The conference seeks to promote study of the search for international justice and discussion of the origins of juridical philosophies and institutions which emerged as a response to the Holocaust and the other atrocities committed by the Axis powers, as well as to evaluate the successes and failures of the global community in its efforts to enact the principles and spirit of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Both historical and theoretical proposals will be considered.

The conference hopes to raise the fundamental question about what the law and legal institutions can do to alleviate poverty and economic inequality. The conference will explore contemporary constitutional strategies, such as the incorporation of economic, social and cultural rights in constitutions (as evidenced by the South African experience), among other formal legal strategies, in relation to grassroots anti-poverty campaigns, such as the poor people's economic and human rights campaign in the United States and the homeless and landless people's federation in Asia and elsewhere. This investigation will also examine the limitation of legal strategies in the face of entrenched economic and social structural impediments to equality.

Die Konferenz lenkt ihren Fokus auf Homi K. Bhabhas Kulturtheorie. Ziel ist es, Bhabhas Theorie multiperspektivisch zu reflektieren, das Konzept des ›dritten Raumes‹ und andere Figurationen, die das Hybride denkbar machen, zu befragen und zu hinterfragen. Dieses kritische Nachdenken erfolgt über Lektüren und Interpretationen in Anwendung und in Wendungen der Begrifflichkeiten, die im Zentrum von Bhabhas Kulturtheorie stehen.

The diverse geographical and cultural space of the Third World nations is the birthplace of many new genres of music and literature, modes of spirituality and knowledge, conceptions of history, society, and culture. This conference is devoted to hearing the voices and exploring the visions of the poets, philosophers, historians, novelists, linguists, anthropologists, artists, theorists … who have contributed to the vitality and new directions in the Humanities in recent decades.

• Islam and Politics
• Genocide and Ethnic Violence
• Anthropology of Identity
• Citizenship and Nationality
• Religion
• Language Politics
• Conflict Resolution
• Autonomy
• Gender
• EU Integration
• Diaspora
• etc.

Cultural Narcissism · The Lonely Planet—Literature · Film and Art · Alienable vs Inalienable Human Rights · Documenting Human Rights Abuse · Film · Art · Literature · Imagining a Human(e) Community · Common sense and Common Selves · Self Reflection and the Reflected Self · Global Orders Private Lives · The Law and Practice of Human Rights · Abolition of Slave Trade · Refugees and Forced Migration · Nationalism and Ethnicity · Diplomacy and Human Rights · Human Rights and Religious Expression · Trafficking in Persons and Drugs · Human Rights and Globalization · Democracy · Political Rights and Human Rights · Democracy and Political Activism · NGOS and Human Rights · Rights of Women · Rights of Children · Human Rights and Diversity in the Workplace · Preventing Harassment and Discrimination in the Workplace · Human Rights and Labor Exploitation · Human Rights and the Environment · War Crimes and Terror · Transnational Politics and Globalization · Gandhi's view on Globalization · Poverty and Globalization · Globalization as a Sophisticated Form of Colonization · Outsourcing · Capitalism and Worker's Union · Anti-terrorist Measures and International Human Rights · Gangs · Violent Crime and Security · Racism and the Multicultural Self · Social Responsibility and Labor Rights · Objectivist Framework of Individualism · Privacy Rights and Communications Technology · Genetic Engineering and Human Rights

Die Tagung setzt sich zur Aufgabe, orientierendes europäisches Kulturgut auf der Basis der Pluralität europäischer Kulturregionen zu erfassen. Für eine künftige funktionierende soziale Praxis im Gesamtrahmen ›Europa‹ reicht die bloße Bewahrung europäischer Kulturgüter nicht aus. Gefordert ist die Aufdeckung der Kulturtraditionen charakterisierenden, in ihrer Hermetik zumeist aber apokryph bleibenden systemischen Bezüge.

