Annual Colloquium on Crime Prevention

The ICPC Colloquium on Crime Prevention has an important role in providing a forum for informal exchange among countries, agencies and organizations on developments in prevention in different regions of the world.

NOW AVAILABLE: PROCEEDINGS OF ICPC'S 2008 COLLOQUIUM ON WOMEN SAFETY, QUERETARO, MEXICO
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Report on the Colloquium

ICPC’s 8th Annual Colloquium on Crime Prevention took place November 12-14th, 2008 in the City of Santiago de Queretaro, and was organised with the Ministry of Citizen Security and Safety ,Government of the State of Queretaro.

More than 350 participants, from 30 countries in the Americas, Caribbean, Europe, Africa, Asia and Oceania, attended the event which provided a good opportunity to exchange knowledge and practices on Women’s Safety.

The Colloquium opening session included speeches by Mr. Alejandro Rubido, Executive Secretary for the National System of Public Security, Ms. Guadalupe Morfin, Prosecutor of Violent Crimes against Women and Human Trafficking, Mr. Jose Manuel Ogando, Minister of Citizen Security and Safety of the State of Queretaro,  and Ms. Raymonde Dury, President of ICPC.

Three keynote addresses were delivered including a presentation on Safety, Gender Mainstreaming and Gender-Based programmes by Caroline Moser, Director of the Global Urban Research Centre of the University of Manchester, England, a presentation on the Role of Cities and Local Governments in Women’s Safety by Alberto Concha Eastman, Regional Advisor on Violence and Injury at the Pan American Health Organization, and on Women Safety: a Shared Global Concern by Valerie Sagant, Director General, ICPC.

The Colloquium also included two plenary sessions that provided a global view, highlighting different types of violence against women, and an international panorama of key developments and challenges for women’s safety. 

Representatives from international agencies participated at these sessions: including:

- United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM);
- United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT);
- Organization of American States (OAS);
- European Forum for Urban Safety (FESU);
- International Centre for Criminal Law Reform and Criminal Justice Policy (ICCLR & CJP);
- Victim’s Assistance Delegation of the Ministry of Interior, France. 

Finally, the Colloquium hosted eight workshops (4 concurrent sessions per day) on specific subthemes within women’s safety. 

On day one these included:
- Measuring Violence: a Challenge to Developing Effective Programmes;
- Transnational Crime and its Impact at the Local Level;
- Violence against Women and Community Safety with targeted groups (ex: women and children victims of trafficking)
- Men’s Role in Women’s Safety.

On day two these included:
- Creating Safe and Inclusive Communities for Women;
- Building Effective Partnerships;
- Involving Women in Crime Prevention;
- Developing Integrated Strategies.

Recognized experts from more than 25 countries, including representatives from government, police, international organisations, non-governmental organisations, universities and research centres contributed excellent presentations throughout these sessions, encouraging debate and discussion among conference delegates.

Finally, the final session of the Colloquium hosted a Cities Forum, which united Mayors, local authorities and other actors working at the local level on women’s safety, to discuss ways in which local authorities can work to improve women’s safety.

Moreover, the Colloquium provided a venue for ICPC partners to organise side events. On November 12th, Women and Cities International, an NGO based in Montreal officially launched its Evaluation Report entitled Women’s Safety Audits What Works and Where? and on November 14th., UNIFEM and UN-HABITAT organised a session entitled “Women and Safety in Urban Spaces”, in collaboration with Women and Cities International and Red Mujer and  UN Habitat.

At the end of the Colloquium, 75 participants filled the evaluation questionnaire (only 11% of them were ICPC’s members).Some of the main findings included:
- 95% of the respondents indicated that  they were satisfied or very satisfied of the Colloquium;
- 95% of the respondents indicated that they improved their knowledge on the different topics addressed;
- 70% of the respondents indicated that the content of the Colloquium was very relevant for their work;
- 68% of the respondents indicated that ICPC’s Colloquium was an excellent occasion to establish new contacts;
- 100% of the respondents indicated that they would recommend to their colleague to participate in one of ICPC’s Colloquium.

Finally, at the occasion of the Colloquium, ICPC published in three languages an International Compendium of Practices and Policies on Women’s Safety which includes descriptions of more than 60 women’s safety initiatives across the world.

OFFICIAL PROGRAMME


PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2008 COLLOQUIUM

To consult the speakers’ biographies and presentations, click on the speaker’s name. Please note that the presentations are in their original language.

