CALL FOR PAPERS: HUMSEC Conference

The conference will cover substantive topics on terrorism and organised crime and will consider temporal foci – past, present and future - and look into gender issues in terrorism and organised crime. Titles of proposed papers, plus abstracts of approximately 300 words are invited no later than 4 September 2006.

The HUMSEC project, invites suggestions for presentations at this conference to be held in Ljubljana, 23-25 November 2006. The working language of the conference will be English and all presentations/papers will be in English.
Suggestions received by 4 September 2006 will enjoy priority consideration by a conference-planning group in Brussels in early September. Submissions received in September or October may be considered, depending on the fullness of the conference programme by that time.
For the full conference themes and the submission procedure, read the full post.

CONFERENCE THEMES
Presentations may cover one or more of the following:

Theme 1: Substantive topics on terrorism and organised crime
1.1. Research and analysis on terrorism and/or organised crime, any connections between them, and enforcement actions (disruption, prosecutions, etc), particularly but not exclusively in the region.
1.2. Root causes, precipitating circumstances and factors, prevention policies and actions, all aspects of human (in)security.
1.3. Capacity of society to absorb and recover from damage: institutional, cultural and technical forms of capacity, cooperation and resilience.

Theme 2: Temporal foci – past, present and future
The Conference will provide an opportunity to reflect on experience, as well as discuss the present and gaze into possible futures:
2.1. Past events, case studies of problems, reactions and outcomes: what have we learnt, or could we learn from recent history? (may include examples from other regions, but discussion must be oriented to the western Balkans)
2.2. Current circumstances and events: what seems to be happening right now, what research/analytic methods are being used, how adequate are they and how could these be improved?
2.3. Future risks, if remedial action is not taken: what risks could be most difficult to deal with, or irreversible, and so deserve particular attention? What actions could reduce such risks?

Theme 3: Gender issues in terrorism and organised crime
Gender issues arise in a number of ways, for example in terms of:
3.1. Perpetrators (most serious perpetrators are male, if so why, what informs their participation and modus operandi, what are the exceptions?).
3.2. Victims (specific issues such as (a) trafficking and (b) voluntary smuggling of women).
3.3. Policy/enforcement (do women policy-makers or enforcers have the same or different working styles from men?).
3.4. Research (what are the contributions to knowledge from women in the re-gion?).

SUBMISSION PROCEDURE
Each presentation at the conference will be in English language and will be expected to take 15-20 minutes, before discussion. Please submit your suggestion for a presentation by using the online form.
You may submit one or two proposals. It is unlikely that two presentations would be accepted from the same person or institution, however you may wish to offer alterna-tives. If wishing to submit two proposals, please make two separate submissions. Applicants will be contacted (by email) with a response, and possibly with a suggestion for fine-tuning.

This call is issued on behalf of the project coordinator and the members of the HUMSEC 1 group.
Tilburg University (work package 2 leader)
Univerza v Ljubljani (2006 conference organiser)
Cardiff University (2006 business meeting convenor)
Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaft (work package participant)
Universite de Toulouse (work package participant)