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Facets of Terrorism: Assessing the Globalization of Vulnerability

Saturday January 21, 8:30 AM – 4:45 PM

Campbell Conference Facility, Munk School of Global Affairs

IN THE PAST YEAR, one of the largest and most prominent terrorist groups, Al-Qaeda, lost its leader before the tenth anniversary of the September 11 Attacks. The global community also witnessed the conclusion of the Iraq War as the War in Afghanistan continues. While the use of violent intimidation to instill political change is not a recent phenomenon and will persist alongside civil advancement, the past decade, and especially the events of the past year, attract questions on how terrorism will continue to evolve, what technological and/or economic agents will expedite this development, and what states and civil society can expect.

With the three distinctive panels on the political, economic, and legal facets of terrorist activity and its counter-measures, the IR Society hopes to illustrate what enables terrorism, determines the success rates of terrorist acts and counterterrorism measures, and if there can be a legitimate and effective solution to deter and prosecute terrorist groups.

This event is free and open to the public. Lunch and refreshments will be served.

Registration is CLOSED for this event. 

Conference Details 

SCHEDULE

Michel Juneau-Katsuya

With over 33 years of experience, Michel is internationally recognized as one of our country’s foremost experts in international and national security and intelligence, and economic and industrial espionage. He began his career with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) before transferring to the Canadian Security and Intelligence Service (CSIS). He has performed duties as Criminal Investigator, as well as Intelligence Officer in both Counter Intelligence and Counter Terrorism. He has held several senior management positions, including amongst them National Coordinator, Port of Entry Program, Counter Terrorism and Chief of the Strategic Analysis Unit, Asia/Pacific. During this assignment, his unit focused on issues of economic and industrial espionage against Canada, and the ramifications for Canadian society and its economy, leading to his team becoming rapidly recognized among international intelligence services for their expertise in that domain. Now in the private sector, Michel is in demand across all continents to perform Threat and Risk Assessments and security audits. He received a BA in International Relations from UQAM (Canada), and an MA in Social and Political Thought from the University of Sussex (England). Michel is the co-author of the books: « Nest of Spies: The Startling Truth About Foreign Agents at Work Within Canada’s Borders » published by Harper-Collins 2009 and “Ces espions venus d’ailleurs” published by Stanké 2009. He is currently working on two new books on espionage activities. Michel was the co-organizer of CISC2011 Defend Against Corporate Espionage, first conference of on corporate espionage in Canada that brought together for the first time former spies, counter intelligence officers and private companies. The next conference CISC2013 Investigating Corporate Espionage will be on February 4-7, 2013.

Panel One: POLITICAL

Perhaps the clearest connection is between terrorism and political science and history. Traditionally, the relationship between terrorist organizations and state politics focused on the use of external coercion to manipulate power structures within a certain government or engineer exploitative public policies. Motives of various terrorist groups around the world can be traced to histories of violent conflict within certain regions and sustained by specific hostilities based on ethnic, territorial, or religious affiliation. As the international system continues to complicate after regime changes and the rise and decline of major transnational actors, the relationship between terrorism and political science and history evolves as new questions arise from the political arena. To what extent does secularization of a political system affect threats of religious terrorism?

FEATURING

Arne Kislenko

Arne Kislenko is Associate Professor of History at Ryerson University and Adjunct Professor in the International Relations Program at the Munk Centre for International Studies at the University of Toronto. His teaching focus is on 19th and 20th century international relations, and includes courses on the two world wars, the Cold War, the history of espionage, comparative foreign policy, globalization, and culture/identity/nationalities.

Stewart Bell

Stewart Bell is an award-winning Canadian journalist. He is the author of three non-fiction books, Bayou of Pigs, The Martyr’s Oath  and Cold Terror, a national bestseller. He has reported from Africa, the Middle East, South and Southeast Asia, Central Asia, Europe and the Balkans. His magazine article about child soldiers in West Africa, “Guerrilla Girls,” was awarded the Amnesty International prize. “The Terrorist Next Door,” his magazine article about the Algerian terrorist known as the Millennium Bomber, was a finalist for the National Magazine Awards and was made into a CTV television movie. In 2009, Stewart won a South Asian Journalists Association Award for his writing about the civil war in Sri Lanka. Stewart’s writing about terrorism issues for the National Post newspaper, where he is a Senior Reporter, was awarded a Citation of Merit from the National Newspaper Awards. His work has also appeared in Time, Reader’s Digest, Maclean’s, Books in Canada, Actualité, Saturday Night and Homemakers. He contributes occasionally to the Global Nationalnewscast and co-wrote the Global Television documentary “Know Your Enemy,” which won the RTNDA award for Investigative Journalism. In The Osama bin Laden I Know, CNN’s Peter Bergen calls Stewart “Canada’s foremost reporter on terrorism…” He holds a Master of Journalism from Carleton University and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of British Columbia. He lives in Toronto.

