The ARW’s theme falls into the SPS’s key priority of facilitating mutually beneficial cooperation on issues of common interest, including international efforts to meet emerging security challenges such as counter-terrorism.
The objectives of the ARW are as follows: 1. to assess the longevity and perseverance of the terrorist threat to both NATO members and NATO partner countries; 2. to establish the extent to which a terrorist threat is dependent on the leadership of a terrorist group, organisation or network; 3. to disseminate knowledge and exchange information about the recent state of scholarship and expertise related to countering terrorism; 4. to establish long-lasting links and networks amongst workshop participants; 5. to strengthen the links between academia and the think tank community; 6. to provide participants with a platform of contact with the world’s most established terrorism experts; 7. to critically assess the existing knowledge related to countering terrorism and to identify gaps; 8. to identify challenges to policy-oriented research on leadership of terrorist groups, organisations and networks in the post-bin Laden age; 9. to offer a structured set of solutions to counter-terrorism practitioners on how to approach the issue of leadership in terrorist groups, organisations and networks, and how to address this issue in the most efficient manner; 10. to produce guidelines and ideas for future research avenues in the field of terrorism studies. More information on the ARW, including the information sheet and speaker’s bios, is available at: http://www.pism.pl/Research/Projects/PISM-has-been-awarded-a-NATO-grant-from-the-Science-for-Peace-and-Security-Programme
Those wishing to participate in the event are kindly requested to download the application form from http://www.pism.pl/Research/Projects/PISM-has-been-awarded-a-NATO-grant-from-the-Science-for-Peace-and-Security-Programme and return it in PDF format along with their CVs to the ARW co-director, Kacper Rękawek at [email protected].