Call for Papers

Although there is increasing attention for the complex relationships between individual trauma and the larger social contexts in which they occur, we still have only a fragmented understanding about the ways in which psychosocial interventions and practices in conflict and post-conflict situations influence long-term collective social processes of peacebuilding, reconciliation and other forms of social transformation.

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Disability, Asylum and Migration

Guest Editors: Maria Pisani (University of Malta) and Shaun Grech (Manchester Metropolitan University)

The Third World Conference on Humanitarian Studies will be organized jointly with the Third Istanbul Human Security Conference on 24-27 October 2013  at Kadir Has University, Istanbul.  'Human Security and Forced Migration: Dilemmas and Prospects' is proposed as a panel as part of this conference.

Deadline for submission of articles: September 2nd 2013

FMR 45 - to be published in December 2013 - will include a major feature on 'Crisis migration', focusing on people who move or become 'trapped' in the context of diverse humanitarian crises but do not fit well within existing legal, policy and operational frameworks for the protection of refugees and internally displaced people.