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Eighth Annual Terrorism Conference
Al-Qaeda and Its Heirs
Tuesday, December 9, 2014
8:30 A.M.–4:00 P.M.
The University Club of Washington, D.C.
Grand Ballroom (2nd Floor)
1135 Sixteenth Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20036
When discussing the conference on Twitter, please use the hashtag #JTFTerrorism.
Agenda
Registration
8:00 A.M.–8:30 A.M.
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Welcome
8:30 A.M.–8:40 A.M.
Glen E. Howard
President, The Jamestown Foundation
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Panel One:
The Rise of Islamic State: Implications for the United States
8:40 A.M.–10:00 A.M.
Bruce Hoffman
Director, Center for Security Studies,
Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University &
Board Member, The Jamestown Foundation
Bruce Riedel
Senior Fellow, The Saban Center for Middle East Policy, Brookings Institution &
Former Board Member, The Jamestown Foundation
Q & A
* * *
Coffee Break
10:00 A.M.–10:30 A.M.
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Panel Two:
The Impact of Islamic State on Regional Security in Syria and Iraq
10:30 A.M.–12:00 P.M.
“Understanding Islamic State: What Victory Means in Its Grand Strategy”
Michael W.S. Ryan
Senior Fellow, The Jamestown Foundation
“Swimming in a Turbulent Sea? Non-State Threats to Islamic State”
Nicholas A. Heras
Middle East Analyst, Center for a New American Security (CNAS)
“The Political Economy of Islamic State and Its Financial Resources for War”
Murad Batal al-Shishani
Correspondent, BBC &
Analyst, The Jamestown Foundation
“Islamic State’s Threat to the Kurds in Syria and Northern Iraq”
Wladimir van Wilgenburg
Middle East Analyst, al-Monitor &
Analyst, The Jamestown Foundation
Q & A
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Luncheon
12:00 P.M.–1:00 P.M.
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Panel Three:
Trends and Strategies in Militant Groups in Egypt and Northwest Africa
1:00 P.M.–2:45 P.M.
“The Need for a Comprehensive Counter-Terrorism Strategy in Combatting Regional Jihadism: The View from Cairo”
Adel El-Adawy
Ph.D. Candidate, War Studies Department, King’s College London
“Libya’s Descent into Chaos: Warring Clans and Its Impact on Regional Stability”
Dario Cristiani
Adjunct Professor in International Affairs, Vesalius College &
Senior Analyst, Global Governance Institute in Brussels
“Boko Haram, Islamic State and the Archipelago Strategy in Northwest Africa”
Jacob Zenn
African and Eurasian Affairs Analyst, The Jamestown Foundation
Q & A
* * *
Coffee Break
2:45 P.M.–3:00 P.M.
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Concluding Remarks
3:00 P.M.–4:00 P.M.
General Michael V. Hayden
Former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency &
Board Member, The Jamestown Foundation
Q & A
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Conclusion
4:00 P.M.
Participant Biographies
Adel El-Adawy
Adel El-Adawy is
a Ph.D. Candidate at the War Studies Department, King’s College London.
His dissertation focuses on the impact of transnational security
threats on patterns of civil-military relations in post-Mubarak Egypt.
His research and publications have looked at security issues across the
Middle East, and U.S.-Egyptian relations. Previously, he has held
positions at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, American
Security Project, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS),
and the Middle East Institute. He holds a B.A. from the College of
Wooster and an M.A. in political science from American University in
Washington. He is fluent in Arabic, German and speaks basic Swedish.
Dario Cristiani
Dario
Cristiani deals with Mediterranean and Middle Eastern security and
history, with a specific focus on terrorism and sub-state groups, and is
a frequent contributor to Jamestown’s publications Eurasia Daily Monitor, Terrorism Monitor and Militant Leadership Monitor.
He is adjunct professor in International Affairs at the Vesalius
College in Brussels and senior analyst at the Global Governance
Institute in Brussels. He is also a political risk consultant, working
with a number of consultancies and organizations in Europe and the
United States.
Gen. Michael V. Hayden (ret.)
