{"id":48,"date":"2018-10-19T15:05:02","date_gmt":"2018-10-19T19:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/peacecon\/?page_id=48"},"modified":"2025-12-09T01:37:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T05:37:19","slug":"call-for-proposals","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/peacecon\/call-for-proposals","title":{"rendered":"Call to Submit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The 2026 Notre Dame Student Peace Conference committee seeks submissions for this year\u2019s conference, New Game, New Peaces: Strategies for a Shifting Field<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Submission Deadline: 11:59 pm on Monday, January 26, 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What does peacebuilding mean when the old rules are thrown out? How can we build lasting systems conducive to peace and justice on a terrain that is shifting below our very feet? What can we still save from our traditional models, and what vitality can novel approaches add?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We currently find ourselves in the midst of the most profound global paradigm shifts since the end of the Cold War. Changes in international relations are dissolving well-established norms and upending the dominant rules-based international order, rendering it ineffectual and archaic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Authoritarian states gain stature and prestige, while democracies stretch themselves to their limits. In lieu of peace, states push for dehumanizing forms of \u201csecurity,\u201d violating dignity, privacy, and freedoms. Power is exercised not through universal standards of human rights, but by tiered systems of value in which individuals and communities on the margins are rendered disposable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Isolation, fragmentation, and distrust are the order of the day, with division along ethnic, religious, gendered, and national lines trumping coexistence, harmony, and solidarity. Online media spaces and technologies promise radical and horizontal connectivity but instead silo us into camps hostile to communication. A world that has been globalized is now becoming sectarianized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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How are those of us interested in building peace to respond to this shifting state of the world at the local, national, and international levels?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Traditional methods are now outmoded, suppressed, ignored, or insufficient for the real, unprecedented challenges facing us. We need creativity, innovation, and adaptivity more than ever before, so this conference seeks to explore new and groundbreaking approaches to peacebuilding that respond to the shifts in social and global relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the reductive \u201cvictor\u2019s peace,\u201d might-makes-right model of conflict resolution becomes increasingly normalized, what fresh perspectives challenge and complicate these tendencies? How can we introduce more nuanced and holistic forms of peace?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We invite undergraduate and graduate students<\/strong> from all fields of study and practice<\/strong> to propose presentations that analyze these changing \u201crules of the game\u201d or discuss innovative solutions and vocabularies for building new norms of peace and justice. Strong proposals might engage with, but are not limited to, topics such as:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thematic <\/strong>Areas and Frameworks of Focus<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
\u2022 Multipolarity<\/td>\u2022 International Institutions<\/td>\u2022 Grassroots Activism<\/td><\/tr>
\u2022 Human Rights<\/td>\u2022 Environmentalism<\/td>\u2022 Tech and Social Media<\/td><\/tr>
\u2022 Economic Development<\/td>\u2022 Literature and the Arts<\/td>\u2022 Religious Peacebuilding<\/td><\/tr>
\u2022 Nonviolent Resistance<\/td>\u2022 Criminal Justice<\/td>\u2022 Normative Theorizing<\/td><\/tr>
\u2022 Reconciliation <\/td>\u2022 Moral Imagination<\/td>\u2022 Global Health Inequality<\/td><\/tr>
\u2022 Women\u2019s Participation<\/td>\u2022 Social Entrepreneurship<\/td>\u2022 Mediation \/ Negotiation<\/td><\/tr>
\u2022 Decolonizing Peace<\/td>\u2022 Xenophobic Populism<\/td>\u2022 Conflict Transformation<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Ongoing Conflicts – Regional and International<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
\u2022 Palestine-Israel Conflict<\/td>\u2022 War in Ukraine<\/td>\u2022 Sudanese Civil War<\/td><\/tr>
\u2022 Conflicts in the D.R.C.<\/td>\u2022 Violence in the Sahel<\/td>\u2022 Gen Z Revolutions<\/td><\/tr>
\u2022 Civil War in Myanmar<\/td>\u2022 Ethiopian Civil Conflict<\/td>\u2022 China-Taiwan Relations<\/td><\/tr>
\u2022 Nuclear Arms Expansion<\/td>\u2022 U.S. Deportation Activity <\/td>\u2022 Kashmir Conflict<\/td><\/tr>
\u2022 Far-Right Gains in Europe<\/td>\u2022 Mexican Drug Wars<\/td>\u2022 Escalation in the Caribbean<\/td><\/tr>
\u2022 South China Sea Disputes<\/td>\u2022 Pakistani Insurgencies<\/td>\u2022 Russia Drone Expansion<\/td><\/tr>
\u2022 Collapse of Free Trade <\/td>\u2022 Haitian Political Crisis<\/td>\u2022 Post-Regime Syria<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Students may select up to two preferred presentation formats<\/a> from a variety of accepted options. Proposed presentations may be based on original research, experiential learning, peace work and practice, and\/or theoretical analysis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Students should carefully review all <\/strong>submission guidelines<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong>and the descriptions of each accepted format <\/strong>while preparing their proposals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Submit Now:\u00a02026 Submission Form<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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