Final Call for Papers
Global Insecurities: Insurgency, Development, and World Order 10 Years On
*** New Keynote Speaker - BBC World Affairs Editor John Simpson ***
5-6 September 2011
University of Leeds
Final deadline for abstracts: Wednesday 22 June 2011
The School of Politics and International Studies, at the University
of Leeds, is delighted to invite you to a two day conference in
September to explore the nexus between three themes: insurgency;
development; and world order in the 21st century. The conference aims
to facilitate interaction between scholars from a variety of
disciplines in order to question the changing nature of global
insecurities.
Many scholars of International Politics hold that the response of
myriad actors to 9/11 has revolutionised the post Cold War
international environment. The 10th anniversary of these events
provides us with an opportunity to reflect upon the morphogenesis of
world order and the legacy of a changing international environment. To
this end we encourage paper and panel proposals from researchers at
any stage of their careers.
The Keynote Address will be delivered by Mark Duffield, Professor of
Development Politics at the University of Bristol and author of:
Global Governance and the New Wars: The Merging of Development and
Security (2001) and Development, Security and Unending War: Governing
the World of Peoples (2007). We also feature contributions from the
following: Dr Benjamin Barber (author of Jihad vs McWorld) and Michael
Dillon, Distinguished Professor of Politics, Sehir University, Istanbul.
In addition, we are delighted to be screening 'Ten Years of
Terror', part of the Histories of Violence programme, which is
dedicated to exploring the theoretical, empirical and aesthetic
dimensions to violence.
We welcome papers from the disciplines of International Relations,
Human Rights, Politics, Security Studies, International Development,
Sociology, Law, History, and related fields, with a focus upon
interaction within the following themes:
World Order
* The changing roles of International Organisations
* The evolution of UN Peacekeeping and peace enforcement missions
* The rise of the BRICs
* The role of the UN and EU in security and development governance
* IR theory
Development
* Human Rights as a Tool for Development
* Human Rights in the Non-western world
* The Security-Development Nexus
* The securitisation of Humanitarian Aid and Development
* Statebuilding and intervention
Insurgency and Security
* Democratisation and security
* Human Security
* Counterinsurgency
* Terrorism
* Transnational policing
* Weapons of Mass Destruction
Proposals for papers should be sent by e-mail to, University of
Leeds, at Polis-Conference@leeds.ac.uk by the deadline using the
application form that is available online. We encourage panel
submissions of up to four participants. Panel submissions should
include a panel rationale of 250 words in addition to the above
details for each paper.
A number of bursaries are available for graduate students
demonstrating innovation and originality to contribute towards
expenses. Please indicate on the application form if you would like to
be considered for a bursary.
Deadline for proposals: Wednesday 22 June 2011
Deadline for full papers: 29 August 2011
