TERRORISM EXPERTS CONFERENCE Recent Conflicts and Their Impacts on Terrorist Organizations/Networks 15-16 October 2014, Crowne Plaza Hotel, Ankara, Turkey CONFERENCE PROGRAM 15 October, Wednesday (First Day) 08.30 - 08.55 09.00 - 09.20 09.20 - 09.30 Registration COE-DAT Briefing, Col. Ioan-Mircea Pribek (ROU AF), Conference Director Opening Remarks, Col. İsa ASLAN (TUR A), Director, COE-DAT Panel-1 Foreign Fighters : 09.30-11.00 Laledan Ballroom ( B Floor) Moderator Dr. Neville Bolt (GBR) Speakers Dr. Neville Bolt (GBR) - King’s College Joining up the Dots and Breaking Down the Connections: Countering a New Insurgent Paradigm Mr. Jean-Paul Rouiller (CHE) - Director, Geneva Centre for Training and Analysis of Terrorism From MM (for Mohamed Merah) to MN (Mehdi Nemmouche) or the Foreign Fighters Shifting Paradigm Brigadier General (Retired) Russell Howard (USA) - Joint Special Operations University Foreign Fighters – Modern Day Threat; Future Catastrophe? 11.00-11.30 : Conference Photo &Coffee Break Panel-2 : 11.30-13.00 Foreign Fighters (Country Perspectives) Laledan Ballroom ( B Floor) Moderator Dr. Sajjan Gohel (GBR) Speakers Dr. Sajjan Gohel (GBR) - Asia-Pacific Foundation (Intelligence and Security Think-Tank) British Foreign Fighters and Potential Impacts on Euro-Atlantic/Eurasian Security Professor Dean C. Alexander (USA) - Western Illinois University U.S. Fighters in Syria, Responses and Their Implications Mrs. Fatma Ceren YAZGAN (TUR) - Turkish Foreign Ministry Foreign Fighters and Perspectives from Turkey 13.00-14.00 : Lunch 1 Panel-3 : 14.00-15.30 Laledan Ballroom ( B Floor) Moderator Dr. Martijn Kitzen (NLD) Speakers Professor Fernando Reinares (ESP) - Elcano Royal Institute Abeyance Networks and Terrorist Mobilization Related to the Conflict in Syria and Iraq: The Case of Spain Mr.Osman Bahadır Dinçer (TUR) –International Strategic Research Organization (USAK), Ankara Challenges for Turkey Posed by Increasing Chaos in Mezopotamia: The Case of ISIS Dr. Martijn Kitzen (NLD) - National Defence Academy The Relationship between Counterterrorism and Counterinsurgency; (Recent) Past, Present, and Future 15.30-16.00 : Coffee Break BREAKOUT SESSIONS Panel-4 : 16.00-17.30 Laledan Ballroom ( B Floor) International Organizations and Counter Terrorism Moderator Mr. Nikolaus Schultz (DEU) Speakers Mr. Nikolaus Schultz (DEU) - UN Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate, Legal Officer Security Council Resolution 2178 (2014) Foreign Terrorist Fighter Threat Ms. Dolgor Solongo (MNG)- UN Office on Drugs and Crimes(UNODC)/Terrorism Prevention Branch Supporting Criminal Justice Capacities to Counter Terrorism: Role of UNODC Dr. Okan Aysu (TUR) - INTERPOL/Counter-Terrorism Fusion Centre INTERPOL’s Counter-Terrorism initiatives and Transnational Terrorist Fighters Mr. Kristian Bartholin (DNK)- Council of Europe/Deputy Head of Terrorism Division Council of Europe Counter-Terrorism Activities Panel-5 : 16.00-17.30 Anadolu Güneşi ( R Floor) Terrorism and Counter Terrorism in Africa Moderator Dr. Eric Young (USA) Speakers Dr. Eric Young (USA) - George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies, Germany Terrorism in Africa: A Comparative Analysis of Boko Haram and al-Shabaab Dr. Mitchel Roth (USA) - Sam Houston State University Recent Counterterrorism Strategies in Africa Colonel Naumann Siddique (PAK) - Defence Attache to Turkey The Arab Spring-Its Effects on Terrorist Networks of Middle-East and North Africa vis-a-vis Its Impact on South-East Asia 17.30 : End of the first day 2 16 October 2014, Thursday (Second Day) Panel-6 : 09.00-10.30 Moderator Dr. Warren Chin (USA) Speakers Laledan Ballroom ( B Floor) Mr. Malik Al-Abdeh (GBR) - Movement for Justice and Development/Syria The Transition of Groups from Terrorism to Insurgency and the Case of Population Support in Syria Colonel Ian Rice (USA) - Naval Postgraduate School State-Sponsored Terrorism? Unintended Consequences on Military Assistance Activities Dr. Warren Chin (GBR) - King’s College, London A Critical Assessment of the Role of the British Military in Countering International Terrorism 2010-2014 10.30-11.00 : Coffee Break Panel-7 : 11.00-12.30 Laledan Ballroom ( B Floor) Terrorists Online Moderator Mr. Gentry Jenkins (USA) Speakers Mr. Craig Dunn (GBR) - I- intelligence Countering the New Face of Online Radicalization Mr. Mubin Shaikh (CAN) – Counter Terrorism Expert Engaging Syria –Centric Western Jihadists Online Mr. Gentry Jenkins (USA) - University of Chicago Suicide Terrorism: Its Patterns and Motivations 12.30 - 14.00 Panel-8 : Lunch : 14.00-15.30 BREAKOUT SESSIONS Laledan Ballroom ( B Floor) Moderator Mr. Peter Vergauwen (BEL) Speakers Mr. Peter Vergauwen (BEL) - EUROPOL/Counter-Terrorism Unit EUROPOL: Counter-Terrorism Activities and Capabilities Mr. Leif Villadsen (DNK) - UN Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI), Torino UNICRI projects on preventing and combating terrorism Mr. Jarkko JOKINEN (FIN) - OSCE/ Action Against Terrorism Unit OSCE Counter-Terrorism Activities 3 Panel-9 : 14.00-15.30 Anadolu Güneşi ( R Floor) Moderator Dr. Muhammad Sheharyar Khan (PAK) Speakers Stephen Harley (GBR) - Foreign Office Adviser Reflections on 10 Years of operational Strategic Communications in Counter-Terrorism Assist. Prof. Muhammad Feyyaz (PAK) - University of Management and Technology, Lahore Voids, limitations and Their Implications in National Counter-Narrative for CT – A Case of Pakistan Dr. Muhammad Sheharyar Khan (PAK) - National Defence University (Islamabad) The Power Vacuum Conundrum in Post-2014 Afghanistan 15.30-16.00 : Coffee Break PLENARY SESSION Panel-10 : 16.00-17.30 Laledan Ballroom ( B Floor) 16.00-17.15 : Summary and Commentaries Moderators: Dr. Mitchel Roth (USA) Dr. Warren Chin (GBR) Mr. Stephen Harley (GBR) 17.15-17.30 : Closing remarks, Col. İsa ASLAN (TUR A) - Director, COE-DAT 4