Open Keynote Lecture: “Rescuing 'Local" from its 'Global' Enthusiasts: a Postcolonial Reading of 'Peace from Below'”

Keynote: “Rescuing 'Local' from its 'Global' Enthusiasts:

a Postcolonial Reading

of 'Peace from Below' ”

by Dr. Swati Parashar

The Center for Peace Studies (CPS) invites you for the keynote lecture by Dr. Swati Parashar, to be delivered as part of the Critical Interdisciplinary Conference on Studying Peace from Below which takes place on September 5-6, in Tromsø Norway.

Swati Parashar is Associate Professor of Peace and Development at the School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. She is a research associate at the Center for International Studies and Diplomacy (CISD), at SOAS, London and a Visiting Faculty at the Malaviya Center for Peace Research, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. She has previously been a Visiting Fellow at the Center for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), Delhi.

Her research and teaching engage with the intersections between feminism and postcolonialism, focused on conflict, peace and development in South Asia. She is particularly interested in studying the textured narratives of violence, its various forms and gendered nature and impact. Swati Parashar serves on the advisory boards of International Feminist Journal of Politics, Critical Studies on Terrorism and Millennium: Journal of International Studies. With Marysia Zawleski, Cristina Masters and Shine Choi she is the co-editor of the Book Series, 'Creative Interventions in Global Politics' with Rowman and Littlefield. She has been an active member of the International Studies Association for over a decade, serving within its Governing Council as Chair of the Peace Studies Section, Member at Large of the Feminist Theory and Gender Studies Section and Member of the Academic Freedom Committee. She has been actively engaged with international media, as an op-ed writer and radio and TV commentator.

Day 2 of the conference will also feature panel discussions on transitional justice and reconciliation , migration, development, and gender , and identity politics and peace .

To learn more about the conference, please visit the conference webpage . To learn more about the host, please visit the CPS website . Register now to attend the conference (in full or in part) by sending an email with your name, email, and institutional affiliation (if applicable) to mail@peace.uit.no with subject line # peacefrombelow2019. Social media: Twitter:  @CPS UiT # peacefrombelow2019 Facebook Conference Facebook










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