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International Homeland Security & Resilience

PLACES AVAILABLE: Open to all

About the event:

Examining international responses to homeland security, this annual RUSI conference will hear from an array of experts addressing key homeland security threats and responses.

Speakers include:

Mr Peter F. Verga
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (Homeland Defense),
US Department of Defense

Lord Carlile of Berriew QC
Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation

Vice-Admiral Charles Style
Deputy Chief of Defence Staff (Commitments)
UK Ministry of Defence

Dr Piers Millet
Biological Weapons Convention Meetings Secretariat
Office for Disarmament Affairs
United Nations

Ms Anna Aqulina
Head of International Development
UK Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA)

Dr Anthony Bergin
Director of Research Programs
Australian Strategic Policy Institute

 Ms Niki Tompkinson
Director, Transport Security and Contingencies Directorate,
Department for Transport

Conference topics include:

Military Contributions to Homeland Security

As the potentialities of environmental disasters and terrorist attack are increasingly recognised there is a correspondingly growing role for the military in contingency planning. Such provisions provide for capacity and capability shortfalls in the civil authority response where developing a sufficient capability would be inappropriate and/or costly.

Additionally, the military has an international and territorial role; patrolling to intercept the smuggling of narcotics, people and weapons; providing intelligence to domestic intelligence and law enforcement services; and operating to reduce the flow of contraband at the point of origin.

Protecting Critical National Infrastructure

How do states worldwide define and defend their critical national infrastructure? The conference aims to inform on organisational structures and underlying concepts that drive state approaches to protecting their CNI.

Aviation/Mass Transport Security

There is perhaps no better example of the international interdependencies of homeland security than in commercial aviation.  Last year a specific terrorist risk to the UK imposed severe financial and human costs. The threat was, and remains, an issue for technology providers, airline/airport operators and the wider international community. Such responses must be international in order to be effective.

Multilateral Regimes

Terrorist groups and criminal networks operate internationally, benefiting from real-time communications, information-sharing and relative freedom of travel – illicitly or otherwise. The degree to which nation states also share information and cooperate in interdicting such groups is critical to their efficacy. International organisations provide important mechanisms which states can use to defend themselves.

For further information and to discuss sponsorship opportunities please contact Garry Hindle on 0207 747 2646 or garryh@rusi.org

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