Opening Session
Ms. Raymonde Dury, President of International Centre for the Prevention of Crime (ICPC)

Keynote Addresses:

Women’s Safety: a Shared Global Concern
Ms. Valérie Sagant, Director General, ICPC 

Safety, Gender Mainstreaming and Gender-Based Programmes
Ms. Caroline Moser - Professor and Director of the Global Urban Research Centre (GURC), School of Environment and Development, University of Manchester, England

The Role of Cities and Local Governments in Women’s Safety
Mr. Alberto Concha Eastman, Regional Advisor on Violence and Injury Prevention, Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)

Plenary Sessions:

Understanding the Realities of Violence against Women

Ms. Cecilia Andersson, Urban Safety Expert, Safer Cities Programme, United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT)
Ms. Flor de Maria VALDEZ, Consultant, Inter-American Commission of Women (ICW) – Follow up Mechanism to the Convention of Belém do Pará (MESECVI), Organization of American States (OAS) 
Mr. Michel Marcus, Executive Director, European Forum for Urban Safety (FESU)

Women’s Safety: Key Developments and Principal Challenges at the International Level

Mr. Yvon Dandurand, Senior Associate, International Centre for Criminal Law Reform and Criminal Justice Policy (ICCLR & CJP), Canada
Ms. Cecilia Martínez, Director of Regional Office for Latin America and Caribean of UN-HABITAT (ROLAC), United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT) 
Mr. Eric Panloup, Chef d’Escadron (Chief of Squadron), Victim’s Assistance Delegation, Ministry of the Interior, France

Cities and Local Governments Forum

Mr. Franz Vanderschueren, Director of the Urban Safety Programme, University of Alberto Hurtado, Chile

Workshop 1: Measuring Violence: a Challenge to Developing Effective Programmes

Mr. Christophe Soullez, Chief of Department of the National Observatory of Delinquency (OND), France 
Ms. Marisa Canuto, Executive Director of Women in Cities International, Canada
Ms. Diane Alméras, Social Affairs Officer, Women and Development Unit, Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)
Ms. Montserrat Sagot, Representative of the Department of Social Sciences, University Council, University of Costa Rica, Costa Rica

Workshop 2: Transnational Crime and its Impact at the Local Level

Mr. Michel Marcus, Executive Director, European Forum for Urban Security (FESU) 
Mr Felipe De La Torre, Crime Prevention Expert for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) for Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean. 
Ms. Marlyn Jones, Professor of Criminology at the University of West Indies, Jamaica

Workshop 3: Violence against Women and Community Safety

Mr. Erich Marks, Director General, German Congress on Crime Prevention, Germany  
Ms. Luisa Vicioso, Ambassador, Responsible of Gender and Youth  Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Dominican Republic 
Mr. Vincenzo Castelli, Project Manager, Consorzio Nova, Italy  

Workshop 4: Men’s Role in Women’s Safety

Mr. Michael Mann, Deputy Chief of Police, Waterloo Regional Police Service, Canada
Ms. Ivonne Fernandez, Expert Consultant, Family Tribunals, Chile
Mr. Mark Liddle, Managing Director, Applied Research in Community Safety Ltd. (ARCS) 

Workshop 5: Creating Safe and Inclusive Communities for Women

Mr. Smaïn Laacher, Sociologist, Researcher at the National Centre of Scientific Research (CNRS), University of Paris VII, France
Ms. Olga Segovia, Regional Coordinator of the programme “Cities without  violence, safer cities for women”, United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM)    
Ms. Beatriz Rivera, National Coordinator of the “Rescuing public space” Programme, Federal Ministry of Social Development (SEDESOL), Mexico
Mr. Ali Rame, Researcher, University of Rabat, Morocco

Workshop 6: Building Effective Partnerships

Ms. Liliana Rainero, Coordinator of Red Mujer y Hábitat, the Latin American Women and Habitat Network, Regional Coordinator of the Centre for Exchange and Services of the Southern Cone – Argentina (CISCSA), Argentina
Ms. Cookie Edwards, Director of KwaZulu-Natal Network on Violence Against Women (KZN), South Africa
Ms. Elizaveta Bozhkova, Director of the Information Centre of the Independent Women’s Forum, Russia 
Ms. Mercedes Ampié, Commissioner, Office of Women and Children, National Police of Nicaragua

