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From Discrimination to Empowerment

Conference venue: Trieste (Italy)
Period: Apr. 12 - 14, 2012
Deadline for submitting abstracts: Mar. 15, 2012


Description of the Conference

See the conference outline and guest speakers on the PECOB conference page!

Eligible topics for the conference

The conference will address issues relevant to the main themes of the conference, Discrimination and Empowerment, and allow quality exchange on themes such as:

  • positive and negative (multiple) discrimination, social exclusion/inclusion, xenophobia,
  • nationality, ethnicity, citizenship, cultural and state membership, gender, sexuality, religion, age and other categories of social divisions and belonging, identity ‘intersectionality’,
  • majority-minority relations, hostility among groups, migrants, national and ethnic minorities,
  • structural and cultural violence, psychological trauma,
  • effects of discrimination/empowerment on economic and psychological well being and health, school and career achievement,
  • human/minority rights, recognition, equality,
  • cultural diversity, integration processes, peace education, intercultural education,
  • democracy, civil society, mass media, new platforms and innovative strategies for social change,
  • best practices of personal and community empowerment.

 

Guidelines for submission

Please submit your proposal over email by March 15, 2012. Proposals for the symposia, individual papers, workshops and posters must be sent as a Word (2003) attachment to the following address:empowerment.conference2012[at]gmail.com

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