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CALL FOR PAPERS
Abstract submittal deadline 31st July 2018
Building Trust and Co-operation
through Discussion and Dialogue
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Co-Hosted by:
Ministere de l’Interieur
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Directeur de la Migration at de la Surveillance des Frontieres
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Dear Colleague
You are invited to submit an abstract to the Congress Committee for consideration for inclusion in the 2019 World Border Security Congress.
Borders in the Maghreb are increasingly dangerous. Armed with tools designed for the pre–Arab Spring environment, Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia face a complex new world of transnational actors that leverage borders for profit and for sanctuary.
The Arab Maghreb Union (AMU) was designed to deepen cooperation among the Maghreb states, buttress the region’s economy through greater interregional trade, enable the free movement of people, and lay the groundwork for future political integration. However, the promise of an integrated Maghreb has not materialized, though the union still exists.
The region is also a main thoroughfare for the West African human trafficking and migration route to Southern Europe, with access to Spanish soil and the EU border in the North African enclaves of Melilla and Cueta, just a short journey from mainland Europe across the Mediterranean, whilst smuggling of arms and illegal goods across North Africa also adds pressure on the governments and border security forces of the region..
The 2019 World Border Security Congress, co-hosted by the Ministry of Interior (Ministere de l’Interieur) & Directorate General for Migration & Border Surveillance (Directeur de la Migration at de la Surveillance des Frontieres) and supported by the International Security Industry Organisation, National Security & Resilience Consortium and International Association of CIP Professionals, is a high level 3 day event that will discuss and debate current and future policies, implementation issues and challenges as well as new and developing technologies that contribute towards safe and secure border and migration management.
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Abstract Submittal Deadline – 31st July 2018
Click here to submit your abstract >>
If you are interested, you are invited to submit your abstract for consideration by the Congress committee by submitting an abstract of approx 200 words.
For further details click here >>
The World Border Security Congress Advisory Committee are inviting abstracts for consideration for inclusion in the conference.
Conference Programme Topic Guidelines will include but not be limited to:
– Border surveillance techniques and systems
– Is it possible to enhance the protection and management of extended land borders?
What are the solutions?
– How can border agencies enhance border security and improve results, whilst
under increasing pressure of resources?
– How can border administrations better share information and data under increasing
pressure from privacy laws?
– How can small country border administrations ensure their effectiveness against
growing criminality and terrorist threats?
– Maritime, port and coastal border security: How can we best guard the coast and
major ports from international organised criminal activities, including human
trafficking and drug smuggling?
– Illegal migrant numbers and movements have not declined over the last 20 years
they have actually increased despite a plethora of national and international
agreements to manage the problem
– Ease of travel for bona fide travellers has not become less burdensome it has
become more complicated despite new technologies such as biometrics, e-visas
– The costs of delivering streamlined safety and security at airports, border points
and seaports has not gone down despite all the promises of politicos the world over
– Standardization of systems such as trusted traveller programs has not occurred
despite lots and lots of talk at ICAO, IATA, etc.
– Trafficking in human beings by transnational criminal gangs has expanded not
declined despite the billions that have been spent by national governments and
institutions such as IOM, OSCE, INTERPOL
– Countering border threats as a result of the so called “war on terror” & “the war on
drugs” is without end despite the billions spend in human resources and treasure
For further details click here >>
Click here to submit your abstract >>
Current Border Security Challenges:
– Migration Crisis Tests European Consensus and Governance
– Migrants and refugees streaming into Europe from Africa, the Middle East, and South
Asia
– Big Business of Smuggling Enables Mass Movement of People for Enormous Profits
– Climate Change and Natural Disasters Displace Millions, Affect Migration Flows
– Europe and the United States Confront Significant Flows of Unaccompanied Child
Migrants
– Tackling Southeast Asia’s Migration Challenge
– ISIS threatens to send 500,000 migrants to Europe
– Border Skirmishes Resonate in National Domestic Politics
– Women’s Labour Migration from Asia and the Pacific
What challenges lie ahead for 2018 and beyond?
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If you are interested, you are invited to submit your abstract for consideration by the Congress committee by submitting an abstract of approx 200 words.
For further details click here >>
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We look forward to welcoming you on the 19th-21st March 2019 in Casablanca, Morocco for the annual discussion on the international challenges faced in protecting borders.
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