Call for Chapters: Emerging Technologies, Disarmament, and Peace
Extended Deadline – April 15, 2025
Philosophy of Peace (Special Book Series published by Brill)
Papers accepted for the most recent Concerned Philosophers for Peace Conference are eligible and strongly recommended to submit revised versions of their work for consideration and inclusion in a book published in Brill’s Philosophy of Peace (POP) series. Papers from individuals who did not participate in the conference, but who have a completed essay on the conference theme (see below) are also welcome to submit their work for consideration.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
- Manuscripts of no more than 9,000 words (including all footnotes and references) and a separate title page that includes your name, institutional affiliation, e-mail, and the title of your paper should be sent as e-mail attachments to David K. Chan (dkchan@uab.edu).
- Papers should be in .doc, or .docx format.
- Please prepare your paper for blind refereeing by removing all direct or indirect references to the author.
- The entire paper must be double-spaced and in 12-point font. Please use footnotes rather than endnotes and include a list of references at the end of the article. Citation style should follow The Chicago Manual of Style. (http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/home.html)
- Submission of a manuscript for review implies that the manuscript has not been published nor is under consideration for publication elsewhere.
Conference Theme
Concerned Philosophers for Peace (CPP) seeks to find ways to promote peaceful, nonviolent transitions in all arenas of common life, and this year’s conference focused primarily on emerging military technologies and their effect on the prospects for peace. Based on discussions at the CPP conference, there are many questions that concern the threat to peace from the proliferation of new technologies around the world. We invite authors to discuss how the advent of high-tech precision weapons, armed autonomous drones and robots, and cyber-weapons have raised concerns about the risks to civilians and the incentives to wage and continue wars. We welcome essays that promote diverse and decolonized ideas of peace and peace studies, including idea
CPP 2024 Conference: Call for Abstracts
Emerging Technologies, Disarmament, and Peace
Concerned Philosophers for Peace
37th Annual Conference
(October 18-19, 2024, Hilton UAB, Birmingham, AL)
Keynote: George R. Lucas, Jr
Concerned Philosophers for Peace (CPP) seeks to find ways to promote peaceful, nonviolent transitions in all arenas of common life, and this year’s conference will focus primarily on emerging military technologies and their effect on the prospects for peace. In the era of the Cold War, nuclear weapons were seen as providing a deterrence to war between superpowers, while pacifists pushed for total nuclear disarmament. The advent of high-tech precision weapons, armed autonomous drones and robots, and cyber-weapons have raised concerns about the risks to civilians and the incentives to wage and continue wars. We are looking for papers that examine moral questions about weapons development and the threat to peace from the proliferation of new technologies around the world. In addition to the main theme, we welcome papers on any topic related to peace and nonviolence. Submit abstracts of no more than 500 words for papers related to this theme or to the overall mission of Concerned Philosophers for Peace. Possible topics include (but are not limited to):
- Pacifist Approaches to Emerging Technologies
- Ethical Challenges of Weapons Development
- Stopping Proliferation of WMDs
- Nuclear Terrorism and Blackmail
- Nuclear Deterrence and Disarmament
- Pacifist Approaches to Disarmament
- Keeping Space Demilitarized
- Technological Advantage and Asymmetric Warfare
- Ethics of Drone Use in War
- Potential of Artificial Intelligence for War and Peace
- Keeping the Peace in Cyberspace
- Social Media, Propaganda, and Journalism
- The Culture of Technology and Peace
- Is Technology Inherently Violent?
- Using Technology to Create Safe and Peaceful Spaces
- Technologies for Peacebuilding and Peacekeeping
- The Future of Pacifism: Science Fiction or Fact?
Submission Guidelines: Deadline: July 5, 2024
Email your CV and an abstract of no more than 500 words, prepared for blind review to David K. Chan at dkchan@uab.edu. Write “CPP 2024 submission” in the subject line. Please include your name, institutional affiliation, e-mail address, and paper title in the body of your email. If you are a Graduate or Undergraduate student, please indicate so in your email. **There will be a cash prize for the best Graduate student paper and the best Undergraduate student paper.**
2024 APA Pacific Division Meeting
March 20-23, 2024, Portland Oregon
Call for Abstracts
Concerned Philosophers for Peace Group Sessions
Co-sponsored by The Gandhi, King, Chavez, Addams Society
Concerned Philosophers for Peace is requesting abstracts for papers to be presented at our group sessions of the 2024 annual meeting of the Pacific Division of the APA. Submit an abstract should of around 250 words, prepared for blind review, and sent to Andrew Fiala (afiala@csufresno.edu) with “APA 2024 Submission” in the subject line of the email.
Deadline is September 1, 2023.