General
Michael V. Hayden (USAF Ret.) served as Director of the Central
Intelligence Agency from 2006 to 2009 and was responsible for overseeing
the collection of information concerning the plans, intentions and
capabilities of America’s adversaries, producing timely analysis for
decision makers and conducting covert operations to thwart terrorists
and other enemies of the United States. Before becoming Director of the
CIA, General Hayden served as the country’s first Principal Deputy
Director of National Intelligence—and was the highest-ranking
intelligence officer in the armed forces. Earlier, he served as
Commander of the Air Intelligence Agency, Director of the Joint Command
and Control Warfare Center, Director of the National Security Agency
from 1999 to 2005 and Chief of the Central Security Service. General
Hayden graduated from Duquesne University with a bachelor’s degree in
history in 1967 and a master’s degree in modern American history in
1969. He was a distinguished graduate of the university’s ROTC program
and began his active military service in 1969. General Hayden is
currently a principal at the Chertoff Group in Washington, D.C., and a
Board Member at The Jamestown Foundation.
Nicholas A. Heras
Nicholas
A. Heras is a Research Associate in the Middle East Security Program at
the Center for a New American Security (CNAS). From 2013 to 2014, he
served as a Research Associate at the National Defense University (NDU)
where he worked on a project that studied the impact of the Syrian
conflict on the greater Middle East region. He has over two years
in-depth field research experience in all regions of Lebanon, Syria and
Jordan and has also conducted substantive research in Turkey.
He
has presented on the topic of armed groups in the Syrian civil war,
including the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), at the annual
U.S. Naval War College, Center for Irregular Warfare and Armed Groups
(USNWC-CIWAG) Symposium; he also presented a lecture on ISIL’s state
formation strategy to the U.S. SOCOM J3I. As a regular contributor to
The Jamestown Foundation’s Militant Leadership Monitor and Terrorism Monitor,
Mr. Heras is a prolific author of analytical works focusing on security
issues in the greater Middle East region. He has also authored a
monograph, Policy Focus #132, The Potential for an Assad Statelet in Syria, through the Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP)’s Soref Fellowship program.
Bruce Hoffman
Professor
Bruce Hoffman is a Board Member of The Jamestown Foundation. He has
been studying terrorism and insurgency for more than thirty
years. Professor Hoffman is currently a tenured professor at Georgetown
University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service where he is also
the Director of both the Center for Security Studies and the Security
Studies Program. Professor Hoffman previously held the Corporate Chair
in Counterterrorism and Counterinsurgency at the RAND Corporation and
was also Director of RAND’s Washington, D.C., Office.
Professor
Hoffman was Scholar-in-Residence for Counter-terrorism at the Central
Intelligence Agency between 2004 and 2006. He was also an advisor on
counter-terrorism to the Office of National Security Affairs, Coalition
Provisional Authority, Baghdad, Iraq, during the spring of 2004 and from
2004 to 2005 was an adviser on counter-insurgency to the Strategy,
Plans and Analysis Office at Multi-National Forces-Iraq Headquarters,
Baghdad. Professor Hoffman was also an adviser to the Iraq Study Group.
Bruce Riedel
Bruce
Riedel is a Senior Fellow in the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at
the Brookings Institution. He retired in 2006 after 30 years of service
at the Central Intelligence Agency including postings overseas. Riedel
was a senior advisor on South Asia and the Middle East to four
Presidents of the United States in the staff of the National Security
Council at the White House. He was a negotiator at several Arab-Israeli
peace summits, including at Camp David and Wye River. He was also Deputy
Assistant Secretary of Defense for the Near East and South Asia at the
Pentagon and a senior advisor at NATO in Brussels. In January 2009,
President Barack Obama asked Mr. Riedel to chair a review of American
policy toward Afghanistan and Pakistan, the results of which the
President announced in a speech on March 27, 2009. In 2011, he served as
an expert advisor to the prosecution of al-Qaeda terrorist Omar Farooq
Abdulmutallab in Detroit. In December 2011, Prime Minister David Cameron
asked him to brief the United Kingdom’s National Security Council in
London on Pakistan.
Mr. Riedel is the author of The Search for al Qaeda: Its Leadership, Ideology and Future and Deadly Embrace: Pakistan, America and the Future of the Global Jihad. He is a contributor to Which Path to Persia: Options for a New American Strategy Toward Iran, The Arab Awakening and Becoming Enemies: U.S.-Iran Relations and the Iran-Iraq War, 1979–1988.
