CFP: Peace Theories Commission, International Peace Research Association
Deadline: 30 April 2014
We welcome paper and panel proposals from all peace researchers and practitioners related to the topic ‘Peace Theories Beyond the State of Nature: Philosophical and Global Perspectives’. Interested participants have the option of suggesting new panels or sessions for the up coming conference at Sakarya University.
In particular we are seeking proposals for topics or papers from philosophers, political theorists, historians, anthropologists and cultural or literary theorists on how to bring these disciplines to bear on global international conflicts. How, for example, might Arendt, Badiou, Benjamin, Butler, Derrida, Dussel, Foucault, Gadamer, Galtung, Gilroy, Girard, Habermas, Lederach, Ricoeur, Spivak, West, or Yoder contribute to this conversation? How can the ideas of Muslim philosophers like al-Farabi and Ibn Khaldoun, or Arab reformist thinkers like Mohamad Abdouh and Jamal al Dein al Afghani influence todays’ thinking on and practice of peacebuilding? How have other oriental thinkers from China, Southeast Asia, and Buddhist culture contributed to the ongoing debate of building peace and achieving social justice?
We also seek panels or proposals on historical perspectives and rereading/revising Just War Theory such as the development of peace in, for example, Aquinas, Cusa, Grotius, Hobbes, Astell, Hume, Wollstonecraft, Kant, Hegel, etc, from the West, and Ibn Taymiya, al-Mawdudi and Muslim Sufis, from the Muslim culture.
Please email Dr. Michael Deckard or Dr. Neven Bondokji if you have any questions.
Please submit your abstract and fill out the application form here.
