The 2011 Peace and Conflict Studies conference will focus the attention of our discipline at the community level of analysis; it contends that local-level considerations are vital to the reduction of structural violence. With the community as the foundation to the conference, we will survey the contours of six sub-topics: Education; Justice; Media; Memorialization; Infrastructure; and Psychological Trauma in a series of panel discussions. These will be united by an opening keynote event with three keynote speeches. By concentrating on the community level, we ensure that the lessons from our conference have a wide scope of applicability, whether a community of interest exists in East Timor or Israel, Chechnya or Puntland, São Paulo or Toronto. Based on our subthemes, we expect there to be interest from students of Aboriginal Studies, Architecture, Canadian Studies, Criminology, Education, Engineering, Geography, Global Health, History, International Relations, Law, Political Science, Psychology, Public Policy, Sociology, and Urban Studies, inter alia.
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