World Summit on Counter-Terrorism: Terrorism’S Global Impact

World Summit on Counter-Terrorism: Terrorism’s Global Impact

September 7-10, 2009

ICT’s 9th Annual International Conference The Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya Schedule

Monday, September 7, at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC), Herzliya

Opening Evening

19:00 Reception

20:00 Greetings:

 Prof. Uriel Reichman, President, IDC Herzliya, Israel  Mr. Shabtai Shavit, Former Head of the Mossad; Chairman, ICT Board of Directors, Israel  Dr. Boaz Ganor, Executive Director of ICT; Deputy Dean of the Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy, IDC Herzliya, Israel

Special Award Ceremony, honoring the Guardians of the ICT:

 Mr. Steven E. Stern, Chairman, National Security Round Table, New York, U.S.A.

Keynote speakers:

 Congressman Mike Rogers, Ranking Member on the Subcommittee on Terrorism and Counter-terrorism and Human Intelligence, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, U.S.A. Topic: America’s War on Terrorism in Year Eight

 MK Tzipi Livni, Chairperson of the Kadima Movement and Chairperson of the Opposition, Israel

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

 Conference schedule and content are subject to change.

Tuesday, September 8, at the Center for Performing Arts, Herzliya

Plenary Session

Morning Sessions

9:00 – 11:00

 Prof. Alex Mintz, Dean of Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy; Director of Program on Applied Decision Analysis (PADA), Interdisciplinary Center (IDC), Herzliya, Israel Topic: The Cognitive Fingerprint of Terrorists  Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Moshe Yaalon, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Strategic Affairs, Israel  Mr. Dan Meridor, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Intelligence and Atomic Energy, Israel  Dr. Yaron Zalika, Former Accountant General, Ministry of Finance, Israel

11:00 – 11:30 - Break

11:30 – 13:00

 Prof. William C. Banks, Director, Institute for National Security and Counter- Terrorism, Syracuse University, U.S.A. Topic: Converging Paradigms in Modern Asymmetric Warfare

 Mr. Abraham Sofaer, George P. Shultz Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy and National Security Affairs, Hoover Institution, U.S.A. Topic: Preventing Harm Through Force  Dr. Sergey Kurginyan, President, International Public Foundation Experimental Creative Center, Russian Federation Topic: Geopolitical alliances in the 21st century. Their influence upon the fate of Israel and Russia  Mr. Michał Tomasz Kamiński, President, European Conservatives and Reformists Political Group, European Parliament, European Union

13:00 – 14:30 Lunch

Afternoon Sessions

14:30 – 16:30

 Mr. Mike Smith, Executive Director, Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (CTED), United Nations Topic: The United Nations and Counter-Terrorism – Finding the Comparative Advantage of a Multilateral Approach  Dr. Matthew Levitt, Senior Fellow and Director of the Washington Institute's Stein Program on Counterterrorism and Intelligence, U.S.A Topic: Contending with Iran's Sponsorship of Terrorism and Weapons Proliferation  Mr. Eugen Wollfarth, German Diplomat; Head of Counter-Terrorism Task Force in the Auswärtiges Amt (Federal Foreign Office), Berlin, Germany Topic: Homegrown Terrorists and Aspirants Rambling in the Afghan-Pakistani Border Area: Activities and Possible Impact as seen from Germany  Mr. Jonathan S. Paris, Associate Fellow, International Center for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR), King’s College London; Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council, U.K. Topic: Where is the global jihad likely to strike next? Current and Future Challenges facing the West  Mr. Amos Gilad, Head of the Political, Military and Policy Bureau, Ministry of Defense, Israel

16:30 – 17:00 - Break

17:00 – 19:00

 Dr. Boaz Ganor, Executive Director of ICT, Deputy Dean of the Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy, IDC Herzliya, Israel  Dr. Daniel Pipes, Director, The Middle East Forum; Taube Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, U.S.A. Topic: Does Terrorism Achieve Islamist Goals?  Dr. Rohan Gunaratna, Head of the International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Topic: Current and Emerging Terrorist Threat  Mr. Alain Bauer, President, French Strategic Security Mission; Co-founder, Defence and National Security Council (CDSN), France

Master of Ceremonies:

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

Wednesday, September 9, at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC), Herzliya

Workshop Sessions

09:00 Reception

09:30 - 12:30 Morning Workshops

1. Renditions and Guantanamo - Challenges of Terrorism Prosecution in the Post- Bush Era.

 Adv. Dvora Chen, Attorney at Law, Former Director of the Department of Security Matters, State Attorney's Office, Ministry of Justice, Israel  Col. Adv. Daniel Reisner, Former Head of the International Law Branch, IDF Legal Division, Israel  Prof. William C. Banks, Director, Institute for National Security and Counter- Terrorism, Syracuse University, U.S.A.  Prof. Emanuel Gross, Senior Lecturer, Haifa University, Israel  Adv. Shai Nitzan, Deputy State Attorney for Special Affairs, Israel

