The Centre for International Policy Studies (CIPS), University of Ottawa, presents its 3rd Annual Graduate Student Conference March 24-25, 2011. The topic is The Governance Gap: How to Address Global Challenges. The call for papers deadline is Jan. 7, 2011. For updates about the conference, check this page (which currently has information about the 2010 conference.)
the conference wishes to:
* Address how governance is or should be applied to emerging challenges in global health, environment, and food crises;
* Examine the plight of refugees in the context of global security and how governance can be used to meet this issue;
* Discuss how governance has or should respond to current emerging international security threats in the areas of failed states, nation rebuilding, and/or borders.The conference aims to include both theoretical and policy-oriented research. The conference is organized by graduate students with the support of the Centre for International Policy Studies and is intended to be fully interdisciplinary in nature. The conference aims to include contributions from graduate students in various disciplines such as law, political science, gender studies, geography, economics, and sociology, among others, and from universities across Canada and beyond.