• What kind of positive sense of religious truth is possible in a postmodern era?
• What is religious truth: is it representational, propositional, orthopractical, symbolic, aletheiological, or something else altogether?
• How does the notion of »truth« square with a multiplicity of religious traditions?
• Is the very term »religion« appropriate in a pluralistic society, since the term is distinctly western?
• How might the earnest faith of a Christian, say, be compatible with the equally earnest faith of other believers or even non-believers?
• With the varieties of religions (not to mention the varieties of expressions of religions), how can their respective differences be respected?
• Are there forms of religious expression that simply cannot find a place in the public square?

• To showcase initiatives, processes of sharing knowledge to benefit global economies and promote social justice
• To identify challenges and opportunities of the transfer of global knowledge in developed and developing countries
• To promote transfer of global knowledge from the perspectives of education, business, law, and government

• What is constitutionalisation beyond the state and what shape does it have to take – a question which mainly addresses the task of conceptualizing institution-building beyond the state.
• What is to be understood as democratic constitutionalisation beyond the state? What are the conceptual prerequisites and the favourable empirical conditions for rendering institution-building beyond the state democratic and how can these be analytically captured and empirically observed?

• Civic and Ethnic Aspects of Nation Formation
• Is Nationalism a European Phenomenon?
• Alternatives to Civic and Ethnic Nationalism
• Experiences of Historical Migrant Nations
• Citizenship and Immigration
• Multiculturalism

• Governmentality and Neo-liberalism
• Political Spirituality and Contemporary Religious Movements
• Biopolitics, Globalization and Populations
• Race, Genetics and the Politics of Life
• Ethics, Biopower and the Politics of Consumption
• Panopticism and Surveillance in a Post 9/11 World
• Governmentality, Biopower and the Politics of Risk
• Subpolitics, Life Politics and New Social Movements
• Foucault and the Left in a Global Context
• Foucault and the Penal-Industrial Complex
• Ethics, Identity and Individualization
• Genealogy
• Feminism

• What exactly is the international human rights regime?
• What changes has it undergone since 9/11, and (how) can those changes be attributed to events related to 9/11?
• How do obvious changes in national policy (foreign and domestic) impact the regime?
• How do these changes differ in Europe and the United States, and how do the differences play out internationally?
• Was 9/11 a significant turning point for human rights? In what ways?
• Does 9/11 provide a useful analytic frame for thinking about human rights and about changes in the human rights regime?

• Towards a Transcultural Indigeneity
• Experiences of Translation Across the Americas
• Interculturality, Transculturality and Globalization
• Migration in Global Cities
• Hemispheric Imaginaries: creolité, mestizaje, americanidade or hybridity?

1. Islam and Politics: Theological and Philosophical Traditions in the Middle East and Africa
2. Islam and Politics: Juristic and Practical Traditions in the Middle East and Africa
3. The Role of Islam in Politics: Confessional Expressions
4. The Role of Islam in Politics: Regional Case Studies
5. Jihad as a Religious Obligation and Political Expression
6. Consultation and Communication: Mediating Influences in Societies Influenced by Islam
7. What is Justice (Civil Society) Islamic Style?
8. Islam, Democracy and Human Rights

• Should the concept of race be invoked to further the goals of science or social justice?
• Do racial and ethnic distinctions produce natural categories for scholarly or political analysis?
• Do the benefits of including diverse populations in research outweigh the potential harm caused by reifying racial and ethnic distinctions?
• Will efforts to improve the precision of these categories with subtler distinctions based on ancestry or genetic markers increase the utility of the resulting data?
• What role do funding agencies (whether governmental or philanthropic) and journal editors have as gatekeepers for the appropriate use of racial and ethnic categories?
• What hopes and conflicts are embedded in analyses of race as a scientific, medical or social category?

