Call For Papers: Social Justice Awards

The International Center for Cooperation and Conflict
Resolution (ICCCR) at Teachers College, Columbia University, is sponsoring
the 8^th annual Morton Deutsch Award for an Outstanding Graduate
Student Paper on Social Justice. Morton Deutsch, one of the world’s
preeminent psychologists, has made significant contributions over the many
years of his career in the areas of conflict resolution and social justice. The
Morton Deutsch Awards are designed to recognize innovative scholarship and
practice in the area of social justice.

• A trophy award plus $500.00 will be given to a graduate student within the
  Columbia University system for an outstanding paper related to social justice.
• The paper may address the issue of social justice in any context with a clear
  conceptual framework and from any disciplinary perspective.
• Papers will be evaluated on:

–      Degree of innovative thinking and sound analysis

–      Recommendations for remedying identified situations

–      Contribution to scholarship, practice, and policy

• Papers should be 20 to 30 pages in length (double-spaced, 1” margins, Times New Roman,12pt font)
• Papers are due February 15^th, 2012 (by 11:59pm ET). Papers should be emailed as an attachment to icccr@tc.edu. Receipt will be confirmed by February 20^th, 2012.