2. Leaderless Jihad or Organized Scheme? - Global Jihad Structure and Modus Operandi.

 Dr. Col. (Res.) Shaul Shay, Head of Security Policy Division, National Security Council; Senior Research Fellow, ICT, IDC Herzliya, Israel  Dr. Rohan Gunaratna, Head of the International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore  Dr. Ariel Merari, Professor, Tel-Aviv University, Israel  Dr. Col. (Ret.) Eitan Azani, Deputy Director, ICT, IDC Herzliya, Israel  Col. Behram A. Sahukar, Research Fellow, United Service Institution, India  Prof. Gabriel Weimann, Department of Communications, University of Haifa, Israel

3. Terrorism and Democracy - Do Our Values Protect Us or Threaten Us?

 Dr. Boaz Ganor, Executive Director of ICT, Deputy Dean of the Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy, IDC Herzliya, Israel  Dr. Peter Berkowitz, Tad and Dianne Taube Senior Fellow Hoover Institution, Stanford University Washington Office, U.S.A.  Prof. Asa Kasher, Laura Schwarz-Kipp Chair in Professional Ethics and Philosophy of Practice, Tel-Aviv University, Israel  Dr. Randall G. Rogan, Associate Dean Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Wake Forest University, U.S.A.  Maj. Gen. Uzi Dayan, Former IDF Deputy Chief, Former National Security Adviser, Israel  Mr. Eugen Wollfarth, German Diplomat; Head of Counter-Terrorism Task Force in the Auswärtiges Amt (Federal Foreign Office), Berlin, Germany

4. National Security Prisons as a Mechanism for Countering Terrorism*

 Mr. Henrique Cymerman, La Vanguardia, Spanish TV Network Antena 3 Televisión, Portugal  Brig. Gen. Haim Szmulewitz, Legal Advisor of the Israeli Prisons Service, Israel  Mr. Ehud Ilan, Former Head of the Investigation Division, I.S.A., Israel  Maj. Gen. Dov Lutzky, Deputy Commissioner and Head of Operations in the Israel Prison Service, Israel

12:30 -14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 -17:00 Afternoon Workshops

1. Converging Paradigms in Modern Asymmetric Warfare

 Prof. William C. Banks, Director, Institute for National Security and Counter- Terrorism, Syracuse University, U.S.A.  Mr. Abraham Sofaer, George P. Shultz Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy and National Security Affairs, Hoover Institution, U.S.A.  Mrs. Daphné Richemond-Barak, Lecturer, Radzyner School of Law, IDC Herzliya, Israel  Mr. Geoffrey S. Corn, Associate Professor of Law, South Texas College of Law, Houston, U.S.A.  Ms. Corri Zoli, Research Fellow, Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism, Syracuse University  Ms. Keli Perrin, Assistant Director, Institute for National Security and Counter- Terrorism (INSCT), Suracuse University, U.S.A.  Mr. Eric Jensen, Visiting Assistant Professor of Law at Fordham University Law School, U.S.A.

2. How Does an Extreme Ideology From 100 Years Ago Influence Our Life Today? – The Muslim Brotherhood and Us.

 Dr. Sergey Kurginyan, President, International Public Foundation Experimental Creative Center, Russian Federation  Dr. Yoram Kahati, Research Fellow, ICT; Deputy Director, Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center (ITIC), Israel  Mr. Reuven Paz, Director, Project for the Research of Islamist Movements (PRISM), GLORIA Center, IDC Herzliya, Israel  Mr. Ronald Sandee, Director of Analysis and Research, NEFA Foundation, U.S.A.  Mr. Steve Merley, Senior Analyst, NEFA Foundation, U.S.A.  Dr. Yuri Byaly, Vice President for Research of the Experimental Creativity Center, Russian Federation

3. Manipulation of Western Mainstream News Media in Asymmetrical Warfare

 Dr. Richard Landes, Department of History, Boston University, U.S.A.  Mr. Stuart Green, Lieutenant Commander, United States Navy, U.S.A.  Mr. Lee Smith, Visiting Fellow at Hudson Institute, U.S.A.  Mr. Noah Pollak, Assistant Editor of the Middle East Quarterly, U.S.A.  Ms. Tamar Sternthal, Director of the Israel office of the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA), Israel  Mr. Daniel Moro, Chief Editor of TG5, Italy

4. Is the Prison System Rehabilitating Terrorists or Radicalizing Them? - Challenges of Working with Imprisoned Terrorists.

 Gen. (Ret.) Orit Adato, Former Commissioner of the Israeli Prison Service, Israel  Ms. Sagit Yehoshua, Applied Criminologist, Ph. D. Candidate, Bar-Ilan University, Israel  Dr. Rohan Gunaratna, Head of the International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore  Dr. Mark Hamm, Professor of Criminology, Indiana State University, U.S.A.  Mr. Joel Mowbray, Syndicated Columnist, U.S.A.