Race theories in analytic philosophy have evolved over the last decade bringing advances on a variety of topics, ranging from the metaphysics of social categories to questions about the role of race in medicine. Its influence on the study of race and ethnicity has been substantial, and it has been a touchstone for debate and research on race and ethnicity in other fields. The conference focuses on that body of work, and showcases new perspectives in the analytic philosophy of race by upcoming and established philosophers.

In this congress, we would like to put the emphasis on the phenomen of »living in between points«, »being in between« in terms of semiotics. Maybe that which lies beyond the two points is unknowable to the mind of man which has been composed by knowledge of the in-between? Then the question is, can semiotics have a role to decipher the »in between«?

Over the course of the 20th century, many individuals and groups have achieved profound social changes in the name of human rights. National liberation movements drove out colonial powers; labor unions established the right to organize; women succeeded in gaining the vote. While these accomplishments are the results of struggles for the protection of humans, civil and human rights have evolved as distinct privileges accorded to the world's people. Many scholars consider civil rights to be those liberties bestowed by nations on citizens within their territorial borders, while human rights are rights individuals possess by virtue of membership in the human race. The conference will examine those societal attributes that have evolved into the accepted differences separating civil rights from human rights.

Experiences of decentralization, regionalization and devolution to linguistic and national minorities are the topic. Such groups have been accorded special language, cultural and educational powers, and other measures to promote direct political participation. What conclusions should be drawn from these experiences? Are they legitimate democratically? Are they enabling more effective participation? Are linguistic and national minorities participating more significantly to the decision process? Have these measures increased their capacity for self-government? What about their impact on the recognition of plurality, such as gender equality within these minorities? Are some means more legitimate than others in promoting governance and democratic participation within linguistic and national minorities?

• The Laws of State-Terror
• Communications of Terror
• The Manufacture and Management of Terror
• Designating Terror
• Terror and the Transformation of States and Nations
• Spaces of Terror
• Recreational Terror
• Terror as Text
• The Doxas of Terror

• Dualisms and Dichotomies
• Establishing Identity in Language
• Identity and Subjectivity in the Public Sphere
• The State, Nationhood and Citizenship
• Responsibility and Group Membership
• Agency, Empowerment and Activism
• Representations of the Self in the Media
• Identity, Individuality, and Confronting Otherness
• Personal Identity over Space and Time
• Sex, Gender, Race, Ethnicity, and Inequality
• Speciesism, Anthropocentrism, and Classification
• Consciousness and Intentionality
• Culture and the Origin of Self
• History, Identity, and Culture
• Numbers as Self Subsistent Objects

• Perspectives for Understanding Violence
• Motives and Goals of Violence
• Generating Enemies, Being Violent
• Contexts of Hostility and Violence
• Violence, Victims and Others
• Resisting, Countering and Preventing Violence
• Representations of Violence

• How do we Talk about and Describe War?
• Representations and Experiences
• History and Development of Warfare and War Fighting
• Extent, Conduct and Morality
• Human Rights and Human Security
• The Boundaries of War
• Prevention and Peace
• Non-state Actors and NGOs in War
• Future War: Revolutions in Military Affairs – Emerging Types of Warfare

Papers exploring philosophical issues associated with Eastern thought (e.g., Asian or Middle-Eastern philosophy/religion) as well as papers addressing issues broadly related to philosophical and religious pluralism are encouraged.

Even among those who do not share the more skeptical views on the human rights regime, important normative questions both about their foundations and about their function in the developing global order remain perplexing. In the words of Charles Malik, the drafters of the Universal Declaration tried to ensure that »no regional philosophy or way of life was permitted to prevail« while integrating the different cultural perspectives of those involved in the drafting process. But at the beginning of the 21st century, there are many more actors at the global stage, as well as much more potential for coordinated action. It is before this background that questions about the grounds on which human rights might legitimize interference in the affairs of others and about their function in the global order become urgent.

