Newsletter Submissions – 2009
Submissions
THE NEWSLETTER for Concerned Philosophers for Peace welcomes submissions of short articles and book reviews. Please indicate “cpp submission” in subject line and include a bio and contact information. Email to either editor:
Editor
Greg Moses
gmosesx-at-gmail.com
Associate Editor
Wendy Hamblet
wchamblet-at-gmail.com
IPRA Call for Papers 2008
IPRA 2008 GLOBAL CONFERENCE
Building Sustainable Futures: Enacting Peace and Development
15-19 July, University of Leuven, Belgium
http://www.ipra2008.org
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Panels, papers, roundtables in the following topics: art and peace, conflict resolution, development and peace, earth charter, Eastern Europe, ecology, peace, forced migration, gender and peace, global political economy, indigenous people’s rights, internal conflicts, int’l human rights, non-violence, peacebuilding, peace culture and communications, peace education, peace history, peace journalism, peace movements, peace negotiations, peace, theories, reconciliation, religion, peace, security and disarmament, sports and peace, peace psychology, world governance and peace, youth
Application deadline: 1 December 2007
ABOUT THE CONFERENCE
Every two years, peace researchers from the whole world gather to exchange ideas and experiences, to initiate joint projects, and develop new avenues for research. The conference focuses on the most urgent challenges for peace. This year we will concentrate on the crucial links between sustainable development and peace building.
PLENARY SESSIONS
Sustainable Development and Human Security
Peacebuilding in Africa Listening to the Middle East
Religions Dealing with Their Own Violent Extremisms
Nonviolent Policy Shaping
Confronting the Challenges of Youth and Conflict
Peace Research in Latin America
Intellectual Solidarity and Peace
INVITED SPEAKERS
Samir Amin, Lamisse Azab, Elise Boulding, Monica Juma, Herbert Kelman,,Andrew Mack, Louis Michel,,Naison Ngoma, Carolyn Nordstrom,,Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh, Federico Mayor Zaragosa
CFP: Gandhi-King Conference on Peacemaking
Call For Papers and Workshops
2007 Gandhi-King Conference on Peacemaking
(formerly the Gandhian Conference on Nonviolence)
October 26-27, Memphis, TN
Conference Theme: Building the Beloved Community
Proposals are invited for paper presentations, workshops, and panel discussions for the 4th Annual Gandhi-King Conference on Peacemaking. This year’s conference theme emphasizes efforts and issues around the development of persons into peace activists. Presentations, workshops, and panel discussions that address topics such as the education and formation of youth in peace activism, education for peace, methods and practices that facilitate the transformation of persons and communities to both be peaceful and to work for peace, and ongoing methods and practices that support continuing in peace work are especially encouraged. Presentations that incorporate stories, art, music, video, or photographic displays are also encouraged.
Proposals must include the following:
Name(s) and a short biography of the presenter, workshop leader, or panelists. A title that clearly indicates the topic/theme that will be addressed.
One page description that identifies how the topic/theme will be addressed. This should include the method of presentation (paper, panel, or workshop), a summary of the argument/analysis that will be made, and how this addresses the conference theme.
Deadline for Proposals: August 1, 2007
Notification of accepted proposals will be made by: August 15, 2007
Proposals should be mailed to:
Allison Glass
c/o Mid South Peace and Justice Center
1000 S. Cooper
Memphis, TN 38104
University of Missouri Peace Studies Review
To members of Concerned Philosophers for Peace and all interested:
The University of Missouri has had an interdisciplinary Peace Studies Program for more than 30 years. For much of this time it circulated a newsletter/informal journal, Peace Talk, to its supporters and interested persons. With the support of the University of Missouri administration, the Program has now inaugurated a scholarly publication, the University of Missouri Peace Studies Review, an interdisciplinary journal with refereed and invited essays and a book review section. There will be two issues a year. The second issue is in press.
The editors invite submissions from any field relevant to the study of roots of violence and routes to peace and the practice of peace-making. I have been asked to serve as book review editor and am seeking good and relevant books to review and capable reviewers. We expect to publish two or three reviews in each issue.
