The title of the conference clearly emphasizes one of the central issues in an ever globalizing world. Good governance is the basis for an effective policy selection and implementation. As such, it appears as a crucial condition for being successful in the achievement of a broad range of policy objectives in domestic and international arena. ICES’17 focuses on governance as a process of interaction among a set of three main actors including state, civil society and private sector in local, regional and global levels. Improvement of the quality of governance is a challenging process that requires coordination among all three actors in all three levels mentioned above. This conference aims to promote an interdisciplinary exchange of ideas, knowledge, research, information and recommendations between scholars, policy makers, governors, civil society and research students on the perspectives and challenges on local, regional and global governance. 

The conference will be held in English. If there are enough presenters that want to present their papers in Albanian language, sessions in Albanian can also be arranged. 

Contributed papers will be selected through a blind review process of the abstracts (not more than 500 words) which should contain a clear indication of the purpose of the research and its relationship with the conference topics, the approach used the major results, and the implications.

Double Article Review

We would like to inform that all submitted abstracts and papers will be reviewed (blind review) by the scientific committee of the conference in order to comply with the ‘peer reviewed’ conditions.  Further, if the participants want, the organizing committee of the conference would provide reviewers/ referee reports, including their comments, on the paper.

Publication and Conference Proceedings

Accepted abstracts/proposals or papers, panels, workshops, or media productions will be published as Conference Proceedings and distributed to the attendees. The selected papers, after academically edited and reviewed, will be grouped for possible publication as a special issue in a journal.