Jean-Yves Haine

Dr. Jean-Yves Haine is a Professor at the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto. He holds a law degree from the University of Louvain (Belgium), a Master in International Relation from the Sorbonne (France) and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Sciences-Po. (France). Before joining U of T., he was Research fellow at the Government Department, Harvard University, Senior Research fellow at the European Union Institute for Security Studies in Paris and European Security Research fellow at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London and Senior Researcher for Transatlantic and Global Security at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.

Robert Young 

Robert Young is currently the Executive Director General for the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), a position he has held since March 2011. Previously he worked as a field intelligence officer both at headquarters and in the Middle East since he joined the Service in 1986. Born in Montreal, Mr. Young graduated from Concordia University (Montreal) with a B.A. in Political Science, an M.A. in International Affairs from Carleton University (Ottawa) and a law degree from the University of Ottawa.  

Panel Two: ECONOMIC

If political and historical factors instigate extremism amongst terrorist groups, the economic aspect of terrorism determines how violence can be sustained and analyzes the success rates of terrorist acts as well as counterterrorism measures.

FEATURING

John Duncan

John Duncan completed his PhD in the interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Social and Political Thought at Toronto’s York University in 1998, immediately after which he joined the faculty at the University of King’s College in Halifax. In 2002 he founded the international bilingual society for the study of Existential and Phenomenological Theory and Culture (EPTC) and served as its president until May 2009. During a 2004-05 sabbatical leave he was Ashley Fellow at the University of Trinity College in the University of Toronto, a year in which he co-founded the journal *PhaenEx*, an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal listed by the Philosopher’s Index. In the summer of 2005 he was appointed assistant professor and the director of the Ethics, Society, and Law (ES&L) program at Trinity, as well as an instructor in the Margaret MacMillan Trinity One Program in ethics and international relations. In the fall of 2006, he became an executive member of the University of Toronto’s Centre for Ethics. Beginning at Trinity in 2007 and continuing in partnership with Victoria University in the University of Toronto (where he is an Associate Fellow) from 2010, he co-founded the Humanities for Humanity outreach program and remains its academic director. He has published chapters, articles, reviews and opinion pieces, on the history of philosophy, continental philosophy, and politics.

Don Macnamara

Born in Winnipeg, MB, Brigadier-General (Ret) Don Macnamara spent the first half of a 37-year career in the RCAF and the Canadian Forces as a radar technician at 420 Squadron, air traffic control officer, and bio-scientist in operations research and development. The latter half of his career was spent teaching and working in strategic and international security affairs and strategic intelligence as director of Strategic Policy Planning, director of Arms Control Policy at National Defence Headquarters, and director at both the Canadian Forces Command and Staff College and the National Defence College – responsible for curricula in strategic studies and international affairs.

Retiring from the air force in 1988, he commenced a 20-year second career as a professor teaching international business and strategy at Queen’s University in Commerce, MBA and executive programs, foreign and defence policy in Political Studies, three semesters at the University of Kaiserslautern in Germany, three years as the executive director at Queen’s International Study Centre in the UK, 10 years at Queen’s as director of the Public Executive Program and 20 years as Senior Fellow in the Queen’s Centre for International Relations. He retired from all of his Queen’s activities in 2009.

He was a founding member and last Chair of the Canadian Institute of Strategic Studies and a long-standing member of the Canadian Institute of International Affairs, before their integration to become the Canadian International Council, a member of the International Institute of Strategic Studies for over 35 years, and a past-president of the Conference of Defence Associations (CDA) Institute.

A graduate of the University of  Ontario (B.A.) and University of Toronto (M.A.) he was appointed Officer in the Order of Military Merit in 1978, and while at Queen’s received  the School of Business Teaching Excellence Award, a Distinguished Service Award and was co-awardee of the Scholars of Excellence Award. In 2001, BGen Macnamara was awarded a Chief of Defence Staff Commendation for his “contribution to strategic planning, professional military education and professional development” and a year later was awarded a Doctorate of Military Science (honoris causa) by the Royal Military College of Canada.

He was appointed the first Honorary Colonel of the Canadian Forces College, Toronto, in 1996 and retired from that position in November 2011. He currently is the Chair of the Board of Governors of the Royal Military College and is a member of the RCAF Commander’s  Council. Now retired in Sidney, BC, he remains active as a community and media commentator on security and defence matters and is President of the Royal United Services Institute of Vancouver Island.

Khalid Mustafa Medani

Khalid Mustafa Medani is an assistant professor of political science and Islamic studies at McGill University. He has published extensively on the political economy of Islamic fundamentalism and civil war in Sudan. He holds a doctorate in political science from the University of California, Berkeley. He has also worked as a researcher at the Brookings Institution, and served as a research consultant for a number of United Nations agencies in the Horn of Africa. In 2002, he conducted an evaluation of UN and non-governmental organizations’ humanitarian relief efforts in Northern and Western Darfur, Sudan. His research interests include the relationship between economic globalization, political Islam and civil conflict in the Middle East and Africa.

