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 Conference Updates*

   
The International Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT) at IDC Herzliya is pleased to announce its 8th Annual International Conference on Global terrorism, which will take place in Herzliya, Israel, on September 8–11, 2008.

Conference plenary sessions on September 9 will take place at the Center for Performing Arts in Herzliya. Workshop sessions on September 10-11 will be conducted at campus of IDC Herzliya.

ICT's Annual International Conference has become one of the most influential annual events in the field of counter-terrorism. It has achieved international recognition for its high-powered environment in which counter-terror experts, security professionals and leading academic scholars from around the world network, establish essential cooperation mechanisms, and exchange views on best practices.

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Confirmed Speakers

With the conference date rapidly approaching, the International Institute for Counter Terrorism is currently in the process of assembling workshops and defining the conference schedule. The ICT is proud to announce that the following speakers have already confirmed their participation:



Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Orit Adato, First International Vice President, International Correction and Prison Association (ICPA), Former Commissioner, Israeli Prison Service, Israel

Dr. Maria Alvanou, Senior Analyst, Research Institute for European and American Studies, Greece

Mr. Dominique R. Antonini, Director of Business Development, AVS&C, Switzerland

Dr. Ron Avi Astor, Professor, University of Southern California, Schools of Social Work and Education, U.S.A.

Maj. Gen. Shahar Ayalon,
Deputy Commissioner, Israel Police, Israel

Dr. Col. (Ret.) Eitan Azani, Deputy Director, ICT, IDC Herzliya, Israel

Prof. William C. Banks,
Director, Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism, Syracuse University, U.S.A.

Mr. Alain Bauer, President of the Strategic Security mission to the President, Criminologist, France

Mr. Philip Baum, Editor-in-Chief of Aviation Security International Magazine; Managing Director, Green Light Ltd, U.K.

Mr. Udi Bechor, General Manager, MTRS3 Ltd., Israel    

Prof. Rami Benbenishty, Professor, Paul Baerwald School of Social Work and Social Welfare, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

Lt. Col. (Res.) Ron Ben-Yishai, Columnist on Security Matters, Yediot Aharonot, Israel

Dr. Barak Ben-Zur, Research Associate, ICT; Lecturer, IDC Herzliya, Israel

Lt. Col. (Ret.) Patrick Bettane, Former Chief of Water Security - Israel Defense Forces, Strategic Consultant of Suez Environment, Israel

Dr. Joseph Bollag, Founder and Chairman, Institute for Security Analysis and Strategic Networking, Switzerland

Mr. Thierry Bourbie, CEO of PharmaLeads, France

Dr. Danny Brom, Founding Director, Israel Center for the Treatment of Psychotrauma, Herzog Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel

Mr. Stanislav Cadjo, Minister of the Interior, Republika Srpska Government, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Mr. Yigal Carmon, Founder and President, Middle East Media Research Institute, Israel

Mr. Sydney Chau, General Manager, Aviation Security Co. Ltd., China

Adv. Dvora Chen, Attorney at Law, Former Director of the Department of Security Matters, State Attorney's Office, Ministry of Justice, Israel

Prof. Hiram Chodosh, Dean, S.J. Quinney College of Law, University of Utah, U.S.A.

Ms. Michele Coninsx, Vice President, Eurojust (a European Judicial Co-operation Body), Hague, Netherlands

Rabbi Abraham Cooper, Associate Dean, Simon Wiesenthal Center, U.S.A.

Dr. Geoff Corn, Associate Professor of Law, South Texas College of Law, U.S.A.

Ms. Valerie Lannet de Courten, Counter-Terrorism Unit, France

Mr. Jonathan Davis, Head of the Raphael Recanati International School, Vice President for External Relations, IDC Herzliya, Israel

Mr. Michael P. Downing, Deputy Chief Commanding Officer, Counter-Terrorism and Criminal Intelligence Bureau, Los Angeles Police Department, U.S.A.

Mr. Oded Distal, Director, Israel Newtech, Ministry of Industry Trade & Labor, Israel

Mr. Mark Dubowitz, Executive Director, Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, U.S.A.

Det. (Ret.) Mordecai Dzikansky,
Former NYPD Intelligence Division Overseas Liaison to the Israel National Police, NYPD, U.S.A.

Gen. (Ret.) Giora Eiland,
Former Head of the Israeli National Security Council and Former National Security Advisor to the Prime Minister, Israel

Dr. Gil Feiler, Senior Researcher, Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, Bar-Ilan University; Managing Director, Info-Prod Research, Israel

Col. (Ret.) Jonathan Fighel, Senior Researcher, ICT, IDC Herzliya, Israel

Dr. Jonathan Fine, Research Fellow, ICT, IDC Herzliya, Israel

Prof. Sir Lawrence Freedman,
Professor of War studies and Vice Principal of Research, King's College, London, U.K.

