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One of the most challenging as pects of the war in Ukraine is the way in which the conflict has been cons tantly shifting in its form. In the first place\, there is a conventional ground war between Russia and Ukraine\, in which the identity and will of the two peoples is at stake. Yet Russia has used weapons supplied by Iran\ , and Ukraine depends on NATO for its own supplies\, indicating that this war depends on the maintenance and expansion of alliances. The stability o f these alliances in turn depends on a combination of Realpolitik and shared values as the glue that holds them together. This logic of all iances motivates the energy war that Russia is waging with Europe\, reveal ing that\, unbeknownst to Europe\, Russian energy policy over the last dec ade was an early form of the war. Similarly\, the threat of nuclear war al so tests the resolve of NATO\, forcing it to consider the values at stake in the conflict. Is the war about Ukraine’s sovereignty or the principle o f nation-state sovereignty itself? Is it about human rights for Ukrainians or the entire human rights project? For Russia\, is it about self-defense or a pan-Slavic identity? Is it about the protection of Russian minoritie s in Ukraine or the threat of Western secularization?
\nThe material form of the war—economic\, conventional\, n uclear—will depend on the way in which the participants on all sides and i n all parts of the world come to an understanding about these questions co ncerning the moral and spiritual stakes in the war. If it is just a matter of giving up Ukraine\, then the economic costs for Europe may not be wort h the fight\, and Russia’s victory in the energy war could lead to a gener al NATO capitulation. But if the freedom and security of central and weste rn Europe are also at stake\, then even a severe economic recession would be a small price to pay for the reestablishment of a NATO-dominated securi ty order. Is freedom worth the risk of annihilation? Is peace worth the in dignities and repression of authoritarianism? As the most serious global c onflict since World War II\, the war in Ukraine risks going beyond the bou nds of all other forms of war before it. What are the resources that are n ecessary for meeting its challenges? How can the shifting forms of the war be contained and channeled toward a future lasting peace?
\nThese types of questions are not specific to the wa r in Ukraine but arise in any situation of war. Every war forces us to rec onsider the character of war and the forms that it can take. In the first place\, the insight that leads to a war is one about the nature of a confl ict. War only begins once the parties determine that there is an otherwise irresolvable conflict about the basis of order. The course of a war also results in a practical insight into the form of a postwar order. Peace and stability cannot arrive until all come to an agreement about the new unde rstanding of order. This intertwining of practical and theoretical gains m eans that the time of war is also a time of shifting manifestations of the forms by which war is fought\, as well as the forms of order to be establ ished by the outcome of the war. The course of a war will be decided by ou r understanding of the kind of world we want to live in\, the risks we are willing to take to establish such a world\, and our belief in its practic al possibility. A war will necessarily change in form depending upon where we are in the movement from the conflict of competing ideas to the victor y of a particular conception of order. Since the result of the conflict wo uld be an establishment of sovereignty based on some understanding of orde r\, the conflict is not just a material one but also a theoretical and spi ritual one about the metaphysical basis of order. In the process of war\, insight leads to conflict\, and conflict leads to insight.
\nAt the 2023 Telos-Paul Piccone Institute conference on forms of war\, we will consider different ways of understanding the re lationship between conflict and insight in war as well as examples of how the conceptualization of conflict affects the outbreak\, progress\, and ou tcome of wars. On the one hand\, we will consider the way in which the exp erience of war\, both on the battlefield and on the home front\, affects t he outcome of the war. On the other hand\, we will look at how this import ance of the experience of war in turn affects the strategy of war. Such st rategizing begins already at the nascent stages of conflict\, before any a ctual fighting begins\, but in which the possibility of conflict can alrea dy lead to concessions by one side or the other that lead to a transformat ion of the basis of order. Similarly\, fears and hopes for the future also determine the course of a war\, helping the participants to end a war by offering them a mutually acceptable vision of the terms of peace.
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\nThe conference will take place at the John D. Calandra Italian Ame rican Institute in New York City from Thursday\, March 30\, to Saturda y\, April 1\, 2023.
\nPlease note: Abstracts for this conference will only be accepted from current Telos-Paul Piccone Inst itute members. In order to become a member\, please visit our membership enrollment page. Telos-Paul Piccone Institute memberships are valid until the end of the an nual New York City conference.
\nIf yo u are interested in making a presentation\, please submit a 200-word abstr act and 50-word bio by December 15\, 2022\, to t elosnyc2023@telosinstitute.net. Please place “The 2023 Telos Conferenc e” in the email’s subject line.
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