3rd Global Conference: Diversity within Unity: Cultures of Violence
12 to 16 August 2002, Prague, Czech Republic

This multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary conference aims at identifying and understanding the prevailing extent of violence in contemporary life. It likewise aims at probing the representation of violence in media, art and literature. Violence has been part of societies purporting to unite people, e.g., totalitarian regimes. It has been no less part of societies that set great store on diversity. It remains a horrifying feature of todayÆs world.

Papers are invited on the following themes;

- is violence part of human nature?
- war, civil war, terrorism and the metropolis
- policies of extermination
- religion, religious institutions, and their role in curtailing or propelling violence; religious fundamentalism and violence
- institutional life - including schools and hospitals
- ethnicity, nationalism, and sub-nationalisms; racism and violence
- violence in the private domain - abuse of women and children
- violence in the public domain - the legitimation of violence, law, concepts of punishment, capital punishment
- state violence - militarism and arms competition
- market economy and globalization; poverty and violence
- violence and modernity - the role of science and technology
- youth and violence - gang violence, children soldiers, hooliganism
- can there be a culture counter to the culture of violence and how is it to be promoted?

Papers will be considered on any related theme. The conference is part of a larger series of on-going conferences, run under the general banner æAt the InterfaceÆ. It aims to bring together people from different areas and interests to share ideas and explore various discussions which are innovative and exciting.

The first æDiversity within UnityÆ was held in Prague in 1999 and focussed on the theme of æHuman Community and Civil SocietyÆ. The second æDiversity within UnityÆ
conference was held in Oxford in 2000 and focussed on the theme of æCulture, Conflict, and BelongingÆ.

300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 17th May 2002. Full draft papers should be submitted by Friday 19th July 2002. Papers accepted for the previous conference have been published in a themed volume; selected papers accepted for and presented at this conference will also be published in a themed volume.

The conference is organised and sponsored by Learning Solutions and Inter-Disciplinary.Net.

For further details and information, please contact:

E-mail enquiries: Dr Rob Fisher rf@inter-disciplinary.net

Website: http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/du3cv1.htm