Editorial: A Central European Face of Criminology and Rehabilitation - Processes, Changes and Problems

We live in a world of phenomena created by human mind and experience.Some of them are: conflict, aggression, and violence.They are seen as constructs of the mind, types of behaviour, particular experiences and emotional states, specific social interactions or even historical and political categories regarded as non-standard events (social movements, wars, angry social protests, etc.).Their ambiguity and complexity have not remained unnoticed by Camilla Pagani (2014).Such a broad, imprecise understanding of these notions partly explains their overuse in the analysis and elucidation of social life.The alleged commonness and surface knowledge of the issue stems out of the insufficient diversification of these terms, their improper understanding and, consequently, often inadequate reacting to their symptoms.Martin Ramirez, during his opening words of the XXXVII International Conference on Conflict and Aggression (2014), mentioned that despite the fact that the Seville Statement on Violence was recognised by the UNESCO in 1989 as our heritage, there exist a number of areas of social life where the knowledge of the conditions and prophylactics of aggression as well as good practice in this field are ignored and omitted; one of them sometimes is criminology.These findings have been recently confirmed by the participants of the above mentioned XXXVII CICA International Conference on Conflict and Aggression: Developmental and Social Conditions, held in Poland on the initiative of CICA, Kazimierz Wielki University and the University of Zielona Góra (21-25 June 2014).Since 1983, the CICA had organised as many as 36 previous international meetings, with past venues scattered across America, Europe, Africa, and Asia.The XXXVII CICA Conference was held in the western Polish city of Zielona Góra.The main topics of the Conference focused on the study of the phenomena of aggression and conflict resolution using a comprehensive, integrated and interdisciplinary approach which takes into account both biological and psycho-sociocultural factors.