He teaches at the Johns Hopkins University School for Advanced
International Studies. He is a graduate of Brown (B.A.), Harvard (M.A.)
and the Royal College of Defense Studies in London.
Michael W. S. Ryan
Dr.
Michael W.S. Ryan is a Senior Fellow at The Jamestown Foundation and an
adjunct scholar at the Middle East Institute. He is the author of the
book, Decoding al-Qaeda’s Strategy: The Deep Battle Against America,
published by Columbia University Press. The book examines al-Qaeda’s
political military strategy based upon Arabic-language sources. Dr. Ryan
is also president of a firm based in Arlington, Virginia, specializing
in research and analysis on Middle Eastern security issues.
Dr.
Ryan served as Senior Vice President at The Middle East Institute in
Washington, D.C. (2008–2009). The White House appointed him as Vice
President in The Millennium Challenge Corporation (2006–2008).
Previously, Dr. Ryan held senior positions in the Departments of State,
Defense and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency after joining the
U.S. federal government in 1979 as a Middle East/North Africa analyst
for the Department of Defense.
In
1981, Dr. Ryan earned a Ph.D. from the Department of Near Eastern
Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University. During his graduate
study, he spent three years in Egypt under Fulbright, Smithsonian and
Center for Arabic Study Abroad fellowships. He was also a fellow at The
American Research Center in Egypt during this period. He received his
undergraduate degree from St. John’s College in Annapolis, Maryland.
Murad Batal al-Shishani
Murad
Batal al-Shishani is a correspondent for the BBC and an in-house expert
on militant groups. For the past decade, he has been a frequent
contributor to the Jamestown Foundation publication Terorrism Monitor.
An analyst based in London, he is a well known expert on Islamic groups
and terrorism issues. Mr. al-Shishani is a specialist on Islamic
movements in Chechnya and Islamic militant movements in the Middle East.
He has written for several prestigious publications, including Jamestown Foundation’s Terrorism Monitor, BBC News Online, Le Monde Diplomatique, OpenDemocracy and many others. He has contributed to academic books and he is author of three books; Al-Qaeda: Geopolitical, Strategic Outlook and Social Composition (ECSSR-Abu Dhabi, 2012), The Islamic Movement in Chechnya and the Chechen-Russian Conflict 1990–2000 (Amman, 2001), and Iraqi Resistance: National Liberation vs. Terrorism: A Quantitative Study (Iraqi Studies Series, Issue 5, Gulf Research Center–Dubai, November 2005).
Wladimir van Wilgenburg
Wladimir
van Wilgenburg is a political analyst based in the Kurdistan Region of
Iraq who specializes in Kurdish politics. He has written extensively for
The Jamestown Foundation’s publications and other journals such as the Near East Quarterly and the World Affairs Journal.
In addition to Jamestown, he currently writes for al-Monitor and was
the co-author of the Henri Jackson Society report “Unity or PYD Power
Play? Syrian Kurdish Dynamics after the Erbil Agreement.” Mr. van
Wilgenburg provides commentary and advice to a variety of media outlets,
NGOs and think tanks. In 2011, Mr. Van Wilgenburg received an M.A. from
the University of Utrecht’s Conflict Studies program, writing his
thesis on Kirkuk’s Arab political spectrum, based on first-hand research
in Iraq. He will graduate from the University of Exeter’s Kurdish
Studies MPhil program in January.
Jacob Zenn
Jacob
Zenn is an expert on Boko Haram and a consultant on countering violent
extremism for U.S think-tanks and international organizations in Nigeria
and Central Asia. He is the author of “Northern Nigeria's Boko Haram:
The Prize in al-Qaeda’s Africa Strategy,” published by The Jamestown
Foundation in 2012 and based on his fieldwork in Boko Haram’s main area
of operations in northern Nigeria, northern Cameroon, Chad and southern
Niger. Mr. Zenn also writes reports on Nigerian security for The
Jamestown Foundation Terrorism Monitor and West Point Combating Terrorism Center.
In
February and November 2013, Mr. Zenn provided testimony on Islamist
Militant Threats to Central Asia and the Threat of Boko Haram and Ansaru
in Nigeria to the U.S. Congress. Mr. Zenn speaks Arabic, Swahili,
Chinese, French and Spanish in addition to his native English. He holds a
J.D. from Georgetown Law, where he earned the commendation of Global
Law Scholar.
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