This year’s conference will involve a number of panels and discussions exploring the evolution and contestation of responsibility between the state and non-state actors in the provision of ‘public goods’.

Topics:

• The Development Dilemma: who's responsible for aid?
• Non-state actors in health policies: the Ebola outbreak as a case study
• The Taliban Shadow Justice: a challenge to the state or an opportunity to reinvent the judiciary?
• Writing the textbooks in crisis situations: the Iraqi case
• Beyond Internet access: Developing Countries and citizens' data protection
• Forced migrants in Austria: who's responsible?
• Armed Groups and Humanitarians: a de facto partnership?
• Shifting the security monopoly: EU counterterrorism and the State