We are pleased to announce the 3rd GRIPS Student Conference, to be held on Tuesday, September 2, 2014.
This year's theme is "Toward Sustainable Development:
Challenges for Global Leaders".

The conference is open to all GRIPS and non-GRIPS students, researchers, and professionals. Participation is free of charge.

Conference Objectives
GRIPS has been hosting the GRIPS Student Conference since 2012. The Conference brings together a diverse group of students, researchers, and professionals from various disciplines and backgrounds to share ideas and research findings on political, social, and economic challenges facing the world today and to discuss how these challenges can be addressed for sustainable development. Our goal is threefold: to promote a scholarly exchange of ideas, to set new research directions, and to encourage rigorous inter-disciplinary research and collaboration.

This year, we focus on the changes and continuity in economic and political research and reflect on ways in which global leaders can learn from historical analogies. We also take an in-depth look at the role of emerging economies in sustainable development and the challenges facing them today.

The conference is open to all GRIPS and non-GRIPS students, researchers, and professionals, and it provides an excellent opportunity for young as well as established researchers to share expertise in important policy areas, contribute to existing scholarship, and expand their network of colleagues and collaborators.

Call for Presentations
We invite both empirical and conceptual papers on any issue in economics, political science, and social policy that is relevant to the conference theme. Below are some broad areas in which we invite presentations.

1. Economics
. Development economics
. Microeconomics
. Macroeconomics
. International economics
. Monetary economics
2. Political Science
. Public administration and governance
. International relations
. Traditional and non-traditional security
. International political economy
. Democratization
3. Social Policy
. Education policy
. Cultural policy
. Environment policy
. Public health policy
. Policy design and implementation
. Public policy
4. Disaster Studies
. Disaster engineering
. Disaster prevention
. Disaster risk management
. Disaster economics
. Disaster social systems

Presenters will have 25 minutes to present and answer questions. The official language of the conference is English.

Guidelines for Registration and Abstract Submission If you would like to present a paper at the 3rd GRIPS Student Conference, we kindly ask that you pre-register online (http://goo.gl/Xcpce1) or send an email to studentconference@grips.ac.jp by Friday, August 8, 2014, with your tentative presentation title.

An abstract of 200-300 words should be submitted by Monday, August 11, 2014. All abstracts must include a title, author(s)' name(s), affiliation, and e-mail, and
3-5 keywords. The abstract should describe the theme of the paper and the theory and research method used, and give a summary of the main conclusions.

Authors whose abstracts have been accepted will be notified by e-mail before Monday, August 18, 2014.

Presenter whose papers have been accepted should send their presentation slides to the Organizing Committee by e-mail no later than Friday, August 29, 2014.

Important Dates
Preregistration (including title), Friday, August 8,
2014
Submission of abstracts for review, Monday, August 11,
2014
Authors are notified of their status, Monday, August 18, 2014 Submission of presentation slides, Friday, August 29,
2014

Correspondence
Inquiries, abstracts and presentation slides should be e-mailed to studentconference@grips.ac.jp

Please check further info and latest updates at:
http://www.grips.ac.jp/en/events/20140708-2561/

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The Student Conference is part of the GRIPS Summer Program. In the Summer Program we offer a host of activities ranging from special lectures, seminars, workshops, field trips, cultural activities and a student conference. Many of these activities are open to the public and we invite you to check our Summer Program website
(http://www.grips.ac.jp/en/events/20140710-2563/) for further details.

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For Access & Map to the GRIPS campus:
http://www.grips.ac.jp/en/about/access/
National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS)
7-22-1 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-8677

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Karin Hillen
Secretariat, GRIPS Summer Program