Workshop 7: Involving Women in Crime Prevention

Ms. Astri Aas-Hansen, State Secretary of the Ministry of Justice and the Police, Norway
Ms. Anne Michaud, International Consultant, Canada 
Ms. Kalpana Viswanath, Secretary of the Executive Committee, JAGORI, India
Ms. Prossy Nakanjako, Senior Programme Officer, Raising Voices, SASA!, Preventing Violence Against Women and HIV, Uganda   

Workshop 8: Developing Integrated Strategies

Mr. Franz Vanderschueren, Director of the Urban Safety Programme, University Alberto Hurtado, Chile
Ms. Teresa Carvalho, Commission for Citizenship and Gender Equality, Portugal 
Mr. Arno Lamoer, Commissioner of the South African Police Services (SAPS), South Africa

ICPC’s Seventh Annual Colloquium on Crime Prevention took place on November 8-9, 2007 in Oslo, Norway, marking the first ICPC event to be held in Scandinavia.  

The Colloquium provided a very rich opportunity to exchange ideas and experience between crime prevention experts, decision-makers, and practitioners across the world on the theme ‘The Role of the Police in Crime Prevention’.  Over the course of the two days, productive and thought-provoking discussions took place on key issues such as: building effective partnerships with police services in prevention, examining the organizational culture and structure of police services, and contemporary developments in knowledge-based policing.

WELCOME AND INTRODUCTORY SPEECHES

Hastri Aas-Hansen, State Secretary, Ministry of Justice and Police of Norway
Raymonde Dury, ICPC President
Ingelin Killengreen, High Police Commissionner of Norway

 
Colloquium Delegates, ICPC President Raymonde Dury 
and Norwegian High Police Commissionner Ingelin Killengreen

PLENARY SESSIONS

Nils Christie, Professor of Criminology, University of Oslo
Kjellbjorg Lunde, President, National Crime Prevention Council, Norway
Jean-Paul Brodeur, Director, International Centre for Comparatice Criminology, University of Montreal


Samwell Lyimo, Mzwandile Petros, Serge Armand 
Yapo and Mr Bla

WORKSHOP PRESENTATIONS

Building Effective partnerships for Safe Communities

Peter St Jean, Assistant Proffessor, Department of Sociology, State University of New York at Buffalo
Erik Nadheim, Director, National Crime Prevention Council, Norway
Per Svartz, Chief of Police, Skane Police District, Sweden
Erich Marks, Executive Director, German Congres on CRime Prevention
Egil Olli, President, Sami Parliament, Norway
Chantal Bernier, Assistant Deputy Minister, Public Safety, Canada
Javiera Blanco, Deputy Secretary, Sub Secretariat, Carabineros, Chile


Sami Parliament president Egil Olli and Sami representatives

Examining the Structure and Culture of Police Services

Jorgen Illum, Chief of Police, Ostjylland Police Dictrict, Denmark
Barbara Holtmann, Senior R&D Contracts Manager, Defense, Peace, Safety and Security (DPSS), Council for Scientific and Inductrial Research (CSIR)
Sohail Husain, Director, Analytica Consulting Services
Cecilia MacDowell Santos, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of San Francisco and Researcher at the Center for Social Studies at the University of Coimbra, Portugal
Elena Azaola, Researcher at CIESAS, President of the Executive Board, Institute of Safety and Democracy (INSYDE), Mexico


Chantal Bernier, Assistant Deputy Minister of Public Safety
and Erik Nadheim, Director, National Crime Prevention Council of Norway

Highlinghting Contemporary Developments in Knowledge-Based Policing

Paal Christian Balchen, National Police Directorate, Norway
John Graham, Director, Police Foundation, London
Wenche Bauge Helle, Hordaland Police District, Norway
Arno Lamoer, Commissioner, South African Police Service, South Africa


Lunch at the Nobel Peace Center, Oslo

ROUNDTABLE PRESENTATIONS


International Cooperation in Police Reform: A focus on crime prevention

Mark Downes, Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development
Sohail Husain, Director, Analytica Consulting Services
Doug Coates, Director, International Peace Operations Branch, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Canada
Jean Côté, Deputy Director, International relations and protocol, Sûreté du Quebec


Delegates Gregory Sloane-Seale, Citizen Security Programme,Trinidad and Tobago, Patrice Allard, City of Montreal, Canada and Clifford Johnson, National League of Cities, USA


International Cooperation in Crime Prevention and Community Safety

Slawomir Redo, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, UNODC
Per Joar Nalsund, Project Manager, Community Policing Project (JUNO 4) in Serbia and Nikac Zeljko, Serbia
Gregory Sloane-Seale, Coordinator, Citizen Security Programme, Trinidad and Tobago

