CASIS 2004 International Conference

October 14-16, 2004, Ottawa, Ontario

Draft Programme (As of August 2004)

PEACE, ORDER AND PUBLIC SAFETY POST 9/11:

ARE WE GETTING IT RIGHT?

Reserve a room at the Crown Plaza Hotel���������������������������������������� ��������������������Conference Registration Form

 

THURSDAY, October 14

 

10:00 am������ Conference Registration (available until 5:00 pm) �������

 

1:15 pm������� Opening and President�s Report

Tony Campbell

 

1:45 pm������� KEYNOTE SPEAKER

THE NEW SECURITY ENVIRONMENT IN CANADA:

ARE WE GETTING IT RIGHT?

Robert Wright

National Security Advisor to the Prime Minister and

Associate Secretary to the Cabinet (TBC)

 

 

 

2:30 pm������ PANEL 1: Canada and Domestic Security Policy: Are We Getting It Right?�����

The National Security Policy - Democratic oversight (security, intelligence and ����� law enforcement) - Role of Auditor General - Bill C-36 and comparative anti-terrorism legislation and civil liberties - Lessons learned

����������������������� Chair: Bill Elliott � Privy Council Office

����������������������� ����������� Jacques Shore � Gowlings (Gowling, Lafleur Henderson LLP)

����������������������������������� Wesley Wark � University of Toronto

 

4:00 pm�������� Break

 

Concurrent Panels

4:30 pm������ PANEL 2: Canada and Major Domestic Security Issues: Are We

Getting Them Right?

Cross-border security - Transport security (maritime, land and air) - Intelligence collection in a pluralistic society

Chair: Paul Kennedy � Department of Public Safety and Emergency

Preparedness

Claudette Desch�nes � Canada Border Services Agency

Lieutenant General Steve Lucas � Special Advisor to the CDS

for Defence Review and Homeland Security Issues

Joel Sokolsky � Royal Military College of Canada

Reg Whitaker � University of Victoria

 

 

4:30 pm������ PANEL 3: War as Spectacle: The Semiotics of 9/11, the Invasion

of Iraq and Abu Ghraib.

Chair: Phil Gibson � Beaumont House Consulting

Presenter: Paul Rutherford � University of Toronto

Commentators: Joanne John � Communications Security �����

���� Establishment

TBC���


 

6:00 pm�������� Close of Session

 

6:15 pm������� PRESIDENT�S RECEPTION

Hosted by Jane�s Information Group

 

 

THE MARCEL CADIEUX � C.H. LITTLE HERITAGE AWARD

Introduction: Tony Campbell

Special Guest: Major General W.E. Robert Little (Retired)

Presenter: Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness (Invited)

First recipient: TBA

 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


7:15 pm������� CASIS GALA DINNER���������������������������������������������������

THE CASIS 2004 DISTINGUISHED LECTURE

LESSONS FROM 9/11 AND IRAQ

Thomas Powers

Author and Commentator

Pulitzer Prize Winner for National Reporting

Introduced and thanked by Wesley Wark

 

 

 

 

FRIDAY, October 15

 

8:30 am�������� Conference Registration (continues until 5:00 pm)�������

8:30 am������� PANEL 4: Canada and International Security Post 9/11: Are We

Getting It Right?

Afghanistan - Iraq - The War on Terrorism

����������� ����������� Chair: George Kolisnek - Dept of National Defence

David Charters � University of New Brunswick

Major General Andrew Leslie � Former Deputy Command

International Security Force Kabul

����������������������������������� Ambassador David Wright � University of Toronto

9:45 am��������� Break�������������������������������������������������������������������������

 

10:15 am����� PANEL 5: US Leadership in the Global War on Terrorism: Are

They Getting It Right?

