Mayors' Conferences
27th Mayors Conference - Gothenburg and online 2022
The 27th Mayors' Conference and 8th World Forum took place in Gothenburg and online 13-14th June 2022.
The World Forum and Mayor’s Conference is a meeting place for people from all continents who are working to prevent drug abuse, ensure evidence-based and gender-sensitive practices, increase access to treatment, and to promote recovery and reintegration services. This global forum is one of its kind where NGOs, self-help groups, treatment centres, scholars, local, regional, and national authorities, politicians and other decision-makers, and others from around the world will meet to share evidence and best practice experiences. This year’s World Forum will include three main tracks: Prevention, Treatment/Recovery, and Advocacy, which will stretch over 1,5 days followed by the WFAD Congress and ECAD Mayors plenary session.
We are proud to announce that the Forum was inaugurated by UNODC Executive Director Ghada Waly and will be joined by experts from around the world.
Read more on the website: https://2022.wfad.se/ and access the report here. 
26th Mayors Conference - Cork 2019 
25th MAYORS´ CONFERENCE
and 6th World Forum Against Drugs 
Conference materials
Kevin Sabet, PhD, Director, Drug Policy Institute, University of Florida, President, Smart Approaches to Marijuana (SAM), USA
Speech at the WFAD /ECAD 25th Mayors Conference, Gothenburg, May 15, 2018 (Video 5min.)
Supply reduction in Peril? A lot of the worlds`s drug supply emanates from a war-torn Columbia.
Dr. Michael Jonsson, FOI, Swedish Defence Research Agency
Text to the slides (PDF)
In Columbia, a peace deal has been struck, which gives hope for a closure of insurgency and violence. (PDF)
Thomas Pietschmann, Dr, Drug Research Section, Division for Policy Analysis and Public Affairs
The International drug control system, global/regional and national drug patterns and trends, and supply reduction efforts at the international level (PDF)
Photo: Götaplatsen @ Klas Eriksson
Annual Mayors` Conference and the 6th World Forum Against Drugs will take off on May 14-15 in Gothenburg this year.
This joint event will address a growing interest to the effective prevention practices, full recovery and alternatives to incarceration and to life-long dependency on drug treatment.
The conference will create a room for elaborating a practical guide to how a recovery city will look like, this will be grounded on the recent evidence-based research. Sheffield Hallam University (UK), Ghent University (Belgium) and the City of Gothenburg have already started working on this guide in practice.
In order to find out more and to register please visit a joint webpage here.
MAYORS` CONFERENCE 2017
ECAD 24th Mayors` Conference materials
On June 12-13, the city of Kaunas hosted ECAD 24th Annual Mayors`s Conference 2017
Safe Cities Without Drugs. Preventing, Protecting, Policing
Key-note speakers:
David W. Spencer, Field intelligence Manager, Drug Enforcement Agency, European Region
Supply reduction and dismantling drug trafficking organizations: In what ways can local communities benefit (PDF)
Kim Nilvall, Swedish National Bureau of Investigation, Intelligence section, Organized crime
Police work in socially disadvantaged areas in Sweden: Impact of drugs on urban crime (PDF)
Torsten Stodiek, Deputy Head, Strategic Police Matters Unit, Community Policing Advisor, Transnational Threats Department, OSCE
Preventing terrorism and countering violent extremism and radicalisation that lead to terrorism:
A community and intelligence led policing approach (PDF)
Jon Sigfusson, Director for Icelandic Centre of Social Research and Analysis, Reykjavik University, ICSRA
Youth in Europe and Planet Youth (PDF)
Laimonas Vasiliauskas, Senior Specialist, Serious and Organized Crime Department, EUROPOL
European Illicit Drug Market (PDF)
Antonio Boscini, Health Director, San Patrignano Community, Rimini, Italy
Recovery and social reinsertion: San Patrignano Community model extended (PDF)
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME (PDF)
FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT (PDF)
Conference Booking Form
Kaunas Castle
Picture: @Rokas Tenys
Warm welcome to Kaunas, Lithuania!
