ABWFA Evil 2010

Call For Papers Deadline: July 2, 2010 Read through the material and use the booking FORM link below. You may pay for your forum disussion participation before you submit your abstract. Once paid, you will be sent a link to which to send your abstract. Please send an email to us at abetterworldforall2010@yahoo.com for additional questions or comments. This is also the address for which to send your abstract once completed.

Regardless of location, evil is all around us and taking many forms. Evil knows no boundaries and lurks around the darkest of corners on the brightest of days. This Session known simply as ‘Evil’ was created to study the encompassing entity of evil. What causes someone to be evil? How is evil defined? How can our world overcome evil? These are some of the many questions that researchers and thinkers pose to themselves and the world. Please use the following guidelines to present your abstract and subsequent paper on the dark world of evilness.

1.     Evil People

2.     Evil World Leaders

3.     Is War Evil?

4.     Necessary Evils

5.     Women as Evil

6.     Serial Homicides

7.     Political Evil

8.     The History of Violence

9.     Evil in Religious Studies

10. Overcoming Evil

Use this FORM to book your participation in the forum and submit your abstract. Your abstract should be about 300 words in length and give the overall feel for your full-length 8-10 page paper that will be submitted. For more information on this procedure, see our General Information page.

Once your abstract and payment is received, your abstract will be published on this website under the corresponding session page. You will receive confirmation of the receipt of your abstract.

Upon the deadline, all abstract posts will close for new entries and the next deadline becomes due. This is for the presentation of your 8-10 page paper based on your abstract. This is the paper that will become a part of the full-length eBook which contains all papers from all participants.

Next, you will be expected to provide a discussion on at least one of the other papers that is presented in the forum by the next deadline. Don’t worry; we’ll help you keep track of all of this by sending you an email that the deadline is approaching.

Lastly, we will send you the evidentiary package that includes transcripts from forum discussions, a copy of your paid invoice, and a copy of the eBook. These eBooks will eventually be available for download by the public on this site as well. Within this evidentiary package you will be also asked to participate in the production of a hard copy version of this forum proceeding. You will need to supply an expanded version of your 8-10 page paper that is 16-24 pages in length.

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