����������������������� Chair: TBC

Richard Betts � Columbia University

����������� ����������� ����������� Tim Naftali � University of Virginia

John Prados � University of Pittsburgh

 

11:30 am������� Break

 

11:40 am����� PANEL 6: A Debate and Vote: Should Canada Have A Foreign

Human Intelligence Collection Service?

12:30 pm���� Buffet Lunch�������������������� ����������� ����������������������������������� �����������

THE JOHN TAIT MEMORIAL LECTURE

Keith Coulter

Chief

Communications Security Establishment

 

 

Concurrent Panels on Major Analytical Issues

2:15 pm������� PANEL 7: Proliferation Challenges Post 9/11: Are We Getting

Them Right?

����������������������� Chair: Louise Doyon � CSIS��

Michael Byers � University of British Columbia

Ron Purver � Canadian Security Intelligence Service

TBC

 

2:15 pm ������ PANEL 8: Practical Problems of Analysis Post 9/11 - Part 1:

International Perspectives

Chair: Greg Fyffe � Privy Council Office

David Chuter � United Kingdom

Markus Ederer � Germany

TBC

 

3:15 pm��������� Break ������������������������������������������������������������������������

 

3:45 pm������ PANEL 9: The War of Persuasion: The National and

International Media Response Post 9/11: Are They Getting It Right?

Chair: Stuart Bell � The National Post

David Ignatius � Washington Post

Paul Rutherford � University of Toronto

����������������������������������� TBC

 

 

 

 

5:15 pm������� Emerging Scholars Roundtable������������������������������������������� �����������������������

The two winning Weller Prize papers will be presented and discussed as an introduction to new research and scholarship in security, intelligence, law enforcement and public safety issues.

����������� ����������� Chair: Sarah-Jane Corke � Dalhousie University

����������� ����������� ����������� Craig Forcese � University of Ottawa

Arne Kislenko � Ryerson University���������������������������

6:15 pm��������� Close of Session

 

8:00 pm������ CASIS PUBLIC LECTURE

This special event is open to the public but with priority going to

Conference participants who sign up at the Conference Registration Desk by 6:00 pm on Thursday 15 Oct 04

Public Admission $10��������������� Conference Participants $5

THE IMPORTANCE OF SPY FICTION

David Ignatius

Author and journalist

Washington Post

 

 

 

 

SATURDAY, October 16

 

Concurrent Panels

9:00 am������� PANEL 10: Practical Problems of Analysis Post 9/11 - Part II:

Practitioners� Perspectives.

����������������������� Chair: Robert Fahlman - Criminal Intelligence Directorate - RCMP

Richard Evans � Janes Information Group

Stuart Farson � Simon Fraser University

TBC

 

9:00 am ������ PANEL 11: Failed States and the Progress of Democracy in the

Western Hemisphere

Chair: G�rard Hervouet Universit� Laval

����������� Margaret Purdy � University of British Columbia

����������� Cristina Rojas � Carleton University

����������� TBC���

10:15 am������� Break

 

10:30 am���� KEYNOTE SPEAKER

LUXURY, ANONYMITY AND PRIVACY: THE LOOMING

'CRISIS' OF INTELLIGENCE IN THE 21ST CENTURY

Professor Richard Aldrich

Nottingham University

Introduced by Martin Rudner � Carleton University

 

 
 


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11:20 am������� Break

 

11:35 am����� Panel 12: The Intelligence-Policy Interface: Have We Got It

Right?

Chair: TBC

Philip Davies � Brunel Centre for Intelligence And Security

Studies

Michael Herman � Oxford University

����������� Dan Livermore � Foreign Affairs Canada

 

12:50 pm���� Wrap-Up Panel: Summary and Conclusions.����������������

����������������������� Chair: Tony Campbell

����������������������������������� Martin Rudner

TBC

TBC

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1:30 pm������� Close of Conference - Light Lunch for those attending AGM���������������������������

 

1:45 pm������� CASIS ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING�������������������������������

����������� ����������� All members are welcome. See AGM info on the CASIS website.

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