As the first step in rebelling against a broken system and a dysfunctional Congress, the NHRebellion invites you to continue Granny D and Aaron’s work by walking down through New Hampshire. On January 11, 2014—15 years after Granny D began her walk, and beginning on the day Aaron died—we will walk the state from the top to the bottom, recruiting as many citizens in New Hampshire to this cause as we can. Our walk will end on January 24th, the day Granny D was born. We hope you will dedicate yourself to joining this monumental cause, as New Hampshire’s citizens light the first flames of sweeping, nation-wide reform.
This walk is just one project in a series of projects that the New Hampshire Rebellion will be taking on in the lead up to the 2016 New Hampshire primary with the focus on just one question…
Intelligence services and their activities present unique challenges for democracies all over the world: on the one hand, these services serve a key role in national security and foreign policy and provide decision-makers with crucial information and assessments, while on the other hand, clandestine intelligence means and methods as well as the wide investigative…
The 20th Annual Conference of the IIHA will take place in Tutzing, Germany, in cooperation the the “Akademie für Politische Bildung”. Please reserve the date in your calender! We are expecting a very lively and interesting conference and hope to see you there. More details will be posted here soon.
Intelligence Studies Section Panels at ISA 2014
26-29 March 2014 in Toronto, Canada
See below for the program of the Intelligence Studies Section (ISS) at the annual International Studies Association (ISA) conference taking place 26-29 March 2014 in Toronto, Canada. ISS is one of 27 subject matter sections that make up the ISA. ISS has approximately 350 members, and has been sponsoring research about intelligence as a function of government since the mid-1980s. Additional information can be found here. This ISS content (4 straight days…19 panels) is one small part of ISA’s much larger conference. The full conference program is 264 pages; find details at the full conference website here.
As the chair of the Intelligence Studies Section, if you have any questions please contact me at marrinsp@jmu.edu or spm8p@yahoo.com
Regards, Dr. Stephen Marrin
ISAT/Intelligence Analysis James Madison University
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The One Earth Future Foundation will host a panel discussion on how individuals and institutions can better structure collaborative work, to be held Tuesday, December 10 at 1777 F Street, NW, Washington DC from 9:00 AM to 12:00 noon.
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Today, the world’s most pressing problems require governance solutions that demand the input and action of multiple diverse actors because no one organization has all of the requisite knowledge, power, relationships, or resources to address complex issues that affect many stakeholders.
A conscious focus on how individuals and institutions can facilitate collaborative work is necessary to enhance improved relationships and effective problem-solving. Multi-stakeholder collaboration brings together the concerns of diverse actors including business, government, and civil society in order to form a collaborative network for action.
In concert with OEF, Fred Krawchuk, a highly decorated retired U.S. Army Special Forces Colonel, will lead a discussion on a practical framework for multi-stakeholder collaboration by exploring its five essential elements: Purpose, People, Place, Process, and Practice.
About Fred Krawchuk
OEF partnered with Fred Krawchuk to document and promote the 5P model of multi-stakeholder collaboration and his experiences using the techniques in intractable situations across the globe. Krawchuk is an Olmsted scholar, MacArthur Leadership Award winner, and recipient of the George C. Marshall Fellowship at the U.S. Department of State. Currently he is a visiting professor with IESE Business School in Spain, an adjunct policy analyst with RAND Corporation, and business consultant with Aperio International.
The mission of the Institute for Generative Leadership is to enable the development of leaders that will create a healthy future and a world in which everyone thrives, and where together people take care of what they care about. Generative leadership is based on the deepest and best elements of our humanity, including our capacities for committed action and care, and to create and realize meaningful possibilities. Generative leadership goes beyond conceptual learning to produce embodied skills that shift the actions and outcomes of organizations and communities.
The Event
1777 F Street, NW
Washington DC 20006
Doors open at 8:30 AM for coffee and light snacks. Discussion begins at 9 AM and will conclude at approximately noon. Seating is limited. Reservations with your name, title, and organization are appreciated but not required. If you have any questions, please contact Tracie Ware at One Earth Future Foundation by phone, 720.274. 8227, or by email.
Intelligence-Sec’s annual Cyber Intelligence Asia conference & exhibition will be taking place in Singapore on the 11-14 March 2014. This international event brings together the senior cyber security experts from the public and private sector to one place to discuss the latest cybercrimes and emerging cyber threats in the region. With an international audience of around 150 professionals of which 60% attending from the public sector this is a great place to network and learn the challenges individual government/law enforcement agency face in securing their critical infrastructure.
This month the Singapore Prime Minister’s Office was breached and it has made the government step up their requirements to secure their infrastructure in the country.
Cyber Intelligence Asia is officially endorsed by the Singapore Infocomm Technology Federation (SiTF) as they recognise the importance of our international event as a platform to share knowledge and information in the region to allow for a greater understanding of how to secure the ever growing computer networks in the Asia-Pacific.
Don’t miss out on hearing presentations from the following and many more:
“Mr. Schwartau, why would the bad guys ever want to use the internet…?”(Congressman Glickman during Congressional Testimony, June 1991)
It was obvious. To some of us. Now, it is almost impossible to quantify how far behind we really are.
Winn Schwartau
Information Warfare (some relegated the term as politically incorrect) or CyberWar or any other term – semantics should be left aside – we know what we’re talking about.
Class I: Personal Privacy and Identity
Class II: Industrial and Competitive Espionage, APTs, and Organized Crime
Class III: Nation-State, NGO and Terrorist Conflict, Critical Infrastructures
InfowarCon goes even further though: Beyond Information Warfare. (The title of Winn’s new book, TBR 2014!)
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Weaponization of the Internet of Things, autonomous smart vehicles, budget EMP/HPM/HERF, exoskeleton and robotics, hostile biomedical applications, mind disruption and manipulations… and we need to get ahead of the curve. Like, NOW!
Information Security and Assurance defends against the past. But the world must anticipate and plan for future technologies and their weaponization – before they are developed and deployed by others.
This is InfowarCon. Please peruse the site and REGISTER EARLY as attendance will be strictly limited.
Finally, a heartfelt memory to the wonderful GFirst Conference. We will miss you… and we’re hoping to fill a little of that void.
Phi Beta Iota: Cyber-war is only a threat because of the pervasive corruption among governments and corporations. The first (governments) are lazy and selfish and delusional about the value of mass cyuber-surveillance. For this reason they refuse to protect the public interest and make cyber safe. Corporations are unethical and often thoughtless. In the case of Facebook, Google, and Microsoft, among others, they simply sell their customers out and cut deals with unethical governments pursuing unconstitutional paths. In the case of all others, they are simply oblivios. Being safe is cyberspace is as important as safe driving, safe sex, safe eating, etcetera. It has been allowed to be a wild frontier for the wrong reason, to the greatest detriment of the public, of society, of the global economy, and so on.
