CFP: Pacific APA: SWANA Perspectives on War, Peace, and Resistance - Concerned Philosophers for Peace

Concerned Philosophers for Peace (CPP) is pleased to announce a call for abstracts for our group session(s) at the American Philosophical Association’s Pacific Division meeting in Portland, Oregon on March 24-27, 2027. We welcome any submission related to CPP’s mission of analyzing the causes of violence and prospects for peace and proposals related to all relevant areas of philosophy will be considered. We are, however, especially interested in papers that address:

SWANA Perspectives on War, Peace, and Resistance

We invite philosophical work engaging Southwest Asia and North Africa (SWANA) that addresses questions concerning war, violence, resistance, justice, and peace, broadly construed. We welcome papers engaging philosophical traditions, texts, and thinkers from the region and its diasporas; philosophical work addressing the experiences, histories, and political conditions of SWANA peoples and communities; and work that brings SWANA perspectives and contexts into conversation with broader philosophical debates.

Please submit an abstract of 500 words and a CV to Tamara Fakhoury ([email protected]) on or before September 7, 2026. Please write “APA 2027 submission” in the subject line. Proposals from graduate students are welcome. Acceptance decisions will be emailed to authors by October 15, 2026, if not sooner.

Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

·      Philosophical perspectives on war, peace, violence, and nonviolence from SWANA intellectual traditions and thinkers

·      War, militarism, occupation, and political violence in SWANA contexts

·      Feminist and queer perspectives on war, violence, resistance, and peace in SWANA contexts

·      Islamophobia, anti-Arab racism, racialization, and their relationships to war, militarism, and political violence

·      Environmental justice, land, water, and the environmental consequences of war, occupation, and colonialism

·      The psychological and emotional impacts of war, occupation, displacement, and political violence

·      Resilience, steadfastness, survival, and practices of sustaining individuals and communities amid war, occupation, and political violence

·      Memory, mourning, trauma, and collective and historical experiences of violence

·      Civilian protection and harm, collective punishment, responsibility, complicity, self-defense, military intervention, and the prospects for a just peace

·      Colonialism, imperialism, settler colonialism, and their continuing legacies

·      Revolution, liberation, protest, and the ethics and politics of violent and nonviolent resistance

·      Peace, reconciliation, justice, solidarity, and possibilities for coexistence

·      Migration, displacement, exile, borders, refugees, and the consequences of war and political violence

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Concerned Philosophers for Peace is the largest, most active organization of professional philosophers in North America involved in the analysis of the causes of violence and prospects for peace. Concerned Philosophers for Peace is committed to an inclusive and productive environment where all can discuss the study of peace and nonviolence and how it impacts our social and political lives. More information is available at the Concerned Philosophers for Peace website: http://peacephilosophy.org.