Thursday, September 10, at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC), Herzliya

Workshop Sessions

09:30-12:30 - Morning Workshops

1. Where is the Western Society Heading? - Demography, Immigration and Terrorism.

 Dr. Peter Neumann, Director, International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence (ICSR), U.K.  Mr. Jonathan S. Paris, Associate Fellow, International Center for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR), King’s College London, U.K.  Mr. Michael Whine, Director, Government & International Affairs at the Community Security Trust, U.K.  Mr. John Solomon, Global Head of Terrorism Research at World-Check, Singapore  Dr. Daniel Pipes, Director, The Middle East Forum, U.S.A.  Ms. Yehudit Barsky, Director, Division on Middle East and International Terrorism, American Jewish Committee, U.S.A.

2. On The Legal Battlefield - What are the Particular Requirements for Achieving Success in Prosecuting Terrorism Trails?

 Col. (Ret.) Jonathan Fighel, Senior Researcher, ICT, IDC Herzliya, Israel  Adv. Barry Jonas, Prosecutor, Department of Justice Counter-Terrorism Section, U.S.A.  Adv. Sean Carter, Cozen O’Connor Law Firm, U.S.A.  Adv. David Scharia, Legal Officer, Counter-Terrorism Executive Directorate (CTED) of the UN Security Council  Adv. Brooke Goldstein, Director, The Legal Project at the Middle East Forum; Director, The Children's Rights Institute, U.S.A.

3. The Ethical Challenges of Fighting Terrorism - The Gaza War as a Case Study

 Prof. Asa Kasher, Laura Schwarz-Kipp Chair in Professional Ethics and Philosophy of Practice, Tel-Aviv University, Israel  Lt. Col. (Ret.) Daniel Beaudoin, Humanitarian Operations and Civil-Military Advisor, Israel  Ms. Yael Shahar, ICT Researcher, Israel  Col. John E. Chere Jr., Army Attaché at the U.S. Embassy, Tel Aviv, Israel  Col. Bentzi Gruber, Deputy Commander of a Reserve Armored Division, I.D.F., Israel

4. How Can Modern Policing Assimilate CT with Many Other Conflicting Assignments? - Synergic CT Policing.

 Dr. Robert R. Friedmann, Director, Georgia International Law Enforcement Exchange, U.S.A.  Maj. Gen. Shahar Ayalon, Deputy Commissioner, Israel Police, Israel  Mr. Brett Lovegrove, Former Head of Counter-Terrorism at City of London Police, U.K.  Mrs. Didi Nelson, Law Enforcement Coordination Manager, U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of Georgia, U.S.A.  Sheriff James A. Cannon Jr., Charleston County Sheriff's Office, South Carolina, U.S.A.  Det. First Grade (Ret.) Mordecai Dzikansky, NYPD Intelligence Division, U.S.A.  Mr. Denis Monette, Assistant Commissioner of Police, Nassau, New York, U.S.A.

5. CBRN Terrorism - Prevention, Detection, Scenarios, Response

 Lt. Col. (Res.) Dr. Avi Bitzur, Home-Front Defense Expert, Israel  Dr. David Bogolub, Medical Officer in the US Departments of Homeland Security and Health and Human Services, U.S.A.  Dr. Ely Karmon, Senior Research Scholar, ICT, IDC Herzliya, Israel  Superintendent Alan King, Metropolitan Police Services(MPS) Central Operations (CO), U.K.  Col. (Res.) Ori Ben Yehuda, Director for CBRN in the Counter-Terrorism Bureau at the National Security Council, Israel  Mr. Moshe Loebel, Senior Lecturer, Tel-Aviv University and Jerusalem College of Technology; Homeland Security Consultant, Israel  Dr. Yehoshua Socol, Chairman, Academic Forum for Nuclear Awareness; Director, Falcon Analytics Consultancy, Israel

12:30 -14:00 - Lunch Break

14:00-17:00 - Afternoon Workshops

1. Is Technology Working for Us or Against Us? - New Trends in CT Technology and the Use of Technology by the Terrorists.  Dr. Yuval Eshed, Senior Research Fellow, ICT, Israel  Maj. Gen. (Ret.) Arik Yakuel, Former Head of the Israeli Police Strategic Planning and Technology Department, Israel  Dr. Gil Ariely, Chief Knowledge Officer (CKO), ICT, Israel  Mr. Dror Erez, Manager, C4-Security LTD, Israel  Mr. Eric Herren, Senior Consultant, ISSN and ICT, Switzerland

2. Middle East or Missile East? - Analyzing the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict and its Ramifications on the Middle East and International Terrorism

 Col. (Res.) Shlomo Mofaz, International Counter-Terrorism Consultant, Research Associate, ICT, Israel  Maj. Gen. (Ret.) Eitan Ben Eliyahu, Former Commander of the Israeli Air Force (IAF)  Prof. Eyal Zisser, Director, The Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Tel Aviv University, Israel  Prof. Hillel Frisch, Senior Research Fellow, BESA Center, and Senior Lecturer, Department of Political Studies, Bar-Ilan University, Israel  Dr. Barak Benzur, Lecturer, IDC Herzliya, and Former Senior Director, I.S.A., Israel  Mr. Uri Resnick, Deputy Director, Department for UN Political Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Israel