Sixth International Conference: Terrorism's Global Impact - Programme

The International Institute for Counter-Terrorism at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya held its Sixth International Conference on Counter-terrorism, entitled Terrorism's Global Impact, from 11-14 September 2006.Terrorism's Global Impact, ICT's Sixth International Conference, accessed 23 May 2009.
==Programme==
===September 11===
The Second Lebanon War - Conclusions and Insights
Connotations in Dealing with Terror and Guerrilla Warfare'''
====Opening Remarks====
*Prof. Uriel Reichman - Founding President Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya
====Panel 1 - The War Preparations====
*Chair, Shabtai Shavit - Former Head of the Mossad; Chairman ICT Board of Directors.
*Dr Brig. Gen. (Res) Ariel Heimann - Former Chief Reserve Officer, IDF.
*Col (Res.) Shlomo Mofaz - International Consultant (terrorism & Intelligence) and ICT Research Fellow.
*Maj. Gen. (Res.) Uri Sagi, Former Intelligence Director, IDF.
*MK Dr. Brig. Gen. (Res.) Yossi Kuperwasser, former head of IDF Intelligence Research Division.
====Panel 2 - Conduction of the War====
*Chair, Col. (Res.) Lior Lotan - Executive Director ICT
*Maj. Gen. (Res.) Giora Eiland - Former Head of Israel's National Security Council.
*Dr (Col. Res.) Shmuel Gordon - Head of the Technology and National Security Program, Holon Institute of Technology
*Brig. Gen. (Res.) Ran Ronen (Pekker) - Former Senior Commander, Israeli Air Force. 
*Brig. Gen. Danny Van-Buren - Chief Reserve Officer, IDF.
*Maj. Gen. (Res.) Yoram Yair
====The Effects of the War on the Public Image of Political Leaders: Prime Minister Olmert and Hezbollah Leader Nasrallah====
*Shaul Kimhi - Psychology Department, Tei Hai Academic College, Israel.
*Professor Yochanan Eshel - Psychology Department, Tei Hai Academic College and Haifa University.
====Panel 3 - Ramifications of the War in Different Arenas====
*Chair, Dr. Boaz Ganor - ICT Founder, Deputy Dean, Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy, IDC Herzliya.
*MK Silvan Shalom - Former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs.
*Dr. (Col. Res.) Eitan Azani - Senior Researcher, ICT, IDC Herzliya.
*Prof. Irwin Cotler - Member of Canadian Parliament, Former Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada.
*(Col Res.) Yoni Fighel - Senior Researcher, ICT , IDC Herzliya.
*Brig.Gen. (Res.) Shalom Harari - ICT Research Fellow.
*Dr Ely Karmon - Senior Research Scholar , ICT, IDC Herzliya.
*Dr Uzi Landau - Former Minister of Internal Security.
*Col. (Res.) Daniel Reisner - Former Head of the International Law Branch of the IDF Legal Division.
====Opening Ceremony====
Greetings
*Prof. Amnon Rubinstein - President, IDC Herzliya.
*Prof. Uriel Reichman - Founding president, IDC Herzliya.
*Shabtai Shavit - Former Head of the Mossad, Chairman, ICT Board of Directors.
Guest Speaker
*MK Avi Dichter - Minister of Internal Security.
Greetings
*Dr. Boaz Ganor - ICT Founder, Deputy Dean, Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy, IDC Herzliya.
*Col. (Res.) Lior Lotan - Executive Director ICT
Memorial ceremony commemorating victims of the 9/11 terror attacks in the US and victims of terrorism in Israel and throughout the world
*Michael Mason - Executive Assistant Director for Criminal Investigations, FBI.
*Jonathan Davis - Vice President for External Relations, IDC Herzliya.
===September 12===
Counter-Terrorism Policies: Best Practices
*Greetings - Prof. Moshe Barniv - Provost, IDC Herzliya
*The Terrorism of Global Jihad: The Challange to the Civilised World - Dr Boaz Ganor,ICT, Deputy Dean, Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy, IDC Herzliya.
*Unintended Consequences of Counter-Terrorist Policies - Prof. Martha Crenshaw, Professor of Government, Wesleyan University, US.
*Terrorism and Media: A Preliminary Quantative Analysis - Prof. Rafi Melnick, Dean, Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy, IDC Herzliya.
*Israel, the United States, and Approaches to Unconventional Conflict - Dr Thomas H. Henriksen, Senior Fellow, Joint Special Operations University and Hooever Institution, Stanford University, US.
*What Makes Tehran Tick: Preventing a Nuclear-Armed Iran; Coercing a Terror-Exporting Iran - Prof. Raymond Tanter, Founder and co-chair, Iran Policy Committee (IPC), Professor, Georgetown University, US.
*Terrorism and Human Rights: The Dilemma of Democracies - Prof. Irwin Cotler, Member of Canadian Parliament, Former Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada.
