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Call for Papers Theme: Global Governance Subtitle: Engaging New Norms and Emerging Challenges Type: 2014 ACUNS Annual Meeting Institution: Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS) Kadir Has University Location: Istanbul (Turkey) Date: 19.–21.6.2014 Deadline: 3.3.2014 __________________________________________________ Seventy years after Dumbarton Oaks, as the international community also prepares in one more year to mark the seventieth anniversary of the founding of the United Nations, the 2014 ACUNS Annual Meeting at Kadir Has University offers an opportunity for scholars and practitioners to address a number of questions concerning the health and vitality of contemporary global governance. Across broad and critical themes of global conflict and security resolution, political economy, environment and sustainable development, justice and human rights, social affairs, and multilateral diplomacy, ACUNS members and others are invited to pose their own questions of power and knowledge, agency, architecture, accountability and responsiveness; of strengths, weaknesses, and continuing gaps in global leadership at different levels; of newly emerging or declining norms, practices, and instruments; of institutional and relational adaptation or stasis. What has been achieved, and what appears to have failed, in efforts to provide or promote good global governance processes and outcomes related to issues in these thematic areas? What has not (yet) been attempted? What lessons have been learned from successes and from failures, and what still needs to be learned? Who or what is, or should be, responsible – multilateral organizations and institutions, states (which ones?), the private sector, NGOs and civil society – and under what conditions? What can or should the UN – as a political body, as an international organization, and as a set of ideas and values – reasonably be expected to accomplish in providing global governance leadership? What are the viable alternatives, if any? You are invited to discuss these, and many other challenging issues, at the 2014 ACUNS Annual Meeting. Plenary Sessions 1. Conflict Management Norms, State Interests, and Civilian Protection 2. Sustainable Development and Resilient Cities in the Post-2015 Agenda 3. Local Ownership, Global Collective Action, and Addressing Fragile States 4. Can the United Nations Survive ‘Patchwork Multilateralism’? Online Submissions The Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS) is now accepting workshop paper and panel proposals. Proposals on the Annual Meeting theme – “Global Governance: Engaging New Norms and Emerging Challenges” – and on the subthemes and issues raised in the introductory note, in addition to other topics relating to the UN system and the broader mandate of the Council, will be considered. Proposals will be accepted and evaluated, and panel spaces will be allotted, on a first-come rolling basis subsequent to the issuance of this Call. Once all panel spaces have been filled, a waiting list will be established for any subsequent proposals received. Current ACUNS members in good standing (including new or newly-renewed members) will be given priority consideration for their proposals, but non-members are welcome to submit proposals. NB: In order to present at the AM14 workshops, Council membership will be required: this includes all persons participating in a full panel team proposal. To register, and to submit proposals for presentation, visit: www.acuns.org/am2014 To submit an individual proposal or a full panel proposal, you will be required to upload full contact information, the paper/panel title(s), abstract(s) of no more than 200 words, and biographical note(s) of no more than 250 words. The deadline for submitting proposals is Monday March 3rd, 2014. Event location: Kadir Has University, Turkey www.khas.edu.tr/en/ For questions about submissions contact the ACUNS Secretariat at: ad...@acuns.org Conference website: http://acuns.org/am2014/ __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: http://interphil.polylog.org Intercultural Philosophy Calendar: http://cal.polylog.org __________________________________________________
