CfP:Students' Forum,10th International Anti-Corruption Conference (Prague,7-11 October, 2001)

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From: Serguei Alex. Oushakine <sao15 at COLUMBIA.EDU>
To: EAST-WEST-RESEARCH at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: CfP:Students' Forum,10th International Anti-Corruption Conference (Prague,7-11 October, 2001)
Date: 22 March 2001 19:21

 Proposals and forms may be sent via email or post to the following
addresses:
gerasimova at transparency.cz
Saska Gerasimova
Transparency International Czech Republic
Klimentska 30
110 15 Praha Czech Republic

CALL FOR PAPERS - STUDENTS' FORUM

Are you:
Concerned about corruption?
Currently a college student?
Would you like to:
Learn what you can do to fight corruption?
Network with more than 1500 anti-corruption professionals from all over the
world?
Visit Prague, one of the most beautiful cities in Europe?
Improve your CV?
Have fun?

Then we invite you to participate in the Students' Forum of the 10th
International Anti-Corruption Conference. The Conference, whose theme is
"Together Against Corruption: Designing Strategies, Assessing Impact,
Reforming Corrupt Institutions," is making its East Central European debut
from 7-11 October 2001 in Prague, Czech Republic.

The Conference is the premier global forum for the networking and
cross-fertilization that is indispensable to effective international and
national advocacy and action against corruption and to progress in this
area. Through workshops based on real-life case studies, the Conference aims
to identify global anti-corruption priorities, develop national and
international strategies, exchange experiences in anti-corruption efforts
and further develop international co-operation. It will be attended by more
than 1500 delegates, including representatives from government, civil
society, the private sector, academia, the media.
For the first time, the program will include a Students' Forum, in which
fifty college students, the leaders of tomorrow's anti-corruption fight,
will gain valuable insight into the practical side of anti-corruption
efforts.

To be considered for the Forum, students must submit proposal for an
original paper. Participants will be chosen competitively based on their
paper proposals and recommendations of their academic advisors. Once chosen,
the students will turn their proposals into papers, and the best papers will
be chosen for presentation in special student workshops guided by graduate
student mentors.

Conference Structure: The Conference will start on Monday, 8 October and run
through Thursday, 11 October. Morning plenary session will be followed by
workshops at the Prague Conference Centre. Students will attend the plenary
sessions and the regular workshops in the morning, and the Students' Forum
workshops in the afternoon..

Students' Forum Workshops: The workshops will feature presentation of two
papers on panels chaired by graduate students. Papers will be followed by
discussion on the panel theme. Participants will be expected to attend all
student panels and to take part in their discussion.
Topics: Papers may be submitted on the following areas, which may be broadly
interpreted.

Problems of transition countries

Potential topics: the role of public institutions, privatization, the role
of civil society and NGOs, the media

Main program workshops include: "Addressing problems of companies in
transition economies," "Containing & correcting corruption in privatisation"

Legal issues: law, crime, the police
Potential topics: organized crime, corruption in the judiciary, human
rights, money laundering

Main program workshops include: "Preventing perversions of justice:
corruption in the judiciary," "Training incorruptible police officers,"
"Countering the corruption influence of organised crime"

Development, aid and debt
Potential topics: impacts of globalization, the role of civil society,
multilateral institutions

Main program workshops include: "Setting ethics standards for the
development aid business," "Evaluating conditionality in aid and debt
relief"
Institutional reform
Potential topics: health, sports, education, corruption in schools

Main program workshops include: "Attacking corruption in education,"
"Countering private sector corruption: the role of business schools,"
"Building ethics in the young," "Blowing the whistle on corruption in sport"

We welcome papers on other topics such as gender and human rights,
especially ones that tie these topics into those listed above.

As the main program evolves, further information as well as resources and
links regarding these topics will be available in the Students' Forum
section of our website at http://www.10iacc.org. Please check our site in
March. We encourage proposals from a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds.

Benefits: Students will receive a fee waiver for the conference, which
normally costs 760 USD, and will be able to attend the plenary sessions and
the morning workshops. The organizers will cover accommodation and travel
expenses.

Students are, however, strongly encouraged to make use of any institutional
funds that may be available to them.

Proposals: Proposals should be no more than one page single-spaced page, and
should include the title of the proposed paper and the name of the author.
The proposal should clearly state the paper's theme, argument, and sources
of information. In keeping with the approach of the Conference, the papers
should be based on a case study or students' personal experiences. We
encourage innovative approaches to the format of the paper. Students are
encouraged to seek advice on their proposals from their academic advisor.
Proposals are due 15 May.

Papers: Once the student has been accepted for the Forum, papers should be
typed, double-spaced, and should not exceed 2,000 words. Students are
encouraged to seek advice on their papers from their teachers or their
academic advisor. Papers are due 1 September.

Language: English will be the working language of the conference, and
proposals will be accepted in English only.

More about the IACC: The conference will be hosted by the Government of the
Czech Republic and Transparency International Czech Republic a member of the
international non-governmental anti-corruption movement of the same name.
The conference series is overseen by the IACC Council, for which
Transparency International serves as Secretariat. You can find more
information about the upcoming conference at http://www.10iacc.org, and
further information regarding past conferences at
http://www.transparency.de/iacc.

To apply: Please sent the completed application form and the paper proposal
to
Saska Gerasimova. The nomination form should be filled in by the academic
advisor or teacher and directly sent to the organizers.
Proposals and forms may be sent via email or post to the following
addresses:
gerasimova at transparency.cz
Saska Gerasimova
Transparency International Czech Republic
Klimentska 30
110 15 Praha Czech Republic

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