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ANNOUNCEMENT

5th European Symposium on Non-lethal Weapons

May 11-13, 2009

Venue: Stadthalle Ettlingen, Ettlingen, Germany

organized by Fraunhofer ICT

ANNOUNCEMENT

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	Fraunhofer ICT

	University of Bradford Department of Peace Studies Non-Lethal Weapons Research Project

	International Law Enforcement Forum International Less Lethal Weapons Database

Announcement and Call for Papers

Experts in the field of non-lethal weapons are concerned both with investigating and pursuing a detailed approach to new NLW technologies, and with developing a better contextual understanding of this complex subject from a generalised perspective.

2007, the year of the 4th European Symposium on Non-lethal Weapons was very decisive for NLW. Never since the term NLW was first created had so much motion and activity occurred. Noticeably, NATO installed a Quick Reaction Team, a Topical Group and proposed a new term, “Non-Lethal Capabilities (NLC)”. In Europe, the European Defence Agency (EDA) installed a project team specifically in this area and adopted the term “NLC”.

Now what has changed in principle?

Are there any consequences of the new term, NLC? How will this impact each of the different aspects (legal, medical or operational) involved in NLW?

Chairman of the Symposium
Klaus-Dieter Thiel
Fraunhofer ICT, Germany

The above questions and more will be discussed at the 2009 Symposium on Non-lethal Weapons, which will also act as a forum to review current and future non-lethal technologies. This 5th Symposium will be a platform enabling participants to meet with each other and with experts from many different nations. All these aspects together can be seen as a catalyst to strengthen and to enlarge the present NLW-community.

In brief, the Symposium includes topics on:

Current and advanced technologies
Operational and tactical aspects (scenario-orientated, case studies...)
Required capabilities
Legal and public acceptance
Effects on target as well as the evaluation of effects

The listed topics should only be considered as guiding principles. Abstract proposals concerned with any other interesting and/or important topic related to NLWs will be welcome.

Programme Commitee

The European Working Group on Non-Lethal Weapons (EWG-NLW) serves as the Programme Committee:

Helmut Oppenheim
Bundesministerium für Landesverteidigung, Vienna, AT
helmut.oppenheimbmlv.gv.at

Stanislav Tecl
VOP-026 Sternberk, s.p.,divize VTUPV, Vyskov, CZ
s.teclvtupv.cz

Arnaud Reichart
DGA/DSA/UM TER/SM-EA, Bagneux, FR
arnaud.reichartdga.defense.gouv.fr

Norbert Eisenreich
Fraunhofer ICT, Pfinztal, GE
norbert.eisenreichict.fraunhofer.de

Roberto de Maio
Segredifesa, Rome, IT
r5u2s1sgd.difesa.it

Igor Plaksin
University of Coimbra, Coimbra, PT
igor.plaksindem.uc.pt

Zier Verheij
TNO Defence, Security and Safety, Delft, NL
zier.verheij.tno.nl

Victor Selivanov
Baumann University, Moscow, RU
vicselrol.ru

Ewa Liden
Swedish Defence Research Agency, Tumba, SE
ewa.lidenfoi.se

Graham Smith
Home Office Scientific Development Branch,
St. Albans, UK
EWGNLWhomeoffice.gsi.gov.uk

Presentation

Contributions to the Symposium can be presented as oral presentations (presentation time 25 minutes including discussion) or poster presentations.

Please submit an abstract not exceeding 300 words together with the exact title and name(s) of the author(s). Authors are requested to supply up to five keywords below the abstract, and to send the abstract to the national member and to the Chairman of the Symposium.

The papers will be published in the Symposium Proceedings, which will appear at the beginning of the event. Guidelines on how to prepare the text will be sent to the authors.

Conference Language: English