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>3rd Global Conference
>Diversity within Unity: Cultures of Violence
>(Please cross-post where appropriate)
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>Prague. 3rd - 8th August 2001
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>CALL FOR PAPERS
>This multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary conference aims at
>identifying and understanding the prevailing extent of violence in
>contemporary life. It likewise aims at probing the representation of
>violence in media, art and literature. Violence has been part of
>societies purporting to unite people, e.g., totalitarian regimes. It
>has been no less part of societies that set great store on diversity. It remains a
>horrifying feature of today’s world.
>
>Papers are invited on the following themes;
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>• is violence part of human nature? (Psychological and
>anthropological approaches) • war, civil war, terrorism and the
>metropolis • policies of extermination • religion, religious
>institutions, and their role in curtailing or propelling violence;
>religious fundamentalism and violence • institutional life -
>including schools and hospitals • ethnicity, nationalism, and
>sub-nationalisms; racism and violence • violence in the private
>domain - abuse of women and children • violence in the public domain
>- the legitimation of violence, law, concepts of punishment, capital
>punishment • state violence - militarism and arms competition •
>market economy and globalization; poverty and violence • violence and
>modernity - the role of science and technology • youth and violence -
>gang violence, children soldiers, hooliganism • can there be a
>culture counter to the culture of violence and how is it
to be promoted?
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>The conference is part of a larger series of on-going conferences,
>run under the general banner ‘At the Interface’. It aims to bring together
>people from different areas and interests to share ideas and explore various
discussions which are innovative and exciting.
>
>The first Diversity within Unity conference was held in Prague in
>1999 and focussed on the theme of Human Community and Civil Society.
>The second Diversity within Unity conference was held in Oxford in
>2000 and focussed on the theme of Culture, Conflict, and Belonging. The launch of a new
e-journal supporting the work and research of the conference series will occur
>in October 2001.
>
>Papers will be considered on any related theme. 300 word abstracts
>should be submitted by 30th May 2001. Full draft papers should be submitted by
>15th July 2001. Papers accepted for the previous conference are being
>published in a themed volume; papers accepted for and presented at
>this conference will also be published in themed volumes.
>
>For further details and information, please contact:
>
>Dr Rob Fisher
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