*Dr Sergey Kurginyan, President, the International Foundation Experimental Creativity Center, Russia.
*The Grand Deception: Militant Islam, the Media and the West - Steven Emerson, Executive Director, the Investigative Project on Terrorism, US.
*Al-Qaeda Threats to Israel and Jewish Interests - Col. (Res.) Lior Lotan, Executive Director ICT, IDC Herzliya.
*Guest Speaker - Benjamin Netanyahu, Former Prime Minister, Chairman of the Likud Party.
====Film Screening - Suicide Killers====
*Pierre Rehov - Director "Suicide Killers"
*Bassem Eid - Executive Director, Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group
*Dr Boaz Ganor - ICT Founder, Deputy Dean, Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy, IDC Herzliya.
===September 13===
====The Balkans as a Breeding Ground for Terrorists====
*Co-chair, Dr Shaul Shay, Head of IDF Military History Department, Senior Research Fellow, ICT.
*Co-Chair, Darko Trifunovic, University of Belgrade, Faculty of Security Studies, Belgrade, Serbia.
*Prof. Gideon Biger, Professor of Geography, Department of Geography and Human Environment, Tel Aviv University.
*Dr Dejan S. Miletic, Founder Member of the International Counter-Terrorism Academic Community (ICTAC), Director of the Center For Terrorism Research and Center for Globalization Studies at the Institute for Strategic Studies and Development "Braca Karic" university, Serbia.
*Vojislav Milosevic, Director, Centre for Counter-Terrorism and World Peace, Belgrade, Serbia.
*Prof. Dr Dragan Simeunovic, Director of the Center for Terrorism Research; Head of Post-Graduate Studies on Terrorism, Belgrade University, Serbia.
====The Challenge of Suicide Terrorism====
*Co-Chair, Col. (Res.) Jonathan Fighel, Senior Researcher, ICT, IDC Herzliya
*Co-Chair, Prof. Robert Friedmann, Director, Georgia International Law Enforcement Exchange, US.
*Michael Chandler, International Consultant on Terrorism, Security and Related Matters, UK.
*Prof. Rafi Eldor, Lecturer, Arison School of Business, IDC Herzliya, Israel.
*Lt Col. Guermantes Lailari, USAF, US.
*Col. Behram A. Sahukar, Research Fellow, United Service Institution of India, Former Research Fellow, Institute for Defence Studies and Analysis, India, Member International Institute for Strategic Studies, London, England.
*Michael Whine, Government and International Affairs Director, Community Security Trust, UK.
*Maj. Gen. Israel Ziv, Former Head of the Operations Directorate, IDF.
====Non-Conventional Terrorism: Assessment of the Threat====
*Co-Chair, Dr Ely Karmon, Senior Research Scholar, ICT.
*Co-Chair, Dr. Leonard A. Cole, Adjunct Prof. Rutgers University, US.
*Asaf Ashkenazi, Security Planning and Counter CBRN Terrorism Division, Rotem Sharvit, Israel.
*Dr Yehoshua Gozes
*Peter Probst, Director of Programs, Institute for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence.
*Col. (Res.) Yossi Sagiv, Former Head of Central Region, Home Front Command, IDF.
*Prof. Gerald Steinburg, Senior Research Associate, BESA Center for Strategic Studies.
====Islamic Radicalism: Challenges to the Muslim World====
*Co-Chair, Dr Guy Bechor,Lecturer, Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy, IDC Herzliya.
*Co-Chair, Steven Emerson, Executive Director, The Investigative Project on Terrorism.
*H.E. Ambassador Richard H. Jones, United States Ambassador to Israel.
*Itamar Marcus, Director, Palestinian Media Watch.
*Jonathan S. Paris, Middle East and Islamic Movement Analyst, London; Member and Former Middle East Fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations, New York, US.
*Dr Abe Wagner, Professor, School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University, President SRDC, US.
====Terrorism and Medicine====
*Co-chair, Prof. Shmuel Shapira, MD, MPH, Deputy Director General, Hadassah University Hospital.
*Co-chair, Dr Leonard A. Cole, Adjunct Professor, Rutgers University, US.
*Prof. Eran Dolev, Director of Internal Medicine, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center.
*Dr Moshe Michaelson, Director, Emergency & Trauma Services, Rambam.
*Dr Meir Oren, MD, MPH, M.Sc., Director-General, The Hillel-Yaffee Medical Center.
====Anonymous and Accessible Communications: A Current Terror Arena====
*Chair, Dalia Ya'iri, Journalist.
*Jonathan Davis, Vice President for External Relations, IDC Herzliya
*Itay Engel, Journalist, Channel 2, Israel.
*Jacob Perry, Chairman of the Board, Mizrahi-Tefahot Bank Ltd.
*Col. Sima Vajnin-Gil, Chief Censor, IDF.
*Prof. Gabriel Weimann, Chair Department of Communications, Haifa University.
*Zvi Yehezkeli, Report on Arab Affairs, Channel 10, Israel.
