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FOCUS ON DUAL-USE BIOETHICS AND BIOSECURITY ONLINE DISTANCE LEARNING
Tatyana Novossiolova,
University of Bradford, UK
Simon Whitby & Tatyana Novossiolova of Bradford University in England will present a paper on the dual-use dilemma facing biotechnology at Security & Defence Learning 2010.
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CYBER THREATS TO HUMANITARIAN AGENCIES
Geoffrey Okao, Chief
IT Security Officer, World
Food Programme, Italy
Spies, rebel insurgents and war criminals have been discovered hacking into the sensitive databases of the world's humanitarian relief agencies.
Geoffrey Okao, Chief IT Security Officer of the World Food Programme, with personal experience of cyber attacks in Africa, will warn delegates at Security & Defence Learning 2010, the international forum on security training, which will take place in Berlin on December 1, that computer security for aid workers is a matter of life and death.
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INTERPOL TRAINING CHIEF AND POLAND'S DEFENCE LEARNING GURU AT TOP SECURITY CONFERENCE
Dr Piotr Gawliczek
Dale Sheehan, the Director of Training at INTERPOL, will join leading figures from the world of security training at this year’s Security & Defence Learning conference, which will take place in Berlin on December 1st. Other keynote speakers will include Poland’s top specialist on innovation in defence and security training, Dr Piotr Gawliczek, a Navy captain based at the National Defence University in Warsaw.
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BUILDING A PEACEFUL, SECURE AND STABLE SOCIETY: THE ROLE OF ICTS
Dr Harold
Elletson
The role information and communication technologies (ICTs) can play in building a peaceful, secure and stable society will be the subject of a major discussion session, organised by the New Security Foundation, at this year’s eLearning Africa conference in Lusaka, Zambia on 27 May 2010.
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FUTURE CONFLICTS AND HOW TO TRAIN FOR THEM
Col. Amardeep Bhardwaj
As Wikileaks continued to release yet more confidential US Embassy cables, participants in Security & Defence Learning 2010 and a special plenary session of OEB were convinced that information and information systems will be the most important battlefields of the future.
In two sessions on ‘future conflict learning,’ participants were invited by speakers including Chris Donnelly, senior research fellow of the UK Defence Academy, and Colonel Amardeep Bhardwaj of the Indian Army War College, to consider how conflict will evolve and what future training and learning requirements will be. Colonel Bhardwaj told participants that future conflicts may be less physically violent and shorter but more intense. Information and perception will both be important elements and sophisticated training for conflict in this new information age will be crucial.
New Security Foundation Chairman, Dr Harold Elletson, who chaired both sessions, said: “Our experts were convinced that information will be the key element in future conflict. Learning and training must reflect the reality of a new global information age in which education will increasingly be seen as a strategic asset.”
Further information about Security & Defence Learning 2010 will be contained in the official post-conference report, which will be published in January 2011. If you would like to receive a copy, please contact Goska Dabek at The New Security Foundation (goska.dabek@newsecurityfoundation.org).
INTERNATIONAL EXPERTS DISCUSS FUTURE CONFLICT LEARNING
Col. Dr Jeffrey D.
McCausland,
Distinguished Visiting
Professor, U.S. Army
War College, U.S.A..
A group of international experts will be trying to predict the nature of the relationship between conflict and learning in the future at Security & Defence Learning 2010.
US Army Colonel Jeff McCausland of the U.S, War College will join Polish Navy Captain Dr Piotr Gawliczek, Portuguese Navy Captain Almeida Moura and Chris Donnelly, Directorof the Institute for Statecraft and Governance, for an in-depth discussion about the development of conflict in the future and its implications for learning and training.
How will conflicts in the future affect learning? What is the nature of modern conflict and how should we train for it? What should be the role of learning in conflict prevention, peace-building and post-conflict reconstruction? These are some of the questions that will be considered in a special session on ‘Future Conflict Learning’ at SDL 2010, which will take place in the Hotel Intercontinental in Berlin on December 1st.
To see the agenda, please click here.
NETWORKING AT SDL
Participants at last year’s Security & Defence Learning described it as “excellent” for networking and Forum director Dr Harold Elletson is confident that this year’s conference will be even better.
“SDL offers a variety of good networking opportunities and participants enjoy the fact that the conference is intimate and interactive, which means that everyone mixes and gets to know each other,” he says. “We know that some important deals have been done as a result of contacts made at SDL and many people come to the conference just to network and make new contacts. This year, we have a good mix of public and private sector participants and I am confident that the conference will once again be good for business.”
One of the best networking events associated with the conference is always The New Security Foundation dinner, which this year will be held on the 30th November at ‘Florian,’ one of Berlin’s liveliest restaurants. The dinner will be attended by keynote speakers and participants at the conference, along with members of the New Security Foundation.
For more information about networking opportunities at SDL, please contact Goska Dabek at
goska.dabek@newsecurityfoundation.org.
SDL 2010: ’Future Conflict and Learning’ and ’The Future for Police Training’
The focus will be on the future at Security and Defence Learning 2010, the sixth international conference on technology-assisted learning for security, defence and emergency services.
Dale Sheehan, Director
of Training, INTERPOL:
one of the keynote
speakers at SDL
Leading experts from the worlds of security, defence and emergency services will ask participants to consider some fundamental questions about the nature of modern security and the training necessary to ensure it.
How will conflicts in the future affect learning? What is the nature of modern conflict and how should we train for it? What should be the role of learning in conflict prevention, peace-building and post-conflict reconstruction? How will training for police and emergency services evolve in the future?
Chris Donnelly, CMG, Director of the Institute of Statecraft and Governance and former special adviser to the Secretary General of NATO, will consider these vital questions when he presents a paper on ‘Future Conflict Learning’. Captain Dr Piotr Gawliczek, Head of Innovation at the National Defence University, Warsaw, will present a review of Poland’s recent experience of innovative training for security and emergency services and outline priorities for the future.
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To see the DRAFT Agenda, please click here.