Call for papers: Religious Actors & Humanitarian Norms Compliance in Armed Conflict: Roles, Influence, Engagement (online, grudzień 2021 r.)

W dniach 8-10 grudnia br. online odbędzie się konferencja pt. "Religious Actors & Humanitarian Norms Compliance in Armed Conflict: Roles, Influence, Engagement". Wydarzenie ma koncentrować się wokół trzech głównych tematów:

1. Roles:

- What roles can and do religious actors play in relation to humanitarian norms compliance, in respect to their own compliance and relational to the conflict parties’ compliance? (e.g. dutybearer/right-holders; victim/accomplice/perpetrator; influenced/influencer; advocates/agents/spoilers of compliance/non-compliance).

- Are there specific humanitarian norms in relation to which religious actors assume more or less active roles, and why?

- How can the roles of religious actors be documented and assessed? (empirically; methodologically; theoretically)

- Do the roles played by religious actors depend on institutional or structural characteristics? Is our understanding of their roles influenced by the way we define religious actors/leaders, or shaped by other factors such as gender?

- Is there a correspondence between the roles played by religious actors in times of armed conflict with those played post-conflict?

2. Influence:

- How should the influence of religious actors on parties to armed conflict be defined and measured? (conceptually, methodologically).

- What factors explain or contribute to the influence/lack of influence of religious actors on parties to armed conflict? (e.g. relational aspects, such as shared religion, shared goals; geographical proximity or shared power structures; legitimacy; relationships with community)

- What motivates religious actors to seek to influence armed actors towards greater compliance or lack thereof?

3. Engagement:

- What strategies of engagement with religious actors have been spearheaded by the humanitarian sector? And vice-versa, by religious actors? (e.g. one-off engagements in relation to an incident, trainings, workshops, common projects, consultancies by religious leaders on broader humanitarian issues).

- How can past and present engagement between the humanitarian sector and religious actors aimed at norms compliance-generation be assessed? (empirically, conceptually).

- What strategies of engagement work best from the point of view, respectively, of humanitarians and religious leaders? What limitations exist?

- How can reflexive practice shape engagement between humanitarians and religious actors?

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