The Minerva Center for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions
In Collaboration With
The Azrieli Center for Israel Studies (MALI), The Ben-Gurion Research Institute for the Study of Israel and Zionism
3rd Workshop on: Multiple, Complex & Cascading Extreme Conditions
This workshop, hosted by the Minerva Center for the Rule of Law Under Extreme Conditions, and the Azrieli Center for Israel Studies (MALI), at the Ben-Gurion Research Institute for the study of Israel and Zionism at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, will focus on papers written by the research team for a special issue on Multiple, Complex & Cascading Extreme Conditions.
Program
DAY 1 – Monday, June 8, 2026
10:30 – 11:00 Opening Session – Deborah Shmueli
Session I: Conceptual, Historical and Democratic Foundations of Cascading Extreme Conditions
11:00 – 11:50 David Alexander – London’s Grenfell Tower Fire Disaster as a Test of Contextual and Cascading Theories of Disasters (co-authored with Miwako Kitamura)
11:50 – 12:40 Maya Mark – From Cascading Emergencies to a Complex Emergency:
Israel’s Formative Years as a Case Study
12:40 – 13:30 Lunch
Session II: State Power, Crisis and Structural Change
13:30 – 14:20 Mostafa Hetteh – Infrastructural Emergency and Rule of Law in Iran
14:20 – 15:10 Sandy Kedar – Settler Vigilantism and Structural Erasure
15:10 – 15: 30 Coffee Break
15:30 – 16:20 Benjamin Newman – Criminal Procedure during War
16:20 – 16:30 Short Break
Session III: Information, Recovery and Cascading Governance Crises
16:30 – 17:20 Michael Rabi Syrkin – COVID‑19, Infodemics and Governance
17:20 – 18:10 Uri Ansenberg – Valuation, Compensation and Cascading Recovery Crises
19:00 Dinner
DAY 2 – Tuesday, June 9, 2026
Session IV: Democratic Stress, Polarization and Institutional Erosion
10:00 – 10:50 Nadav Dagan – Polycrisis of Autocratisation
10:50 – 11:40 Fady Khoury – Polarization’s Cascades
11:40 – 12:00 Coffee Break
Session V: Emergency Governance, Courts and Democratic Safeguards
12:00 – 12:50 Nadiv Mordechay – Reimagining Emergency Governance
12:50 – 13:40 Yahli Shereshevsky, International Law Before the Israeli Supreme Court: Missing in Action? (co-authored with Guy Harpaz)
13:40 – 14:40 Lunch + Group Photo
Session VI: Law, Conflict and Governance under Extreme Conditions
14:40 – 15:30 Magda Pacholska – Weaponizing Wartime Population Movements
15:30 – 17:30 Final Session – Amnon Reichman, Eli Salzberger, Yahli Shereshevsky, Deborah Shmueli – Shared framework, SI introduction and next steps