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• IPRA News • Opinions & Views In this issue:
• Spotlight on Commissions & Networks• Member contributions • Call for Papers & Abstracts• Publications
The IPRA Quarterly Newsletter is a publication of the International Peace Research Association (IPRA), www.iprapeace.org. Previous issues are available. Members are invited to summit articles and announcements to: ipranewsletter@gmail.com
IPRA NEWSFrom the Secretary-Generals' desks, Christine Atieno reports on the 4th International Conference of the Bengal Institute of Political Studies, and Matt Meyer highlights IPRA activities in Q3 of 2021.
IPRA's United Nations team continues to develop, as partnerships with the Decolonization Committee intensify, and our disarmament work deepens in connection with the International Peace Bureau.. A new special Tribunal on US Human Rights Abuses Against Black, Brown, and Indigenous Peoples—incorporates the work involving the UN Committee Against Genocide, the Committee on Peoples of African Descent, and the Human Rights Council. Alexander Hinton's article, “Why We Need a Truth Commission on White Supremacy,” already endorsed by PJSA, strengthens and advances the Tribunal's work.
In spite of the global pandemic, there have been "New Opportunities for IPRA and the IPRA Foundation" to award leadership development training institutes to mid-career Fellows.
The XII Latin American Congress of Research for Peace (CLAIP 2021 Congress) issued a FINAL DECLARATION [DECLARACIÓN FINAL] following the conclusion of the Congress on August 7, 2021.
The Journal of Resistance Studies invites IPRA members and authors to contribute articles for JRS, and to join their efforts to expand readership. CLICK HERE to read more.
Betty A. Reardon calls for opportunities to place Afghan women at-risk in University posts.
Janine Joyce lists various approaches in trauma counseling for peace researchers in the article Strengths-based Trauma-informed Counselling and Transformation in Peacebuilding. Syed Sikander Mehdi, explores the healing power of peace museums in a blog titled Memories, Memorials and Museums for Peace for the International Science Council. Lucy E. Bailey and Amanda Kingston spotlight the importance of "Understanding Spaces and Practices for Collective Mourning" for peace researchers.
Hafsa Ali Ibrahim describes how Al Qaeda’s affiliates, Al Shabaab, may gain momentum due to Taliban’s swift seizure of Kabul. In the article "Will The Surrender Of Terrorists Engender Peace?," Oluwatoyin O. Oluwaniyi explores the meaning of recent events in Nigeria. In the article The revival of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan: What is next for Muslim Women? Syeda Rumana Mehdi gives a number of useful insights. Satoko Oka Norimatsu writes on "My discomfort with calling on Olympic athletes to have a minute of silence on the Hiroshima Day," in a Web-Ronza article.
IPRA's United Nations team continues to develop, as partnerships with the Decolonization Committee intensify, and our disarmament work deepens in connection with the International Peace Bureau.. A new special Tribunal on US Human Rights Abuses Against Black, Brown, and Indigenous Peoples—incorporates the work involving the UN Committee Against Genocide, the Committee on Peoples of African Descent, and the Human Rights Council. Alexander Hinton's article, “Why We Need a Truth Commission on White Supremacy,” already endorsed by PJSA, strengthens and advances the Tribunal's work.
In spite of the global pandemic, there have been "New Opportunities for IPRA and the IPRA Foundation" to award leadership development training institutes to mid-career Fellows.
The XII Latin American Congress of Research for Peace (CLAIP 2021 Congress) issued a FINAL DECLARATION [DECLARACIÓN FINAL] following the conclusion of the Congress on August 7, 2021.
The Journal of Resistance Studies invites IPRA members and authors to contribute articles for JRS, and to join their efforts to expand readership. CLICK HERE to read more.
Betty A. Reardon calls for opportunities to place Afghan women at-risk in University posts.
MEMBER CONTRIBUTIONS
MEMBER CONTRIBUTIONS
Janine Joyce lists various approaches in trauma counseling for peace researchers in the article Strengths-based Trauma-informed Counselling and Transformation in Peacebuilding. Syed Sikander Mehdi, explores the healing power of peace museums in a blog titled Memories, Memorials and Museums for Peace for the International Science Council. Lucy E. Bailey and Amanda Kingston spotlight the importance of "Understanding Spaces and Practices for Collective Mourning" for peace researchers.
OPINIONS & VIEWS
OPINIONS & VIEWS
Hafsa Ali Ibrahim describes how Al Qaeda’s affiliates, Al Shabaab, may gain momentum due to Taliban’s swift seizure of Kabul. In the article "Will The Surrender Of Terrorists Engender Peace?," Oluwatoyin O. Oluwaniyi explores the meaning of recent events in Nigeria. In the article The revival of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan: What is next for Muslim Women? Syeda Rumana Mehdi gives a number of useful insights. Satoko Oka Norimatsu writes on "My discomfort with calling on Olympic athletes to have a minute of silence on the Hiroshima Day," in a Web-Ronza article.
On Tuesday, 21 September 2021, we commemorate the UN's International Day of Peace, devoted to strengthening the ideals of peace, through observing 24 hours of non-violence and cease-fire. Read more..._____________________________________
Figure 1. Artist/intellectual Adjani Okpu-Egbe spotlighting FrancAfrique and the increasing critiques of neocolonialism._____________________________________
Figure 2: IPRA co-SG Matt Meyer and IPRA UN representative Sekou Odinga at NYC event..
