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CALL FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST

Illicit Networks Workshop

14-15 December 2009

Further information can be found here in official conference site

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The Centre for Transnational Crime Prevention, University of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia, under its new Executive Director, Professor Andrew Goldsmith, will be hosting a Workshop on Illicit Networks on 14th and 15th of December 2009. The workshop will be held at the Centre’s new building on the Innovation Campus, Fairy Meadow, Wollongong, NSW (one hour south of Sydney Airport).

The two-day workshop is intended to draw together academics and practitioners interested in network analysis (broadly defined) in relation to transnational/organised crime and terrorism. The forms and purposes of extant network analysis will be examined and critiqued. Particular applications of network thinking to crime and terrorism issues will be presented.

The workshop aims to explore illicit networks adopting a multidisciplinary perspective. It thus will draw on participant expertise in diverse areas such as criminology, political science, social network analysis, social psychology and sociology. The event will be open to interested parties from academia and government. A number of respected international academics have been invited and agreed to participate. Professor Carlo Morselli (University of Montreal) - the author of Contacts Opportunities and Criminal Enterprise (2005) and Inside Criminal Networks (2008) will provide one of the keynote presentations, as will Professor Michael Kenney (Pennsylvania State University), the author of From Pablo to Osama: Trafficking and Terrorist Networks, Government Bureaucracies, and Competitive Adaptation (2007)

The organising committee is currently looking for expressions of interest and suggestions in the following areas to aid in development and planning of the workshop:

• Attendance
• Presentations or panels
• Support and sponsorship (including planning, logistics, and funding)

Should you be interested in being involved in some capacity, or if you would simply like to be kept informed, please contact:

Professor Andrew Goldsmith
email: agoldsmi@uow.edu.au
telephone: 02 4252-8025.

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