Panel Three: LEGAL

Kent Roach

Kent Roach is a Professor of Law and Prichard-Wilson Chair of Law and Public Policy at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, with cross-appointments in criminology and political science. He is a graduate of the University of Toronto and of Yale, and a former law clerk to Justice Bertha Wilson of the Supreme Court of Canada. Professor Roach has been editor-in-chief of the Criminal Law Quarterly since 1998. In 2002, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Professor Roach is also the co-editor of several collections of essays including Global Anti-Terrorism Law and Policy 2nd ed (2011) 1st ed (2005), Taking Remedies Seriously (2010), Access to Care: Access to Justice (2005) and The Security of Freedom (2001) and several published casebooks.

Professor Roach’s current teaching and research interests include comparative studies of anti-terrorism law and policy, comparative study of miscarriages of justice and comparative study of judicial review and the role of courts. Professor Roach has taught at the Centre for Transnational Legal Studies in London, the University of New South Wales, the National University of Singapore and the University of Saskatchewan where he also served as Dean of Law. In 2008, the students at the Faculty of Law honoured Professor Roach with the Alan Mewett award for excellence in teaching.

Paul Chapin

Paul H. Chapin is currently Director of Research at the Conference of Defence Associations Institute in Ottawa and the principal author of the CDA’s well-received 2010 study Security in an Uncertain World: A Canadian Perspective on NATO’s New Strategic Concept. He is also a research associate at the School of Policy Studies at Queen’s University in Kingston, where he has taught a course on foreign policy decision-making. Mr. Chapin has lectured widely in Canada, the United States and Europe, including delivering courses at EUROMED Management in Marseille on rebuilding war-torn societies. He writes often for Canadian newspapers and is a frequent guest commentator on television.

During a 25-year career in the Canadian foreign service, Mr. Chapin was posted to Tel Aviv and Moscow, represented Canada on the Political Committee at NATO, and served as Minister-Counsellor in charge of the political section of the Canadian embassy in Washington. In Ottawa, he was head of the Soviet desk at the Department of Foreign Affairs, director for political and strategic analysis, and from 2003 to 2006 director general for international security. In the latter capacity, he advised the government on security and defence issues; managed the operations of  Canada’s missions to NATO, the IAEA, the OSCE and the Conference on Disarmament; and co-chaired meetings of the Canada-US Permanent Joint Board on Defence helping to develop the new architecture for North American security after 9/11. He was also Canada’s lead negotiator in securing the permanent renewal of the NORAD agreement and developing the framework for Canadian participation in the US ballistic missile defence program. With colleagues at National Defence, Mr. Chapin played a lead role in the design and conduct of Canada’s engagement in Afghanistan, notably the shift in the centre of gravity of Canadian operations from Kabul to Kandahar in 2005/06.

In the early 1990s, Mr. Chapin was seconded to the Department of the Solicitor General of Canada to serve as director-general for security policy and operations overseeing the operations of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service and the RCMP. After retirement from the foreign service, he was vice-president at the Pearson Peacekeeping Centre responsible for business development and management of the PPC’s worldwide training programs.

Mr. Chapin has a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Ottawa and an M.A. in International Relations from Carleton University in Ottawa.  He also spent a year at the Centre Universitaire des Hautes Études Européennes in Strasbourg.

Anna Gray

Dr. Anna Gray is the Director General, Strategic Integration & Program Support, National Security Criminal Investigations, Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Dr. Gray joined the RCMP in 1992 as a Senior Researcher in the Human Resources Directorate at RCMP Headquarters In 2002, she was appointed Officer-in-Charge of Integrated Operational Support to the Deputy Commissioner, Operations and Integration where she was responsible for providing integrated support and advice to three operational Deputies. In 2005, Dr. Gray was appointed Director General, Intelligence Requirements and Strategic Integration in Criminal Intelligence and then to Director General, Strategic Integration and Program Support in National Security Criminal Investigations. In her current position she provides strategic direction to the National Security Program through functions that include policy and program development, program planning and evaluation, national security awareness services, and the coordination and production of briefings for RCMP senior management. Other areas of responsibility include overseeing the alternative analysis of issues affecting the larger strategic environment (such as radicalization) and updating and modifying criminal intelligence tools and processes. She also oversees RCMP secondees in National Security-related positions. Dr. Gray holds a Ph. D (1990) and M.A. (1986) in Psychology, from the University of Western Ontario, specializing in test development, psychological measurement and statistics. She also holds a Double Major Honours B.A. in Psychology and Sociology from York University. In 2002, Dr. Gray received the Queen*s Golden Jubilee Medal for her HR work with the RCMP and internationally.