REFLECTIONS ON 2007 CONFERENCE

The IAMP wishes to thank all the participants and especially our Israeli hosts for the excellent conference.

We wish to inform our members and all those otherwise interested on what was agreed on the final session of IAMP Conference in Jerusalem 2007

Agenda items approved by the conference are in Bold.

1. Approval of decision to postpone election of new President and Board until 2008.

2. Congratulations given to Finland for successfully running the IAMP website and approval for them to continue providing this excellent service for members.

3. Approval of decision that Board is to work on vision statement for IAMP and this will be added to the website.

4. Proposal for papers from Jerusalem to be edited and published. This was approved and Professor Kasher’s team agreed to edit and the Finnish National Defence University agreed to publish these papers.

5. The proposed annual conference in Helsinki was resoundingly supported and approved.

6. Before the proposed conference in Helsinki it was agreed that IAMP members would discuss their plans and ambitions for the conference. In particular members are encouraged to suggest areas for discussion. Proposals so far have included the desire to talk about leadership, facility development and curriculum development.

7. In addition, it was agreed that the format of the conference at Helsinki would be revised. It would include more small group work to allow the discussion of topics of interest to particular members.

8. Proposal was also made that future annual conferences have joint publications, and that the format of delivery for papers be more flexible to include posters and round table discussions. Also proposal to invite our students to future conferences.

9. Approval of decision that IAMP have workshops as well as the annual conference. The UK DA is to host a workshop in Spring 2008. Topics that could be the focus of discussion included, Security Sector Reform, curriculum Development, Ethics, Leadership, Faculty learning and torture.

10. Other business included: Proposals for more professional ties between IAMP members; discussion of membership fees; the creation of think tanks dedicated to special interest groups; dedicated journal to PME; Applying for grants from the EU; Proposal for more links with NATO/PFP project on PME.

11. It was agreed that Victoria will send an email outlining here involvement in NATO/PFP projects in PME and suggest ways in which links can be established with the IAMP.