Conference on countering terrorism abroad and home Program Guide
Countering Terror Abroad and at Home Analysing the Counterterrorism Efforts on an Internationaland European Level
25 April 2017 Venue: Budapest Music Center (1093 Budapest, Mรกtyรกs str. 8.)
Overview The aim of the conference is to present the latest research results in the field of international relations as well as to scrutinise policy recommendations and their implications about asymmetric warfare, terrorism and radicalisation on European and global levels. During the past decades, a considerable knowledge and experience about modern terrorism has been accumulated in academia and homeland security. Antidote, however, has not been discovered which is partly due to the fact that terrorism itself is fermenting, and partly to our deficient answers to it. Now that the 2010s saw a rapid rise in the numbers of terrorist attacks and fatalities, it is essential to reassess the way we fight back this phenomenon.
Countering Terror at Home and Abroad aims to promote collaboration between academia and counter-terrorism practitioners, and endorse charting new ways of translating the results of research on terror for agencies and the broader audience. Speakers of the conference discuss the overall topic from two distinctive angles, that of reaction and prevention. The first panel focuses on how terror attacks, once planned, can be averted, while the second panel concentrates on what prevents the disaffected youth of the present generation from becoming radicalised or lost to crime. Both preventing and countering terrorism and radicalisation are meticulous jobs but are essential to keep our societies safe in Europe and all around whole world.
Programme 8:30 – 9:00 Registration 9:00 – 9:05 Welcoming speech
Ádám Kégler, Deputy Director for International Af fairs, Antall József Knowledge Centre
9:05 – 9:30 Keynote speeches
Boda József, Major General (Ret.), Dean, Faculty of Law Enforcement, National University Public Service István Balogh, Head of Department for Security Policy Issues, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Hungary
9:30 – 11:00 Panel 1. Counterterrorism – Methods and Practices Our invited experts will discuss the strategy and tactics of countering international terrorism and domestic networks of radicalised groups. Gathering, sharing and using intelligence is the backbone in making our societies safe against terror. Our speakers are both well-versed in academia and have first-hand experience in decision-making processes. Speakers: Marie-Helen Maras, associate professor, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Mark M. Lowenthal, CEO, Intelligence and Security Academy Alfred Rolington, Director, Cyber Security Intelligence Ltd. Moderator: Péter Marton, associate professor, Corvinus University of Budapest
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 – 13:00 Panel 2. Radicalisation in the European Union and its Neighbourhood Radicalisation is one dimension in counterterrorism that does not belong to the domain of law enforcement but to the whole society. Our invited guests aim to provide a multifaceted view of this phenomenon, presenting research results from the fields of sociology, psychology, education, and political science. Moreover, there are three levels in which radicalisation and de-radicalisation can operate: national, V4 regional, and European. Speakers: Attila Kovács, associate professor, Comeinus University of Bratislava
Kristina Eichhorst, Coordinator for Counterterrorism and Conflict Management at Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung Moderator: Zsolt Csepregi, Head of Security Policy Office at the Antall József Knowledge Centre
Jรณzsef Boda Major-General (Ret.) Jรณzsef Boda, Dean, Faculty of Law Enforcement, National University of Public Service, former director of Special Service for National Security of Hungary. He served as a commander of a police unit in Cambodia from 1992 to 1993 and of a U.N. police mission in 1994 in Mozambique. He also worked in different positions as a police officer in missions across the Balkan region. Since 2001, he was national expert in the Education Committee of CEPOL -- European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Training. He participates in various academic and social organizations and as a former military officer.
Istvรกn Balogh He is the head of Department for Security and Non-Proliferation at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade since 2014. Previously, he worked as an assistant professor at the National University of Public Service and as a research fellow at the Hungarian Institute of International Affairs. He finished his PhD studies at the Corvinus University of Budapest in 2014. He has also worked as editor-in-chief of Biztonsรกgpolitikai Szemle. He is an author of several articles and book chapters and co-author of the book Security Studies: New Frameworks and Lessons Drawn for V4 Countries, published by the Antall Jรณzsef Knowledge Centre in 2014.
