Systems Approach to TerrorismThis meeting is
held as part of the Conference Series with the Homeland Security Coalition of
NDIA.
Articles reporting on the AFEI/UPenn/GWU
Systems Approach to Terrorism Conference held last week at GWU have
been published on several websites. For the GWU article please go
to the following link:
George
Washington University School of Business and Public Management
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| Date: July 15-16, 2002 George Washington
University
Cloyd Heck Marvin Center
800 21st Street, NW
Washington,
DC 20052
Phone: 202-994-9222
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Overview:Much has happened since September 11th to reassess
societal and enterprise level vulnerabilities and responses to terrorism. These
efforts have been fragmented and lack the comprehensiveness of a systems solution.
The systems approach to terrorism involves looking at it through different lenses,
in its proper global context, and deriving effective activities for governments
and international enterprises and agencies. Many current counter-terrorism efforts
are reactive in nature, and quite properly so given the events of last year. However,
these can have a tendency to exacerbate the situation, to be incomplete and to
leave gaps at boundaries and intersections of our governmental, supra-governmental,
business and societal systems. The organizers of this conference suggest that
a systems orientation should be applied to designing and developing new attitudes
and "out-of-the-box" approaches to effectively counter terrorist activities
globally.
| Why
Attend? The conference will provide an opportunity for leading thinkers
and practitioners from Government, industry and academia to examine how the nation
can construct an effective posture for countering terrorism for the long-as well
as short-term, based on systems thinking models. It proceeds through four phases:
- examining the complex set of interacting causes of terrorism;
- assessing
vulnerabilities from terrorists' points of view;
- responding to then innovatively;
and
- synthesizing recommendations for action.
The conference
is designed to encourage discussion and debate directed at developing new ideas
and recommendations for those who must design security policies, strategies, and
institutions, for the public. | |
Sponsored by AFEI and various Research Centers of the University
of Pennsylvania and The George Washington University:Consortium
of University of Pennsylvania Centers
 | The
George Washington University School of Business and
Public Management Research Program in Social and Organizational Learning
and
the Columbian School of Arts and Sciences Organizational Sciences Program |  |
Conference Organizing Committee- Mehmet Can Atacik, Assistant
to the Director, Fels Center of Government, School of Arts and Sciences, University
of Pennsylvania.
- Dave Chesebrough, President, AFEI
- Paul Kleindorfer,
Anheuser Busch Professor of Management Science and Co -Director, Risk Management
and Decision Process Center, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
- Kent
Myers, Senior Management Consultant, SAIC.
- Ulku Oktem, Senior Fellow,
Risk Management and Decision Process Center, The Wharton School , University of
Pennsylvania.
- John Pourdehnad, Associate Director, Ackoff Center for Advancement
of System Approaches, University of Pennsylvania
- Lawrence Sherman, Director,
Fels Center of Government, School of Arts and Sciences; Director, Jerry Lee Center
of Criminology, University of Pennsylvania.
- Stuart Umpleby, Director:
Research Program in Social and Organizational Learning, The George Washington
University.
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Presentations
Day One - Morning
July 15, 2002Welcome
- Susan Phillips, Dean, School of Business and Public Management, George Washington
University Introduction
and Setting the Stage - Paul Kleindorfer,
Anheuser-Busch Professor of Management Science and Co-Director, Risk Management
and Decision Processes Center, The Wharton School Terrorism:
A Systems Perspective - Russell L. Ackoff,
Emeritus Anheuser-Busch Professor of The Wharton School Geo-Political
Perspectives on Terrorism - Brian M. Jenkins, Senior Advisor to the President,
RAND Economic and Policy
Perspectives on Terrorism - Robert
E. Litan, Vice President and Director, The Brookings Institution I.
Systemic Foundations of Terrorism
Facilitated by Stuart Umpleby, Director,
Research Program in Social and Organizational Learning, The George Washington
University Speaker: William
E. Halal, Professor of Management, The George Washington University II.
The Economics of Interdependent Security
Facilitated by Geoffrey Heal,
Professor of Economics, Columbia University Speaker:
Nariman Behravesh, Chief Economist, DRI-WEFA III. Homeland Security:
A Geo-Political Perspective
Facilitated by Paula Gordon, Senior Fellow,
Research Program in Social and Organizational Learning, The George Washington
University Speaker: David H. McIntyre,
Deputy Director, ANSER Institute for Homeland Security |
Day One - Afternoon
July 15, 2002Introduction
- Jerry Wind, The Lauder Professor of Marketing; Director, SEI Center for
Advanced Studies in Management, The Wharton School Vulnerabilities
to Cyber-Terrorism - Colin Crook,
Former Vice-Chair and CTO, CitiGroup Vulnerabilities
to Biological Terrorism - Robert Moore,
Executive Director, Global Security Group, Merck & Co., Inc. Detecting
and Deterring Terrorism - Arthur E.
Johnson, Senior Vice President, Corporate Strategic Development, Lockheed
Martin Corporation I. Cyber-Terrorism and the Financial Sector
Facilitated
by Rick Lieb, President, SEI Corporation Speaker: William Doran, Partner,
Morgan Lewis and Bockius, LLP, with Colin Crook II. Bio-terrorism Vulnerabilities
and Consequences
Facilitated by Arthur Lerner-Lam, Senior Research Scientist,
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University Speaker: Michael Allswede,
D.O., Clinical Center, University of Pittsburgh III. Technological Innovations
in Detection
Facilitated by Don Wilson, Vice President, Consulting, Wilson,
Hewitt, & Associates
Speaker: Elizabeth D'Andrea, Program Executive, DoD Counter
Drug Technology Development Office
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Day Two - Morning
July 16, 2002Introduction
and Stage Setting: Economic Incentives for Improving Site Security
- Howard Kunreuther, Cecilia Yen Koo Professor of Business and Public Policy,
Co-Director, Risk Management and Decision Processes Center, The Wharton School Session
Keynote - MG Bruce Lawlor, USA, Senior Director of Protection and Prevention,
Office of Homeland Security Panel
Discussion on Economic Incentives Tom Dunne, Associate
Assistant Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency Ken
Stroech, Director of Weapons of Mass Destruction, Office of Homeland Security Marc
Halpern, Excel/ECS, Inc. I. Governmental Response: Historical Antecedents
and Lessons for the Future
Facilitated by Elizabeth Davis, Organizational
Sciences Program, The George Washington University Speaker: Alan Schwartz,
PolicyFutures, LLC, Former Counsel to the President's Commission on Aviation Security
and Terrorism II. Modeling Terrorist Organizations and Events for Training
and Analysis Purposes
Facilitated by Kent C. Myers, Senior Management Consultant,
SAIC Speaker: Barry Silverman, Director, Ackoff Center for the Advancement
of Systems Approaches III. Emergency Response and Crisis Management
Facilitated
by William Smith, Organizational Sciences Program, The George Washington University Speaker:
Rosita O. Parkes, Deputy CIO, FEMA |
Day Two - Afternoon
July 16, 2002Introduction
- Paul Kleindorfer, Co-Director, Risk Management and Decision Processes Center,
The Wharton School A
New Normalcy for Transportation - Mary
F. Schiavo, Partner, Baum, Hedlund, Aristei, Guilford & Schiavo; former
Inspector General for the Department of Transportation Security
and Openness - Our Freedom in Balance - Thomas C. Schelling, Professor, School
of Public Policy, University of Maryland; Distinguished Fellow and Past President,
American Economic Association |
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Contact
For
general information, please contact
Nicole Peterson at (703) 247-9474 or [email protected].
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