===September 14===
====The Financing of Terrorism====
*Co-chair, Dr (Col. Res.) Eitan Izani, Senior Researcher, ICT, IDC Herzliya.
*Co-chair, Dr Loretta Napoleoni, Economist, political analyst and novelist.
*Dr Zachary Abuza, South East Asia Terrorism Expert.
*Victor D. Comras, Attorney and Consultant on Sanctions and Terrorism Financing, US.
*Stephen J. Landes, Partner, Wildman, Harrold Allen & Dixon, Adjunct Professor, Northwestern University School of Laws.
*Adv. David Scharia, Legal Officer, Counter-Terrorism Committee, Executive Directorate, UN.
*Darko Trifunovic, University of Belgrade, Faculty of Security Studies, Belgrade, Serbia.
====Threat Asssessment as a Tool in Counter-Terrorism====
*Chair, Col. (Res.) Lior Lotan, Executive Director, ICT, IDC Herzliya.
*LTC (Ret.) Patrick Bettane, Former Chief of Water Security and Safety, IDF.
*Col. (Res.) Haim Blumenblat, Special Advisor, Counter-Terrorism Bureau, Israel.
*Eric Herren, International Concultant and ICT Associate.
*Omer Laviv, Chief Operations Officer, Athena GS3 Security Implementations Ltd, Israel.
====Iran: International Terrorism and the Nuclear Threat====
*Co-chair, (Col. Res.) Dr Ephraim Kam, Deputy head of Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies, Tel Aviv University, Israel.
*Co-Chair Prof. Raymond Tanter, Dounder and co-chair of the Iran Policy Commitee (IPC) and Professor (Georgetown University, US.
*Dr Allan Gerson, Chairman, AG International Law, PLLC, US.
*Col. (Res.) Shlomo Mofaz, International Consultant (Terrorism & Intelligence) and ICT Research Fellow.
*Dr Doron Zimmermann, Senior Researcher, Center for Security Studies, Switerland.
*Dr Shaul Shay, Head of IDF Military History Department, Senior Research Fellow, ICT.
*Shabtai Shavit, Former head of the Mossad, Chairman, ICT Board of Directors.
====Lunch and Guest lecture====
*Radicalisation of the Sunni-Shi'a Divide: From Pakistan and Afghanistan to Iraq, Lebanon and the Gulf - Dr Ely Karmon, Senior Research Scholar, ICT, IDC Herzliya.
====Terrorism Informatics and Data Mining====
*Co-chair, Yael Shahar, ICT Senior Researcher, IDC Herzliya.
*Co-chair, Dr. Hinschun Chen, Director, The Artificial Intelligence Lab and McLelland Professor of Management Information Systems, University of Arizona, US.
*Dr Mark Last, Senior Lecturer, Ben Gurion University of the Negev.
*Dr Joshua Sinai, Programme Manager for CounterTerrorism Studies and Education, The Analysis Corporation, McLean, VA, US.
*Dr Katharina Von Knop, Adjunct Professor at the Program on Terrorism and Security Studies.
*Mr Aaron Weisburd, Director, Society for Internet Research
====International Cooperation in Counter-Terrorism====
*Co-chair, Dr Boaz Ganor, ICT Founder, Deputy Dean Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy, IDC Herzliya.
*Co-chair, Prof. Martha Crenshaw, Professor of Government, Wesleyan university, US.
*Co-chair, Prof. William Banks, Director, Institute for National Security and Counter-Terrorism, Syracuse University, US.
*Brig. Gen. (Res.) Dani Arditi, Director Counter-Terrorism Bureau, Israel.
*Col. (Res.) Nick Pratt, Director, Program on Terrorism and Security Studies, Marshall Center.
*Prof. Alex P. Schmid, Chair in International Relations, University of St Andrews, Director, Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence.
*Dr. Thomas Henriksen, Senior Fellow, Joint Special Operations University, and Hoover Institution, Stanford University, US.
====Iran: State-Sponsored Terrorism====
*Chair, Shabtai Shavit, Former Head of the Mossad, Chairman, ICT Board of Directors.
*Dr (Col. Res.) Eitan Azani, Senior Researcher, ICT, IDC Herzliya.
*Prof. David Menashri, Director of the Center for Iranian Studies and Dean of Special Programs, Tel Aviv University.
*Prof. Moshe Sharon, Hebrew University, Israel.
*Prof. Raymond Tanter, Founder and Co-chair of the Iran Policy Committee, and Professor, Georgetown University, US.
*Zvi Yehezkeli, Reporter on Arab Affairs, Channel 10, Israel.
====Conclusion of the Conference====
*Shabtai Shavit, Former Head of the Mossad, Chairman, ICT Board of Directors.
*Col. (Res.) Lior Lotan, Executive Director, ICT, IDC Herzliya.
*Dr Boaz Ganor, ICT Founder, Deputy Dean Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy, IDC Herzliya.
==Notes==
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