Invitation to join the Virtual International Women's University's
(vifu) first internet conference:
VEINS - Virtual Encounters In North-South Politics: War, Peace, and the Future of Civil Society: The Case of Palestine
The main subject of the conference will be the disquieting conflict in
the Middle East which will be analyzed according to the following agenda
for research:
- Conflicts and their backgrounds: Potentials for solutions and
reconciliation
- The histories of migrations, in(to) Palestine: What are their
causes and effects? What are the regional developments and what are the
impacts of "Globalization"?
- Water, natural resources, sustainability: Where are natural
resources located? How are they used? What effects do they have on the
conflict?
- Body, health, nutrition: How is the physical health of civilians
affected by strategies of the conflicting parties?
- Information, communication and the media's role and potentials: How
is control centralized? How to access information as a social resource?
What is the impact of national and international media? How can the
people participate? How to improve on the potentials and particular
qualities of independent and "alternative" media?
- Regional development: This thematic field will have to focus on
such crucial complexes as education and science as well as the set of
problems tied to the issue of 'work' in both its reproductive and
productive dimension.
- The conflict in a global context: Why is this conflict so prominent
whereas other conflicts of other regions are located only in the
periphery of public interest? What experiences or strategies can
initiatives and academics from other regions contribute towards a
betterment of the situation in the Middle East?
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