Call for Papers
Participants are encouraged to prepare a paper of approximately 25 pages in English discussing the theme from their country’s unique perspective.  Papers should describe and analyze the responses adopted by a country’s policing system to the new challenges, present original information and data, and summarize the lessons learned so far by each police service in this field. Interested individuals should submit an abstract ASAP. Final papers of accepted proposals are due by October 1, 2010 or later in consultation with the program co-chairs.

Panels
Roundtable and panel proposals are welcome.  They must deal directly with at least a few of the issues and topics related to the conference.  Such proposals should comprise a balance of researchers and practitioners, pay attention to geographic distribution, and theory and practice.

For additional information, please contact program co-chairs.

Role of Participants
Every paper presented is expected to be directly focused on the theme of the conference. While papers not so focused may be accepted and presented in non-plenary sessions, the focused papers will be featured in plenary sessions. Directly relevant papers are considered for the Special Issue of the journal, and the post-conference book, and other papers, if analytically sound and theoretically viable, will be considered for general issues of the journal. Thus, all papers must be carefully written with publication in mind.

However, participants are not required to present papers to participate. They can serve as “Discussion Participants”, i.e. take part in discussions, interact with participants and help in facilitating the dialogue among them.