2nd Global Conference
Conflict and Communication
Sunday 4th November – Tuesday 6th November 2012
Salzburg, Austria
Call For Papers:
Our ability to communicate successfully affects so many aspects of
our lives. Difficulties, indeed failures, or breakdowns in
communication can play a major role in hostility, conflict and war.
Communication problems can also lead to personal frustration and
desired outcomes not being realised.
The nature of our communications can raise larger contextual issues
about human learning, exchange of knowledge and the nature of
humanity. How can we communicate where those involved have quite
different languages, specialisations and views of the world? How can
we avoid conflict when we strongly disagree based on the great
differences in how we perceive things? How can we appreciate and
consider highly divergent views from our own? How can we still
communicate effectively when the conceptual gap is so large? How can
we make good decisions and complete tasks when communication is
difficult?
Wars may be started and sustained by communication difficulties. When
we communicate we are not just stating facts, but also emotions and
personal positions that may underlie them. In the cut and thrust of
everyday life, being able to recognise, track, and respond to the
varied levels in communication can be challenging. It may require us
to appreciate knowledge and realities vastly different than our own;
bridging communication gaps may place us well outside our comfort
zone.
This new inter- and multi-disciplinary conference project seeks to
explore these and other topics and create dialogue about
communicationand conflict. We seek submissions from a range of
disciplines including communication studies, journalism, public
affair’s, public relations, philosophy, psychology, literature,
management, business studies, information technology, science, the
visual and creative arts, music, politics and also actively encourage
practitioners and non-academics with an interest in the topic to
participate.
We welcome traditional papers, preformed panels of papers, workshop
proposals and other forms of performance recognising that different
disciplines express themselves in different mediums. Submissions are
sought on any aspect of Communications including the following:
1. Non-violent, or compassionate, communication (NVC)
*Honest self- expression
*Empathy
*Spiritual Connections
*Active Listening
2. Communication and Conflict
*Workplace
*Domestic
*International Relations
*Cultural
*Spiritual
*War
*Terrorism
3 . Communication breakdowns and breakthroughs
*Breakdowns (e.g. language and gender differences,
misinterpretations,mental illness, failure to notice, to listen,
effects of complexity, & disagreements etc.)
*Breakthroughs (Creative responses such in music, drama, literature,
art, humour, etc.)
4 . Dehumanising Communication
*Reification
*Alienation
*Portraying others, strangers, the enemy
*Effects of technology (electronic communication)
5. Dialogue
*Friendship
*Philosophy
*Dialogical Relationships
*Counselling
*Teaching
*Respect and recognition
6. Communication in Health and Illness
*Stories and symptoms
*Communicating meaning
*Role of communication in treatment
*Communicating identity and experience
*Communicating care
7. Communication and decision making
*Role of communication in making decisions, (group decisions)
*Conflicting opinions and views
*Group think
The Steering Group particularly welcomes the submission of pre-formed
panel proposals. Papers will also be considered on any related theme.
300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 4th May 2012. If an
abstract is accepted for the conference, a full draft paper should be
submitted by Friday 23rd September 2011.
300 word abstracts should be submitted simultaneously to both
Organising Chairs; abstracts may be in Word, WordPerfect, or RTF
formats with the following information and in this order:
a) author(s), b) affiliation, c) email address, d) title of abstract,
e) body of abstract, f) up to 10 keywords.
E-mails should be entitled: Communication2 Abstract Submission
Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain from using
footnotes and any special formatting, characters or emphasis (such as
bold, italics or underline). Please note that a Book of Abstracts is
planned for the end of the year. All accepted abstracts will be
included in this publication.We acknowledge receipt and answer to all
paper proposals submitted. If you do not receive a reply from us in a
week you should assume we did not receive your proposal; it might be
lost in cyberspace! We suggest, then, to look for an alternative
electronic route or resend.
Organising Chairs:
Paul James
Project Leader, IP Australia
Australia
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Rob Fisher
Network Founder and Leader,Inter-Disciplinary.Net,
Freeland, Oxfordshire,
United Kingdom
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The conference is part of the Probing the Boundaries programme of
research projects. It aims to bring together people from different
areas and interests to share ideas and explore various discussions
which are innovative and exciting. All papers accepted for and
presented at the conference will be eligible for publication in an
ISBN eBook. Selected papers may be developed for publication in a
themed hard copy volume(s).
For further details of the project, please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/probing-the-boundaries/hostility-and-violence/communication-and-conflict/
For further details of the conference, please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/probing-the-boundaries/hostility-and-violence/communication-and-conflict/call-for-papers/
Please note: Inter-Disciplinary.Net is a not-for-profit network and
we are not in a position to be able to assist with conference travel
or subsistence.
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