Past conferences announced on this site [upcoming conferences] Reconsidering Conflict, Terror and Resolution 11-12 September 2008 University of Strathclyde, Glasgow (John Anderson Campus, Graham Hills Building) The Strathclyde Conflict and Resolution (SCAR) group is hosting an interdisciplinary conference which will analyse the themes of conflict, terror and resolution at various levels: past-present; private-public; local-global. In doing so it aims to reach across disciplinary barriers by bringing together experts from the whole of the social sciences spectrum, including (but not limited to) politics, history, law, sociology and psychology. Such a holistic analysis of conflict and terror will provoke, stimulate and question contemporary thought, while advocating the need for joint efforts to address common challenges. Website and contacts: http://intelevents.athollsweb.co.uk/scar/ ; scar@intel-events.co.uk Crafting Human Security in an Uncertain World (IJP Women PeaceMakers Conference) 24-26 September 2008 Joan B. Crock Institute for Peace & Justice, San Diego, California An international working conference to probe and address global acquiescence to impunity, gender violence and exclusion that continues to obstruct peacebuilding and deny human security. [full announcement] Website and Contacts: http://peace.sandiego.edu/events/womenpeace/info.php Deadline for proposals was: 12 September 2008 War & Race 19-21 June 2008 Aix-en-Provence, France In all eras, human societies have been faced with armed conflict either within their territory or abroad. The way acts of collective violence are set up (aiming at unifying the community and thereby destroying the Other) has always been defined by specific cultural behaviours within a given group. The conference will deal with the English-speaking world. One of the key focuses of this conference will be the rhetorical discourses elaborated by the promoters of a war which deliberately draw on “racial” difference, or discourses legitimising the start of hostilities which posit the Other as a scapegoat so as better to eliminate him. The aim will be to examine how the notion of “racial” difference has been – and is still – used as a prompting force as well as a sacrificial process, employed in different modes. Similarly, social-Darwinist and eugenist theories might be examined to explore how they are propounded to justify the pre-eminence of any one group in the context of martial propaganda. [full announcement] Contacts: Dominique Cadinot (dominiquecadinot [at] yahoo.fr) for proposals concerning United States and to Gilles Teulié (teulie [at] up.univ-aix.fr) or teulie7 [at] club-internet.fr) for those concerning the British Isles and the Commonwealth Website: http://www.up.univ-mrs.fr/document.php?pagendx=4317&project=lerma
Deadline for abstracts was: 30 October 2007 Violence and the Contexts of Hostilities 5-7 May 2008 Budapest, Hungary This multi- and inter-disciplinary research and publications conference aims to identify and understand violence in contemporary life. The project will pay particular attention to the different contexts and places where violence develops, occurs and where its effects are felt; from the interpersonal to the international, from the empirical to the symbolic. Attention will also focus on uncovering the motives, dynamics and functions that violence has for individuals, groups, populations and societies, as well as for bonds and social relations in the private, institutional and public spheres of life.
Contacts: Alejandro Cervantes-Carson (acc [at] interdisciplinar.net Website: http://www.inter-disciplinary.net:80/ptb/hhv/vcce/vch7/cfp.html Deadline for abstracts was: 18 January 2008 War, Virtual War and Human Security 5-7 May 2008 Budapest, Hungary Is war an extension of politics by other means? The locomotive of technology? Is it humankind in its most natural state; or is human society - despite perceptions and ongoing conflict around the world today - actually moving toward an aversion to war and a state of peace? This inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary conference seeks to provide a challenging forum for the examination and evaluation of the nature, purpose and experience of war, and its impacts on all aspects of security, human security and to communities across the world. Viewing war as a multi-layered, multi-factorial phenomenon, the conference series seeks to explore the historical, legal, social, human, religious, economic, and political contexts of conflicts, and assess the place of art, journalism, literature, music, the media and the internet in representation and interpretation of the experience of warfare. [full announcement] Contacts: Graeme Goldsworthy (ggoldsworthy[at] gmail.com), Andrew Wilson (andrew.wilson [at] nwc.navy.mil), Rob Fisher (wvw5 [at] inter-disciplinary.net) Website: http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/ptb/wvw/wvw5/cfp.html Ten Years After: Reformasi and New Social Movements in Indonesia, 1998-2008 25-26 April 2008 University of California, Berkeley, California In May 1998, following months of protests, and triggered by the outbreak of rioting in Indonesia’s major cities, the authoritarian New Order regime of President Suharto collapsed after more than thirty years in power. Since these tumultuous events took place, Indonesia has experienced profound change at many levels in society, often at a rapid pace. As the tenth anniversary of the fall of the New Order approaches, the Center for Southeast Asia Studies at UC Berkeley and the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at UCLA announce a Call for Papers for a Joint Conference that will examine the new forces for change that have emerged in Indonesia over this past decade and the transformations that have occurred, while also reflecting upon the New Order and its legacies. [full announcement]
