ZFF-Veranstaltungstipp: „Local Peace Formation: Asserting Subaltern Visions of Political Legitimacy“
Online-Konferenz am 27. April von 11.00 – 13.30 Uhr
Veranstalter: Fachbereich Global Governance des Instituts für Rechtswissenschaftliche Grundlagen der KFU Graz, das Varna Institute for Peace Research (VIPR) in Kooperation mit dem Conflict – Peace – Democracy Cluster, dem Austrian Centre for Peace, dem Centre for Southeast European Studies und der Zeitschrift Wissenschaft und Frieden
Peace is often negotiated far beyond the places where people suffer from draconian laws, discrimination, outright aggression, sexualized violence, armed strife, natural disasters, or plunder. More recent attempts to reflect local demands and needs in political processes in (post-)conflict areas were unable to sufficiently do so and continue to impose ideas of peace that are fundamentally elitist, Eurocentric, and postcolonial. Local peace agency is all too often overlooked, silenced and misrepresented within the traditional frameworks and processes of the international community.
This online conference brings together activists, peace practitioners, and scholars from South Sudan, Bosnia, and Lebanon in order to voice and debate the importance of local visions of political legitimacy, justice, and peace. It thereby wants to highlight the constitutive character of subaltern peace agency for negotiating peace and at the same time its precarious position due to the various power asymmetries towards the national and the international. In doing so, the conference will discuss the chances of local and subaltern actors to assert their understandings of peace within overarching national and international frameworks of governance.
In order to attend the conference, please register at hannah [dot] stadler [at] uni-graz [dot] at.
