Ninth Annual Terrorism Conference The War in Syria, Islamic State and the Changing Landscape of Asymmetric Threats
Ninth Annual Terrorism Conference: The War in Syria, Islamic State and the Changing Landscape of Asymmetric Threats
Tuesday, December 8, 2015
8:30 A.M.–4:15 P.M.
The University Club of Washington, D.C.
Grand Ballroom (2nd Floor)
1135 Sixteenth Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20036
Agenda
Registration
8:00 A.M.–8:30 A.M.
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Welcome
8:30 A.M.–8:40 A.M.
Glen E. Howard
President, The Jamestown Foundation
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Panel One:
The War in Syria and the New Threat Environment
in the Greater Middle East
8:40 A.M.–10:00 A.M.
Bruce Hoffman
Director, Center for Security Studies,
Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University &
Board Member, The Jamestown Foundation
Bruce Riedel
Senior Fellow, The Saban Center for Middle East Policy, Brookings Institution
David Kilcullen
President and CEO, Caerus Associates
Q & A
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Coffee Break
10:00A.M.–10:30 A.M.
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Panel Two:
Russian Intervention in Syria, Rebel Reaction, Turkey’s Perspective and the Arab Kurdish Insurgency East of the Euphrates
10:30 A.M. –12:00 P.M.
“Russian Intervention in Syria”
Pavel Baev
Research Professor, Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)
“Rebel Reaction to Russian Intervention”
Nicholas A. Heras
Middle East Analyst, Center for a New American Strategy (CNAS) &
Associate Fellow, The Jamestown Foundation
“Turkey’s Reaction to the War in Syria”
Nihat Ali Ozcan
Associate Professor, TEPAV University, Ankara, Turkey
“The Kurdish Periphery”
Wladimir van Wilgenburg
Analyst, The Jamestown Foundation &
Contributor, Daily Beast
Moderator
S. Enders Wimbush
Distinguished Senior Fellow, The Jamestown Foundation
Q & A
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Luncheon
12:00 P.M.–1:00 P.M.
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Panel Three:
Islamic State’s War Machine: Ideology, Recruitment, Rivals and Proxies
1:00 P.M.– 2:45 P.M.
“Caliphate at War: Islamic State Ideology, War Fighting and State Formation”
Ahmed A.S. Hashim
Associate Professor of Strategic Studies, Military Studies Program
Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS)
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
“ISIS and al-Qaeda: Tactical Twins, Strategic Enemies”
Michael W.S. Ryan
Senior Fellow, The Jamestown Foundation
“Europe’s Jihadist Pipeline to Syria”
James Brandon
Editor-in-Chief, Terrorism Monitor, The Jamestown Foundation
“Islamic State and West Africa”
Jacob Zenn
Associate Fellow, The Jamestown Foundation
Q & A
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Coffee Break
2:45 P.M.–3:00 P.M.
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Concluding Remarks
3:00 P.M.–4:00 P.M.
General Michael V. Hayden
Former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
Q & A
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Conclusion
4:00 P.M.
