Wisconsin Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies (WIPCS) – Call for Papers
The Wisconsin Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies (WIPCS) invites students, academics, and activists to the Marquette University campus in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, for a one-day conference with an opening plenary the evening before.
WIPCS 2025 Theme – A More Peaceful and Just Future is Possible: Charting Paths from Failed Institutions to Collective Liberation.
Deadline for Submissions: Monday, February 17, 2025
Pre-Registration: March 1 – April 1, 2025 (link TBA)
On-site Registration: April 4
Draft Schedule Released: March 4, 2025
Call for Papers
Faculty, students, activists, and youth who wish to participate are encouraged to submit proposals to present. Submissions may represent a variety of formats:
- Individually submitted papers (to be organized into panels by the conference committee)
- Panels (3-4 individual papers or presenters linked thematically)
- Films, creative works, photographic displays, and art presentations
- Roundtable discussions (interactive, facilitated discussion led by presenter/s)
- Teaching and/or skill-building, interactive workshops
- Establishing and supporting broad-based movements for peace, justice, and liberation, including under repressive conditions.
- Being accountable to people and communities most impacted by interpersonal and systemic violence.
- Building our understanding of power through knowledge of how oppressed communities are differently affected by domination systems.
- Exploring the depth and breadth of peace scholarship originating from a wide range of disciplines, including those not commonly represented.
- Exposing global challenges such as mass migration, resource-motivated military interventions, and the disparate effects of environmental changes in a post-colonial world.
- Critiquing state power and militarism that inhibits popular movements for peace, justice, and liberation.