1. What are the nature and aims of the historical traditions which shape Higher Education
2. Society, Culture and the of Places of Higher Education
3. The Internet, Virtual Learning and Higher Education
4. Globalisation, Democracy and Higher Education

• the diverse conceptions of the inheritance of acquired characters (»Lamarckism«) and their histories
• the importance of national, disciplinary, and other traditions in conditioning »environmentalist« thinking
• the nature of the challenge of epigenesis/epigenomics and related developments to old scientific, historical and philosophical commonplaces
• the cultural politics of the »nature/nurture« debate

• What is territorial pluralism (i.e., what is the range of such institutional responses to diversity?) and how can it be distinguished from forms of self-government that do not accommodate communities based on ethnicity, religion, language or nationality?
• Under what conditions does territorial pluralism succeed or fail?
• Is territorial pluralism a normatively appropriate response to diversity?

• Economy
• Power
• Culture
• Environment

Die Erklärung der Genese individueller und kollektiver Identität steht im Fokus Fichtes Denkens von den revolutionsbegeisterten Anfängen bis hin zur antinapoleonischen Spätphase. Das Thema »Individuum, Nation und Europa« gibt den Rahmen vor, innerhalb dessen sich die Identitätsproblematik abspielt. Daraus ergibt sich das Spannungsfeld von Identitätsbildung zwischen Individuum, Gesellschaft, Staat und Kultur, d.h. Vernunft und christlicher Religion. Fichtes Unternehmen stellt einen systematischen Versuch dar, die unterschiedlichen Bereiche zugunsten der menschlichen Freiheit zu vereinbaren und mittels Bildung dem Volk zu vermitteln. Ob und wie Fichte auf Vorwürfe aus unserer pluralistischen Zeit reagieren kann, ist einer intensiven Beschäftigung wert, wovon nicht nur die Fichte-Forschung, sondern auch unser gegenwärtiges Zeitalter profitieren kann.

• Theories of nationalism and ethnicity
• Religious contexts of nationalism
• Hybrid identities
• Colonialism and postcolonialism
• Gender, sexuality and the nation
• Collective memory and the politics of history
• The idea of the chosen nation
• Nationalism and civil religion
• Nationalisms after 1989
• Nationalisms and the European Union
• Anti-Americanism and European identity
• Minority rights in multi-cultural contexts
• The visual culture of nationalism
• Nationalism in an age of globalization
• Transnationalism and nationalism

The workshop welcomes research that deals with the many issues produced and shaped by North America's uneven experience of colonization, indigenous persistence and resistance and nation-building. While focused on the particular historical context of North America, the workshop is committed to transnational, comparative and connective analyses of indigineity and imperialism and encourages applications from scholars whose research and interests span continents and nations. Likewise the workshop welcomes researchers from a range of disciplinary backgrounds, methodological approaches, and theoretical approaches including feminist, post-colonial, Marxist and post-modern perspectives.

Panel and individual paper topics relating to all aspects of ethnicity, race relations, Indigenous peoples, Afro-descendants and other ethnic or racial groups in Latin America and the Caribbean are welcome. Scholars and practitioners in all humanities and social science disciplines with an interest in these areas of research are encouraged to participate.

The conference intends to focus particularly on gendered, cultural and racial identity, disability and identity, and identities reached by degrees of bodily modification. In each case attention will be paid to the role of social others in constituting the meaning and recognition bestowed on bodily physiognomies. The common assumption that such categories of identity are required for social participation, political agency and constructions of subjectivity, will be subjected to critical scrutiny.

A fair climate policy is the cornerstone of a fair globalisation and a sustainable poverty reduction. At the Tutzing conference we will enter into a dialogue with representatives from the South. On the one hand, the potential for development and strategies to adapt to the impacts of climate change in the countries worst affected by its adverse impacts will be debated. On the other hand, consequences for the industrialised countries, which are largely responsible for human-induced climate change in the modern era, have to be put on the table. Climate justice may serve as the criterion to guide the debate regarding the next steps for climate policy in Germany and Europe.

