Track Chairs

• Eduardo Wills-Herrera, Universidad de Los Andes, Bogota, Colombia. 
  ewills@uniandes.edu.co

Goals and Objectives of the Track

In this track, we discuss current research that focuses on the complex interrelationship between security, peace, reconciliation, and sustainable development from a theoretical or more applied focus. Multilevel and multidimensional analysis starting from the individual, group, organizational and societal levels are encouraged for presentations as well as the presentation of multi-actor strategies designed to promote and sustain lasting peace in the individual as well as in society.

Abstract to track 9a

The relationship between sustainable development (SD) and peace, including security and reconciliation, has been revived in the wake of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), particularly, SDG 16, which is oriented to the promotion of peaceful and just societies and the building of effective and accountable institutions.

This is a complex, multidimensional, multilevel, and multi-actor relationship that has been scarcely studied and researched. This important relationship can be studied from different disciplinary and theoretical approaches and there is a need to integrate them. Our starting point is that the levels of violence, suffering and injustice of individuals, groups, and societies must be solved and healed to promote sustainable development. Consequently, one form of understanding SD, between many others, is to see it as the possibility to create conditions such that humans and other living beings can flourish in our planet. Sustainable development encourages to think and act on being and caring and not just having and possessing material goods as an aim of development. Sustainable peace in societies must be constructed starting from the individual herself.

We now live in a highly uncertain, unstable world where complex conflicts are interconnected with social, political, environmental, and climate risks. People everywhere need to feel free from all forms of violence and reduce uncertainties about their personal and communal security. Individuals and groups in conflicted countries and regions need to find ways to personal, social, and institutional forgiveness, reconciliation, and truth as a pre-requisite for SD. It needs a collective effort that begins with the individual and includes particular groups (rebellious groups, ex-combatants, victims, perpetrators of violence, women), governments, civil society organizations, and the private sector. It is also necessary to work in international cooperation to implement sustainable public policies to reduce violence, deliver justice, combat corruption, exploitation of womens and children bodies and ensure inclusive participation of victims and vulnerable groups whatever their ethnicity, gender, regional origin, and so on.

In this track, we discuss current research that focuses on the complex interrelationship between security, peace, reconciliation, and sustainable development from a theoretical or more applied focus. Multilevel and multidimensional analysis starting from the individual, group, organizational and societal levels are encouraged for presentations as well as the presentation of multi-actor strategies designed to promote and sustain lasting peace in the individual as well as in society.

Among many of the discussion themes that can be included in this track, starting from sustainable development, are:

• Integrative strategies for sustainable peace in post-conflict societies,
• cultivation of flourishing in post-conflict societies,
• diversity, flexibility and justice strategies in post-conflict societies,
• sustainable development in post-conflict societies;
• the relationship between climate change and insecurity;
• inclusive institutions for a feeling of sustainable peace;
• alternative institutions for conflict solving;
• construction of an inclusive peaceful future for societies, conciliatory relationships with former enemies involving under some conditions forgiveness as well as reconciliation, initiatives that bring together or engage previous conflicted groups;
• tensions between gender, sustainable development, and reconciliation;
• rights, dignity, and capabilities of vulnerable groups and victims.

Length and content of the proposed abstract to the track

Each proposed abstract (in connection to an area pointed out above) of between 300 and 500 words (including all aspects),

1. shall be best organized (without headlines) along usual structures (e.g. intro/method/findings or results/ discussion/conclusions)
2. does not need to, but can include references
3. shall provide in a final section
   a. to which SDG(s) and SDG-target(s) their proposed abstract especially relate to (e.g. “SDG+Target: 14.1.”).
   b. a brief indication how the proposed contribution relates to the topic of the Conference (“ACCELERATING PROGRESS TOWARDS SDG’s IN TIMES OF CRISIS”).

Abstracts which do not outline points 3.a.) AND 3.b.) might not be given special consideration in the selection for potential publications and might be considered less relevant in the Review.

Potential publication channels

With regard to potential publications, depending on the number and quality of contributions, diverse publication opportunities will be envisaged.

Submission

Please submit your abstract by visiting the abstract submission system (you will be required to setup an account first) at

https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/login?redirect=/stages/2332/submitter

 

Extended deadline for abstracts: 15 February 2021

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