Month: March 2023

CFP UKFIET 2023: Education for Social & Environmental Justice: Diversity, Sustainability, Responsibility

ConferencesCall for Papers: UKFIET 2023: Education for Social and Environmental Justice: Diversity,
Sustainability, Responsibility, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, 12-14 September 2023. Deadline: 17 March 2023.

Crises including the COVID-19 pandemic, the unfolding climate emergency and ongoing and resurgent violent conflict have shown that progress towards a sustainable planet is fragile and reversible. Ensuing and ever-increasing inequality and injustice threaten progress towards the goal of equitable quality education and lifelong learning (including social, emotional, physical, cognitive, and creative aspects) for all by 2030 (SDG4) and require urgent remediation and mitigation. Education and learning among marginalised groups in particular must be prioritised as a shared global responsibility if the tide of widening inequalities and injustices is to be stemmed and in furtherance of global human rights. Moreover, equitable and sustainable progress require much more than ’business as usual’, calling not only for innovation but for transformation. Re-thinking conceptualisations of education and learning and spaces where they take place (diverse learning spaces such as home, community, religious spaces, among many others) is critical. Re-imagining relations between global North and South in education and learning is fundamental to addressing marginalisation and its root causes, including by ‘reversing the gaze’ to critically examine the role played by the North in education, learning, and development from the perspectives of the global majority.

This conference will bring together scholars and practitioners in the field of international education, training, and lifelong learning at this crucial half-way point on the timeline set for the SDGs in 2015, offering opportunity for diverse and critical dialogue and debate on ways forward in this crucial field of research and practice.

Gulbenkian Prize for Humanity 2023

AwardsThe Gulbenkian Prize for Humanity, awarded annually, aims to recognise people, groups of people and/or organisations from all over the world whose contributions to mitigation and adaptation to climate change stand out for its novelty, innovation and impact. Award: 1 million euros. Deadline: 17 March 2023.

The Gulbenkian Prize for Humanity underscores the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation’s commitment to urgent climate action, to investment in solutions which benefit people and the planet, and to showing there is still hope if we act now. In the run-up to COP28 in 2023, the Prize will be a flagship initiative recognising people or organisations who are making outstanding contributions in combating the climate crisis; contributions which can mitigate the negative effects of climate change on people, the environment and the economy, and promote a society that is more resilient and better prepared for future global change, while protecting the most vulnerable.

CFP Peacebuilding

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Call for Submissions: Peacebuilding journal. Deadline: Rolling.

 

Peacebuilding is an international, peer-reviewed journal publishing high-quality, original research.

Peacebuilding accepts the following types of article: Original articles, Review Articles, and submissions under the “Beyond the Metropole” section. The goal of this section is to promote voices who speak from positions of marginalisation, including (but not limited to) perspectives emanating from the global south, engaging with decoloniality, or affected by censorship and other forms of silencing and underrepresentation. Contributors are not limited to academics, rather the journal actively encourages activists, practitioners and community representatives (such as elders, curators, innovators) to contribute to “Beyond the Metropole.”

Conceptual innovation and ideas that lead us to challenge our ideas of peace, power and justice are particularly encouraged. Acknowledging the discipline’s tendency to focus on accessible global spaces (“metropoles”), the section features innovative, unorthodox and marginalised ideas that are often overlooked in the discipline. Providing an opportunity to take account of the weaknesses of Peace and Conflict Studies, which has sometimes aligned with power, spoken primarily from European and North American perspectives, or “normalised” its core ideas, this section provides a series of encounters with a different set of ideas about peace in the broadest sense. It is particularly interested in insights about the workings of power in relation to peace, or the various challenges and expressions of resistance against it, from positions where such power is most acutely felt.