CALL FOR PAPERS

Abstract Submittal Deadline – 31st July 2017
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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?
– Is it possible to ensure relevant funding and resources reaches the places is is most needed/wanted?
– 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

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2016 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 2017 and beyond?

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.

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