CALL FOR PAPERS
V. International NGOs Conference on "Global Peace"
24-26 October 2008
in Çanakkale/Turkey
Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University is organising an international conference entitled V.th International NGOs Conference on "Global Peace".
The Conference will be held in October 24-26, 2008.
Venue: Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Çanakkale, Turkey,
Continuous increases in occupational, institutional and manner changes and demand and expectations of the societies that turned towards modern life style from traditional one affects economic, political and social structure. As a result of these changes, former social, cultural and economic ties are leaving their places to focuses of synergy and power formed by individuals who show them as non-governmental organizations and aim to participate actively to the process of finding long term effective solutions to social problems. As a matter of fact at the present day in addition to governments and private sector, today "non-governmental organizations" as a third dynamic also perform operations and make their significance felt for
problems that occur in every field of social life such as education, health,democracy, human rights,economic development, unemployment, tourism, poverty, and infrastructure.
In light of these reflections, our faculty, that has the mission of training human resource and director to NGOs besides public sector and private sector, has also adapted courses related to NGOs into curriculums of all departments. Moreover, from 2004 on our faculty has successfully actualized NGOs conferences four times, two of them being 1st and 2nd NGOs Congresses that have been held at national level and
two of them being 3rd and 4th NGOs Congresses that have been held international level. "5th International NGOs Conference" which we will be organizing with the main theme of "Global Peace" has been expected to be held with the participation of public sector, delegates of private sector, the academia and delegates of NGOs.
As known in historical phase the thought that the grief of humanity caused by the Second World War can prevent new wars led post 1946 to be called as a period of peace . However, from 1946 to today 25 million of people were killed in national and regional wars, more than 40 million people were exiled from their territories and left to heavy poverty conditions caused by wars. On the other hand, world of 21st
century ongoing conflicts in many regions of the world of 21st century and economic and social damages caused inadequacy in preventing environmental pollution, hunger, disease and safety.
Although, peace is always the basic dream of humanity of all times, it has never been established properly. Although most of world masses made great effort on establishing and carrying on peace, it couldn't go further than a dream that is hard to reach in many places throughout the world as General Secretary Ban Ki-moon cited. Is peace really a pure, hard elixir that is hard to reach? Is it a need that humanity felt its absence in every span of the world since ancient ages? Or is peace an ideal, an utopia that won't come true? Or is it only a concept or thought in our mind?
In various meetings (United Nations, World Economic Forum, other civic platforms) subject titles related to global peace such as new economic order, unemployment, fast population growth, global justice, global warming, global poverty, economic, cultural and political conflicts as well as providing peace have been discussed. Moreover, besides governments, national and supra-national institutions, consciousness of NGOs has also been increasing. In this regard, overcoming such kind
of problem or making an effort on this issue can not be unique work of government nor private sector or non-governmental organizations.
In this century, end of cold war, globalization and integration of countries have led increase in the number of NGOs that operate for the purpose of achieving economic, social, cultural ….etc. goals. Thus increased number of NGOs has started to take significant places in national economies and to affect national and supra-national decision making mechanisms. In this regard, NGOs effectiveness and
consciousness have become sensitive towards issues such as identification of problems, bringing new values and norms fore, meeting needs, solution of international conflicts and formation of international partnerships. Moreover, NGOs have started to take a significant role in bringing international issues to the world's agenda and establishing common value judgments. On the other hand, public commitment policy of the United Nations about establishing international peace have led NGOs take a significant role in this issue. Indeed, NGOs also have a significant role in providing collaboration among governments, society and private sector for the
establishment and sustainability of peace.
Activities towards providing international peace, one of UN responsibilities, have increasingly continued. As UN general secretary Ban Kimoon states it "peace is one of the most crucial needs of human kind and it is the first priority of the organization ". In this scope, UN continues its efforts world wide ranging from peace force operations to preventive diplomacy and from improvement of human rights to development. The Organization is also in close collaboration with various institutions and foundations such as NGOs, private sector, foundations of professions, research and education institutions. In this framework, NGOs have an important place among other actors.
