Call For Papers

Topics of interest for submission include, but are not limited to:

1. Value of cultural mechanisms (film, theatre, music, crafts, sport, art, architecture, cultural collections, museums, memorials, ceremonies, media, rituals and symbols) in post-conflict resolution.

2. The challenges of teaching history in post conflict societies – whose narrative?

3. Supporting and financing justice delivery and social reconstruction through tribunals, truth commissions and other transitional justice mechanisms.

4. Public health work in post conflict peace building.

5. Waging peace: road maps to peace; conflict resolution; election monitoring; peace keeping; constitution drafting; voter education; democracy programs.

6. Reducing societal polarization through subjective reporting by improving professional media practices, standards, and understanding.

7. Resolution of clashes over religion; and cultural, national or ethnic identity.

8. Contesting ownership of the peace process: creating spaces for post-conflict intercultural dialogue.

9. The safeguarding, return and restitution of cultural objects in post conflict societies.

10. Re-integration of ex-combatants, including child soldiers, into society.

11. Methodologies for conflict analysis – links between theory and practice in this field.

12. The vulnerability of women during and after conflict – gender based violence.

13. Cultural mediation of conflicts in history.

14. Performing conflicts and making peace in traditional societies.

15. New approaches and trends in cultural history.

Paper Publication
All registered papers for the ICHC 2015 will be published in the IJSSH (ISSN: 2010-3646) as one volume, and will be included in the Google Scholar, DOAJ, Engineering & Technology Digital Library, Crossref, Index Copernicus, and ProQuest.
Please submit your papers by Electronic Submission System; ( .pdf).
Contact Email:
For any inquiry about the submission and conference, please feel free to contact us at: ichc@iedrc.net