WaVE Conference — Call for papers

We are pleased to announce an international conference to take place in Uppsala on 26-28 March 2009. The conference will show-case the results of the WaVE project, and will host a number of keynote speeches as well as a series of parallel panels on themes related to WaVE's central concepts. Please click here for more information.

About WaVE

WaVE is a three-year research project funded by the European Commission Sixth Framework (FP6), running from February 2006 to February 2009. Through in-depth qualitative research conducted in medium-sized towns of twelve European countries, the WaVE researchers will try to illuminate trends in social cohesion and/or conflict between diverse communities as perceptible in the domain of welfare provision. WaVE will examine the values expressed by majority religions in their interaction with minority communities in the domain of social welfare needs and provision; the values expressed by minority groups (especially religious minorities), in their use of welfare services and in their search for alternatives; and the gender-related values underpinning conceptions of welfare and practices in welfare provision in the localities under examination, both in majority and minority communities.

WaVE is coordinated by the Centre for the Study of Religion and Society at Uppsala University.