First Global Dialogue on Ethical and Effective Governance

From H-PUBADMIN:

Dear all,

We are proud to announce *Governing good and Governing Well - The First Global Dialogue on Ethical and Effective Governance*, an international conference that will take place from the 28th until the 30th of May 2009 in the beautiful city of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The conference will be hosted by the Research Group 'Integrity of Governance' of the VU University.

Our goal is to bring together the best and most original scholars of the world on the ethics and quality of government and governance, to discuss the state-of-the-art of our knowledge, to stimulate international exchange and cooperation and to contribute to international policy making in this field. This first 'Global Dialogue' will build on previous initiatives by the EGPA Study Group on Ethics and Integrity of Governance and the ASPA Ethics Section (the 'Transatlantic Dialogue' and 'Transatlantic Workshop'). Partners and contributors include EGPA, IIAS, Ethics Section of ASPA,  BIOS, Netherlands Institute of Government (NIG), Integrity Bureau of the City of Amsterdam.

Core of the conference will be *7 workshops*, which will meet throughout the period of the conference. These will be jointly chaired by conveners from Europe, the U.S., Australia and other parts of the world, and will consist of an internationally mixed audience of participants. The conference is open to all who get their paper proposal accepted, but participants will be expected to subscribe to one workshop, act as a discussant for another contribution, and be expected to participate actively in the  discussions.

For more information about the conference, the 7 workshops and themes, and the rest of the program, please check the conference website: http://english.fsw.vu.nl/firstglobaldialogue

*Call for papers*

Submission of paper proposals is due at November 1st 2008; submission deadline for full papers is April 15th 2009. For details about abstract submission, please refer to the conference website.

More information will follow soon, please keep checking our website!

Warm greetings from the organizing committee,

Gjalt de Graaf
Hester Paanakker
Zeger van der Wal