Prof. Robert Friedmann, Professor of Criminal Justice and Distinguished Chair of Public Safety Partnerships, Georgia State University, U.S.A.

Mr. Franck Galland, Vice President of Corporate Security, Suez Environment, France

Dr. Boaz Ganor, Executive Director of ICT, Deputy Dean of the Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy, IDC Herzliya, Israel

Ms. Yael German, Mayor of Herzliya, Israel

Maj. Gen. Yair Golan, GOC Homefront Command, Israel

Prof. Bob de Graaff, Director, Centre for Terrorism and Counterterrorism, Campus The Hague, Leiden University, Netherlands

Prof. Emanuel Gross, Professor at Faculty of Law, University of Haifa, Israel

Prof. Amos Guiora, Professor, S.J. Quinney College of Law, University of Utah, U.S.A.

Dr. Rohan Gunaratna, Head of the International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Mr. Tony Heal, Deputy Head of the PREVENT Unit, UK Office of Security and Counter Terrorism (OSCT), U.K.

Mr. Eric Herren, Research Associate, ICT, IDC Herzliya, Israel

Mr. Shanaka Jayasekara, Associate Lecturer, Centre for Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism (PICT), Macquarie University, Australia

Maj. Gen. Wisith Jeangprajah, Director General, Strategic Research Institute, National Defense Studies Institute, Thailand

Baroness Pauline Neville Jones, Shadow Security Minister, U.K.

Mr. Walter Jordan, Principal Special Agent, Mobile Teams, Amtrak Special Operations Division, U.S.A.

Dr. Ely Karmon, Senior Research Scholar, ICT, IDC Herzliya, Israel

Mr. Bill Kelly, Former Deputy Commissioner, Victoria Police, Australia

Mr. Michael B. Kraft, Counterterrorism Consultant, Writer, and former State Department Counterterrorism Official, U.S.A.

Mr. Gilles de Kerchove, Counter-Terrorism Coordinator, General Secretariat, European Union

Mr. Haim Koren, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Israel

Dr. Sergey Kurginyan, President, International Public Foundation Experimental Creative Center, Russian Federation

General (Ret.) Antoine Lahad, Former Commander of the South Lebanese Army (SLA), Israel

Dr. Uzi Landau, Former Minister of Internal Security and Member of the Israeli Knesset (Likud Party), Israel

Mr. Omer Laviv, C.E.O., Athena GS3 Security Implementations Ltd., Israel

Mr. Dovev Levinson, C.E.O., Whitewater Security, Israel

Dr. Matthew Levitt, Senior Fellow and Director, Washington Institute's Stein Program on Counterterrorism and Intelligence, U.S.A.

RADM (Ret.) Manuel Lora, Former Vice Chief of Staff of the Navy, Peru

Col. (Res.) Adv. Lior Lotan, Former Executive Director, ICT, IDC Herzliya, Israel

Maj. Gen. Dov Lutzky, Head of Operations, Israeli Prison Service, Israel

Mr. Shiraz Maher, Senior Research Fellow, Policy Exchange, London, U.K.

Mr. Cliff May, President, Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, U.S.A.

Gen. Montgomery C. Meigs, Visiting Professor of Strategy & Military Operations, Georgetown University, U.S.A.

Dr. Dirk Merckx, Team Leader, Middle East and North Africa Team, Terrorism Prevention Branch, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Austria

Mr. Hans Meurisse, General Director, Belgian Prison Service, Belgium

Prof. Mario Mikulincer, Dean, New School of Psychology, IDC Herzliya, Israel

Mr. Denis Monnette, Assistant Commissioner of Police, Nassau, New York, U.S.A.

Dr. Hilly Moodrick-Even Khen, Assistant Professor of Law, Sha’arei Mishpat College, Israel

Mr. Luis Moreno, Deputy Chief of Mission, United States Embassy in Israel, U.S.A.

Dr. Daniel Moro, Chief Editor of the flagship news program TG5, Italy

Mr. Joel Mowbray, Syndicated Columnist, Knight-Ridder Tribune, U.S.A.

Mr. Yassin Musharbash, Terrorism Analyst, Spiegel Online, Berlin, Germany

Mr. David Nahmias,
United States Attorney, Northern District of Georgia, U.S.A.

MK Benjamin Netanyahu, Former Prime Minister of Israel, Leader of the Opposition, The Knesset, Israel

Dr. Peter Neumann, Director, International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence (ICSR), U.K.

