SOCIETY FOR PEACE STUDIES AND PRACTICE (SPSP)
FOURTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE

Holding at Hydro Hotel, Minna, Niger State, Nigeria on March 29-31, 2010

THEME: DEMOCRATIC GOVERNANCE IN NIGERIA

Call for Papers (View Conference Poster)

Bad governance is responsible for the proliferation of violent conflicts around the world. Within this framework, good governance recommends itself as a conflict prevention strategy. This issue was particularly highlighted at the Millennium Summit of 2000, where world leaders resolved to "spare no effort to promote democracy and strengthen the rule of law, as well as respect for all internationally recognized human rights and fundamental freedoms, including the right to development" as part of the efforts to promote global peace and international security.  It is a decade since this historic event. What is the fate of democratic governance in Nigeria? Where is the country at the present and where is it really going? What efforts are being made by local, national and external actors to deal with the existing challenges? What hope for the future? The 2010 Annual Conference and General Assembly of the Society for Peace Studies and Practice seeks to commit itself to finding proactive answers to these and many other questions with particular emphasis on the following sub-themes:

• Peace and governance theories
• History of democratization in Nigeria
• Democratic values and Rule of law
• Performance of state and civil society institutions
• Reform agendas
• Role of the security sector
• Elections and electioneering
• Leadership questions
• Conflict and conflict management
• Lessons from other parts of the world

Submission of Abstracts
Scholars, policy-makers and civil society actors wishing to attend the 2010 conference of the SPSP are invited to email their 250 word abstracts to abstracts.2010conferencespspng.org before or on February 26, 2010. The date for the submission of the full paper is March 20, 2010. In the selection of papers to be presented preference will be given to papers which reflect sound empirical, field-based research and policy relevant analysis. Papers found worthy will be published in the Society’s Journal.