1. The right to knowledge as a basis for civil society
2. Protection of information property
3. Information vs. family, women, and marginalized people's rights. Forms of education and access to education issues
4. Information as an instrument for protecting employees' rights
5. Information as an instrument for protecting the human right to health and clean environment
6. Society within knowledge-based economy

Im Workshop soll das Verständnis einer »Weltphilosophie« im Sinne von Jaspers im Hinblick auf sein Gesamtwerk herauszuarbeiten versucht werden. Jaspersforscher(innen) aus verschiedenen Ländern und Kulturen werden darüber sprechen, warum das Denken von Jaspers (a) in ihrem Land und Kulturkreis eine Resonanz gefunden hat und (b) warum sie es für wichtig erachten, dass Jaspers' Philosophie in Zukunft weltweit noch bekannter werden sollte. Sowohl historische und sozio-kulturell bedingte Ursachen für die Rezeption von Gedanken von Jaspers in verschiedenen Kulturräumen sollen diskutiert als auch historisch invariante Bedingungen und transkulturelle Gründe für das Interesse an seiner Philosophie erwogen werden.

• Individual and social subjectivities
• Topographies of the private and the public
• Mass media(tions) in culture
• Group psychology
• Changing social bonds
• The role of religion in global re-alignments
• Cosmopolitanism and nationalism
• Homogeneity, heterogeneity, hegemony
• The individual and the group in language learning

The main concern of the conference will be with a broadly understood context, without which language, literature and culture would not be capable of functioning.

• Philosophical considerations of post-colonial and post-imperial citizenship and identity
• The historical legacy of empire: transnational constructions of Britishness
• British Diasporas and the impact of dual citizenship on identity and governance
• Representations of Britishness in non-British national media, education and culture
• Contemporary debates on the value and legacy of Britishness across within the UK, the Republic of Ireland, the Commonwealth, Europe, United States and elsewhere

In classical antiquity, a variety of value terms articulate the idea that people ›belong together‹ or ›relate to each other‹ as a family, a group, a polis, a community, parts of the cosmos, or just as individual fellow human beings. Which values were thought relevant in this connection? How do these different conceptualizations function? What contexts do they belong in, what contexts do they create? And what effects do they generate, i.e. how do ideas about what we might call ›fellow-feeling‹, ›empathy‹, ›humanity‹, ›unity‹ and ›citizenship‹ work in Antiquity to make a group a group or to make people ›do the right thing by each other‹?
This colloquium will explore the different values, with their different perspectives, that ancient society found useful in thinking about belonging together, social cohesion and unity. This question is a highly relevant one in our contemporary society, in which the ›integration‹, ›adaptation‹, ›assimilation‹ and ›participation‹ of minority groups is a contested issue. What values are used to articulate what binds together our multicultural society? Or is that notion defunct?

• Indigenous concepts and practices of sovereignty
• Historical genealogies of Western concepts of sovereignty
• Limits and contradictions of sovereignty
• Sovereign subjecthood – human rights, gender and the nation-state
• Plural sovereignties: Natives, minorities, and the nation-state
• Sovereignty and the new global order
• Sovereignty, land and nation
• Refugees, asylum seekers and national borders
• Sovereignty and the internet
• Sovereignty regained

With particular focus on identity formation and issues relating to governance and civil empowerment, essays should address current urban developments found in large urban agglomerations unprecedented in size caused by demographic shifts and influences of the global economy. The competition's interest is to explore whether these new urban spaces do not only harbor undeniable risks for unrest, violence and warfare, but also possess the potential to create new civilizing arrangements.

