WORLD MEETING OF EXPERTS ON AGGRESSION, POLITICAL VIOLENCE

AND TERRORISM IN COLOMBIA

 

We are proud to announce that Colombia will host the 4th CICA/STR International Conference: Aggression, Political Violence and Terrorism - An Interdisciplinary Approach for a Peaceful Society.  The conference will take place at the International Convention Center Julio Cesar Turbay in Cartagena de Indias on November 18, 19 and 20, 2010.

Analyzing political violence and terrorism from different perspectives - psychobiology, neuroscience, criminology, sociology among others, and not exclusively from economic or political lenses - allows us to broaden the horizon of knowledge about a phenomena in today's society that has a great impact on our lives. Especially in Colombia, there is a great need to overcome the reductionism in the interpretation of this problem and build true paths of peaceful solutions for Colombia's war.

As a major global conference, scientists from over 25 countries participated in three previous gatherings in Spain (2007), Poland (2008), and Northern Ireland (2009).

This conference is an initiative of the Society for Terrorism Research (STR), headquartered in the USA, the organization Coloquios Internacionales sobre Cerebro y Agresión (CICA), based in Spain, the Instituto de Estudios Psicobiosociales y de Intervención en Violencias (IEPSIV) of Colombia, with the support of the Research Group of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid on Sociopsychobiology of Aggression, and the organizational participation of Colombia's FUNDASUPERIOR and other important institutions in Colombia and the world.


ANTICIPATED ISSUES TO BE ADDRESSED: 

Brain and mind of the terrorist; Conflict resolution and peace processes; Media and Social violence; Organized Violence: Gangs, Paramilitarism, Guerrillas, Drug Trafficking; Psychobiosociology of Aggression and Violence; Human Rights; Psychopathy and violence, and other topics related to the objective of the conference. 

Proposal topics are not limited to these mentioned.

 

                                                   SPEAKERS AND PARTICIPANTS

Have already confirmed their attendance leading global experts on the subject, between some of them, Jesús Martín Ramírez (Spain), Tali K. Walters (USA), Miguel Bettin (Colombia), Craig Anderson (USA), John Archer (UK), José Sanmartín (Spain), Miguel de Zubiría (Colombia), Tatyana Dronzina (Bulgaria), Guillermo Velarde (Spain), Guillermo Mendoza (Colombia), Julio de Antón (Span), Malgorzata Kossowska (Polonia), Natividad Carpintero (Spain), Rubén Ardila (Colombia), Luis Millana (Spain), Yonah Alexander (USA), Valentina Bartolucci (Italy), Peter Eachus (UK), Alfredo Molano (Colombia), Ayeray Medina Bustos (UK), Eduardo Pizarro (Colombia), Emma Bradford (UK), Fernán González S.J. (Colombia).

Participation as an attendee is open to institutions and individuals working in the field, as well as students of the social sciences, law, human, politics, education and health, and all other behavioral sciences.

 

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

 

Jesús Martín Ramírez

Head, UCM Research Group on Sociopsychobiology of Aggression, Psychobiology  Department & Institute for Biofunctional Studies, Universidad Complutense Madrid. (Spain).

 

Tali K. Walters

Vice-President, Society for Terrorism Research; Associate Editor, Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression; Forensic Psychologist, Boston. (USA).

 

Miguel Bettin

President, Fundación Instituto de Estudios Psicobiosociales y de Intervención en Violencias IEPSIV. (Colombia).
 

John Archer
Former President of the International Society for Research on Aggression (ISRA), University of Central Lancashire (England).

Malgorzata Kossowska
President of the Polish Association of Social Psychology, Jagiellonian University (Poland).

Guillermo Velarde
Air Vice Marshall, President of the Institute of Nuclear Fusion, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (Spain).
 

Miguel de Zubiría
Director Científico de la Fundación Internacional de Pedagogía Conceptual Alberto Merani.
Director General de la Asociación de Investigación Depresión y Suicidio. (Colombia).

Rubén Ardila
Ph. D. en Psicología Experimental de la Universidad de Nebraska.
Asesor Emérito de la Sociedad Colombiana de Psicología (Colombia).

Yonah Alexander
Director, Inter-University Center for Terrorism Studies; Senior Fellow, Potomac Institute for Policy Studies (USA).

Arthur J. Kendall
President of the Capital Area Social Psychological Association, Advisory Board of the Society for Terrorism Research, STR (USA).

Craig Anderson
Director, Center for the Study of Violenceof Iowa State University (USA).
 

The conference will be conducted in English with simultaneous translation to Spanish.