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IPC Seminar
Topic: Peace, Difference, and the Work of Coexistence
Speaker: Nadia Farabi (Lecturer and Researcher at Universitas Diponegoro, Indonesia)
Date&Time: Wed. 27 May 2026, 11:00 -12:00
Venue: IDEC Large Conference Room
Language: English
Abstract: As major wars and geopolitical crises place renewed pressure on the idea of long peace, it is worth asking not only how peace breaks down in moments of open violence, but also how it is maintained in societies marked by difference. Peace is often discussed in relation to war, ceasefires, and formal settlements. Yet it also depends on quieter and less visible forms of social, political, and institutional labour: the work of living with difference, containing tensions, and preventing exclusion from hardening into conflict. This talk reflects on peace not as a settled condition, but as an ongoing and fragile achievement. In doing so, it suggests that the future of the long peace may depend as much on the everyday maintenance of coexistence as on the management of crises between states.
Nadia Farabi is a lecturer and researcher in International Relations at Universitas Diponegoro, Indonesia, where she also serves as Coordinator of Research and Community Service in the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences. She completed her PhD at Griffith University, Australia, as an Australia Awards Scholar, and was also a recipient of the Hadi Soesastro Prize. Her research focuses on peace and conflict, with particular interests in religion, everyday coexistence, humanitarian governance, and the politics of exclusion. Working primarily on Indonesia, she examines how peace is negotiated and sustained in plural societies.
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