Conference

This workshop will emphasize cross-community understanding and communication skills that focus on ways in which government civilian agencies, non-governmental organizations, inter-governmental organizations and the armed forces can work more effectively alongside each other in insecure environments.  Participants will be exposed to the organizational cultures, capacities and motivations of these diverse communities, as well as current and emerging issues from each community, such as UN OCHA’s cluster system and the US Government’s Civilian Response Corps.

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http://www.csrs-nps.org/logistica/public/docs/same_space_nov10.pdf

The Middle East Institute is proud to host Rochelle Davis, professor of Anthropology at the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, to discuss US military conceptions of culture and the war in Iraq.

Since the US invasion of Iraq in 2003 and the proposal of a new counterinsurgency doctrine in late 2006, culture has been named as a key to the success and failure of US military operations. Nevertheless, cultural training material has provided erroneous information about Iraq and Iraqis and has fundamentally shaped US troops' attitudes about Iraqis.  More recently, all four branches of the US Military have established new culture-centered institutions which are producing significantly different material, suggesting a fundamental shift in their approach to cultural training.

Davis' research, based on analysis of cultural training material and interviews with US troops and Iraqi civilians, suggests that military decision makers, current policy makers, and troops on the ground face fundamental challenges when approaching the role of culture as it relates to tactics of war.

http://mei.edu/Events/Calendar/tabid/504/vw/3/ItemID/274/d/20100727/Default.aspx

On only his third day in office, President Obama issued an Executive Order calling for the closing of Guantanamo Bay and banning enhanced interrogation techniques. Over the past two years the country’s counterterrorism tools have been left to atrophy. Recent events, such as the attempted Christmas Day and Times Square bombings, have shown, however, that terrorists continue to seek to harm the United States and its people.

Serving in his ninth term in the U.S. House of Representatives and as ranking member on the House Homeland Security Committee, Representative Peter King (R-NY) has long been a champion of enhancing U.S. counterterrorism tools. Working to secure continued funding of vital homeland security priorities, a decisive terrorist detainee policy, and reform of congressional oversight of the Department of Homeland Security, he has sought to further the security of the United States. Join us as Representative King addresses counterterrorism in the Obama Administration and the future of homeland security.

http://heritage.org/Events/2010/07/Peter-King

Executive Order 13434, issued in direct response to lessons learned from 9/11, Katrina and other disasters that have threatened our national security, calls for the establishment of a corps of National Security Professionals (NSPs); leaders who will be called upon to work across the interagency in response to various domestic and international crises.  Past responses have proven that working across departmental boundaries requires leadership capabilities derived from an interagency perspective.  To effectively serve in this capacity, NSPs must be prepared - trained, educated, and experienced.  They must be able to work together to respond quickly, efficiently, and effectively.

To aid in readiness, the DoD NSPD Implementation Office is conducting the first National Security Professional Development symposium, hosted by the National Defense University August 4 – 5, 2010.  The symposium, entitled, "National Security Professionals: Forming an Interagency Community," is intended to lay the foundation towards the development of a community of National Security Professionals. Enhanced awareness, expanded cultural acuity, collaboration and developed networks are critical characteristics demonstrating readiness and key outcomes of this symposium.

The DoD NSPD Implementation Office formed an interagency symposium working group responsible for developing the content.  Representatives on the working group are from participating agencies including Department of State, Energy, Justice, Commerce, Agriculture, National Defense University, Defense, NSPD Integration Office, and the United States Institute of Peace.

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Target Audiences

• National Security Professionals
• Organizational Leadership

Learning Objectives

• Meet NSPs from various agencies
• Enhance their interagency partnerships
• Increase their awareness of the criticality of collaboration, and
• Initiate and  sustain collaboration across government and between NSPs
• Gain an understanding of partnering agency cultures
• Learn strategies to build and develop interagency networks
• Develop awareness of challenges hindering collaboration and ways to mitigate them, and
• Form interagency alliances

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Richard Teuten, senior visiting fellow at the UK's Royal United Services Institute and former head of the UK Stabilisation Unit, has just completed an assessment of how the United Kingdom has sought to stabilize conflict-affected countries over the last 13 years. Drawing on this evidence he has assessed the options for addressing weaknesses and provides recommendations on the following issues:

• How to develop the right people to work in hostile stabilization environments, including balancing military and civilian capabilities
• How to achieve civil-military integration and unity of effort in theater
• How to fund conflict prevention and stabilization strategies
• Can aid be used to provide a security effect and promote stability

This event will feature the following speakers:

Richard Teuten, Presenter
Senior Visiting Fellow at the UK's Royal United Services Institute and former Head of the UK Stabilisation Unit

William Taylor, Moderator
Vice President, Center for Post-Conflict Peace and Stability Operations, USIP

To Be Decided, Discussant

Inquiries

Please contact Demis Yanco at 202-429-3833 or dyanco@usip.org " href="mailto:dyanco@usip.org?subject=Teuten%20Event">dyanco@usip.org with any general questions about this event.

Media

Journalists should contact Lauren Sucher at lsucher@usip.org or Allison Sturma at asturma@usip.org.

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