Brig. Gen. (Res.) Nitzan Nuriel, Director, Counter Terrorism Bureau, Israel

Mr. Jonathan S. Paris, Adjunct Fellow, Hudson Institute, London, U.K.

Dr. Ruth Pat-Horenczyk, Director, Child and Adolescent Clinical Services, Israel Center for the Treatment of Psychotrauma, Herzog Hospital, Israel

Dr. Gustavo Perednik, Visiting Professor, UCEMA University of Argentina, Israel

Dr. Daniel Pipes, Director, The Middle East Forum, U.S.A.

Dr. Angel Rabasa, Senior Policy Analyst, RAND, U.S.A.

Mr. Don Radlauer, Researcher, ICT, IDC Herzliya, Israel

Mr. Gilad Rafaeli, Director of Projects and Consulting Services, MTRS3 Ltd., Israel

Dr. Magnus Ranstorp, Research Director, Center for Asymmetric Threat Studies, Swedish National Defence College, Sweden

Prof. Uriel Reichman, President, IDC Herzliya, Israel

Prof. Fernando Reinares, Director, Program on Global Terrorism, Elcano Royal Institute, Madrid, Spain

Col. Adv. Daniel Reisner, Former Head of the International Law Branch, IDF Legal Division, Israel

Ms. Daphne Richemond-Barak, Tel Aviv University, Israel

Dr. Greg Rose, Associate Professor, Centre for Transnational Crime Prevention University of Wollongong, Australia

Col. Behram Sahukar, Research Fellow, United Service Institution, India

Mr. Udi Segall, Senior Product Marketing Manager, NICE Systems, Israel

Ms. Yael Shahar,
Director, Database Project, ICT, IDC Herzliya, Israel

Mr. Shabtai Shavit, Former Head of the Mossad and Chairman of the Board of Directors, ICT, IDC Herzliya, Israel

Dr. Col. (Res.) Shaul Shay, Head of Security Policy Division, National Security Council; Senior Research Fellow, ICT, IDC Herzliya, Israel

Mr. Pini Shif, CEO, Organization of Israeli Security Companies, Israel

Dr. Joshua Sinai, Program Manager for Counter-Terrorism Studies, The Analysis Corporation, U.S.A.

Rep. Adam Smith, Chairman, Congressional Subcommittee on Terrorism, Unconventional Threats and Capabilities, U.S.A.

Brig. Gen. (Res.) Amnon Sofrin, Former Head of Intelligence Directorate, ISIS, Israel

Mr. Erroll Southers, Associate Director for Educational Programs, CREATE, U.S.A.

Dr. David Spencer, Combating Terrorism Chair, Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies, National Defense University, Washington D.C., U.S.A.

Mr. Howard Stoffer, Director, Management and Operations, Counter-Terrorism Executive Directorate, United Nations

Dr. Andrew Tan, Associate Professor in International Studies, University of New South Wales, Australia

Dr. Moshe Terdman, Research Analyst, Orient Research Group Ltd; Senior Research Fellow, PRISM, GLORIA Center, IDC Herzliya, Israel

Mr. Jack Thomas Tomarchio, Deputy Under Secretary for Operation, Department of Homeland Security, Office of Intelligence & Analysis, U.S.A.

Dr. Darko Trifunovic, Professor, Faculty of Security Studies, University of Belgrade, Serbia

Mr. Eliezer (Geizi) Tsafrir, Former Senior Executive, Shabak (ISA) and Mossad; Former Advisor to the Prime Minister on Arab Affairs, Israel

Mr. David Tsur, Former Chief Police Commander of Tel-Aviv District, Israel

Mr. Aviad Tur-Sinai, PhD. Candidate, Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University, Israel

Dr. Abraham Wagner, Professor of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University; Senior Research Fellow, Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies, NY, USA

Mr. Stefan Wailand, German Federal Intelligence Service (BND), Germany

Mr. Jeffrey B. Walker,
Legal Attaché, U.S. Embassy in Israel, U.S.A.

Mr. Richard Warnes, Analyst on the Defence and Security Team, RAND Europe, U.K.

Mr. Mark Weitzman, Director, Task Force Against Hate and Chief Representative to the United Nations, Simon Wiesenthal Center, U.S.A.

Mr. Michael Whine, Director, Government & International Affairs at the Community Security Trust, U.K.

Maj. Gen. Amos Yadlin, Head of the Israeli Military Intelligence Directorate, IDF, Israel

Adv. Avner Yarkoni, Former Head of the Civilian Aviation Authority, Israel

Prof. Eyal Zisser, Director, The Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Tel Aviv University, Israel


 

*Conference content and schedule are subject to change.

We thank you for your interest and look forward to your participation in our
8th Annual International Conference

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