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Therefore we would like to share the most interesti
ng conference materials with you. Please check the speeches we have published so far under Conference Papers in the Menu to the left.ECAD Lifetime Achievement Award issued for the first time was given to His Excellency Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, President of Iceland. President of Iceland, Patron of pan-European Drug Prevention Programme Youth in Europe, has since many years been committed to the fight against drugs and to drug prevention. The impressive and successful development in Iceland regarding the decrease in drug abuse was not a coincidence, but a result of dedication and skills among the whole society—led by His Excellency Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson.
(Receiving the Award from ECAD Chaiman Cllr Jim Corr in the picture)
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19th ECAD Mayors' Conference in Killarney: May 9-12, 2012
"COOPERATION IN PRACTICE - A BROADER PERSPECTIVE"
CO-HOSTED BY THE MUNICIPALITIES OF KILLARNEY, IRELAND and STAFFANSTORP, SWEDEN, TWIN - CITIES THROUGH ECAD
Venue: Malton Hotel
The conference in Killarney had some140 participants from 58 cities in 18 countries.
Conference Programme (PDF)
Conference Speakers (PDF)
Minutes of ECAD Advisory Board in Killarney, May 9, 2012 (PDF)
Minutes of ECAD Plenary Session, May 10, 2012 (PDF)
Speeches and Presentations:
- Jim Corr, Cllr, Chairman ECAD
- Allen Frances, Chair, DSM-IV Task Force, Professor Emeritus and Former Chair, Duke University, USA, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences
- Monica Luppi, International Relations Officer, San Patrignano, Italy
- Valerie Curran, Professor, MA, PhD, DClinPsychol, FBS; University College, London
- Alan Dron, Inspector, Interventions, Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency,
- Neil McKeganey, Professor, BA, MSc, PhD, Director, Centre of Drug Misuse Research, Glasgow, Scotland
- Tom Ward, Chief Clerk, Dublin Circuit and District Courts, Ireland
- Seamus Whitty, Kerry Life Education, Head of Training and Development, Kerry, Ireland
Workshops:
- Eugeny A. Bryun, Professor, Moscow Research and Practice Centre for Narcology, Ministry of Public Health and Social Development
- Fabio Bernabei, Investigative journalist, Associazione Osservatorio Droga
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His Excellency Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, President of Iceland and the Patron of pan-European drug prevention programme Youth in Europe honoured the conference with his presence and accepted ECAD Lifetime Achievement Award. His Excellency has since many years been committed to the fight against drugs and to drug prevention.
President Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson spoke bluntly about primary victims of the most profitable industry in the world, young people in each city, every day subject to killings by illicit drug industry and its´ servants.
ECAD Annual Award (2011) went to SanPatrignano Recovery Community in Italy, gracefully accepted by Monica Luppi (picture below), one of the excellent speakers at the conference.
Conference Materials will be published on ecad.net in the nearest days. Please return for updates!
Conference hosts and organizers with the President of Iceland. In the front row (sitting left to right):
Michael Sandin, Mayor of Staffanstorp, ÓlafurRagnarGrímsson, President of Iceland, Sean Counihan, Mayor of Killarney and Jim Corr, ECAD Chairman. 
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Dear Conference participants,
we hope you have booked your flights and reserved hotel by now, as a very interesting programme awaits all who comes to the 19th Mayors´ Conference.
We have invited high-skilled professionals and researchers, a whole conference day will be devoted to cannabis discussions, you will enjoy beautiful surroundings and lots of genuine Irish music.
Download Conference Programme (PDF)
WELCOME TO KILLARNEY!
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Conference Venue: The Malton Hotel (www.themalton.com)
First Announcement (PDF)
To book your rooms at the Malton Hotel (Conference Venue), download the Hotel Accomodation Booking Form below and send it before April 9 to the Malton Hotel, or email, phone / fax it quoting that yours is an ECAD booking.
Hotel Accomodation Booking Form (PDF)
WELCOME!