The Aurora Karazin University Peace Education Hub invites you to a 5-day International Conference on ‘The Role of Higher Education in Peacebuilding’ hosted by the Unit for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Innsbruck, from the 17th to 21st of February 2025..
What: International Conference “The Role of Higher Education in Peacebuilding,”
When: 17-25 February, 2025
Where: University of Innsbruck, Agnes Heller’s House
Organised by: Aurora Karazin University Peace Education Hub
This 5-day international conference on “The Role of Higher Education in Peacebuilding” aims to contribute to future research, theory, and practice on how higher education institutions can be drivers of conflict transformation, peacebuilding, and sustainable development. The conference features a full three-day programme agenda preceded by a networking day and followed by a closing day with joint working opportunities.
The conference aims to provide a platform for discussing critical questions about how higher education institutions (HEI) may respond to complex global circumstances threatening world peace by fostering cultures of peace through educational initiatives, activities, and policies.
Call for Papers – PEH Conference PDF
The Conference Programme Committee is calling for abstract submissions from academics and practitioners of peacebuilding and related fields on the following thematic areas:
Theory and practice of pedagogies of peace and peace education
Creative and pluriversal avenues of strengthening peace education
Current challenges to academic freedom and peace education
Peacebuilding education practices and programmes from conflict-affected societies
Peacebuilding education efforts across HEI and partners in Ukraine
Experience-based learning from conflict and post-conflict perspectives
Support and capacity-building frameworks, programming, and crisis management tools for HEI affected by armed conflicts, mass violence, and atrocities
Ecosystems and collaboration of formal, non-formal, and informal education actors (public/private, state/NGOs) in mediation and dialogue, non-violence, and peaceful relations
Epistemicide and ways of decolonising HEI
Gender, diversity and intersectionality in conflict transformation
Experiences of HEI from war zones and with post-war reconstruction, recovery, and reconciliation
We invite international experts –– both scholars and practitioners in the peacebuilding sector and related fields –– higher education policymakers, academics and students from the Aurora universities, their partners and beyond to discuss the challenges and opportunities of HEI in promoting peace.
Submit your Abstract of 500 words to AURORA-Peace-Conference@uibk.ac.at by October 11th