ICT 12th Annual Conference - IHL Panels

Post date: Sep 4, 2012 7:23:51 AM

the International Institution for Counter-Terrorism (ICT) in the IDC will hold its 12th annual international conference between 10 - 13, September 2012 in the IDC (Herzliya).

On the last day of the confenrece the following IHL workshop will be held:

New Battlefield, Old Laws:

A Dialogue between Operational and Legal Experts on Counter-Terrorism

Chair : Dr. Daphné Richemond-Barak

9:30 - 10:30 Typology of Terrorist Organizations and Implications for the Targeting of Political Leaders

Admiral (ret.) Amihai Ayalon- Chair of the Liberal Democracies Facing Asymmetric Conflicts project at the Herzl Institute - University of Haifa; Chair of the University of Haifa executive committee; Former head of the Israel Security Agency (ISA).

Adv. Elad Popovich - Ph.D. Candidate, Executive Director, Liberal Democracies Facing Asymmetric Conflicts; Researcher, International Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT), The Interdisciplinary Center (IDC), Herzliya.

Prof. Abraham Sofaer - George P. Shultz Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy and National Security Affairs, Hoover Institution, Stanford University.

Mr. Anton Camen - Head of the Legal Department, ICRC Delegation in Israel and the Occupied Territories.

11:00 - 12:30 Responding to a Changing Threat

Lt. Col. Liam Collins - Former Director, The Combating Terrorism Center (CTC), West Point Military Academy.

Maj. Gen. (Ret.) Avihai Mandelblit - Senior Research Fellow, Institute for National Security Studies (INSS); Former Military Advocate General of the IDF.

Prof. Michael L. Gross - Professor of Political Science, Department International Relations, University of Haifa.

Col. (Ret.) Pnina Sharvit Baruch - Senior Research Fellow, Institute for National Security Studies (INSS); Former IDF Advocate General.

Mr. Edward Flynn - Senior Human Rights Officer, United Nations Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (CTED).

For further inquiry please contact: barak.daphne@idc.ac.il or daniel.haberfeld@gmail.com

To register, please contact daniel.haberfeld@gmail.com

More information in the attached file.

For further information about the ICT Annual Conference, click here

*Disclaimer - ALMA is not part of the aforementioned conference and is not responsible for the accuracy of the information above which is based on the official publications of the conference. For more information please contact barak.daphne@idc.ac.il or daniel.haberfeld@gmail.com