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International Conference

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California State University, SacramentoThe Center for African Peace & Conflict Resolution

(CAPCR) In Collaboration with the:

Pan African Studies Program Cooper Woodson College Enhancement Program.

The 26th Annual Africa & Diaspora ConferenceApril 27-29, 2017

Theme: Power, Peace and Vulnerability in Africa/Diaspora: Towards Social Justice in National and

International Development

Program Chairs: Elizabeth Mukiibi and Michael Walker

Location: California State University, Sacramento USA

Abstract Submission Deadline: November 30, 2016

The Center for African Peace & Conflict Resolution (CAPCR) at California State University, Sacramento, invites individual paper and panel submissions for our 26th annual conference. This year’s theme—Power, Peace, and Vulnerability in Africa & Diaspora: Towards Social Justice in National and International Development—foregrounds discussions of power relations, peace and conflict resolution, and the production or mitigation of various forms of vulnerability in Africa and the African diaspora. The conference explores these concepts in the context of national and international development with a focus on human rights, peace and social justice.

Power manifests in various ways: from the macro-level to the micro, from the individual to broader institutions, between citizens and states, and among nation-states. Power and its effects are central topics of study for many scholars across disciplines and world regions. Power, peace, and justice are also ideas and concepts that have existed as long as humans have organized themselves into social groups. In Africa and her diaspora populations these concepts have taken on multiple interpretations by different groups at various periods in the continent’s or peoples’ history. Furthermore, these concepts are reworked at home and abroad through intensified transnational connections between/among Africa and other settings. Various scholars, policy makers and world leaders have examined and expressed serious concerns about contemporary dynamics of power, peace, and social justice in historical settings and present-day society, including Africa and her peoples, particularly the vexation of the increasing wealth gap even in the midst of democratization and globalization. The complexities of power, peace and social justice have varying effects on development and security, and the 26th annual conference will explore different political, social, legal, cultural and economic facets of these outcomes.

Peace, power, and vulnerability transcend disciplinary boundaries, welcoming insights, analysis and discussion from a range of scholarly backgrounds and practitioner experiences.

The subject of peace and social justice has been at the fore front of the work of the Center for African Peace and Conflict Resolution (CAPCR) since its founding, to identify key lessons and best practices to ensure fairness and equity as well as conflict prevention and Peacebuilding. This year’s theme poses questions and invites considerations such as: How is power produced and reproduced at different scales? Who has the power to define and conceptualize development and social justice? How is power embraced or resisted by different social actors in specific contexts? How are power and vulnerability connected? How is peace experienced in post-conflict settings? How is peace envisioned in ongoing conflicts? What does it mean to be vulnerable? What political, social, ecological, and economic processes produce vulnerabilities? What is the global impact or role in creating or mitigating vulnerable populations? What are the comparative experiences (in law and social movement) in resistance to corrupt or abusive power? Should morality or identity be legislated (over sex, gender, ethnicity, religion)?

We welcome papers and panels featuring individual case studies, historical investigations, conceptual approaches and frameworks, comparative studies, and practitioner reflections. We are especially interested in papers/panels that address one or more of the following subthemes:

Human Rights and Rights-based Approaches to Development; Health and Medicine; Migration/Immigration; Urban and Rural Livelihoods; Sustainable Development Goals: Successes and Failures; Remittances and Transnational Connections; Approaches to Poverty Alleviation; Women’s Social and Economic Rights; Environmental Justice; Peace-building and Conflict Resolution; Identity and Development; Climate Change; Land and Water “grabbing;”

Social justice and Sustainable development; Political and Economic Power in Resource Distribution; Power relations and Peace in African households; the Role of Technology and Social Media in Disrupting Power Enclaves; Youth Engagement in Local and International Development; Youth Involvement in Social Justice, Models of Democratic Institutions of Power and Peace; the Interplay between Traditional and Modern Conceptions of Power and Social Justice.

Abstract Submission:

The organizing committee welcomes individual paper proposals and panel proposal; not more than 4 presenters on a panel. For individual papers, no more than 2 authors/presenters will be accepted for each paper proposal. Each person is limited to only 2 presentations, as individual or co-presenter in the conference.

The abstract length is a maximum of 150 words in MS Word attachment or email text.

Please include the title, your name, current position, institution/organization, mailing address, email, telephone and fax number.

You will be notified of the acceptance of your proposal by email, including registration, hotel, transportation, and other related information.

Selected abstracts will be published in the final conference program and should be of publishable quality.

Proposals and presentations in English are preferred, but we may be able to accommodate French speakers.

Please email your abstract to Dr. Elizabeth Mukiibi at emukiibi@csus.edu and Dr. Michael Walker at michael.walker@csus.edu. For more information visit us at www.csus.edu/org/capcr.

Registration:

Participants are responsible for the conference registration fee of $125.00 USD (per person), payable upon the acceptance of their proposal. Participants will be responsible for their travel costs (flight and lodging) and related conference costs.

Ethical Considerations:

Authorship: Authors must give credit through references or notes to the original author of any idea or concept presented in the paper and proposal. This includes direct quotations and paraphrases.

Publication or Presentation History: If material in your presentation has been published, presented, or accepted for publication or presentation, this must be disclosed in your paper and proposal. Please note that depending on the decision of the reviewers, this may render your material ineligible.

Presentation in Person: Submission of your proposal requires your presence to attend and present your paper in person at the conference as scheduled, except under unforeseen circumstances and with proper alternative arrangements.

Tentative agenda (subject to change)

April 26-27 2017: Arrival of Participants /Guests April 26th 10:00 am – 5:00 pm: Pre-Conference “Critical issues in the community”

CONFERENCE

April 27, 2017: Day One

10:00am-11:30am: Opening Panels12:00pm-1:30pm: Conference Opening/ Keynote1:30pm-5:00pm: Panel Presentation5:00pm-7:00pm: Networking /Reception: Bridging the Gaps

(Student panel)

April 28, 2017: Day Two

9:00am-11:00am: Panel Presentations11:00am-12:30pm: Panel Presentations12:30pm-2:00pm: Luncheon Roundtable: Promoting CSUS

Global Education Engagement in/with Africa2:00pm-3:30pm: Panel Presentations3:30pm-5:00pm: Panel Presentations5:30pm-8:00pm: Sacramento Sightseeing and Dining

(Optional)

April 29, 2017: Day Three

8:00am-2:00pm: Teacher’s workshop: Teaching Contemporary Africa via a Peace Framework (Invitational-

$75)10:00am-12:00pm: TBA12:00pm-1:00pm: Lunch1:00pm-2:00pm: Closing /Conference Summary6:30pm-Midnight: Closing Peace Awards Dinner/Dance

Banquet-additional fee of $55USD