APA Peace Psychology Association: 2009 Convention
Dear HumanDHS network friends
Please find below a call for proposals: Creating Peace With Justice.
Kind regards
Brian Ward
The Society for the Study of Peace, Conflict, & Violence
Peace Psychology Division of the American Psychological Association (48) extends a warm invitation to submit papers, posters, and symposia on the topic Creating Peace with Justice for the 2009 APA Convention.
Our program will explore innovative solutions to local, regional, national and international institutionalized or structural violence and the building of peaceful
societies with justice. We welcome submissions from Psychologists and students who have not previously presented with us.
S for the Study of Peace, Conflict, and Violence
Division 48 welcomes other APA divisions and outside groups to join with us
in developing presentations that address this critical issue.
Some of the perspectives we encourage include:
◗ Local, national and international Systemic Violence continues: What can we do to reduce
the violence, disregard for basic rights and injustice in governmental entities?
◗ How do we build communities, from the local to international level, that can withstand
incapacitating conflict and develop mechanisms that encourage peace with justice?
◗ What are the roles of Law Enforcement and the Judicial System as purveyors of social
justice and peace-building?
◗ How do we combine peace and justice when these concepts may not always seem compatible?
◗ Immigration, undocumented workers: How do they fit into a global world that transcends
borders?
◗ How do we work with institutional systems, such as those associated with education,
social welfare, public policy, the law, and the community, to create cultures where there
are justice and peace-building?
◗ Immigration, undocumented workers: How do they fit into a global world that transcends
borders?
◗ What other mechanisms should we consider when exploring peace and justice in static
systems and those associated with change?
◗ What are best practices in building Activism Skills Sets?
All submissions are due by December 1, 2008.
For more information, contact Division 48 Program
Chair, Julie Levitt (Julie.levitt[@]verizon.net).
Proposal submission information is found at www. apa.org/convention09/. All proposals must be submitted via APA online Call for Programs web site.
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