Contact: Center for Southeast Asia Studies, 2223 Fulton St., No. 617, Berkeley CA 94720 – 2318. Tel: (510) 642-3609; Fax: (510) 643-7062; E-mail: cseas [at] berkeley.edu Website: http://ias.berkeley.edu/cseas Deadline for abstracts was: 1 February 2008 Second International Conference on the Development of Aceh: From a Bitter Past, Towards a Better Prospect 29-30 December 2007 Universitas Malikussaleh, Lhokseumawe, Aceh NAD, Indonesia A wide range of panels are open for papers by post-graduate students, scholars and development actors. [full announcement, list of existing panels and contact information] Deadline for sending full paper was: 20 December 2007 Peace and Conflict Resolution 7-9 December 2007 Sarajevo, Bosnia This three day program will encourage participants to share their personal beliefs, ideas and experiences with the group of enthusiasts from all over the world. It is open to all of those interested and involved in building and maintaining peace in the regions of the world affected with wars, cultural, racial or other form of discrimination and oppression. The aim of the conference is to raise awareness on the peace necessity and conflict resolution tools and techniques for its sustainability, on the macro/micro level. [See registration fees] Information: http://www.tomorrowpeople.org/peace/welcome_note.htm and http://www.tomorrowpeople.org/peace/topic.htmContact: Ivana Jovanovic (contact [at] tomorrowpeople.org Households in Conflict Network's Third Annual Conference 10-11 December 2007 Institute of Development Studies, U of Sussex, Brighton, UK Violent conflicts are frequently perceived as a form of state and governance failure. Yet, they offer considerable opportunities for new groups of local and regional strongmen to challenge political powers. In a large number of violent conflicts (including civil wars, insurrections and coups d’etat), a number of actors (militia groups, political elites, businessmen, and also households and groups) have tried to improve their socio-economic and political standing by exploiting the opportunities offered by internal conflict. The result is a profound reshaping of relations between local populations, the government, the military, socio-economic elites and legal and judiciary systems. While the literature provides substantiated accounts of such institutional changes at the national level, we have only limited evidence on changes of power relations at a grassroots level and their impact on local institutional processes and structures. The organisers of the Third Annual Workshop of the Households in Conflict Network invite the submission of papers addressing these fundamental issues. [full announcement and call for papers] [Past HiCN events] [HiCN webpage] Contact: t.jennings [at] hicn.org Muslim Youth as Agents of Change in Indonesia 27-29 November 2007 Batu Malang, East Java, Indonesia The conference will investigate under what circumstances Muslim youth have become agents of change by looking at their personal and educational backgrounds, exposure to media, and the influence of Islam (in the form of dakwah and other manifestations), in order to establish what moral values have influenced the youth to act in the way that they have (or have not). Particular attention will be paid to the context in which Muslim youths seem to radicalise, as well as to the context in which this radicalisation has led to active participation in violent actions. In this case, an investigation will be made into the factors that contributed to this violence, as well as into the factors which prevent Muslim youth from participating in violent actions. Islam will also be an important focus of research, not only as a factor which might have stimulated violence (possibly prompted by transnational Islam in the form of Wahhabism or neo-Salafism), as is often assumed, but also explicitly as a factor which mitigated or even obstructed the occurrence of violence (possibly prompted by more indigenous interpretations of Islam)...[full announcement and contacts] [pdf poster] Information: http://www.indonesianyoungleaders.org Contact: M.R. van Amersfoort (youngleaders [at] let.leidenuniv.nl) Deadline for abstracts was: 15 August 2007 Contemporary Conflict in Contemporary Perspective 5 October 2007 Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany For more details and a call for papers and panels please see the PACSA website: http://www.pacsa.eu/
Deadline for abstracts was: 31 August 2007 European Association for Southeast Asian Studies (EUROSEAS) Conference 12-15 September 2007 Naples, Italy Includes a number of panels dealing with conflict and recovery [full list of panels and abstracts] Deadline for abstracts was: 1 March 2007 Multiculturalism, Conflict and Belonging 3 to 6 September 2007 Mansfield College, Oxford, UK This inter- and multi-disciplinary project seeks to explore the new and prominent place that the idea of culture has for the construction of identity and the implications of this for social membership in contemporary societies. In particular the project will also assess the larger context of major world transformations, for example, new forms of migration and the massive movements of people across the globe, as well as the impact and contribution of globalisation on tensions, conflicts and the sense of rootedness and belonging... [full announcement and contacts] Information: http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/ati/diversity/multiculturalism/mcb.html Deadline for abstracts was: 25 May 2007 In Search of Reconciliation and Peace in Indonesia 18-20 July 2007 Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore A number of Southeast Asian countries have been badly shaken in recent decades