Past Events

ICTS Seminar - The Refugee Crisis: Humanitarian and Security Implications March 9, 2016
ICTS Seminar - The Refugee Crisis: Humanitarian and Security Implications March 9, 2016
Potomac Institute for Policy Studies March 9, 2016 The latest expansion of terrorism, civil wars, and regional conflicts has resulted in internal displacements and forced migrations of millions of refugees around the world. Despite the grave humanitarian and strategic implications of the continuing...
ICTS Seminar - Combating Terrorism: The Role of Sharing Intelligence - April 14, 2016
ICTS Seminar - Combating Terrorism: The Role of Sharing Intelligence - April 14, 2016
International Center for Terrorism Studies, at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies. In the wake of the escalated terrorist plots and attacks worldwide as well as the April 2016 Nuclear Security Summit’s warning that “the threat of nuclear and radiological terrorism remains one of the gre...
Combating Terrorism: Lessons from the Middle East, North Africa, the Sahel, and Beyond
Combating Terrorism: Lessons from the Middle East, North Africa, the Sahel, and Beyond
Since 9/11, security challenges with grave global implications have emerged in the Middle East, Africa, and other regions. Terrorists networks, particularly al-Qa’ida and the newly-formed Daesh, are expanding their deadly operations across an arc of instability that exists without borders. In the...
"International Cooperation in Combating Terrorism: Review of 2015 and Outlook for 2016"
Date: Monday, February 8, 2016 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM Place: The National Press Club 529 14th Street NW, 13th Floor, Holeman Lounge Washington, D.C. 20045 Opening Remarks: Michael S. Swetnam CEO and Chairman, Potomac Institute for Policy Studies ...
Cyber Readiness Index 2.0 Launch (Part 2 of 2)
Cyber Readiness Index 2.0 Launch (Part 2 of 2)
The Launch of: "The Cyber Readiness Index 2.0: A Baseline and an Index" Today, no country is cyber ready. The Cyber Readiness Index 2.0 examines one hundred twenty-five countries that have embraced, or are starting to embrace, information communications technologies and the Internet and then applie...
Cyber Readiness Index 2.0 Launch (Part 1 of 2)
Cyber Readiness Index 2.0 Launch (Part 1 of 2)
The Launch of: "The Cyber Readiness Index 2.0: A Baseline and an Index" Today, no country is cyber ready. The Cyber Readiness Index 2.0 examines one hundred twenty-five countries that have embraced, or are starting to embrace, information communications technologies and the Internet and then applie...

 

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POTOMAC INSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES

"The Fifteenth Anniversary of 9/11: Past Lessons and Future Outlook"

October 14, 2016

As the U.S. just marked its 15th anniversary of 9/11 and as the UN general assembly began its 71st session, terrorism continues to plague the international community with escalated, complex security challenges. The latest attacks from New York to Aleppo have once again underscored the brutalization, victimization, and globalization of contemporary terrorism. It is against this geopolitical and generational context that a panel of distinguished former political, diplomatic, and military officials as well as academics discussed past lessons, assess current and future threats, and offered recommendations for a more effective counterterrorism architecture.

Opening remarks were made by Michael S. Swetnam, CEO and Chairman, Potomac Institute for Policy Studies. The panel was moderated by Professor Yonah Alexander, Director, Inter-University Center for Terrorism Studies, and Senior Fellow, Potomac Institute for Policy Studies. The keynote speaker was Hon. R. James Woolsey, former Director of the CIA and currently, Chairs the Board of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. The panel consisted of Hon. Douglas Feith, former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy and currently, Director, Center for National Security Strategies, Hudson Institute; Ambassador (Ret.) Charles A. Ray, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for POW/Missing Personnel Affairs and Ambassador to Cambodia and Zimbabwe and previously, he served in the United States Army for twenty years; and David Albright a physicist and Founder & President, Institute for Science and International Security and a former inspector of the Iraqi nuclear program and a faculty member at Princeton University and George Mason University. Closing remarks were provided by General Alfred Gray, USMC (Ret.), Twenty-Ninth Commandant of the United States Marine Corps; Senior Fellow and Chairman of the Board of Regents, Potomac Institute for Policy Studies.

To view a recording of the seminar click here.

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