SPOTLIGHT ON IPRA COMMISSIONS AND AFFILIATED NETWORKS
SPOTLIGHT ON IPRA COMMISSIONS AND AFFILIATED NETWORKS
IPRA's Nonviolence Commission members were among the global experts featured in the new book Conversations on Peace and Nonviolence: Drawing Connections with 16 Global experts which was published in cooperation with the Ministry of Culture of India and Dorling Kindersley Limited (DK). CLICK HERE to view a video of the book launch.
Peace educators and peace researchers are invited to the 50th Anniversary Peace Education Commission Conference to be held both online and on-site in Moscow, 27--29 October, 2021. CLICK HERE for details.
B. Jeannie Lum announces the new Editor for the Journal of Peace Education, a publication sponsored by the Peace Education Commission of the International Peace Research Association, will be Edward J. Brantmeier, Professor in Learning, Technology and Leadership Education at James Madison University (USA). Ed officially assumes the Editorship in January 2022.
The Peace and Justice Studies Association (PJSA) & The Wisconsin Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies (WIPCS) will hold their annual conferences jointly both online and on-ground in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (USA), October 10-12, 2021. CLICK HERE for details.
Marion Keim, co-convener of IPRA’s Youth, Sport, and Peace Commission, and Chairperson of The Foundation for Sport, Development and Peace announces the 8th International Cape Town Sport and Peace Conference to be held 21-22 September 2021.
Uppsala University Peace Research Institute celebrates 50th Anniversary, 2021. with a podcast called Researching Peace which explores questions such as "what is peace research?"
On the occasion of John Kerry's appointment as Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, the Veterans for Peace sent a letter asking Kerry to recognize that militarism is a key part of the climate crisis. CLICK HERE to read the letter.
Readers are invited to get involved with and endorse an international Tribunal on US human rights violations, titled In the Spirit of Mandela to be held 22-24 October 2021.
CALL FOR PAPERS & ABSTRACTS
Candice C. Carter and Raj Kumar Dhungana (editors) invite authors to submit chapter abstracts for their book, Teaching Peace through Elimination of Violence. CLICK HERE for details. Asian Journal of Peacebuilding (AJP) welcomes submissions of papers written on conflict and peacebuilding issues around the world. AJP accepts paper submissions on a rolling basis. CLICK HERE for the submission guidelines.CALL FOR PAPERS & ABSTRACTS
Nature Sustainability publishes research contributing to a deep understanding of the ways in which we organize our lives in a finite world and the multiple impacts our actions have. The journal is now welcoming submissions. Please see: https://www.nature.com/natsustain/info/gta
The Peace and Conflict Studies Journal invites authors to submit papers for its special issue on the question "Do Black lives really matter in peace and conflict studies?" CLICK HERE for the full CFP.
PUBLICATIONS
Catherine Akurut. 2020. “Examining the Appropriateness Of Gender-Inclusion as a Humanitarian Response Mechanism for Conflict-Related Sexual Violence against Men”, Journal of Humanitarian Affairs 2 (3), 35–41, DOI: https://doi.org/10.7227/JHA.050 PUBLICATIONS
Benner, S., Lax, G., Crutzen, P.J., Pöschl, U., Lelieveld, J., Brauch, H.G. (Eds.). 2021. Paul J. Crutzen and the Anthropocene: A New Epoch in Earth’s History . Springer.
Doležalová, M., Barbulescu, R., Mirza, N., and Bica, M. (July 8 2021). Closure of EU Settlement Scheme risks leaving migrant Roma behind. Report. Policy Leeds, University of Leeds.
Luis-Alberto Padilla. 2021. Sustainable Development in the AnthropoceneTowards a New Holistic and Cosmopolitan Paradigm. Springer.
Dittmar Schorkowitz, John Chavez, Ingo W. Schröder (Eds.) Shifting Forms of Continental Colonialism: Unfinished Struggles and Tensions, Palgrave Macmillan
Margo Tamez. 2021. Father / Genocide, Turtle Point Press.
Cristian Tileagă, Martha Augoustinos, Kevin Durrheim(editors). 2022. The Routledge International Handbook of Discrimination, Prejudice and Stereotyping (1st Edition).Routledge.
Peter Wallensteen: Peter Wallensteen: A Pioneer in Making Peace Researchable (Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021).
Gianmarco Pisa. Di terra e di pietra. Forme estetiche negli spazi del conflitto, dalla Jugoslavia al presente (Di terra e di pietra. Aesthetic forms in the spaces of conflict, from Yugoslavia to the present), Multimage, Firenze (Florence), 2021.
The Summer 2021 issue of THE PEACE CHRONICLE: The Magazine of the Peace and Justice Studies Association has been published.
The Education for Peace Integrative Curriculum Series, composed of nine volumes published by the International Education for Peace Institute (EFP-International), is now available free of charge to IPRA members. Inquiries should be addressed to Dr. Roshan P. Danesh and H.B. Danesh.
IPRA Quarterly Newsletter • ipranewsletter@gmail.com Editorial Board: Roy Tamashiro (Editor-in-chief) • Janine Joyce • Maria Subert • Cris Toffolo Co-Secretary Generals: Christine Atieno • Matt Meyer