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TICKETS: Tickets can be purchased through the UofTtix box office at the following link http://www.uofttix.ca/view.php?id=981

Early bird pricing: $5 for students, $10 for general public (in effect until Friday, March 8th at 11:59PM)

From March 8th – March 21st: $5 for students, $15 for general public

Any unsold tickets can be purchased at the door (cash only)

Hosted in Toronto, Canada on March 21st and 22nd 2013, at the Vivian and David Campbell Conference Facility housed in the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto, A World in Flux: The Movement of Conflict in the 21st Century will explore the movement of conflict through people, technology, and media. It will seek to address such questions as: In what ways do conflicts transcend borders? How is the mobility of conflict currently being addressed and managed, and by whom?

From the local to the global, the movement of conflict across borders has become an issue of increased political salience, while also gaining the attention of civil society at large. Technological advancement, particularly the rise of communication tools such as social media, accelerates the mobility of ideas and, perhaps, the movement of conflict across borders. The capacity of people and ideas to transcend borders in this way elicits disaggregated responses from state authorities, native citizens, and newcomers.

At the moment, there seems to be little convergence on how to address these phenomena. This conference hopes to shed some light on potential approaches in this regard. Therefore, our discussion calls experts from different backgrounds in order to generate cross-disciplinary dialogue on how to address this issue.