(For more info., please contact one of the
coordinators listed at the end of the message.)
Research Initiative on the Reconstruction of War Torn
Communities in the Middle East, the Greater Red Sea
Region and Africa
Call for Papers
Inaugural Workshop, May 21-23, 2001, Cairo, Egypt
This research initiative involves a tripartite
collaboration of researchersfrom the American
University in Cairo (AUC), the networks of the Middle
East Awards Program (MEAwards) and the Organization
for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern
Africa (OSSREA). The Working Group on the
Reconstruction of War-Torn Communities reflects the
emerging research issues in forced migration,
protracted conflicts and post-conflict tasks of
rebuilding war torn communities.
The Middle East Awards Program (MEAwards) has
supported an array of studies pertaining to population
migration (including voluntary and involuntary,
external and internal); resettlement, post conflict
reconstruction, urbanization, transnationalization and
globalization. The American University in Cairo (AUC),
in addition to its newly established Diploma in
Forced Migration and Refugee Studies, is actively
engaged in a series of research initiatives on
globalization, border crossing, diasporic
communities, "statelessness," gender and citizenship,
postcolonial identification and collective action, and
forced migration and survival strategies of refugees
in Africa and the Middle East. The activities of
the Organization for Social Science Research in
Eastern and Southern Africa (OSSREA) include a wide
range of training and social science research
with focus on development. Research areas include,
rural transformation, drylands and pastoral
development, governance and civil society
participation, gender-related issues, poverty and
political and economic transformation in Africa. Given
this active involvement in conflict-related research
issues and their wide networks, research collaboration
between the three institutions will furnish fruitful
grounds for long-term collaboration in this important
research area.
Objectives:
1. To assess current state of the art in post conflict
reconstruction with a focus on Middle East and Eastern
and Southern Africa.
2. To identify the essential building blocks for an
integrated conceptual framework for addressing tasks
of rebuilding war torn communities.
3. To identify key issues and stimulate collaborative
and comparative research in post conflict
reconstruction.
The inaugural workshop will be held in Cairo, Egypt,
on May 21-23, 2001. The workshop aims at raising
conceptual and methodological issues concerning
reconstruction and to further develop future
collaborative research agendas.
Interested scholars are invited to submit an abstract
of no longer than 250 words on the following themes:
1.Conceptual and Methodological Issues in
Post-Conflict Studies
2.Problematizing Reconstruction
3. Rethinking Postcolonial Reconstruction
4. The Reconstruction of Territories and Communities
5. Redefining Political and Social Institutions
Deadline for abstract submission: April 1, 2001
All workshop participants are expected to submit a
final paper not exceeding 2,500 words by May 14, 2001.
For further information, please contact the
coordinators of the workshop:
Ibrahim Elnur (MEAwards): [log in to unmask];
Rabab Abdelhadi (AUC): [log in to unmask];
Martina Rieker (AUC): [log in to unmask]
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