International Terrorism Conference 2008

09:00, 2 - 3 Oct 2008
RUSI, Whitehall, London, SW1A 2ET

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Options	Price
Normal rate	£499.00
Government rate Proof of eligibility must be presented	£299.00
Corporate rate	£349.00

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About the event:

Speaker highlights

• Rt. Hon Tony McNulty MP, Minister of State for Policing, Security and Community Safety
• Admiral The Lord West of Spithead, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Security and Counter-terrorism
• Lord George Robertson, Former Secretary-General of NATO
• Stephen Cummings, Director, Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure (CPNI)
• Sir David Veness, UN Under-Secretary-General for Safety and Security

The conference brings together leading academics, senior practitioners and policy-makers to analyse failure and success in the intelligence, military, policing, social and diplomatic struggle against terrorism, asking “where do we go from here?” It will provide a secure and high-level forum to facilitate constructive debate between those who inform, formulate and implement counter-terrorism strategies.

Key issues

• How should democracies counter the evolving threat emanating from 'home-grown' and international 'jihadists' - both at home and in regional hotspots
• The importance of multilateral approaches in countering a transnational terrorist phenomenon
• Elite and grass-roots approaches for coping with domestic radicalisation  
• How intelligence agencies are adapting to meet new and evolving challenges

Day One will address the current situation examining key countries and regions from Iraq and the wider Middle East to South-East Asia and explore multilateral perspectives and approaches to counter-terrorism.  Day Two will, inter alia, examine the important role of the private sector, both as a contributor to CT efforts and, together with the public sector, as a potential target to be protected. Key speakers will scrutinise our efforts to measure the success and failure both of terrorist and counter-terrorist strategies.

Speakers

• Senior Whitehall Official, UK
• Stephen Phipson, Group Managing Director, Smiths Detection
• Dr Brian Lang, Principal, University of St Andrews
• Richard Barrett, Coordinator, Al-Qaida/Taliban Monitoring
• Abdul Bari Atwan, Editor, al-Quds al-Arabi
• Professor Max Taylor, CSTPV, University of St Andrews
• Professor Michael Clarke, Director, RUSI
• Professor Marco Lombardi, Director ITSTIME, Catholic University of Milan
• Professor Alex P. Schmid, Director, CSTPV
• Theo Bot, Deputy Director, AIVD, Netherlands
• Frank Gardner OBE, Security Correspondent, BBC
• Ekaterina Stepanova, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)
• M.J. Gohel, CEO Asia-Pacific Foundation
• Dr Tore Bjorgo, Research Director and Professor of Police Science, Norwegian Police University College
• Professor Fernando Reinares, Senior Analyst on International Terrorism, Elcano Royal Institute, Madrid
• Lianne Kennedy-Boudali, RAND Corporation
• Dr Michael Boyle, CSTPV, University of St Andrews

The conference will conclude with a panel of counter-terrorism experts debating issues raised by the analysis and discussion throughout the two days. There will also be the opportunity to discuss these topics informally at a drinks reception on the evening of 2 October, to which all delegates are invited.

This International Terrorism Conference is the sixth in a series run by CSTPV and this year is co-organised and hosted by RUSI.

For all enquiries, please contact Sabrina Downey, Events Director at sabrinad@rusi.org or +44 (0)20 7747 2622.

Event manager: Sabrina Downey