In this regard, Biga Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences of Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University, which successfully continues its special mission about NGOs, would like to demonstrate sensitivity to global issues in the fifth international NGOs conference by taking into consideration the contribution of the former conferences. Therefore contributions of the people concerned about global peace and related subjects are welcome to our conference. In the activities held
towards establishing and sustaining peace UN works hard in collaboration with the NGOs. The Organization was established on October 24th, 1945. In this regard, contributions and efforts of the UN towards establishing and sustaining peace has made it possible to set the Conference date as 24th October.
Scholars and activists are invited to submit papers', panel proposals', workshops, and posters relating to all aspects of humanities and social sciences on "Global Peace" and NGOs , including;
NGOs and Government
NGOs and Turkey
NGOs and the European Union
International NGOs
NGOs and Youth
NGOs and Employment
NGOs, Education and University
NGOs, and Health
NGOs, Art and Culture
NGOs, Politics and Democracy
NGOs, Development and Economy
Global Poverty
Global Peace
Sub-Headings About Global Peace;
Basic Concepts and Terminology about Peace
NGO's Role in Providing Peace
State's Role in Providing Peace
Private Sector's Role in Providing Peace
Economic Factors that Cause Global Conflict
Political Factors that Cause Global Conflict
Social Factors that Cause Global Conflict
Environmental Factors that Cause Global Conflict
Global Warming
Life Quality of Human Kind / Global Peace
Dimensions and Profile of Peace Problem in Turkey and World
Strategies Towards Providing Peace
Education and Peace
Globalization, Multinational Companies and Peace
Human Rights and Peace
Terror and Peace
War and Peace
Violence, Crime and Peace
Domestic-Internatio nal Immigration and Peace
Chaos, Fear and Peace
Uncertainty and Peace
Health and Peace
EU and Peace
Cultural Activities and Peace
Natural Disasters and Peace
Peace and International Organizations
Peace Culture
Results of Global Conflicts
Work Life and Global Peace
Global Peace and Income Distribution: Global Peace in Fighting Poverty
Global Peace and Environmental Pollution
Marginalization and Global Peace
Equality and Global Peace
Disarmament and Global Peace
Development and Global Peace
Violence, Global Peace and Females
Effects of Global Peace on Defense Expenditures
Global Peace and Economic Stability Interaction
Within the scope of the Conference, following activities have been planned;
Papers: Papers to be sent to the Conference should be suitable to subject headings of the Conference and should not have been published before or sent for publishing elsewhere. Besides, for the purpose of contributing literature the aim of the paper should be bringing an innovation and study an authentic subject. Papers are required to be prepared for publishing in the Conference book and to be compatible to stated writing guidelines. Moreover, participants are welcomed to submit a work-shop subject.
Poster Papers: Following the full paper evaluation period that will be concluded on August 15th, 2008, poster papers to be accepted for the Conference will be announced.
Panels: Topics within the scope of main theme of the Conference, panels will be held by the experts of the topics. The purpose of these panels will be putting forward different views and understandings and evaluating them from different perspectives rather than reaching decisions. Panel topics and the panelists will be announced upcoming days on our Conference Web Site.
Workshop: One or several work-shops will be held by experts of significant topics (academics and implementing people) for the purpose of evaluation, analysis and synthesis of the topics in a participative surrounding. Workshop topics will be announced upcoming days on our Conference Web Site.
Exhibition: An exhibition will also be arranged to demonstrate products and services of public & private sector and NGOs. The exhibition will be open to visitors during the Conference days. For the detailed information regarding the exhibition please contact Conference Organization Committee.
Key Dates of the Conference;
Deadline for Submission of Extended Abstracts: May 16, 2008
Notification of Acceptance of Extended Abstracts: May 30, 2008
Deadline for Submission of Full Papers: August 1, 2008
Notification of Acceptance of Final Papers: August 29, 2008
5th. Internatı onal NGOs Conference: October 24-26, 2008
Please find enclosed the sample of registration form in
http://biibf. comu.edu. tr/stk2008 /enform.doc.
The working language of the Conference is Turkish and English. Please find kindly the details on our Conference Web Site. The conference papers are planned to be published by the University.
