Welcome

We invite you to participate in “Investment and Citizenship: Towards a Transdisciplinary Dialogue in Child and Youth Rights”, a conference being held at Brock University on July 19-21, 2006. This conference is hosted by the Department of Child and Youth Studies at Brock University and dedicated to exploring the current children’s rights discourse from multiple perspectives. In keeping with this philosophy, the conference is spearheaded by three members of the department who have different disciplinary backgrounds: Tom O’Neill (anthropology), Dawn Zinga (psychology), and Richard C. Mitchell (sociology). The conference is also supported by Early Years Niagara, the Business Education Council of Niagara, several other affiliated youth agencies, Brock University, and an internal Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Seed Grant.

While acknowledging that Canada is falling behind many of its OECD partners in important areas of promoting and implementing the CRC, this conference is dedicated to bringing together children and young people from local, national and international groups, scholars, Convention experts and individuals from other cultural and legal contexts, as well as those from various disciplinary perspectives. One of the conference’s primary goals is to foster an emerging ‘transdisciplinary knowledge exchange’ and provide opportunities for further collaboration.

The conference focuses on investment and citizenship specifically in regards to children’s and young peoples’ human rights within and through applied contexts. The conference sub-theme is ‘child and youth rights-based theoretical approaches in law, policy and institutional practice’.  As such, papers, posters, symposia, and workshops related to the promotion, monitoring, and evaluation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) within Canada and abroad are welcomed. The deadline for submissions is January 31, 2006.

Please explore the website for additional information on the conference. Should you have any questions please contact one of the conference executive listed below. We look forward to seeing you at the conference.

Tom O'Neill, Dawn Zinga, Richard C. Mitchell