The American University of Paris
\nJune 21-23, 2023
\nThe aim of this international conference is to provide researchers with an interdisciplinary platform to
\ninvestigate and debate the question of contemporary irruptions of political violence and to inquire into
\nthe different responses intended to counteract violence. When and why do individuals, groups, and
\nsocieties come to believe that peaceful means and legal avenues of redress, including non-violent civil
\ndisobedience, are insufficient or improper to achieve a social or political goal and to view violent action
\nas morally legitimate and necessary for change? Can one identify trends shaping recourse to violence by
\nparts of the populace? What role does state violence play in the dialectic? When, if ever, is political violence
\nlegitimate? How can violence be averted?<\/p>\n
These are not new questions in political theory or the social sciences. State and non-state political violence
\nbeing a regular occurrence in the historical trajectory of all societies, including modern democracies. But
\nthey have taken on new salience through the rise of far-right extremist movements and irruptions of
\nindividual and group violence of various ideological and social origins. The simultaneity of these phenomena
\nacross different countries, and the manifest potential for new violent turns, raises essential theoretical and
\npolicy questions, requiring renewed critical investigation.<\/p>\n
The George and Irina Schaeffer Center for the Study of Genocide, Human Rights, and Conflict Prevention
\nand the Center for Critical Democracy at The American University of Paris welcome papers that analyze
\nthe origins of violence in new innovative directions and studies of state responses to violence and of the
\nstrengths and limits of strategies based on education, dialogue, truth and reconciliation, deradicalization
\nand so forth. We are also interested in historical-comparative work situating current political violence
\nacross space and time, critical political philosophical investigations of state legitimacy, as well as rightful
\nand unrightful resistance.
\nWe welcome contributions in all fields, including psychology, political science,
\nanthropology, sociology, history, law, criminology, literature, and communications as well as approaches
\npromoting creative responses to the theme of the conference.<\/p>\n
Suggested Topics<\/p>\n
Sources of violence:
\n\u2022 Determinants (personal, community, structural) in the violent turn of individuals, groups, and
\ninstitutions
\n\u2022 Differentiating drivers of violent turns: political, socio-economic, religious, or psychological
\n\u2022 Are these factors and drivers really discernable and can they be disentangled?
\n\u2022 Identity, othering and violence<\/p>\n
Spectrum of socio-political violence:
\n\u2022 Symbolic and material violence
\n\u2022 Gendered and racialized violence
\n\u2022 Violence against things, violence against people
\n\u2022 State and non-state violence
\n\u2022 Colonial and anti-colonial violence
\n\u2022 Individual and mass violence<\/p>\n
Institutions and violence:
\n\u2022 Effects of violence on the rule of law, democratic stability, and human rights
\n\u2022 The role of the law and government institutions in reducing, maintaining, or fueling political
\nviolence
\n\u2022 States of exception and state violence
\n\u2022 Prevention, reeducation<\/p>\n
Philosophical Investigations:
\n\u2022 State legitimacy and legitimacy of non-state violence
\n\u2022 Pacifism, civil disobedience and violent direct action
\n\u2022 Political obedience, systemic injustices, and the right to resist<\/p>\n
The conference languages are English and French. Proposals in English or French must include an abstract
\nof no more than 400 words and a short narrative cv of no more than 250 words. Please send all materials
\nto violentturnsconference by December 15th, 2022.
\nWe will evaluate the submissions and notify those we have selected by January 31, 2023.<\/p>\n
Limited funds for travel and accommodation are available for presenters in need. If you wish to apply for
\na grant, please include a one paragraph statement requesting financial support.<\/p>\n
Organizing and scientific committee:
\nPhilip Golub (AUP), Constance P\u00e2ris de Bollardi\u00e8re (AUP), Stephen Sawyer (AUP), Brian Schiff (AUP),
\nSharon Weill (AUP), Roman Zinigrad (AUP)<\/p>\n
Source: Constance PARIS DE BOLLARDIERE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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