by religious, ethnic, social, political and economic conflicts. The search for reconciliation and peace is an important issue in the whole region. Promoting an interdisciplinary examination of one of the countries affected, Indonesia, this workshop goes beyond a mere political approach to reconciliation and offers new understandings of cultural reconciliation processes and factors, which both facilitate and inhibit reconciliation in different cultures. This will provide valuable insights not only for Indonesia, but for conflict situations much more broadly... [full announcement] Information: http://www.ari.nus.edu.sg/events_categorydetails.asp?categoryid=6&eventid=551 Contact: Birgit Bräuchler (aribb [at] nus.edu.sg) Deadline for abstracts/proposals was 15 December 2006 6th Global Conference: Environmental Justice and Global Citizenship 2-5 July 2007 Oxford, United Kingdom This inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary conference aims to explore the role of ecology and environmental ideas in the context of contemporary society and international politics, and assess the implications for our understandings of fairness, justice and global citizenship [...] Topics include: human rights, state sovereignty and the global commons; the significance of the welfare state; the principle of distribution; sustainable employment and cooperation between capital and labour; property rights and private insurance vs. pooling of human and ecological resources; communities taking responsibility for the local environment; civil society and the role of NGOs... [full announcement and contacts] Information: http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/ptb/ejgc/ejgc6/cfp.htm Contact: Dr. Rob Fisher (ejgc6 [at] inter-disciplinary.net) Deadline for abstracts was: 9 March 2007 10th International Symposium on the Contributions of Psychology to Peace 17 to 24 June 2007
Yogyakarta, Central Java, Indonesia
Symposium’s venue, Indonesia, is well suited for research & practice on intergroup tensions, conflict, tolerance, and social justice. The forum encourages interfaith constructive dialogues and efforts to facilitate nonviolent social change.Information: http://www.psbps.org
Contact: Yayah Khisbiyah (y.khisbiyah [at] pgrad.unimelb.edu)
Organized by: IUPsyS Committee for the Psychological Study of Peace
Deadline for abstracts/proposals was: 30 November 2006 Sexual Abuse and Exploitation of Women in Violent Conflict
17 to 19 June 2007
Amsterdam, Netherlands
This conference serves to provide a series of comprehensive perspectives, provided by military, academic and political experts, who address problems arising from the sexual abuse and exploitation of women and girls in violent conflict.
Information: daniel [at] blocq.eu
Sponsored by: Netherlands Defence Academy and Emory University Law School
Deadline for abstracts/proposals was: 15 January 2006.
International Seminar on Peace Psychology 15 June 2007 International Islamic University Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur The International Seminar on Peace Psychology will discuss the contributions of psychology to peace, and the challenges and and prospects in working towards sustainable peace for the various nations, religions, and ethnicities in this world. Contact: Ms. Intan Aidura Alias (psych_iium [at] yahoo.com) Organized by: Department of Psychology, IIUM The Rule of Law and Post-Conflict States 18 May 2007 London, UK The Institute's Annual Conference in 2007 will focus upon a single theme: the International Legal Issues Raised for Societies in Post-Conflict Situations. The application of the international rule of law in the aftermath of civil and international conflicts - while vitally important in Iraq, Afghanistan, Sierre Leone, East Timor, Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo - is by no means clear. Speakers will consider the obligations of occupying powers, economic reconstruction and trade, access of foreign investors to natural resource exploitation, war crimes trials, the relationship between human rights and the 1949 Geneva 'Red Cross' Conventions and the role of non state actors, particularly the United Nations, World Bank and the EU. A core question is whether treaty-based and customary international law provides an adequate response to the contemporary problems faced by States post-conflict where the objectives of key players may range from conserving prior rights to regime change. Information: http://www.biicl.org/events/view/-/id/109/ Sponsored by: School of Oriental and African Studies and British Institute of International and Comparative Law Violence, Contexts and the Construction of Enemies (6th Global Conference)
2-5th May 2007
Budapest, Hungary
This multi- and inter-disciplinary research and publications conference aims to identify and understand violence in contemporary life. The project will pay particular attention to the different contexts and places where violence develops, occurs and where its effects are felt; from the interpersonal to the international, from the empirical to the symbolic. Attention will also focus on uncovering the motives, dynamics and functions that violence has for individuals, groups, populations and societies, as well as for bonds and social relations in the private, institutional and public spheres of life. Exploring and understanding representations of violence in media, art and literature is a key part of the conference... [full announcement and contacts] Information: http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/ptb/hhv/vcce/vcce1/cfp.html Deadline for abstracts was: 22 January 2007 War, Virtual War and Human Security, 4th Global Conference 2-5 May 2007 Budapest, Hungary Viewing war as a multi-layered phenomenon, the conference series seeks to explore the