Cities and Local Governments Forum

Christophe Caresche, Member of Parilament, Deputy Mayor, City of Paris
Ove Kritoffersen, City of Oslo



        

Fifth Annual Colloquium on Crime Prevention
Santiago, Chile, October 2005     

Marking the first ICPC event to be held in Latin America, ICPC's fifth annual colloquium took place in Santiago, Chile from October 27-28, and centered on the theme Strategic Partnerships for Effective Crime Prevention. The event was coordinated by ICPC in partnership with Chile's Ministry of the Interior. The United Nations' Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) graciously provided the space in which to hold the event. Interest in crime prevention in Latin America was manifestly high and ICPC was very pleased with the strong Latin American representation. Speakers from at least 13 different countries traversed the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Oceania to present their experiences in crime prevention, highlighting several case studies throughout the two days.

Combining the expertise of researchers, city-level officials, and private sector representatives, over 200 participants collectively explored topics including: sustainable crime prevention; public-private partnerships; local level crime prevention; engaging the private sector in sustainable crime prevention; private security; and security technologies.

A summary of the colloquium was released in the 43rd edition of the International Observer.      

Fourth Annual Colloquium on Crime Prevention
ICPC'S 10th Anniversary
Paris, France, December 2004

The 2004 Colloquium marked ICPC?s10th Anniversary and took place in Paris, and the theme was "Strategies for the Sustainable Governance of Crime Prevention".  The Colloquium was a unique opportunity to develop a shared strategic thinking aroun the most promising ways to foster the sustainable governance of community safety and crime prevention at local, national and international levels. It also looked at emerging orientations of policy and practice.

A summary of the colloquium was released in the 36th edition of the International Observer, including some of its proceedings.
 

Third Annual Colloquium on Crime Prevention
Pretoria, South Africa, November 2003

ICPC held its third annual colloquium on November 24, 2003 for its members and invited experts on the topic of : "Cities, Urban Renewal and Crime Prevention" in Pretoria, South Africa. Cities have been key to crime prevention policies in most countries over the past years, with the focus on coordinating and developing multi-sectoral strategic responses to crime. At the same time in many countries there have been parallel attempts to work in multi-sectoral ways within other policy sectors - health, poverty, housing and environment. This includes work under various headings such as urban renewal, neighbourhood renewal, and comprehensive community initiatives.

The Colloquium provided an opportunity to explore some of the lessons and achievements of these broad-spectrum interventions in terms of what they have to contribute to the future development of community safety at the city level. It is also an opportunity for a real exchange of experience in both directions between the North and the South, after more than a decade in which the ideas of local authority and city-based partnership crime prevention have been implanted in many countries. This was accomplished through an overview of the field, country-specific presentations, contributions from mayors and workshop discussion. The colloquium, sponsored by the South African Police Services (SAPS), was followed by the Annual Lecture on Crime Prevention and the Colloquium dinner hosted by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR).

The Colloquium took place just prior to a separate international conference on Sustainable Safety: Municipalities at the Crossroads (November 25-28, organized by the UN HABITAT Safer Cities Programme and the city of Durban, to enable those attending the Colloquium to take part in both events. More information on the Colloquium topics:
Cities, Urban Renewal and Crime Prevention

A summary of the colloquium, including some of its proceedings can be found in our 25th edition of the International Observer: February 2004
 

Second Annual Colloquium on Crime Prevention
Brussels, Belgium, November 2002

ICPC held its second annual colloquium on November 25th 2002 on Crime Prevention and Youth: What Role for the School. The meeting was generously hosted by the Belgian government. .

The Colloquium was attended by over 150 invited participants: 48 ICPC representatives and guests from 17 countries, and more than 100 participants from Belgium. As an international event, the Colloquium provided an opportunity to look at, and learn from, developments in countries well beyond national borders or regions, and provided opportunities to exchange information on experiences, problems and solutions. A summary of the colloquium, including some of its proceedings can be found in our 12th edition of the International Observer 

First Annual Colloquium on Crime Prevention-
Quebec, Canada, November 2001

The ICPC welcomed 35 invited participants from government and non-governmental organizations around the world to its First Annual Colloquium on Crime Prevention on November 11, 2001 in Quebec City, Canada.
   
Colloquium presentations and discussions focused on two key themes: