Deadline: August 23, 2019.

UNESCO is opening a call for abstracts in preparation of a Regional Conference on the theme: Governance of Diversity: Challenges and Opportunities for Sustainable Development and Peaceful Coexistence in Africa, to be held in Accra Ghana, from 10 to 12 October 2019.

This conference aims to provide a platform for knowledge production and experience sharing on the governance of diversity, notably cultural diversity, and exploring how best to improve both the existing scholarship and academic work in this area to nurture more effectively policy environment, practices and programmes for grounding peaceful and sustainable inclusive societies.

In addition, it is about identifying and sharing of existing good practices worth leveraging on, as well as appropriate review mechanism that could be useful to monitor and inspire a more systemic approach to monitor countries efforts to lay the foundations for peaceful co-existence, unity in diversity.

 

THEMES

Abstracts for this conference are therefore invited in any of the sub-themes under Section IV below, welcoming in particular expression of interest and submissions from young researchers, with a selected number of scholarship to be made available to cover the cost of their participation in the conference. In this regard, Abstracts should be directed to the UNESCO Regional Abuja Office via e-mail at abstracts.abuja@unesco.org, best before 30th August 2019.
1. Conceptualizing Cultural Diversity in Africa: Semantic, Epistemological and Philosophical Considerations.
2. Governance of Cultural Diversity: An overview from Pre-colonial to Post-colonial African State.
3. Governance of Cultural Diversity and the Shaping of National Unity;
4. Indigenous peoples and minority groups: Integrating the right to difference in nation building.
5. Reporting diversity, conflict and violence in a plural-ethnic society: the role of the Media.
6. Assessing, measuring, and enhancing cultural diversity: What concrete tools, mechanisms and good practices to sustain reconciliation and resilience for national unity and peaceful coexistence?

 

ELIGIBILITY

This Call for Abstracts is therefore open to researchers and academics, as well as practitioners, with scholarship available to support the participation of young researchers from across Africa.

 

APPLICATION

Abstracts should be sent to the UNESCO Regional Abuja Office via e-mail at abstracts.abuja@unesco.org(link sends e-mail)

 

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