International Society for Military Ethics 2010 Symposium Call for Papers
DATE: 26-29 January 2010
TIME: 8:30 a.m.
LOCATION: Mother Rosalie Hill Hall, University of San Diego, 5998 Alcala Park, San Diego, CA 92110

This year's theme will be "Ethics and Irregular Warfare." Papers and proposals for panels or other program segments are invited on ethical challenges within all aspects of nonconventional conflict, from counterinsurgency to stability and peace-keeping operations. Emphasis may range from the use of nonconventional weapons in nonconventional conflicts, to the need for common notions of ethics and military leadership in such operations among coalition forces from different nations and cultures.

General submission guidelines. Please note the following guidance on submission deadlines. Proposals are due 1 October 2009. Full working drafts of papers will be favored over one-page proposals. Proposals or papers MUST contain the author's name, institution, and contact information on the first page; the contact information must include email address, command or institutional affiliation, and telephone number. Once you are notified that your proposal or draft has been accepted, you must submit your full paper by 1 January 2010.

If you would like to make a presentation at the conference, please submit a paper, a draft, an outline, or a proposal to Dr. George Lucas at the United States Naval Academy by 1 October 2009. Submit your proposal as a word processor file in MS Word format attached to an e-mail addressed to Dr. Lucas (grlucas@usna.edu). Document file name should be author's first and last name and brief paper title: e.g., “John Smith: States, Promises and Treaties.” We expect to be able to notify authors of presentations selected by approximately 30 October 2009. Prior to the conference, the papers will be published on the ISME Web Page, http://www.usafa.edu/isme/. Disclaimer: ISME and the program chair assume no responsibility for papers that are misdirected, lost in transmission, or otherwise not received and acknowledged. Acknowledgement is by e-mail only.

In order to provide adequate time for discussion of presentations, each presenter will be limited to 15 minutes. Please bear this time limit in mind as you craft your papers.

Please consider submitting a proposal. The vitality exhibited by ISME for nearly thirty years comes entirely from volunteer participation.