The conference will be held in English. Those interested are requested to respond by return e-mail to the ACS (acs@fmg.uva.nl), stating their name, address and institutional affiliation. You will subsequently receive an accept giro form. Fees are 20 euros for students and 30 euros for professionals. Coffee and lunch are included in the fee. Opening by Gerd Junne, Professor in International Relations at the UvA and Co-Director of ACS 9:30 Presentation of the project by Carlos Resa Nestares, coordinator of the AGIS project en professor at the Universidad Autónoma, Madrid 9:45-11:00 The cocaine market in the Netherlands: scope, organization and enforcement -Paul Gruter, ATENO, Amsterdam: The traders speak -Hans van der Veen, Visible Hand Research, Amsterdam / AGIS: Creative Destruction: (Dis) organizing cocaine markets in the Netherlands 11:00-11.15 Coffee break 11:15-12:30 The social organization of the cocaine trade in European perspective I -Nicolaos Vergadis, Europol Drugs Unit: Recent trends in cocaine trafficking -Nacer Lalam: Institut National des Hautes Etudes de Securité, Paris / AGIS: Nature of the links between Colombian traffickers and the French milieu: contracts, inter-group agreements, or hybrid networks 12:30-14:00 Lunch 14:00-15:15 The social organization of the cocaine trade in European perspective II -Carlos Resa Nestares: Cocaine trafficking in Spain: the implication of Colombian Networks -Miroslav Nozina, Institute of International Relations, Prague / AGIS: The cocaine market in the Czech Republic: From cocaine transits to consumption boom 15:15-15:30 Coffee break 15:30-17:15 Cocaine in Colombia: policy and consequences -Damián Zaitch: Erasmus University Rotterdam, Department of Criminology: Recent developments in Colombia -Adrianus Koetsenruijter, European Commission: The European take on drugs and conflict in Colombia