We invite proposals for papers on the following broadly defined themes, but we would welcome any related suggestions: 

• The origins of wars and conflicts
• Planning and preparation for war (e.g. reform of armed forces, changes in military technology, financing war)
• Tactics, strategy, battles and campaigns
• Insurgencies, guerrilla warfare, and civil war
• Political and military leadership
• Individual experience, perceptions of warfare, and home fronts
• Peace negotiations and conferences, war crimes and international justice

The conference will include a workshop session on using archives to research the history of conflict and a keynote lecture by Professor Hew Strachan, Chichele Professor of the History of War, University of Oxford.