CALL FOR PAPERS: Activating Human Rights and Peace

7.2.2008

CALL FOR PAPERS (Closing date 26 February 2008)

Activating Human Rights and Peace

An International Conference

1-4 July 2008

Byron Bay Community and Cultural Centre, Byron Bay NSW, Australia

"I welcome the conference on Activating Human Rights and Peace that the Centre for Peace and Social Justice of Southern Cross University is hosting between 1-4 July 2008. It is easy to talk about human rights and peace.

Forests of trees are destroyed in the documentation dealing with these subjects. However, activating them and translating aspirations into reality is the real challenge for our species and our world. A meeting devoted to translating ideas into action will be well timed in mid-2008. I hope that there will be a strong attendance with many notions to challenge the mind and to inspire action."

- Justice Michael Kirby, Patron, Centre for Peace and Social Justice.

Confirmed Keynotes:

Aruna Gopinath

Dr, Head, Dept of Politics & International Relations, HELP University College, Malaysia

Judy Atkinson,

Professor, Gnibi the College of Indigenous Australian Peoples, Southern Cross University, Australia

Dede Oetomo

Dr, Airlangga University and Founder, Gaya Nusantara, Indonesia

Mutassim Abu El Hawa

The Arava Institute for Environmental Studies Kibbutz Ketura, Israel

Ilana Meallem

The Arava Institute for Environmental Studies Kibbutz Ketura, Israel

Graham Innes

Human Rights Commissioner, Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, Australia

Adrien Wing

Bessie Dutton Murray Professor of Law, University of Iowa Law School, USA

Ranbir Singh

Professor and Vice-Chancellor, Nalsar University of Law, India

Kevin Clements

Professor and Director, Australian Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Queensland, Australia

Bee Chen Goh

Professor and Co-Director, Centre for Peace and Social Justice, Southern Cross University, Australia

Website: http://www.scu.edu.au/research/cpsj/human_rights/index.html

Please send proposals for 20-25 minute papers, with a 200-word abstract by 26 February 2008. Please see website for details.

Send to: cpsjpapers@scu.edu.au

The conference will have a mix of plenary sessions with invited papers, and panel sessions. The conference organisers welcome papers from scholars, researchers, postgraduates, activists, community groups and policy makers.

See the book Activating Human Rights, edited by Elisabeth Porter and Baden Offord (Peter Lang, Oxford, 2006).

This conference is hosted by the Centre for Peace and Social Justice, Southern Cross University; in collaboration with the Hawke Research Institute's Centre for Peace, Conflict & Mediation, University of South Australia; the Australian Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Queensland, and NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad, India, and the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, Australia.