ERGOMAS Conference in Amsterdam, 2011, June 13-17  

ERGOMAS, the European Research Group on Military and Armed Forces and Society, and its board Dr. Rene Moelker (president), Dr. Tibor Svirzev Tresh and Dr. Manon Andres (treasurer), invite you to the upcoming conference in Amsterdam.

Organisation 
The 11th Biennial conference of ERGOMAS will be hosted by the Netherlands Defence Academy in Amsterdam. The conference will provide an opportunity to listen to and join some of the present or proposed working groups but also to put forward suggestions for new ideas and directions. 

Conference themes 2010  
The programme for the conference will be based on a combination of keynote talks, and presentations by the working groups. Proposals for new working groups and research themes are also welcome and room will be made for the presentation of these. The conference themes will encompass the whole range of issues to do with armed forces and society from everyday conditions in international operations to critical events for civil and military personnel. Central themes during the conference might be: 

• Legitimacy of intervention / Use of violence

• Future operations 

• Outsourcing core business and civil-military cooperation

• Cyber War, the advance of robot warriors 

• Culture in Conflict

Themes are not decided upon yet, so we appreciate your thoughts on these issues.

For further information:  www.ergomas.ch 

Call for ideas/abstracts/texts
on the topic "Europeanization vs. Re-Nationalization of Security" 

The German Journal "Journal Security and Peace" ("Sicherheit und Frieden") is preparing an issue on the topic "Europeanization vs. Re-Nationalization of Security". Researchers with interests in this area are invited to come in with ideas or abstracts in this context and/or to offer writing an article.
 
Texts may be written in German or English and shold be between 25.000 and 30.000 characters long (incl. spaces).
 
Further information for authors can be found on the magazine website: 

Journal Security and Peace under “Notes to Authors”.

The final date for articles is end of June 2010.
 
For more information or to submit ideas/texts, please e-mail Walter Feichtinger, co-editor:

 walter.feichtinger@bmlys.gv.at 

Advanced Intelligence Course, 14-15 May 2010