Call for Papers: FOSTERING ALTERNATIVES TO VIOLENCE

The Second Annual Conference of the Peace and Justice Studies Association (PJSA)

October 9-12, 2003
The Evergreen State College
Olympia, Washington

The conference will focus on the work of peace educators, researchers, and activists who foster alternatives to violence in our homes, schools, communities and national the international arenas. We will critically examine efforts to understand and uproot both physical and structural violence by paying attention to militarism, poverty, racism, sexism, homophobia and other forms of social injustice and inequality. We are particularly interested in presentations of curriculum innovations designed to tackle these complex and pressing issues in K-12 and in university classrooms as well as in various community settings.

We invite paper presentations, roundtable discussions, workshops, and other creative contribution on the conference theme or on any other related topics within the broadly defined categories of social justice and social change, peace movements and social movements, nonviolence, peace studies and peace education, conflict resolution/transformation, human rights, feminism and anti-racism, global capitalism and resistance to globalization from above, critical pedagogy, popular education and diversity and multiculturalism.

Please send a short abstract (no-more than 100 words) to pjsa@evergreen.edu indicating in the subject 2003 Conference.

The deadline for proposal submission is May 1, 2003.

You will be notified about the status of your proposal by June 15.

To present at the conference you must be a member of the Peace and Justice Studies Association. For information on membership see Evergreen State College