• Global constitutionalism
• Refugees and migration
• Global practices of violence
• Human rights and responsibilities
• Environment, technology and development
• Friendship and hospitality
• International political thought beyond the West
• Imperialisms and empire
• Globalization and global civil society
• Democracy and peace

• Developing an African Concept of Law
• African Philosophy and the Evolution of African Legal Thought
• Philosophy in Legal Education
• Gender, Law and Philosophy
• Customary Law and Legal Reform
• Ubuntu and the Law
• Human Rights in Africa
• The Concept of State
• The Concept of Justice
• Issues in Legal Pluralism
• African Ideologies and the Law
• The Concept of a Legal system
• Law and Morality
• Legislation and Culture
• Adjudication and the Rule of Law
• Indigenous Religions and the Law
• African philosophy, ethics, customary law, and the major social challenges such as slavery, imperialism, globalization

• Magical theologies
• Magical epistemologies
• Magical sciences
• Magic and the law
• Magic and the universities
• Magic in art and literature
• Magic, sanctity and inquisition
• Magic and Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Paganism and new religious movements

This event will address a range of issues associated with the regulation and experience of madness, and the conflicting roles of the ›psy‹ professions in contemporary society. Our objective is to provide a forum in which critical topics, issues and themes related to madness, citizenship, social justice and human rights can be explored across a range of intersecting positions and perspectives.

This conference proposes to consider the scope and nature of various traditional interstate and internal conflicts, as well as such challenges to the international community as: clashing ideological and religious perspectives, global terrorism, population pressures and the scarcity of key resources, environmental degradation, and the spread of disease. These factors have often resulted in egregious violations of human rights, sharp increases in poverty, and a sense of hopelessness among peoples. Further challenges and opportunities have been created by the emergence of an increasingly global economy and technological innovation that has transformed patterns of trade and investment.

• Concepts and functions of Intercultural Dialogue that should be preserved and explored further
• What is the main role of intercultural dialogue in youth work today?
• What are the understandings of the role of the culture in intercultural learning theory and what are their possible drawbacks?
• How explicit should intercultural dialogue be in youth trainings?
• How to develop a critique of intercultural dialogue that is constructive and takes into account their potential for social transformation?
• What is the articulation between intercultural dialogue, human rights education and social cohesion?
• What should be done to ensure more regular cooperation between youth worker training activities and educational research in the area of intercultural learning and intercultural competence?

• Efforts to build inclusive schools
• Housing as a human right
• National security and human rights
• Human rights for aboriginals
• Barriers to accessing human rights for non-citizens
• Advocacy and awareness using alternative media and technology

• Dimensions of Diversity
• Governing Diversity – Community in a Globalising World
• Representing Diversity – The Influences of Global Tourism and the Global Media
• Learning Diversity – Education in a World of Difference
• Working Diversity – Managing the Culture of Diversity

• Buddhist Polity Revisited
• Buddhist Visions and Politics of Nation Building
• Buddhist Fundamentalism and Nationalism
• Militant and Socially-Engaged Monks and Nuns
• The Politics of Buddhist Piety and Fragmentation

• What are the »illnesses« that afflict ourselves as subjects, to which philosophy might be cathartic?
• What is the content of the medical analogy? Is the medicine a curative, a tonic, or a prophylactic?
• Why do both Sextus Empiricus and the Buddha regard the medicine that is philosophy to be an emetic, purging itself as well as the disease?
• What is the role of the sage or wise person, for example Yajñavalkya in the Upanisads or the Stoic Sage?
• What is the relation between philosophy as treatment and »indirect communication« (Kierkegaard)?

