Webinar | Center For Homeland Defense And Security
Heightened Global Conflict:
Implications For US Preparedness And Homeland Security
Foreign conflicts can significantly influence U.S. homeland security by heightening the threat of violent extremism, cyberattacks, and state-sponsored terrorism, as adversaries may target the U.S. in retaliation or to exploit perceived vulnerabilities. Such conflicts can also shift national priorities, focusing policy attention and finite resources on external threats.
Please consider attending this webinar with national security experts discussing how conflicts abroad can impact U.S. capabilities and readiness here at home and the Nation's ability to respond to domestic threats and emergencies.
Date/Time: 10/17/2024, 2pm - 3pm ET
Participants are encouraged to submit questions in advance on the webinar registration page or by emailing them tochds-eep@nps.edu.
Enhancing Bystander Reporting To Prevent Terrorism
In coordination with the FBI and DHS, JCAT collaborates with other members of the Intelligence Community to research, produce, and disseminate counterterrorism intelligence products for federal, and state, local, tribal, and territorial government agencies and the private sector (SLTTP) and advocate for the counterterrorism intelligence requirements and needs of these partners.
The First Responder's Toolbox is an ad hoc, unclassified reference aid intended to promote counterterrorism coordination among federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial government authorities and partnerships with private sector officials in deterring, preventing, disrupting, and responding to terrorist attacks.
In order to prevent terrorism, it is essential that "bystanders," persons who are privy to information regarding terrorism planning and/or concerning behaviors report these activities to appropriate authorities. The attached resource provides best practices for law enforcement to encourage bystander reporting and discusses common barriers to reporting.
Civilian Militias In Mali, Niger, And Mozambique: Eliminating Or Exacerbating Violent Extremism
Civilian militias are seemingly cost-effective, quick to assemble, and drastically increase the number of actors responsible for countering violent extremists. Civilian militias also possess the unique advantage of promoting and gaining local ties as they not only have on-the-ground knowledge of communities, but are affected first-hand by the conflict. However, although civilian defense groups have shown they are capable of repelling violent extremists, researchers have discovered these militias, without adequate supervision and management, will likely become predatory and more harmful the longer they are in operation.
The Soufan Center is an independent non-profit organization offering research, analysis, and strategic dialogue on foreign policy challenges with a particular focus on global security, conflict prevention and resolution, and the rule of law. Their work is underpinned by an emphasis on prevention, mitigation, and a recognition that human rights and human security perspectives are critical to credible, effective, and sustainable solutions.
The attached resource provides an overview of the events in the Middle East since the Hamas attack of Israel on 10/7/2023.
The opinions or conclusions of the authors reflected in the open source articles and resources is not endorsed and/or does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the Virginia Fusion Center. The sources have been selected to provide you with event information to highlight available resources designed to improve public safety and reduce the probability of becoming a victim of a crime.
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