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 10 days before the meeting 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.

Quality and Utilization of Papers
Every paper presented is expected to be directly focused on the theme of the conference. While papers not so focused will be accepted and presented in non-plenary sessions, the focused papers will be featured in plenary sessions. Directly relevant papers will be considered for the Special Issue of the IPES journal, Police Practice and Research, An International Journal and the post-conference book, and other papers, if analytically sound and theoretically viable, will be considered for general issues of the journal. They may also be considered for other IPES books. Thus, all papers must be carefully written with publication in mind. Further it is to be borne in mind that all papers presented in the meeting are to be given first to IPES for publication. If rejected by IPES, they will be returned to the authors for use elsewhere. This condition must be noted by all participants.

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

Participation Practice and Tradition
It is the IPES tradition and important practice that all participants are to arrive on the evening before the meeting begins (for the present meeting it is on the 10th of August ) and leave after the meeting finishes (In the present case it is the 14th of August). Every participant is expected to be taking part in each session, no matter if not all are presenting in all sessions. Informal events and programs are as important as the formal sessions for contributing to the objectives of interactions, exchanges and dialogues which the meeting seeks to encourage among participants coming from various regions of the world. So it is strongly urged that none should register without making sure that he or she can fulfill these requirements.