25th IPRA General Conference: Uniting For Peace - Building Sustainable Peace through Universal Values

Aug 10, 2014 | International Peace Research Association and Sakarya University
Istanbul, Turkey

However, the end of the Cold War also witnessed a change in conflict patterns and the world faced a new generation of challenges for peace and security.  Regional conflicts with ethnic, religious and/or economic-political background appeared in the Balkans, East and Central Africa, the Middle East, Caucasus or Central Asia. Recently the world is experiencing violent and non-violent mass upheavals, overthrow of authoritarian governments and militant quests for better democracy, livelihood and peace as in Northern Africa, the Middle East, Latin America, Thailand or Ukraine. Other novel threats – real like the World Trade Center terror attacks or purposefully staged as in the case of alleged WMDs in Iraq – had a strong impact on changes in the security, conflict and peace environment, as well.

In pursuit of building sustainable peace based on universal values, aiming at further contributing to the academic debate and on the occasion of the IPRA’s 50th anniversary the 25th IPRA General Conference will focus on issues related to post Cold War political ideology, geopolitics, geoeconomics, international and regional cooperation on intra-state and cross-border conflicts. The conference will be hosted by the Sakarya University and venued in Istanbul, Turkey. This venue is all the more significant since Turkey is the link between three continents and currently surrounded by hot conflict zones in Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Israel-Palestine and North Africa.

IPRA 2014 application form can be downloaded here.