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GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany – Emerging terrorist threats on international, regional and domestic scale take center stage during the Partnership for Peace Consortium’s second meeting of the Combating Terrorism Working Group here Sept. 23-25 at the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies.
The working group, under the theme, “Emerging Threats in a Dynamic World,” enters its second phase with this meeting. Participants will discuss initial research findings and recommendations from the first meeting, the implication of the Syrian conflict and the U.S. policy on combating terrorism.
Dr. John Schindler, the chair of the meeting and the professor at the U.S Naval War College, said the meeting is unlike any other.
“[The working group is] unique in the fact that it’s the only place that I know of where people who have personally combated terrorists and devoted their lives to scholarship on terrorism get together in one room to speak freely.”
Some of the key speakers include Dr. John J. Le Beau, former professor at the Marshall Center and editor of the book “The Dangerous Landscape;” Dr. Elena Kovalova, professor at the National Defense University, Washington D.C.; Dr. Nika Chitadze, associate professor at the International Black Sea University; and Mr. Jahangir Arasli, a scholar at the Institute for Near East and Gulf Military Analysis.
Other distinguished speakers scheduled in the event are Thomas Sanderson, co-director of the Transnational Threats Project at CSIS; Mark Clement, special agent in charge, NATO School in Oberammergau, Germany; Dr. Krunoslav Antoliš, professor, ministry of interior, police academy, Croatia; Lt. Col. (ret.) Sergey Sargsyan, deputy director, Noravank Foundation, Center for Political Studies, Armenia; Dr. Vakhtang Maisaia, Adviser, Independent Expert Club Croatia; Lt. Col. (ret.) Bogdan-Catalin Udriste, communication and information systems officer at European Union Monitoring Mission in Georgia; Col. Ferdinant Nuku, head of foreign intelligence directorate, Albanian state intelligence service; and Dr. Peter Forster, senior lecturer, information sciences and tech, Penn State University.
The Romanian intelligence service co-sponsored the first working group meeting in Bucharest from April 16 - 18. Thirty-five people from 14 countries gathered to address the first phase of discussion
The Combating Terrorism Working Group sponsors two sessions within a 12-month period providing strategic focus on one selected "hot topic." Between the two meetings, participants conduct research and bring that research to the next meeting. The working group brings together interested officials, security practitioners and academics from 15 countries to examine how best to design and apply multinational approaches to the subject.
According to the vision statement on its website, “The terrorist threat of the 21st Century is an international challenge requiring an international response. Accordingly, the Combating Terrorism Working group brings together interested officials, security practitioners and academics from several countries to examine how best to design and apply multinational approaches to the subject.”
For more on the first meeting of the group, watch this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7B7L3IIxSU
For more about the book “The Dangerous Landscape,” the working group or the PfPC, go to www.pfpconsortium.com.
(Ruben Tuitel, PfPC intern, contributed to this report).
| Date Taken: | 09.20.2013 |
| Date Posted: | 09.20.2013 10:58 |
| Story ID: | 113975 |
| Location: | GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, BAYERN, DE |
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