Fwd: Peace and Justice Studies Association Conference -- in Waterloo Oct. 17-19, 2013

[Nathan Funk]

I thought this upcoming, Waterloo-based conference (
http://www.peacejusticestudies.org/conference/) might interest many
colleagues in the Faculty of Arts.  The deadline for submitting proposals
is April 15.

-Nathan Funk

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PJSA Annual Conference
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PJSA 2013 Conference

*October 17-19, 2013*

*"Peace Studies between Tradition and Innovation"*

CO-HOSTED BY: WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF GLOBAL STUDIES, AND
CONRAD GREBEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE / UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO PEACE AND
CONFLICT STUDIES PROGRAM

*WATERLOO, ONTARIO, CANADA*

*Call for Papers/Proposals: Deadline April 15, 2013*

The enduring tension between tradition and innovation, and between
continuity and change, will be the overarching theme of the 2013 meetings
of the Peace and Justice Studies Association, to be jointly hosted by the
University of Waterloo’s Conrad Grebel University College and Wilfrid
Laurier University’s Department of Global Studies along with several other
Faculties and Departments. A concurrent undergraduate student conference
(including grades 11 and 12) is also being planned.

Inspired by the broader Kitchener-Waterloo region -- where a long and
distinguished history of Mennonite peacemaking exists alongside a growing
reputation as one of Canada’s most dynamic high-technology hubs -- the 2013
PJSA conference theme honours the tradition, history and accomplishments of
the peace and justice studies movement while simultaneously seeking to
expand the movement’s frontiers in search of new and innovative ways to
promote both the practice and the culture of peace in a divided world.
Accordingly, the conference will welcome proposals from across a wide range
of disciplines, professions and perspectives on issues such as the
innovative use of social or communications technology in the promotion of
peace, the use of unconventional or unorthodox peace promotion strategies
by long-established actors in the field, or on the comparative
accomplishments of ‘new’ vs. ‘old’ actors in the field of peace and justice
studies.

We invite maximum 150-word proposals for papers, workshops, poster sessions
or film presentations by April 15, 2013, through the PJSA website:*
http://www.peacejusticestudies.org/conference/submitprop.php.
*

In your proposal, please indicate which of the following specialty sessions
or panel tracks, if any, for which you wish to be considered:

*Special Pre-Conference and Concurrent Conference Focused Sessions*

• K-12 Teacher Professional Development Days (Friday / Saturday):
Innovative Classroom Resources for Peace, Social Justice and / or Conflict
Resolution coordinated by the WLU Faculty of Education and local School
Boards

• Pre-Conference (Thursday morning / afternoon) Post-Conflict Peacebuilding
Workshops, open for PJSA registrant attendance. Theme to fit into
vertically integrated peacebuilding.
(Note: concurrent panels on peacebuilding also within the conference – see
below).

• Pre-Conference (Thursday morning / afternoon) Mediation / Restorative
Justice Workshops
(2 or 3 hour time slots available; please indicate).

*Main Conference Special Tracks and Panels*

(not exhaustive; additional proposals welcome; those listed below will have
special session coordinators):

o Aboriginal Residential Schools and the resulting Truth and Reconciliation
Commission
o Our Aboriginal Heritage and the Quest for Peace and Justice
o Business Innovations for Peace and Justice (e.g. CSR)
o Science, Technology, Complexity and Innovation for Peace
o Competing Innovations: Do new forms of Warfare require new forms of
Peacemaking?
o Religion and War and Peace
o Peacebuilding: Where Tradition and Innovation meet
o Music and Protest
o WWI Centenary (and the 1914 Christmas Truce): After a century, what can
we still learn?
o War of 1812: Did we remember well or badly?
o Other themes as proposed, including Graduate Student-focused panels with
respondents / discussants.

-- 
Nathan Funk

Acting Director of Peace and Conflict Studies
Associate Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies
Conrad Grebel University College, University of Waterloo
140 Westmount Road North
Waterloo, ON  N2L 3G6
Email:  nfunk at uwaterloo.ca
Phone:  519-885-0220, ext. 24295
Undergraduate Peace and Conflict Studies Program:
https://uwaterloo.ca/peace-conflict-studies/
Graduate Peace and Conflict Studies Program (MPACS):
https://uwaterloo.ca/master-peace-conflict-studies/

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