Peacebuilding 2012 - Conference on Cultivating Peace: Context, Practices and Multidimensional Models

Peacebuilding Conference “Cultivating Peace: Context, Practices and
Multidimensional Models”
17-19 May 2012
Peace Studies University of New England
Armidale, NSW 2351, Australia
Keynote speakers
Helen Ware, Professor and Research Mentor in Peace Studies?University of New England, Australia (Author: “No-nonsense Guide to Conflict And Peace”).
Jerry Kroth, Associate Professor Emeritus of Psychology, Santa Clara University, California, United States of America (Author: “Ground Zero: Jerusalem, Holy War, And Collective Insanity”).
Introduction
The changing patterns of civil and international conflicts have contributed to the emergence of various peace models and approaches aimed at addressing them, on one hand, and, on the other, these approaches, are in themselves, also undergoing critical assessment about their suitability and applicability. After the Cold War, the
complexities and interconnectedness of the conflicts and actors show that in cultivating peace, the level of intervention and the peace model employed depends on the nature and character of the conflict; and the actors involved. The focus of this year?s conference is: “Cultivating Peace: Contexts, Practices and Multidimensional
Models.” We desire submissions for presentations from peace researchers (including postgraduate students) and research-oriented practitioners whose work addresses the theory and practice of peace from any interdisciplinary or theoretical standpoint.
Presentation will take the form of a workshop format, and accepted papers will be peer reviewed and published in an edited volume series.
Papers may be descriptive, evaluative, theoretical, anthropological and ethnographic.
However, the criterion for selection is based on the originality of the submission, the suitability of the topic and its ability to address one of the following questions: what are the structural causes of conflicts? Is the worldview of the actors involved in
peacebuilding a determinant in measuring outcomes? In what ways have the multidimensionality of peacemaking, peacekeeping and peacebuilding models impacted on the changing patterns of wars at the micro and macro levels? Are the theoretical approaches and epistemologies (and ontology) of peace and peace research adequate in humanity?s quest for a peaceful global order? Is ?context? an important factor in the framing of peace; if so, how does that affect policy and practice of peace and peace research in the global south?
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