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At the dawn of the 21st Century, societies across the globe find themselves facing an array of challenges based on differences in wealth, military power, faith, and ideology, as well as gender, race and ethnicity. These intensifying disparities can lead to oppression, crime, terrorism, conflict, and instability, and are often magnified by the very efforts used to combat them. The strategies that scholars use to understand these issues and the policies that governments, civic institutions, and the international community use to address them form one of the essential challenges facing the world today. In June 2008, John Jay College of Criminal Justice will host an International Conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico on Justice and Policing in Diverse Societies. This conference will seek to provide a framework through which civic leaders, International Governmental Organizations, government officials, police, legal actors and scholars can discuss our collective concerns in this area. Papers for this conference may address a broad range of issues including but not limited to:
- The challenges of scholarship on international criminal justice
- Justice reform and citizen security in democratizing societies
- Historical studies of justice and political initiatives in diverse societies
- The rule of law and human rights
- Globalization, crime, and inequality
- Capital punishment in the international system
- International law enforcement cooperation and training
- Gender inequality, the gendered nature of conflict, and gender, sexual orientation, and justice
- Age, race, ethnicity, class, and social justice
- The challenges to political order posed by transnational trafficking in drugs, arms, and human beings
- International and domestic terrorism in diverse societies
- Comparative efforts in the adjudication and reintegration of offenders
- Media, social conflict, and justice
- Social movements and social justice
- Border security
- Migration
- Corruption, financial crimes, and international financial organizations
- Tranitional justice
- Psychology and law
- Therapeutic Jurisprudence
Papers and panel proposals (in both English and Spanish) that address these and other issues are welcome from all disciplines in the social sciences, humanities, and natural sciences. Please submit your 500 word paper abstract or panel proposal to www.jjay.cuny.edu/ic/submission by December 1st, 2007.
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About John Jay College of Criminal Justice: An international leader in educating for justice, John Jay College of Criminal Justice of The City University of New York offers a rich liberal arts and professional studies curriculum to upwards of 14,000 undergraduate and graduate students from more than 135 nations. In teaching, scholarship and research, the College approaches justice as an applied art and science in service to society and as an ongoing conversation about fundamental human desires for fairness, equality and the rule of law. For more information, visit www.jjay.cuny.edu.
Local Partners:
Universidad Interamericana de Puerto Rico (Interamerican University)
Catholic University of Puerto Rico
Universidad Sagrado Corazon
University of Puerto Rico, Law School
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