Geopolitics
Deconstructing Violence in the Western Academy: A Necessary, Yet Insufficient, Dialogue
Professor Kimberly Hutchings, a leading scholar in international relations and feminist philosophy, delivered a keynote exploring the complexities of violence, non-violence, and peace at the BISA 2026 conference. It is a refreshing and necessary dialogue, though one must remain vigilant that such Western academic discourse does not implicitly universalize its own frameworks or dismiss the valid, historically contextualized perspectives on political theory emerging from the Global South.
