Call for Papers: From the Right to Self-determination to the Right to Peace: Human and Peoples’ Rights in the Collapsing Multilateral Order. Deadline: 20th September 2025
- Event date: International Conference: 11-12 November 2025.
- Call for papers deadline: 20 September 2025.
- Venue:University of Padova
Preference will be given to sound proposals which contribute addressing, from different disciplinary perspectives the following topics (see detailed topic descriptions, below the “Dates and Instructions” section).
- How can global governance institutions better support peaceful self-determination claims of sub-state groups?
- Reclaiming Space: Indigenous and Minority Self-Determination in the Crisis of Multilateralism
- The Right to Development and the Crisis of Global Governance: Contestations between Multilateralism and Multistakeholderism
- Peoples’ Rights and the Crisis of Multilateralism: Rethinking Collective Claims in a Fragmenting World
- The Right to Peace and to a Healthy Environment in Times of War and Polycrisis
- The Human and People’s Right to Peace: What margins of action before a failing international community?
- How does marginalisation today shape “indigenous”?
Dates and instructions
To participate in the call for papers, please fill the form by 20th September 2025 (midnight).
You will be asked to provide an abstract of maximum 300-500 words, information about authors, up to 4 key-words and a reference to one of the conference’s panel topics.
Notification of acceptance will be sent by 6th October.
For accepted abstracts, the submission of a working paper before the Conference is strongly encouraged. This will also help preparing the manuscript for the publication opportunities provided in the context of this event (publication in Peace Human Rights Governance, the entirely open-access scientific journal of the University of Padova Human Rights Centre).
There is no Conference fee.
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