About the Conference
We live in turbulent global order and the world yearns for peace and an end to the multiple forms of violence. This conference is scheduled at a time when wars are raging in Palestine and Ukraine, along with numerous other conflicts that are disrupting the lives of millions of people and inflicting untold misery. The primary objective of this conference is to identify challenges to peace and how to address these, especially for those engulfed in crises. One particular perspective will be to identify how the global capitalist and neoliberal system avoids addressing the conditions of oppressed populations in the so-called rules-based international order. We believe the global order and system requires a significant overhaul and a reshaping of priorities, and that academic studies can provide inclusive and just peacebuilding perspectives and alternatives.
Post-colonial and subaltern sociological studies have substantially changed public and academic discourses and views. The role of post-colonial theory in promoting peace, proposing ways to resolve conflicts, and facilitating reconciliation in the Global South involves questioning international institutional agendas, and offers a critique of their impact on democratic nation-states. In addition, the rise of populism represents a challenge to human rights, especially the far-right variety that encourages xenophobia, and focuses on migration trends to impose new regimes of control and exclusion.
We hope to examine the contemporary international order, war, gender-based oppression, new forms of colonialism, modes of theorizing settler colonialism and global citizenship. We also wish to develop studies on feminist subaltern and indigenous movements, which question the official state processes and narratives.
The Department of International Studies at the University of Nairobi, Kenya, will serve as the Principal Collaborator in this conference, alongside the Department of Social and Political Thought at York University in Toronto, Canada, and the University of the Philippines D Lyman.
The conference is sponsored by a chair named after the late President Nelson Mandela and has adopted some of the most significant ideas of this great humanist and human rights defender: namely, the twin concepts of peace and reconciliation, which form the organisational theme of this conference. We earnestly request the academic community’s participation in the event’s success.
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