[nasional_list] [ppiindia] Call for Papers
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In Search of Reconciliation and Peace in Indonesia
19.-20.07.2007
organised by
Indonesia Study Group
Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore
http://www.ari.nus.edu.sg
A number of Southeast Asian countries have been badly shaken in recent decades
by religious, ethnic, social, political and economic conflicts. The search for
reconciliation and peace is an important issue in the whole region. Promoting
an interdisciplinary examination of one of the countries affected, Indonesia,
this workshop goes beyond a mere political approach to reconciliation and
offers new understandings of cultural reconciliation processes and factors,
which both facilitate and inhibit reconciliation in different cultures. This
will provide valuable insights not only for Indonesia, but for conflict
situations much more broadly.
The issues of conflict, conflict resolution and reconciliation have been on the
agenda for most of the second half of the twentieth century in general. The
rise of the new media has transformed conflicts into global spectacles: images
of conflicts from all over the world are brought right into the users' homes,
be it on TV or the Internet, in the newspaper or on the radio. Images of
conflict seem to be much easier to convey on these channels than images of
reconciliation and peace. As we all know: only bad news is news. Recent
conflicts in South Africa, Rwanda and East Timor have given rise to a
reconciliation toolkit of truth commissions and law enforcement, justice and
human rights, forgiveness and amnesty. These mechanisms are supposed to be the
means not only to stop conflict and violence, but also to reconcile warring
parties and create sustainable peace. Due to the often limited success of these
approaches, people and organisations involved in developing conflict solving
strategies have started to think about the integration of cultural factors into
the reconciliation process. Kevin Avruch argues (1998) that no conflict can be
understood and analysed, let alone sustainably solved, without taking its
cultural context into account. The workshop therefore aims to go beyond seeing
reconciliation as a purely political process by exploring its socio-cultural
contexts and promoting a more ethnographic reading of the reconciliation
processes.
A lot has been said and written about violent conflict in Indonesia,
investigating its different dimensions across disciplines. Unfortunately,
reconciliation has caught much less attention by academics. Debates on
reconciliation in Indonesia focus on human rights issues, justice and law
enforcement and are heavily influenced by international NGOs and agencies such
as the UN. This workshop strives to fill major gaps in reconciliation studies
by exploring the cultural dimension of reconciliation in general and its
specific forms in Indonesia.
The workshop aims to invite scholars from different academic disciplines such
as social anthropology, sociology, law, political science, history and others
from Indonesia and abroad. We invite both empirical case studies based on
original fieldwork and theoretical reflections to be presented at the workshop.
The workshop will cover reconciliation issues that deal with conflicts on
different scales, in different contexts, in different regions and in different
phases of contemporary Indonesian history. The publication of selected papers
of the workshop will make a unique and new contribution to understanding 'the
other' dimension of reconciliation and different cultures of reconciliation.
Possible topics include (but are not limited to):
· Cultural approaches to conflict resolution and reconciliation
· Actors of reconciliation and different levels of reconciliation
(government, local and international NGOs, media, religious organisations,
grassroots organisations etc.)
· Traditional conflict resolution mechanisms
· Local narratives of reconciliation
· Reconciliation, public sphere and civil society
· Democratization, conflict and reconciliation
· Spatial or territorial dimensions of reconciliation
· Gender, ethnic and religious aspects of conflict and reconciliation
· Regional case studies (including those from East Timor)
· Comparative studies from beyond Indonesia
Call for Papers
Paper proposals including 250-word abstracts and a 5-line biosketch should be
submitted to Dr Birgit Bräuchler (aribb@xxxxxxxxxx) by 15th December 2006.
Successful applicants will be advised by 15th February 2007 and will be urged
to send in a completed paper by June 1st. Some funding will be available for
those in the Asian Region, post-graduate students, and others unable to fund
themselves, depending on the number of workshop participants.
Contact Details
Further enquiries should be directed to Dr Birgit Bräuchler (aribb@xxxxxxxxxx),
Dr Maribeth Erb (socmerb@xxxxxxxxxx), Dr Priyambudi Sulistiyanto
(seasp@xxxxxxxxxx) or Dr Jamie Davidson (poldjs@xxxxxxxxxx).
Please visit the ARI events page for future updates:
http://www.ari.nus.edu.sg/events_categorydetails.asp?categoryid=6&eventid=551
Literature cited:
Avruch, Kevin 1998: Culture and Conflict Resolution. Washington D.C.: United
States Institute of Peace Press.
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