In this issue:

• 2021 IPRA Conference Update• IPRA News • Reports and Articles• Call for Manuscripts • Publications

Previous issues:

• Vol 10 No. 1 Jan-Mar 2020• Vol 9 No. 4 Sep.-Dec. 2019• Vol 9 No. 3 April-Aug 2019• Archived issues

Volume 10 No. 2 • April - June 2020

Updates on the 28th Biennial IPRA Conference in Nairobi, Kenya, 11th - 15th January 2021

IPRA will hold its 28th Biennial General Conference themed, PEACE TECHNOLOGY; Positioning Fourth Industrial Revolution and Emerging Technologies in Fostering Global Peace’ in Nairobi, Kenya from the 11th to 15th January 2021 hosted by Multimedia University of Kenya (MMU). Visit www.ipra2021.org/ for all details.
After the months-long coronavirus lockdown, Alijezeera News reports, "Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has announced a phased reopening of the country, with the resumption of international flights from August 1 as well as the lifting of internal travel restrictions..." To read more, CLICK HERE.
Call for PapersThe call for papers is currently open. The deadline has been extended to july 25, 2020. See https://www.ipra2021.org/index.php/call-for-papers. [Download CFP]
IPRA meets TEMBEA for the IPRA 2021 Global Conference TEMBEA, a community based development organization registered under the Ministry of Youth, Gender and Public Service, is collaborating with IPRA in organizing the 28th biennial IPRA General Conference. TEMBEA will bring to fore in this forthcoming conference, immense practical grass roots based peace building and cohesion experience especially among the youth and women along the various inter-ethnic borders and resource belts....To read more, click HERE.

IPRA News

New IPRA "Peace Search" Community PageThe International Peace Research Association(IPRA), is proud to launch this “Peace Search” community page in conjunction with Waging Nonviolence, as we broaden and deepen our research and organizing in pursuit of lasting peace with worldwide justice for all... To read more, click HERE.
Conference flyer.pdf

Reports and Articles

Editors' Note: The reports, essays and articles below express the views of the authors, and are not those of the International Peace Research Association (IPRA) or its officers. Readers are invited to comment on the articles in the IPRA Newsletter. Click Post a Comment or View Posted Comments .
Pietro Ameglio (Des Informémonos): Social Uprising in the US: Anti-Racism and Nonviolent Civil ResistanceWhen a social body shouts “Enough!” massively and with “permanent firmness”, thus publicly and openly defining its “moral and material frontier” we cannot escape a feeling of extreme emotion!.. CLICK HERE to read more. Post a Comment | View Posted Comments

Syed Sikander Mehdi :A Global Peace Conference to Build a New Global SocietyHopes and expectations for change multiply when a new era arrives. In the changing, exciting times, the return of the cursed past is wished least. But, more often than not,.. Click HERE to read more. Post a Comment | View Posted Comments
Ravi P Bhatia: Concept of Peace in the time of COVID 19Most people desire peace in the world. Even dictators or military rulers say they are acting for world peace. Some countries who have a large military arsenal — war planes and ... .. Click HERE to read more. Post a Comment | View Posted Comments
The UNE Peace Conference 2020 (Sydney, Australia), organised by staff, PhD students and graduates of UNE Peace Studies put some of the biggest issues facing the world today on the table. CLICK HERE to view a cross-section of presentations made at the conference. The topics of these presentations range from the global, with the consequences of nuclear war, to Australian programs such as the Alternatives to Violence Project, to regional topics of developing nonviolent relationships; analysing governance and state-sponsored terrorism; and shifting from armed struggle to nonviolent action.Post a Comment | View Posted Comments
In Memoriam: Anita L. Wenden, Ed.D. (former IPRA Main Representative to the UN), 1933-2020. Click HERE to read. Post a Comment | View Posted Comments

Call for Manuscripts

The Journal of Social Encounters is an interdisciplinary peace and justice studies journal that is published online by the Center for Social Justice and Ethics at The Catholic University of Eastern Africa in Nairobi, Kenya, in collaboration with the Peace Studies Department at College of St. Benedict/St. John's University, Collegeville, Minnesota. The JSE publishes essays by authors from any country in each issue, but some essays by African authors are always included so that African scholarship on peace, conflict and social justice will become better known. Essays on peace and justice issues in any region of the world are welcome. For information on manuscript submissions, please CLICK HERE. The next issue will published in February/March 2021.
Call for Book Chapters: Performing Arts for Peace: Education and Transformation. (Edited by Candice C. Carter).

Publications

Bollaert, Cathy (2020). Reconciliation and Building a Sustainable Peace: Competing Worldviews in South Africa and Beyond, Palgrove.
Reychler, Luc and Langer, Armin (2020) Luc Reychler: A Pioneer in Sustainable Peacebuilding Architecture. Springer.
Oswald Spring, Úrsula (2020) Earth at Risk in the 21st Century: Rethinking Peace,Environment, Gender, and Human, Water, Health, Food, Energy Security, andMigration. With a Foreword by Lourdes Arizpe Schlosser and a Preface by HansGünter Brauch, Springer.
Oswald Spring, Úrsula (2020). Úrsula Oswald Spring: Pioneer on Gender, Peace, Development, Environment, Food and Water. With a Foreword by Birgit Dechmann. Springer.
Wilson, Brian, & Van Luijk, Nicolien. (2019). Covering Protest at the Vancouver 2010 Olympics: A “Peace Journalism” Inspired Analysis. Sociology of Sport Journal, 36(1), 32-47.
Other recent and featured IPRA book publications are listed HERE.