Reframing the Arctic: Cooperation, Not Conflict Workshop Prospectus and Call for Abstracts

Jul 6, 2015 - Jul 7, 2015 | Institute for Environmental Security and Diplomacy, University of Vermont
Burlington, VT
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The two-day conference will address current areas where conflict is frequently presumed to exist in the polar regions: energy, sovereignty, securitization, and human rights, and will dissect the reality of policy development in each area versus perceived or media-driven frames. The structure will be built around workshops, and each contributor will be asked to share work that addresses cooperation at the poles. The goal of the symposium will be to produce a special volume of papers with a common theme of combating the notion of inevitable polar conflict, and therefore the number of participants will be limited. Whether working at tribal, national, or international levels, all participants will be asked a framing question on conflict and cooperation around which their work should cohere.

One of the goals of the workshop will be to assemble a linked set of papers on this topic that can comprise a journal edition; therefore, we request that participants share their 100-word abstracts by May 15 and bring preliminary outlines or drafts that can inform each other’s papers and benefit from workshop discussion. Please forward abstracts of the papers to the following 3 email addresses of the organizers: saleem.ali@uvm.edu; rebeccapincus@gmail.com; Asim.Zia@uvm.edu.

This workshop is being organized by The University of Vermont (Institute for Environmental Diplomacy and Security and the Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources), in partnership with the University of Queensland, Australia through a grant from the US Army Research Office.