Arcadia’s International Peace and Conflict Resolution program will host the 2018 Peace and Justice Studies Association (PJSA) Conference from September 28 to 30. This year’s theme, “Nonviolence in Violent Times: 50 years since 1968,” focuses on revolutionary nonviolence, peacebuilding methods, and relationships between civil disobedience, community self-defense, challenging structural inequalities, and pacifism.

Academics, activists, and practitioners from the United States and Canada will reflect on the 50 years since the 1968 revolutions in light of present-day conflicts around ethnicity, race, police brutality, poverty and capitalism, the rise in hate groups, authoritarian regimes, and sexism.

Participants will critically engage and analyze mainstream media’s presentation of a false dichotomy between passive liberalism and active opposition; evaluate notions of solidarity, charity, saviorism, and internationalism; challenge existing notions of what nonviolence means in 2018; and establish peace studies as a catalyst for change.

Paper submissions, particularly those related to Systemic and Historical Visions of the Nonviolence-Violence Continuum, Creating the Beloved Community: Solidarity and Engagement, or Violence and Nonviolence in “Our” Communities, are due April 15.

For more information, contact Dr. Amy Cox, director and assistant professor of IPCR at Arcadia.