Peace Theories Commission, International Peace Research Association: Uniting for Peace: Building Sustainable Peace through Universal Values

Please email Dr. Michael Deckard ([email protected]) or Dr. Neven Bondokji
([email protected]) if you have any questions.

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 (Ghandi being one of many) contribute 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, Hume, Wollstonecraft, Kant, Hegel, etc, from the West, and Ibn Taymiya, al-Mawdudi and Muslim Sufis, from the Muslim culture.