Counter-Insurgency Conference to Be Held in Stockholm in March 2008
By Andrew Cochran
The Global Defence Forum, with the Swedish National Defence College and the UK Defence Academy, will hold a conference titled, "Countering Insurgency and Terrorism," on March 11 through 13, 2008, in Stockholm. The Counterterrorism Blog is proud to serve as a "Media Partner" for the conference. Co-hosted by Lieutenant General Sir John Kiszely, KCB MC Director of the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom, and Swedish National Defence College (SNDC) President Henrik Landerholm, the conference will include some of world’s most distinguished military thinkers to debate the current threat from insurgency and terrorism. The risk of use of CBRN weapons; intelligence methodology; countering radicalization; and the best military and police doctrine on adversary methods will be discussed. The long list of esteemed expert speakers will include Lt. Gen. Graeme Lamb, the UK Commander of Field Army & Land Command, and former Deputy Commander of Multinational Force Iraq; Gijs de Vries, former Counter-Terrorism Coordinator for the European Union; Nigel Inkster, former Director of Operations and Intelligence, British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6); and Dr. Magnus Ranstorp, Research Director of the Center for Asymmetric Threat Studies, SNDC Sweden. Sessions will discuss topics such as "Theological and psychological drivers of contemporary terrorist violence;" "How transnational targets differ from state-centric targets" (a topic of one of Douglas Farah's recent posts); and "The roadmap for the future of counter-insurgency operations in Afghanistan." You can review the entire program and speakers list on the summit website.