Advisory Commitee;
Prof. Ali AKDEMİR Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University
Assoc. Dr. Ahmet KAVAS İstanbul University
Prof. Arturo ALVARADO El Calegia de Mexico
Assoc.Prof. Asta VALACKIENE Kaunas University of Technology
Prof. A. Selami SARGUT Başkent University
Prof. Coşkun Can AKTAN Dokuz Eylül University
Prof. Earl INGRAM Troy University
Prof. Engin ERDOĞAN Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University
Prof. Engin YILDIRIM Sakarya University
Prof. Erol EREN Beykent University
Prof. Erdoğan GAVCAR Muğla University
Prof. Ertuğrul TAÇGIN International University of Sarajeua
Assoc.Prof. Gül KREMER Pennsylvania State University
Prof. Günal ÖNCE Dokuz Eylül University
Prof. H. Neşe ÖZGEN Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University
Prof. Huriye ÇATALCA Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University
İbrahim BETİL Community Volunteers Foundation
Prof. İlter TURAN Bilgi University
Prof. James HOYT Troy University
Prof. José Luis LEZAMA El Calegia de Mexico
Prof. Kemal YILDIRIM Anadolu University
Mahmut AYDOĞMU& #350; World Bank
Prof. Maria KLIMIKOVA University of Economics in Bratislava
Prof. Mehmet ŞAHİ N Anadolu University
Prof. Mehmet R. GÜRKAYNAK Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University
Prof. Mustafa TANYERİ Dokuz Eylül University
Prof. M. İlhan BAŞGÖZ Indiana University
Assist. Prof. Naim KAPUCU University of Central Florida
Prof. Nihat FALAY İstanbul University
Assoc.Prof.Peter WOLF Technical University of Ostrava
Prof. Ramazan AYDIN Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University
Prof. Rıza AŞIKO&# 286;LU Afyon Kocatepe University
Prof. Sadık KIRBAŞ Okan University
Prof. Steven Rathgeb SMITH University of Washington
Tayfun TALİPO& #286;LU Journalist
Dr. Tuğrul KESKİN Virginia Polytechnic Institute
Prof. Veysel BOZKURT Uludağ University
Prof. Yavuz ODABAŞI Anadolu University
Prof. Z. Toprak KARAMAN Dokuz Eylül University
Turkish Visa: The details on Turkish visa necessities please find the url cites:
http://www.disisler i.gov.tr/ MFA_tr/Protokol/ TurkiyedekiBasko nsolosluklar/ .
Participation fee: The details about the conference participation fee will be published in http://biibf. comu.edu. tr/stk2008/ ehome.htm.
Book Exhibition: Publishers and individuals are invited to present their books during the days of the conference. A special place in the conference building will be provided for this exhibition. For more information please contact the organisers.
Excursions: At the end of the conference, a small excursion will be organised for the participants. It is planned to visit the Troias, Kaz Mountains and Canakkale War places.
Further information on the conference will appear on
http://biibf. comu.edu. tr/stk 2008/ ehome.htm.
For any further information do not hesitate to contact:
Dr. Mehmet MARANGOZ
Secretary of the Organizing Committee;
Asst. Prof. Mehmet MARANGOZ, Chairman
Asst. Prof. Esra DEMİRCAN, Deputy Chairman
Asst. Prof. Ali Şahin ÖRNEK, Deputy Chairman
Asst. Prof. Umut EROĞLU, Deputy Chairman
Organization Committee;
Res. Asst. Erdal AYDIN, Chairman
Res. Asst. Burcu KILINÇ SAVRUL
Res. Asst.. Tuğdem SAYGIN
Res. Asst. Tanju ÇOLAKOĞLU
Res. Asst. Canan Öykü DÖNMEZ
Lect. Özlem Becerik YOLDAŞ
Lect. Özgür TOPKAYA
Orhan Şevki YİĞ İTBA& #350;
Arzu AÇAR
Elif YÜZÜAK
Meral AYDIN
Contact
Res. Asst. Burcu KILINÇ SAVRUL
Res. Asst. Erdal AYDIN
Meral AYDIN
Phone : +90 (286) 3358738-39-40
Fax: +90 (286) 3358736
e-mail: intngo@comu. edu.tr
Address: Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Faculty of Econ. and
Admin. Sciences at Biga/ Canakkale-Turkey
Tel: +90 28 6 335 8738
Fax: +90 28 6 335 8736
e-mail: intngo@comu. edu.tr
Sincerely yours,
Chairman of the Organization Committee
Dr.Mehmet Marangoz
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