Nagasaki 2019

Call for Papers 

Global Risk, Security and Ethnicity 

Joint event with the RC44 Security, Conflict, and Democratization 

Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan 10 - 11 August 2019

This is announcement of the conference on global risk, security, and ethnicity which will be convened in Nagasaki, Japan, on 10-11 August 2019. The conference will be organized by Research Committee 44 of International Political Science Association in collaboration with Nagasaki University.

As a result of persistent globalization trends, today's world faces increasing security challenges, and impossibility of traditional security institutions, such as military and police, to counter such challenges. This conference will focus on scrutinizing the causes and consequences of conflict, analyzing security threats, determining societal risks, and dwelling deep into the roots of conflictual and cooperative behavior of communities, with special attention to the complex problems of ethnicity. The conference will provide cutting-edge knowledge on the ways to overcome such conflicts, insecurities and risks, by comparing various localities and regions, acknowledging the importance of the global framework, and combining findings from multiple disciplines related to political science, anthropology, and sociology.

It is envisaged that the papers will attempt to provide a wide and comparative prism of the different regions of the world (Americas, Africa, Europe, Middle East, Asia and Pacific) as well as the unique circumstances of different countries and specific situations.

The papers can be based on theoretical discourse, empirical case studies, comparative analysis between regions or countries, or critical narrative and reflection of an ongoing situation.

We welcome interdisciplinary approaches that include other areas of study including cultural studies, history, anthropology, ethnography, geography, security studies, international relations, law, philosophy, indigenous studies, media studies, feminist and gender studies, queer perspectives, sociolinguistics, development studies, psychology, and economics, to mention a few.

We hope to publish the papers related to risk and security in a book, and contributions focusing on ethnicity will be published separately in another volume.

Paper abstracts and panel proposals of about 300 words should be submitted through the two forms below. Only if you are unable to submit through the entry forms, you may send your abstracts to the RC44 secretary, Radomir Compel at Nagasaki University (cmplrad@nagasaki-u.ac.jp). Early responses will be accepted from August 1, 2018, and paper abstracts and panel proposals can be submitted from Nov 1, 2018. The deadline for abstracts and panel proposals is Dec 20, 2018 and the deadline for the final papers is July 10, 2019.

More details of this event, including extended call for papers, details of the event, travel information and accommodation can be found here https://sites.google.com/site/ipsarc44/our-projects/other-projects/ipsa-rc44-2019-nagasaki