Perspectives on Evil Ejournal - Issue 3 (fwd)

[Alan Sondheim]

(from Salwa Ghaly)


Perspectives on Evil and Human Wickedness  (PEHW) is
pleased to announce that Issue 3 of this ejournal is
now accessible at http://www.wickedness.net/ejv1n3.htm


With Alan Sondheim on its editorial board, the journal
has been able to expand and develop its art section
with which the present issue begins.  We are also
looking forward to introducing a section on Genocide
and another on Practical Approaches to evil, both of
which should buttress and maintain the
interdisciplinary and creative character of this
publication.  Feedback on this issue and past ones is
welcome, and will be published in the section
earmarked for readers' comments.

Short description of PEHW and information on the
upcoming issue:
ISSN: 1471-5597
Volume 4. : Winter 2004  (themed issue:
Reconciliation and Forgiveness)
Submissions (along with a biographical blurb) are due
on December 15, 2003

Perspectives on Evil and Human Wickedness publishes
scholarly work, personal reflections and
practitioners' accounts relating to classifying,
defining, and probing different aspects of evil. It
aims to shed light on the genesis and manifestations
of evil as well as on the diverse angles from which
humans can understand, tackle, surmount, or come to
terms with it. Perspectives on Evil and Human
Wickedness does not espouse any ideological viewpoint
or favor any specific theoretical framework, but
interrogates a plurality of perspectives aimed at
advancing research on this topic.

Information on submissions and stylesheet is available
at the website.

Issue 4.  Winter 2004:
Submissions are sought for the Winter volume to be
devoted entirely to the theme of Reconciliation and
Forgiveness. The volume hopes to present a panoply of
possible angles from which to engage this topic.  A
wide array of relevant theoretical, critical and
professional perspectives is, therefore, encouraged.
Of most interest will be contributions that add to,
alter and/or deepen, our current understanding of this
theme.

Submissions on how reconciliation and forgiveness are
viewed by law, ethics, philosophy, psychology,
literature and other relevant disciplines and
professions are of special interest.  How do
individuals, groups and societies in our globalized
world attempt to surmount trauma and initiate the
intricate process(es) of forgiveness and
reconciliation? What hampers or aids such processes?
How does art foreground issues related to
reconciliation and forgiveness? Below is a
list of suggested topics:

--The forgivable and the unforgivable
  The misrecognitions
  The incommensurate
  The irreconcilable

--Narrativizing forgiveness

--Trauma, physical and psychological
  Memorializing traumatic past
  How subjecthood is conceived vis-a-vis trauma
  Gendered approaches to trauma
  Levinas, Michel de Certeau, Derrida (and others) on
forgiveness & Body trauma
  Approaches to healing

--Holocaust Studies

--Refugee studies

--Transitional justice and regime change/conflict
resolution

--Forgiveness and Criminal law
  Restorative and retributive justice
  Legal/ethical/political approaches to General
(blanket) Amnesty (for people who have committed
atrocities during wars/civil wars).

--Conflict Resolution and reconciliation
  Cross-cultural perspectives
  Historical perspectives
  The ethics of military/political intervention in
local communities
  The role of NGOs in conflict resolution
  The role of the international community in
furthering forgiveness/reconciliation

--Truth and Reconciliation Commissions (track record,
successes and failures)

--Reconciliation and Forgiveness in literature
(Shakespeare's Romances,  postcolonial texts, women's
literature, etc.)

--Divorce and remarriage

--Case Studies (on any aspect of the above)

Contributions are solicited in the form of articles
(under 6000 words), dialogues, creative pieces, book
and media reviews and personal reflections. Feedback
and responses on material published by the journal
are also sought. Submissions in Word, WordPerfect, PD.
or RTF formats are recommended; please see the 'Author
Notes' section of the website for further details.
Contributors are urged to avoid unnecessary jargon
and to make their work accessible and intelligible to
non-specialists. A brief biographical paragraph should
accompany each submission.

For further details and information, please visit the
journal website at: http://www.wickedness.net/ej.htm
or contact Rob Fisher at theodicist at wickedness.net or
Salwa Ghaly at complit01 at yahoo.ca