panels and the concluding discussion: "What have we learned?"

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Engjellushe Morina works as a project manager in the Berghof Foundation’s Conflict Transformation Research Program. She focuses on the project “Opportunities for Prevention of Violent Extremism (PVE) in the Western Balkans”. Furthermore, she is part of the Dialogue Mediation and Peace Support Structures Program where she manages the 1.5 Track Dialogue Project in Macedonia. Previously, she co-founded and chaired the Prishtina Council on Foreign Relations, a think tank focusing on the foreign and security policy of Kosovo and the region. She also ran a policy-oriented, socio-economic-political think tank in Prishtina for over five years. During the high-level negotiations between Kosovo and Serbia regarding Kosovo’s political status, she served as an expert and consultant for the protection of cultural and religious heritage within the Unity Team (2005-2007). In recent years she has conducted academic research in the areas of non-state actors and religious associations as governance actors (such as the case of Hezbollah in Lebanon), and the role of the EU External Action Service in facilitating negotiations between Kosovo and Serbia and talks with Iran.

Rana Mitter at the University of Oxford: https://www.politics.ox.ac.uk/academic-faculty/rana-mitter.html

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We talk to Rana Mitter about the Chinese Experience in the first half of the 20th Century. Mitter is a professor of the history and politics of modern China at the University of Oxford and the director of the University of Oxford China Centre. He studies the emergence of nationalism in modern China, both in the early 20th century and in the contemporary era. He is particularly interested in the impact of China's war with Japan in the 1930s and 1940s on the development of Chinese politics, society, and culture. Prof. Mitter has authored several monographs, including the award-winning A Bitter Revolution: China’s Struggle with the Modern World (2004) and his most recent publication, China’s War with Japan, 1937-45: The Struggle for Survival (2013). He is currently working as a principal investigator for the interdisciplinary research project “China’s War with Japan”. Furthermore, he is part of the project “The Making of Postwar Order in Europe and East Asia”, which is part of the Oxford-Princeton research collaboration.

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Joan Beaumont is a professor emerita in the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at the Australian National University. She is internationally recognized for her work on Australia in the two world wars, Australian defence and foreign policy, the history of prisoners of war and the memory and heritage of war. Her most recent monograph, Broken Nation: Australians and the Great War (2013) was critically acclaimed and awarded various prizes. She is currently continuing her work on the history of the legacy of the First World War as a primary investigator in the project “Second shock: Australia's Great Depression and the legacy of World War I”. Prof. Beaumont is a member of several editorial and advisory boards, as well as a fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences of Australia. She is a regular commentator on television about the history of Australia at war.

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Jennifer D. Keene is a professor of history and the chair of the Department of History at Chapman University. She has published multiple books about the US involvement in World War 1. Her most famous work, World War I: The American Soldier Experience, has gained international attention among scholars and interested readers alike. She will take part in our first Panel titled "From the Paris peace treaties to today’s visions of a just world order."

Mission du Centenaire 14-18: http://centenaire.org/en

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Report to the French President in French: http://centenaire.org/sites/default/files/references-files/rapport_jz.pdf

Report to the French President in German: https://f-origin.hypotheses.org/wp-content/blogs.dir/546/files/2012/03/Rapport-Centenaire-auf-Deutsch.pdf

Since 2012, his organization worked on the coordination of commemorative events on a local, regional, national as well as international level. In this interview with Séveric Yersin, Mr. Zimet looks back at his prediction for the Centenary, which he formulated in a report to the French President in 2011, compares it with the events that happened over the last four years and talks about the commemoration of the 11th of November that will mark the 100th anniversary of the armistice on the Western Front.

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Note: Future episodes will be in English.

Oliver Janz und Markus Meckel sprechen über die geschichtlichen Hintergründe zur Winning Peace Conference.