• Arabic/Islamic and Jewish Philosophy
• Medieval Latin Philosophy and Theology
• Particular Influences and/or Parallel Philosophical Developments

• Diasporan, cosmopolitan, and postcolonial theory
• Cosmopolitanism, globalization, and universalism
• Diaspora and identity politics
• Traumatic diaspora (and »curative« cosmopolitanism)
• Diaspora and nationalism
• Diaspora and postcolonies
• Cosmopolitan modernisms
• Pre-modern and modern diaspora
• Diaspora and the environment
• Cosmopolitanism and the environment
• Marxism and cosmopolitanism
• The slave diaspora
• The cosmopolitan slave
• Migrancy in former metropoles
• Cosmopolitan Enlightenments
• Cosmopolitanism and postcolonial »vulgarity«
• Diaspora studies and history
• Diaspora and translation
• Cosmopolitanism and translation
• Diasporan literatures and arts
• Cosmopolitan authorship and »migrant« literature
• Cosmopolitan bodies and texts
• Diaspora and postcolonial memory
• Colonial vs. postcolonial diaspora

• Language as a core issue in cultural diversity with IT: are languages shaping a new IT world?
• CMC as fostering and/or threatening cultural diversity
• Theoretical and practical approaches to analyzing »culture« and its impact on the use and implementation of ICTs
• ICTs in the francophone world, including: influences of francophone usages globally and cross-cultural comparisons
• Beyond glocalization and homogenization: new mixtures of identities and cultures as facilitated by ICTs
• Empowerment and CMC, including issues of gender, languages and power (economic, political, social)
• Values, ethics, justice, and ICTS
• Cultural and linguistic diversity and e-learning

islamophobia · fundamentalism · clash of civilisations · environmentalism · globalisation · war · terrorism · evolution · genocide · creationism · ancient and new religions · cults · new age beliefs · science fiction · photography · performance · popular culture · film · media · literature · drama · art · creative writing · poetry · music · race · gender · ethnicity · class · politics · ideology · patriarchy · ethics morality and rhetoric

• accountability and stakeholders
• the politics of space and security
• identity, religion and heritage
• mourning and memorialisation
• ownership and capacity building
• governing affect: truth, guilt and legitimacy
• media

• The global environment
• Identity politics
• Multiculturalism
• Religion and »the clash of civilizations«
• Globalization
• Global justice
• Immigration and refugee policy
• Human rights and responsibilities
• Global poverty and wealth
• War, armed conflict and terrorism
• Humanitarian intervention
• The moral status of nation-states and of sovereignty
• The ethics of world governance
• International non-government organizations
• The responsibilities of transnational business corporations
• Economic development ethics
• The ethics of missionary activity
• Cultural rights and the concept of a »people«
• Intercultural dialogue
• Pacifism and non-violent international relations

• Civilizations of the Americas
• Asian, Islamic, African, and European Civilization Topics
• General Topics

In the age of globalization, and increased interdependence in the world that we face today, there is a question we have to raise: Do we need and could we attain a world government, capable of insuring the peace and facilitating worldwide well-being in a just and efficient way. We think this is the right point in time to explore this issue in more precise terms from the philosophical point of view, and attempt to understand its moral, legal, political, historical and other aspects.

The rise of nationalism and international recognition of human rights have overlapping histories and cultural baggage. One is often used to justify the other, and the recognition of national identities and peoples' right to right to self-determination are treated as prerequisites of the enjoyment of other rights. Nationalism, however, can also function as a discriminatory and repressive force and undermine human rights. Papers that examine the relationship between nationalism and human rights, with a focus on normative questions, social scientific theories, legal foundations and implications, or historical or contemporary case studies are all welcome.

1. The right to knowledge as a basis for civil society
2. Protection of information property
3. Information vs. family, women, and marginalized people's rights. Forms of education and access to education issues
4. Information as an instrument for protecting employees' rights
5. Information as an instrument for protecting the human right to health and clean environment
6. Society within knowledge-based economy

• Conceptualising citizenship in ethnically diverse societies
• Comparisons of old and new forms of citizenship
• Political versus civic engagement and participation
• Incorporating marginalised groups into democratic processes
• The concepts of intercultural, multicultural and cosmopolitan citizenship
• Citizenship and religion
• Citizenship and migrants
• The role of civic/citizenship education in multicultural societies
• National citizenship and universal human rights
• Ethnic conflict regulation and the roles of international actors