The Aurora Karazin University Peace Education Hub invites you to a 5-day International Conference on ‘The Role of Higher Education in Peacebuilding’ hosted by the Unit for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Innsbruck, from the 17th to 21st of February 2025. More detailed information can be found on the dedicated conference website.
This 5-day international conference on “The Role of Higher Education in Peacebuilding” aims to contribute to future research, theory, and practice on how higher education institutions can be drivers of conflict transformation, peacebuilding, and sustainable development. The conference features a full three-day programme agenda preceded by a networking day and followed by a closing day with joint working opportunities.
The conference aims to provide a platform for discussing critical questions about how higher education institutions (HEI) may respond to complex global circumstances threatening world peace by fostering cultures of peace through educational initiatives, activities, and policies.
The Role of Higher Education in Peacebuilding – Conference Website
Call for Papers – PEH Conference PDF
The Conference Programme Committee is calling for abstract submissions from academics and practitioners of peacebuilding and related fields on the following thematic areas:
We invite international experts –– both scholars and practitioners in the peacebuilding sector and related fields –– higher education policymakers, academics and students from the Aurora universities, their partners and beyond to discuss the challenges and opportunities of HEI in promoting peace.
Submit your Abstract of 500 words to AURORA-Peace-Conference@uibk.ac.at by October 31st
More details:
Aurora is a partnership of like-minded and closely collaborating research‑intensive European universities, who use their academic excellence to drive societal change.
Co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union
This project has received funding from the European Union´s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 101035804
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