historical, legal, social, human, religious, economic, and political contexts of conflicts, and assess the place of art, journalism, literature, music, the media and the internet in representation and interpretation of the experience of warfare...including: non-state actors and NGOs in war, prevention and peace, peacebuilding... [get the full announcement and contacts] Information: http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/ptb/wvw/wvw4/cfp.html Deadine for abstracts was: 12 January 2007 The Dark Face of Nationalism: Violence, Extremism and the Nation 17-19 April 2007 London School of Economics Are violence and exclusion the inevitable consequences of nationalism? To what extent is the discourse of the nation implicated in the violent ideologies of the last century? What is the relationship between nationalism and ideologies such as fascism, racism and religious fundamentalism? The conference will address these questions and others, in the course of examining the various manifestations of violent and extreme nationalism, both historical and current, around the globe... [full announcement and programme] Information: http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/ASEN/conference2007.htm Contact: asen [at] lsm.ac.uk Conflict, Reconstruction and the Dilemma of Intervention 22-23 March 2007 Omni Hotel, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Sponsored by: Canadian Institute for International Affairs and the Canadian International Council Protecting threatened populations is anything but straightforward. The 2007 annual National Foreign Policy Conference (NFPC) explores a nexus of issues that inform how we understand contemporary Canadian interventions and how we plan future international deployments. Why does Canada intervene and under what circumstances? What are and should be the limits of state sovereignty? Where should priorities lie when planning post-conflict reconstruction? How do we build healthy post-conflict economies? What can we learn from Canadian experience?
Web: http://www.igloo.org/ciia/Programs%20and%20Activities/conferen/annualfo/conflict Genocide in the 20th and 21st Centuries: Cases, Causes and Cures 23 March 2007
Liberal Arts Bldg., University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS, USA
Submissions are welcomed from all students, scholars and activists pertaining to this year's focus as well as any other human rights or civil liberties topics.
Web: http://www.usm.edu/humanrights/conference2.html Contact: Tearanny Street (tyranny_48103 [at] yahoo.com) Deadline for abstracts was: 23 February 2007 to: Linda.Pierce [at] usm.edu Woman at War: Soldiers, Sisters, Survivors Ninth Annual Women's History Month Conference 2-3 March 2007 Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, New York War has always been seen as the work of men but it has always touched women’s lives, not only as mothers, sisters, wives and daughters but also as soldiers, commanders and spies. According to conventional wisdom, women can only be victims of war or naive advocates of peace. Facts belie that image. This conference is dedicated to unmasking the realities of war in women’s lives. Information and full announcement: http://www.slc.edu/index.php?pageID=2506 Contact: Tara James (tjames [at] mail.slc.edu) Deadline for abstracts/proposals was: 1 December 2006 International Conference on Asian Security 2007 26 February to 1 March 2007 Grand Copthorne Hotel, Singapore This conference aims to highlight the importance of maintaining vigilance and resilience in the face of threats emerging from a new age of terrorism. Government agencies are investing significantly in the R&D of new technologies in the search for efficient defense strategies. Practitioners will be engaged to share their real-life experiences on the challenges that come with national security defense. Analysts and researchers will gather to discuss the ideology of the terrorists and the threats it has on Asian countries.
Information and full announcement: http://www.k2b.com.sg/conferences/icas2007/
Contact: Caroline Chang (caroline [at] k2binternational.com) Sponsored by S.E.R.T. System [security products and training provider] First International Conference of Aceh and Indian Ocean Studies 24-26 February 2007 Banda Aceh, Indonesia This will be the first international conference to bring together both experts on Acehnese society and history, and those who have been intensively concerned with post-tsunami developments. Conscious of Aceh’s historic role as Indonesia’s point of intersection with the Indian Ocean world, the Conference will play particular attention to the geographical, historical, commercial and religious factors that linked Aceh to these two worlds. As the effects of the tsunami were felt around the Indian Ocean littoral, comparative analyses of both disaster relief and peace-making in this region will be welcomed. [full announcement, contacts, and tentative schedule]. Web: http://www.ari.nus.edu.sg/events_categorydetails.asp?categoryid=6&eventid=539 Sponsored by the Rehabilitation and Reconstruction Executing Agency for Aceh and Nias (BRR) and the Asia Research Institute, NUS, Singapore Deadline for expressions of interest to attend was: 31 January 2007 Before the Crisis Breaks: Conflict Prevention, Crisis Management and Preventive Diplomacy in the 21st Century 2 to 4 February 2007 Toronto, Ontario, Canada This conference will analyze the challenges of crisis prevention: When in the escalation process is preventive action most likely to succeed? Who is best suited to take action? How ought preventive measures to be executed? Information: http://trudeaucentre.ca/pacs-2007conference.html Contact: Evelyn Chan Organized by: Peace and Conflict Society, Trudeau Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies | 