[FoME] Call for Papers for the panel: “Visualizing peace and conflict: collective violence, trauma and transitional justice” at the EISA 2017 in Barcelona, 13-16th of September

[Kristina Roepstorff]

Call for Papers for the panel: “Visualizing peace and conflict: 
collective violence, trauma and transitional justice” at the EISA 2017 
in Barcelona, 13-16th of September

As part of the section on “Visuality and Global Politics” at the EISA 
2017 in Barcelona the panel will specifically focus on the visualization 
of peace and conflict. While the importance of visualization has 
gathered great momentum in the discipline of International Relations, 
far less has been said about the concept of visualization in peace and 
conflict studies. While the panel is open to papers on any aspect of 
visualization of peace and conflict, it is particularly interested in 
research on the politics, the policy and the pedagogy of visualizing 
peace and conflict:

1.)	With regard to the politics of visualization, the panel would be 
interest in how peace and conflict are visualized in artifacts such as 
films, comics or posters and consider what these representations of 
peace and conflict do politically. In other words, what is presented in 
the picture of peace and conflict and what is left out? What 
consequences can that have for the construction of politics?

2.)	Connected to the first set of questions, the panel will try and 
reflect on how visual artifacts can contribute to “real world” peace 
after violent conflict. How can visualization in film, comics or posters 
help build peace and contribute to conflict resolution? Films are often 
seen as a means of contributing to the dichotomous construction of 
others and thereby aiding the legitimization of violence and conflict. 
If this holds, then film also can play a role in peace processes.

3.)	Finally, the panel will try and consider how visual artifacts of 
peace and conflict can be employed in peace pedagogy or used to teach 
students about a variety of issues in peace and conflict studies, 
conflict resolution and transitional justice.

We invite submissions from senior and junior scholars worldwide who are 
interested in visuality of peace and conflict.
Paper proposals (with abstracts of 200 words maximum) must be submitted 
via the online submission system ConfTool 2017: 
https://www.conftool.pro/paneuropean2017/

The closing date for proposals is midnight (CET) on Friday 10 February 
2017.

We are very much looking forward to your proposals!

Panel coordinators
Alexander Spencer, Kristina Roepstorff & Stephan Engelkamp