This Year's Theme Is:
Realigning Values in a Transforming World Order: What Needs Preserving, Reevaluating, and Redefining?
Values are crucial in a transforming world since they serve as guiding principles that shape individual behavior, social, economic, and political norms, and institutional practices. In times of uncertainty and change, they provide stability by providing a moral and ethical framework for making decisions, setting priorities and addressing complex challenges. They are also the building blocks for democracy, security, economic order, and peace. In an era of rapid change and disruption, technological advancement, and increasing global interconnectedness, the world is undergoing profound transformation. In parallel to these developments, there are debates on whether values that have traditionally guided individuals, groups, nations, and institutions require a critical reassessment. The following questions are particularly important in this respect: In light of contemporary realities, what values from the past need to be preserved, which ones can be reevaluated, and which principles need to be completely redefined to remain relevant and provide frameworks for understanding the world?
We encourage submissions from diverse disciplinary perspectives and theoretical, empirical and comparative perspectives that address these fundamental questions. Contributors are invited to critically examine the values that shape individuals, societies, and institutions, and offer insights into how they might be preserved, adapted, or rethought to navigate the complexities of the 21st century and inform the future generations. Topics may include but are not limited to: values in a changing global governance and power dynamics, democracy and peace, ethics in technology and the digital world, governance principles in climate change and environmental policy, new ethical principles to address social and political injustices, role of cultural values in a globalized world, critical discussions on gender equality, identity, youth, and education.