Communication and Conflict
Sunday 4th November – Tuesday 6th November 2012
Salzburg, Austria
Call for Papers:
Our ability to communicate successfully affects so many aspects of our lives.
Difficulties, indeed failures, or breakdowns in communication can play a
major role in hostility, conflict and war. Communication problems can also
lead to personal frustration and desired outcomes not being realised.
The nature of our communications can raise larger contextual issues about
human learning, exchange of knowledge and the nature of humanity. How can we
communicate where those involved have quite different languages,
specialisations and views of the world? How can we avoid conflict when we
strongly disagree based on the great differences in how we perceive things?
How can we appreciate and consider highly divergent views from our own? How
can we still communicate effectively when the conceptual gap is so large? How
can we make good decisions and complete tasks when communication is difficult?
Wars may be started and sustained by communication difficulties. When we
communicate we are not just stating facts, but also emotions and personal
positions that may underlie them. In the cut and thrust of everyday life,
being able to recognise, track, and respond to the varied levels in
communication can be challenging. It may require us to appreciate knowledge
and realities vastly different than our own; bridging communication gaps may
place us well outside our comfort zone.
This new inter- and multi-disciplinary conference project seeks to explore
these and other topics and create dialogue about communication and conflict.
We seek submissions from a range of disciplines including communication
studies, journalism, public affair's, public relations, philosophy,
psychology, literature, management, business studies, information technology,
science, the visual and creative arts, music, politics and also actively
encourage practitioners and non-academics with an interest in the topic to
participate.
We welcome traditional papers, preformed panels of papers, workshop proposals
and other forms of performance recognising that different disciplines express
themselves in different mediums. Submissions are sought on any aspect of
Communications including the following:
1. Non-violent, or compassionate, communication (NVC)
- Honest self-expression
- Empathy
- Spiritual Connections
- Active Listening
2. Communication and Conflict
- Workplace
- Domestic
- International Relations
- Cultural
- Spiritual
- War
- Terrorism
3. Communication breakdowns and breakthroughs
- Breakdowns (e.g. language and gender differences, misinterpretations, mental
illness, failure to notice, to listen, effects of complexity, and
disagreements etc.)
- Breakthroughs (Creative responses such in music, drama, literature, art,
humour, etc.)
4. Dehumanising Communication
- Reification
- Alienation
- Portraying others, strangers, the enemy
- Effects of technology (electronic communication)
5. Dialogue
- Friendship
- Philosophy
- Dialogical Relationships
- Counselling
- Teaching
- Respect and recognition
6. Communication in Health and Illness
- Stories and symptoms
- Communicating meaning
- Role of communication in treatment
- Communicating identity and experience
- Communicating care
7. Communication and decision making
- Role of communication in making decisions (group decisions)
- Conflicting opinions and views
- Group think
The Steering Group particularly welcomes the submission of pre-formed panel
proposals. Papers will also be considered on any related theme. 300 word
abstracts should be submitted by Friday 4th May 2012. If an abstract is
accepted for the conference, a full draft paper should be submitted by Friday
23rd September 2011.
300 word abstracts should be submitted simultaneously to both Organising
Chairs; abstracts may be in Word, WordPerfect, or RTF formats with the
following information and in this order:
a) author(s), b) affiliation, c) email address, d) title of abstract, e) body
of abstract, f) up to 10 keywords.
E-mails should be entitled: Communication2 Abstract Submission
Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain from using footnotes and
any special formatting, characters or emphasis (such as bold, italics or
underline). Please note that a Book of Abstracts is planned for the end of the
year. All accepted abstracts will be included in this publication. We
acknowledge receipt and answer to all paper proposals submitted. If you do not
receive a reply from us in a week you should assume we did not receive your
proposal; it might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest, then, to look for an
alternative electronic route or resend.
Organising Chairs:
Paul James
Project Leader, IP Australia
Australia
Email: pj@inter-disciplinary.net
Rob Fisher
Network Founder and Leader,Inter-Disciplinary.Net,
Freeland, Oxfordshire,
United Kingdom
Email: cc2@inter-disciplinary.net
The conference is part of the Probing the Boundaries programme of research
projects. It aims to bring together people from different areas and interests
to share ideas and explore various discussions which are innovative and
exciting. All papers accepted for and presented at the conference will be
eligible for publication in an ISBN eBook. Selected papers may be developed
for publication in a themed hard copy volume(s).
For further details of the project, please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/probing-the-boundaries/hostility-and-
violence/communication-and-conflict/
For further details of the conference, please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/probing-the-boundaries/hostility-and-
violence/communication-and-conflict/call-for-papers/
Please note: Inter-Disciplinary.Net is a not-for-profit network and we are not
in a position to be able to assist with conference travel or subsistence.
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