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Call for Publications Theme: The Ethics of Action Subtitle: Conflict Transformation, Peace, and Human Rights Publication: Edited Volume Deadline: 1.2.2019 __________________________________________________ Book Scope and Rationale Peace studies and peacebuilding have cultivated a strong sense of professional ethics to guide practice. However, the field of ethical practice in peace studies and peacebuilding has mainly focused on the ethical dilemmas of specific interventions as actions, particularly as it relates to the intended or unintended outcomes of interventions. Less well understood are the ethics of leadership, the ethics of decision-making, and the enduring dilemmas that practitioners face in the course of their everyday work. This volume convenes distinguished and emerging scholars and scholar-practitioners to critically examine the state of the field in ethical practice and the ethics of practice. This effort will consider questions of theory and experience as well as enduring puzzles that have no clear solutions. The volume is intended to deepen scholarship on ethics in international and global studies, peace and conflict studies, peace and justice studies, peace studies, human rights, and other related fields; enhance the impact of scholarship on practice; enhance feedback from practice to scholarship; and to develop the field of ethics in a way that can inform the work of practitioners, advocates, and peacemakers. Possible issues to explore in a given field of practice include (but are not limited to): - Avoiding co-optation; - Balancing donor demands with local integrity; - Deciding how to formulate, prioritize, and change goals, especially in shifting contexts; - Navigating between competing goals and balancing tactics with strategy; - Developing influence: including material, institutional, discursive, and coercive; - Interpreting and applying abstract values in rapidly changing circumstances; - Navigating tradeoffs between peace and justice, and vice-versa; - Operationalizing positive peace without compromising democracy; - Enabling conflict systems to stabilize without meaningful transformation; - Conducting urgently-needed research with integrity; - Any other wicked hard problems faced by practitioners of conflict resolution, peacebuilding, human rights, and collective action. The chapters should be rooted in scholarship on ethics — whether academic or applied — in light of critical and relevant cases. Chapters should also go beyond extant research to examine the practical opportunities and challenges raised by decision-making dilemmas. Concrete examples are welcome; however, the chapter arguments should have broader applicability than a single case study, and should clearly identify the main contributions to ethical leadership. Instructions for Submission Interested contributors should e-mail Douglas Irvin-Erickson with 300 word abstracts before February 1, 2019: dirvi...@gmu.edu Abstracts will be reviewed by the co-editors in the first week of February, and responses will be emailed to contributors in the middle of February. Completed chapters are expected in June, 2019. The co-editors have begun reaching out to presses, with a formal prospectus that will be pitched at the International Studies Association meeting in March 2019 in Toronto. The co-editors have received positive responses on the book concept from top-tier university press publishers. Abstract Guidelines Abstracts should be around 300 words, and clearly outline the problems, theories, experiences, or puzzles the chapter will consider. Chapter Guidelines We are planning an engaging and readable volume. Accepted contributions will expect to be short (no longer than 5,000 words long) and snappy (sharp and provocative interventions, rather than reviews of conventional ideas). Please prepare manuscripts in Chicago intext citations with a bibliography. Editors Douglas Irvin-Erickson The School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution George Mason University Email: dirvi...@gmu.edu Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick Kroc School of Peace Studies University of San Diego / School of Sociology and Social Policy University of Nottingham Email: caus...@sandiego.edu Ernesto Verdeja Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies University of Notre Dame Email: everd...@nd.edu __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __________________________________________________