You are invited to subscribe to the Review and submit papers for its consideration. Information about the Review, subscribing and submitting material is available on the website
peacestudiesreview.missouri.edu
Yours in peace,
John Kultgen
Philosophy Department
University of Missouri – Columbia
Peace and Justice Studies Association 2006 Conference
“Who Speaks for the Common Good?”
October 5-8, 2006, Manhattan College, New York City
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Shortly after September 11th, peace groups throughout the US distributed world flags with a photo of the earth and a slogan, “We’re all in this together.” That sense of the common good – that we are all bound together, living on one earth, and that our wellbeing is interconnected – is crucial to the development of a more peaceful and just world. Has this notion fallen out of favor? How do we resolve the tension between the dual strivings we each feel, to be autonomous, and yet to be connected?
In an era in which pursuing one’s self-interest is commended, who speaks for the common good? Those who honestly attempt to do so are disempowered to act on it, and those who speak for the nations rarely even pretend to do so. How do we decide what really serves the common good, and how do we work for the common good? The rhetoric of a common good is sometimes misused to ride sacrifice the interests of some people, allegedly for the good of a greater number. How can we, as people committed to creating a peaceful, just world, promote a focus on the common good, properly understood?
The Peace and Justice Studies Association will explore these questions at our 4th annual conference, to be held October 5-8th, 2006, at Manhattan College, in the Bronx, New York City. We invite proposals for paper presentations, organized panels, roundtable discussions, workshops and other creative contributions on these and related questions.
As our mission statement says, “We are dedicated to bringing together academics, K-12 teachers and grassroots activists to explore alternatives to violence and share visions and strategies for peacebuilding, social justice, and social change.” Therefore, we seek contributions that explore the idea of the common good in research, teaching and action:
In Peace Studies, how can we encourage critical exploration of the idea of the common good? How can we prepare our students to work effectively for the common good?
K-12 education for the common good. How can the education of young people foster their appreciation of, and pursuit of, the common good? What can schools of education do to promote this focus in K-12 education? What successful practices can we share?
What does scholarly research, across the disciplines, have to offer on defining the common good? What political, social and economic structures best assist human communities in prioritizing the common good? What case studies, negative and positive, can help us work through these issues?
What strategies can activists share of ways in which they’ve struggled for the common good, or led communities in defining what is in their common interest?
Please send an abstract (no more than 200 words), to Margaret Groarke, Peace Studies, Manhattan College, Bronx NY 10471 or to pjsa2006@manhattan.edu. Please clearly state the preferred format of your proposal (paper, panel, workshop, roundtable discussion, etc.), and please include a brief biographical sketch. The deadline for proposal submission is May 1, 2006. Submissions will be acknowledged by email or by postcard. Late proposals will be reviewed, and may be accepted if there is space on the program.
The Acorn: Journal of the Gandhi-King Society
Newsletter of the Concerned Philosophers for Peace Vol. 26 (Spring – Summer 2006)
The Acorn: Journal of the Gandhi-King Society, is a biannual publication devoted to the examination of the theory and practice of nonviolence, especially as it relates to the philosophies of Gandhi and King. The Acorn was founded by Ha Poong Kim. Currently issues of The Acorn are published with the support of St. Bonaventure University.
Papers submitted for publication in The Acorn should be submitted both in hard copy and on disk or via e-mail, preferably in Microsoft Word format. Submissions may be up to 8,000 words in length (approximately 32 typed pages, double spaced). Shorter papers or essays are welcome. Papers should follow M.L.A. style. Papers about which there is some question regarding either quality or appropriateness are presented for blind review to members of our editorial board. Approximately half of all submissions are published.
The Acorn accepts no responsibility for unsolicited manuscripts. Unless accompanied by a self-addressed, stamped envelope, no manuscript will be returned. The Acorn welcomes letters to the editor. The Acorn reserves the right to edit or shorten all submissions.
