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Ninth Annual Terrorism Conference
The War in Syria, Islamic State and the Changing Landscape of Asymmetric Threats



Michael Hayden,
Former Director of the CIA,
to headline the conference




Tuesday, December 8, 2015

8:30 A.M. – 4:15 P.M.

The University Club of Washington, D.C.
Grand Ballroom (2nd Floor)
1135 Sixteenth Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20036

**Please note that the dress code for this event is business attire or working uniform.


*To register for the conference please click here.

Agenda/Registration
8:00 A.M.– 8:30 A.M.

Welcome
8:30 A.M.– 8:40 A.M.

Glen E. Howard
President, The Jamestown Foundation


Panel One:
The War in Syria and the New Threat Environment
in the Greater Middle East
8:40 A.M.–10:00 A.M.

Bruce Hoffman
Director, Center for Security Studies,
Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University &
Board Member, The Jamestown Foundation

Bruce Riedel
Senior Fellow, The Saban Center for Middle East Policy, Brookings Institution

David Kilcullen
President and CEO, Caerus Associates

Q & A

Coffee Break
10:00A.M.–10:30 A.M.

Panel Two:
Russian Intervention in Syria, Rebel Reaction, Turkey’s Perspective and the Arab Kurdish Insurgency East of the Euphrates
10:30 A.M.–12:00 P.M.

"Russian Intervention in Syria"
Pavel Baev
Research Professor, Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)

"Rebel Reaction to Russian Intervention"
Nicholas A. Heras
Middle East Analyst, Center for a New American Strategy (CNAS) &
Associate Fellow, The Jamestown Foundation

"Turkey’s Reaction to the War in Syria"
Nihat Ali Ozcan

Associate Professor, TEPAV University, Ankara, Turkey

"The Kurdish Periphery"
Wladimir van Wilgenburg
Analyst, The Jamestown Foundation &
Contributor, Daily Beast

Q & A

Luncheon
12:00 P.M.–1:00 P.M.

Panel Three:
Islamic State’s War Machine: Ideology, Recruitment, Rivals and Proxies
1:00 P.M.– 2:45 P.M.

"Caliphate at War: Islamic State Ideology, War Fighting and State Formation"
Ahmed A.S. Hashim

Associate Professor of Strategic Studies, Military Studies Program
Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS)
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

"ISIS and al-Qaeda: Tactical Twins, Strategic Enemie"
Michael W.S. Ryan

Senior Fellow, The Jamestown Foundation

"Europe’s Jihadist Pipeline to Syria"
James Brandon

Editor-in-Chief, Terrorism Monitor, The Jamestown Foundation

"Islamic State and West Africa"
Jacob Zenn

Associate Fellow, The Jamestown Foundation

Q & A

Coffee Break
2:45 P.M.–3:00 P.M.

Concluding Remarks
3:00 P.M.–4:00 P.M.

Michael V. Hayden
Former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency


Q & A

Conclusion
4:00 P.M.

For further information and to join their mailing list, visit http://www.jamestown.org/

 


March 2014 conference at James Madison University

Registration is now open for a 19-20 March 2014 conference at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, VA on “Intelligence and the Transition from War to Peace, A Multidisciplinary Assessment.”

This conference—organized by JMU professor (and retired CIA analyst) Tim Walton—examines declassified CIA documents on intelligence support to U.S. decision-making on Bosnia, 1992-1996.

The conference will include scholars from the United States and abroad presenting papers exploring the role of intelligence in war and peace, and the multidimensional nature of conflict resolution, as well as eyewitness accounts from individuals who actively participated in the Bosnian War and Dayton Peace Accords.


Additional details are here:
http://www.jmu.edu/war-to-peace-conference/index.shtml

Details on the affiliated JMU/Intelligence Analysis program are here: http://ia.jmu.edu/



Security expert and Author Luke Bencie in Conversation
with William Esposito (USF 70) Former Deputy Director of the FBI


Tuesday, March 5, 2013
5-6PM Reception To Follow
USF Sarasota-Manatee
Selby Auditorium
8350 N. Tamiami Trail - Sarasota

Among Enemies: Counter-Espionage for the Business Traveler
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For the past 15 years Bencie has traveled to over 100 countries on behalf of the US intelligence and private defense industry. A veteran of espionage struggle he knows intimately the threats business travelers face.

Esposito spent 33 years in the FBI, retired in the highest non - appointed position of Deputy Director, and received the FBI Medal of Valor. As Deputy Director he ran the day- to-day operations of the FBI.

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