Month: June 2024

CFP Interculture Journal: Special Issue 2025

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Call for papers: Interculture journal special issue, to be published in 2025; articles may be in English, German, French, Spanish, or Portuguese. Deadline: 30 August 2024.

“Embracing a Relational Paradigm to Navigate Cultural Complexity.” Organizers invite scholars from diverse disciplines, including but not limited to cultural studies, communication studies, organizational theory, anthropology, sociology, psychology, and philosophy, to contribute conceptual contributions, empirical studies, interviews and reviews that explore a relational view on cultural complexity and its conceptual and practical implications. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

• Mapping the current developments and trends in intercultural communication under the lens of a relational paradigm • Overview of relational concepts in the field of intercultural communication (e.g. Bolten 2020, etc.)
• Theoretical frameworks for understanding the creation of shared meaning and action
• The role of relational processes in shaping culturally complex events and practices
• Strategies for navigating cultural complexity in organizational contexts
• Innovative approaches to cross-cultural communication, management and cooperation
• Implications of cultural complexity for inter- and transcultural competence and training
• The impact of globalization and digitalization on inter-, cross- and transcultural practices
• Methodological approaches for studying relational aspects of cultural complexity
• Teaching and learning concepts building on a relational view on cultural complexity.

Submissions should engage with contemporary debates and offer insights into the potentials of a relational paradigm for the fields of intercultural communication, multicultural teamwork or transcultural cooperation.

Stimson Center: Two Positions in South Asia Program (USA)

“JobTwo positions are available with the South Asian Program, Henry L. Stimson Center, Washington, DC, USA. Deadline: open until filled (posted 17 May 2024).

  1. Research Associate or Analyst (South Asia Program)
    The Henry L. Stimson Center (Stimson), a nonpartisan global security think tank located in Washington, DC, seeks a Research Associate or Research Analyst for our South Asia Program. Reporting to the Deputy Director, this role ensures that our practices support our mission-driven work, align with Stimson’s vision, values, strategic goals, standards of conduct, and operational objectives, and demonstrate our commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and employee well-being.
  2. Program Assistant (South Asia Program)

    The Henry L. Stimson Center (Stimson) also seeks a Program Assistant for our South Asia Program. Reporting to the Deputy Director, this role ensures that our practices support our mission-driven work, align with Stimson’s vision, values, strategic goals, standards of conduct, and operational objectives, and demonstrate our commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and employee well-being.

Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom: Secretary General (Switzerland)

“JobSecretary General, Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, Geneva, Switzerland. Deadline: 13 June 2024.

The Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) is a membership-based organisation with Sections and Groups in over 40 countries and partners around the world, with an International Secretariat (IS) based in Geneva and a New York office. Since establishment in 1915, they have brought together women from around the world who are united in working for peace by non-violent means and promoting political, economic and social justice for all.

They are seeking to hire a full-time Secretary General (SG) who is aligned with and exemplifies WILPF’s feminist values. The incoming SG will help lead a transformative process of co-creating a more inclusive WILPF movement and an evolving IS structure – the IS currently comprises 47 staff members and long term consultants with a budget of approximately CHF9 million per annum – while holding the IS accountable for the set of its mandated functions as per WILPF’s Constitution, and leading the collective implementation of the International Programme 2022-2025 (IP)

The ideal candidate will be a feminist leader for peace and social change in line with WILPF’s values, an activist with experience in membership-based movements and leading organisations through change, with a feminist understanding of the human rights, conflict/peacebuilding, and/or disarmament sector, and with social capital and legitimacy in this sector.  They will be open-minded, brave and curious, a motivator and a collaborator, able to lead diverse groups of people in collectively achieving goals, and an excellent communicator for varied audiences.