CfP: The Role of Women and Women’s Civil Society Organizations in Peace Processes

Dates: 5-6 April 2022

Location: University of Siena (Italy)

Abstract Deadline: March 1, 2022

Notification: March 15, 2022

On 5th and 6th April 2022, the University of Siena and the University of Milan, together with the “Scuola Normale Superiore” and under the patronage of RUniPace (Rete delle Università italiane per la Pace), will host in Siena an international Conference on “The Role of Women and Women’s Civil Society Organizations in Peace Processes”.

The Conference will explore the role played by women and women’s movements in the peace processes of the 20th and 21st Centuries, by way of integrating the historical with a more constitutional, comparative and internationalist perspective. Selected speeches will address the issues at stake on theoretical and practical basis, interlacing the law and the case-law emerging from the comparative and constitutional analysis. Invited speakers include historians, legal scholars, sociologists, and representatives of the civil society and the feminist movements. At the very core of the Conference will be cases about Afghanistan, Colombia, Chile, Mexico, Palestine, Kosovo, Turkey, Tunisia, Congo, Rwanda and Sudan that prove to be highly interesting from the angle of women’s actions in the national re-building processes.

The abstract should be no more than 500 words in length and should be sent to the following email address (sevgi.dogan@sns.it) along with a speaker biography of maximum of 100 words. 

Submitted papers will be subjected to peer review by the Scientific Committee and carefully evaluated based on their originality, significance, and clarity of exposition. Admitted papers will be published following the Conference. 

The accepted contributions will be notified by March 15, 2022.

The Conference, held in English, will take place in a blended modality: online and in presence. 

The authors of selected papers will be allocated 15 minutes for their presentation during the conference. 

Scientific Committee: Professor Marilisa D’Amico (University of Milan), Professor Federico Lenzerini, Professor Tania Groppi, and Professor Elena Bindi (University of Siena), Dr. Sevgi Doğan (Scuola Normale Superiore), Dr. Costanza Nardocci (University of Milan).

Contacts: sevgi.dogan@sns.it

Link for more info: https://dipec.unisi.it/