Subscriptions to The Acorn (two issues per year) are $12.00 (U.S. funds) for all subscribers. Checks should be made payable to The Acorn or to The Gandhi-King Society.
Papers and queries may be directed to:
The Acorn
Box 13
St. Bonaventure University
St. Bonaventure, NY 14778 U.S.A
e-mail: bgan (at) sbu.edu
phone: 716-375-2275
website: http://acorn.sbu.edu
Journal for the Study of Peace and Conflict (Wisconsin Institute)
Posted in the Newsletter of the Concerned Philosophers for Peace Vol. 26 (Spring – Summer 2006)
The Journal for the Study of Peace and Conflict, the journal of the Wisconsin Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies (ISSN 1095-1962) publishes a variety of scholarly articles, essays, and poetry on topics such as war, peace, global cooperation, domestic violence, and interpersonal conflict resolution; including questions of military and political security, the global economy, and global environmental issues. We wish to promote discussion of both strategic and ethical questions surrounding issues of war, peace, the environment, and justice.
The Wisconsin Institute is committed to a balanced review of diverse perspectives. Submissions are welcome from all disciplines. Our intended audience includes scholars from a wide range of interests within the university community and educated members of the larger public. The format allows the publication of original previously-unpublished works of sufficient length to give authors the opportunity to discuss a particular topic in depth. Other forms of creative writing are invited. Contributors should avoid submissions accessible only to specialists in their field.
The Journal for the Study of Peace and Conflict may also include book reviews. Persons interested in reviewing should contact the editor.
Submissions should be a maximum of 25 pages, double-spaced. All manuscripts should be composed in MS Word using Bookman Old Style, 10-point font. Citations are to be in the body of the text, e.g., (Jones, p.35), with a full bibliography at the end of the article. Do not use footnotes. Content notes should be placed at the end of the manuscript. Include separately a brief bio statement with a note that includes your institution, your email and mailing addresses, and work phone number.
Submissions for 2006-2007 issue are due June 16, 2006. Five copies of each submission should be sent to the Wisconsin Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies, UWSP, LRC, 900 Reserve Street, Stevens Point, WI 54481. In addition, supply the manuscript electronically to wiinst@uwsp.edu.
Please visit the institute website for more information: www.wisconsin-institute.org.
Hypatia Special Issue: Feminism & Peace
Call For Papers
Call for papers for a Special Issue of Hypatia on “Feminism and Peace.” This volume will explore a range of issues concerning the interconnections between feminist philosophy and peace studies. Papers are welcome on a variety of topics, including (but not limited to) the following: the nature of a feminist peace politics or a feminist peace ethic; the relevance and implications of various feminist philosophies (e.g., liberal feminism, Marxist feminism, radical feminism, socialist feminism, ecological feminism, postmodernist feminism) for an understanding of the just war and pacifist traditions; feminist perspectives on the morality of war and the morality of violence; feminist discussions of philosophical connections between the practices and ideologies of militarism, nuclearism, imperialism and violence toward those perceived as “other;” feminist analyses of the relevance of race, gender, and class to discussions of war, peace, and various forms of institutional and interpersonal violence; critical examinations of male gender-biased language in the contexts of discussions of war, peace, and violence toward women; gendered conceptions of the body and sexuality as they relate to issues of war, peace, and “domestic violence;” feminist analyses of prostitution, rape, pornography, sexual harassment and other forms of sexual abuse in the context of a feminist peace politics; ecofeminist perspectives on connections between women, peace, and the nonhuman natural environment; feminist explorations of the philosophical significance of women’s peace camps and non-violent actions; and feminist analyses of Gandhian satyagrahas as strategies of resistance.
The guest editors for this Special Issue are Karen J. Warren and Duane L. Cady. Submissions should be sent in quadruplicate to: Karen J. Warren, Philosophy Department, Macalester College, 1600 Grand Avenue, St. Paul, Minnesota 55101. Deadline for Submissions: March 15, 1993. Publication Date: April, 1994.