Marie-Helen Maras Dr. Marie-Helen Maras is an associate Professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice of the City University of New York. She has earned DPhil in Law and an MPhil in Criminology from the University of Oxford. In addition, she holds a graduate degree in Industrial and Organizational Psychology from the University of New Haven and undergraduate degrees in Computer and Information Science and Psychology from the University of Maryland. Alongside academic work, her background includes approximately seven years of service in the U.S. Navy with significant experience in security and law enforcement from her posts as a Navy Law Enforcement Specialist and Command Investigator. While in the Navy, she supervised her personnel in conducting over 130 counter-surveillance operations throughout Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom.
Mark M. Lowenthal Mark M. Lowenthal is currently an Adjunct Professor at the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences at Johns Hopkins University in Washington, D.C. He has written five books and over 90 articles or studies on intelligence and national security. His book Intelligence: From Secrets to Policy has become a standard undergraduate and graduate text. He is the former Assistant Director of Central Intelligence for Analysis and Production and former Vice Chairman for Evaluation on the National Intelligence Council. He has also served in the U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR) as both an office director and as a Deputy Assistant Secretary of State.
Alfred Rolington Alfred Rolington is currently the CEO of Cyber Security Intelligence Ltd., a publishing company writing and analysing current trends and news stories in the field of cybersecurity, opportunities and analysis. They are at present building a cyber database which is intended to include all the different areas of cyber from threat, security to services and opportunities. He is also currently researching cyber and digital data, information technology and how this affects strategy, opportunities and security particularly for the media, the publishing industry and aspects of government. He has recently written a Cyber Blog for Crime Stoppers. In the recent past he was CEO of Oxford Analytica and prior to that CEO of Jane’s Information Group. His book The Mosaic Method – Strategic Intelligence for the 21st Century was first published 2013 by Oxford University Press.
Péter Marton Péter Marton is Associate Professor at the Institute of International Studies at Corvinus University, Budapest, Hungary. His research interests include terrorism, intra-state armed conflict and transnational security. His latest article is “Chechen Combatants’ Involvement as Foreign Fighters in Ukraine, Syria, and Iraq” (co-authored with Annamária Kiss), in the Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Society and Politics. His books include “Statebuilding in Afghanistan,” co-authored with Nik Hynek (Routledge: New York and London, 2011).
Attila Kovács He is a professor of religious sciences at the Comenius University of Bratislava. Previously he worked at the Department of the Study of Religions, University of Vienna (2005–2008), the Department of Cultural Anthropology, Masaryk University, Brno (2010–2014), the Institute for the Study of Religions, Masaryk University, Brno (2004–2012) and the Department of the Study of Religions, University of Szeged (2003–2010) and the Károli Gáspár University, Budapest (2012–2013). He is the president of the Slovak Association for the Study of Religions, Bratislava, Slovak Republic and member of the editorial board of Hieron: Journal of Religious Studies, member of editorial board of Central European Religious Studies (CERES) program and member of editorial board of Phanteon Pardubice, Czech Republic.
Kristina Eichhorst Kristina Eichhorst is the Coordinator for Counterterrorism and Conflict Management of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung in Berlin. Since 2009 she has been the desk officer responsible for Asian-Pacific regional projects of KAS in Afghanistan and Pakistan in particular. Previously, she has been the head of Security Policy Institute of Kiel University. Her field of interest is terrorism, ethnic conflicts and institutional conflict resolution. She has graduated from Christian Albrechts University in Kiel and from the Institute d’Études Politiques in Aix-en-Provence, France. She is a security policy fellow of German Strategy Forum, the Canadian Studies Association and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).
The Antall József Knowledge Centre The main objectives of the Antall József Knowledge Centre, in line with the Antall philosophy, are talent management and providing students and young professionals with-ranging practical knowledge through various events. Having six years of experience in the field, the Knowledge Centre aims to become a regionally relevant think tank is “unavoidable” when it comes to certain issues such as the Visegrad Cooperation, the future global role of the US, China, and Russia, security policy, sustainable development, as well as technological and social innovation. www.ajtk.hu Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung The conference is realised in cooperation with the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung. The Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) is a political foundation. In Germany, 16 regional offices and two conference centers offer a wide variety of civic education conferences and events. At home as well as abroad, their civic education programs aim at promoting freedom and liberty, peace, and justice. They focus on consolidating democracy, the unification of Europe and the strengthening of transatlantic relations, as well as on development cooperation. www.kas.de