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TENTH UNITED NATIONS CONGRESS ON THE PREVENTION OF CRIME AND THE TREATMENT OF OFFENDERS Background | Format and functions | Dialogue and decision-making | Venue | Languages | Participation and attendance procedures | Media and Press | Agenda and substantive issues | Workshop organizers | Combatting Corruption | Crimes related to the Computer Network | Women in the Criminal Justice System | Community Involvement in Crime Prevention | Ancilliary meetings | Useful contact addresses for NGOs | International Scientific and Professional Advisory Council | Documentation | National Reports | Travel Dialogue and decision-making: maximizing the Congress results The world-wide nature of the Congress and the leverage of its participants gives it special authority. Its consensus approach has underscored key areas of agreement and principles that countries can draw upon in formulating or reviewing their own policies. The consensus-building process also helps to develop channels of communication
and productive dialogue among ministerial and other government counterparts, as well as among practitioners and scholars. At the same time, the emphasis on proper preparations at all levels should give added depth to the proceedings, reducing formalistic polemics, for example on draft resolutions. It should permit strategic planning and further the spirit of cooperation among the major Congress players. The aim of harnessing the diversity of a multinational, multi-disciplinary, multi
sectoral Congress, such as this, requires an integrative mode: building unity from diversity is indeed one of the major challenges facing the Congress organizers and participants. Thus, the call to integrate the workshops into the main proceedings, and the proposal to focus on a single | |||||
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