CANADIAN ASSOCIATION FOR SECURITY AND INTELLIGENCE STUDIES

ASSOCIATION CANADIENNE POUR L��TUDE DU RENSEIGNEMENT ET DE LA S�CURIT� (revised July 7/03)

 

CASIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2003

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA

 

SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY HARBOUR CENTRE

515 WEST HASTINGS STREET, VANCOUVER, BC

OCTOBER 16 - 18, 2003

 

 

HOMELAND INSECURITIES:

The Shifting Borders of Security, Intelligence

And Law Enforcement

 

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The Conference will run from 1:00 pm on Thursday, October 16th to 5:30 pm on Saturday, October 18th, 2003.

 

Conference Fees:

General����������������������������������������������� $200CDN

University and College Faculty        ����� $140CDN

Retired (not working)�����                      $140CDN

Students (full time)������������������������������� $100CDN (subsidy may be available)

The fee includes CASIS membership for 2003-2004, one dinner and one lunch.

 

Registration:

You may register online with VISA or by downloading the registration form and mailing with a cheque to CASIS Secretariat, PO Box 69006, Place de Ville, Ottawa, Ontario K1R 1A7. A receipt for tax purposes will be provided at the conference when you check in.

Places at CASIS 2003 will be limited. Participants will be accommodated on a first come, first served basis.

 

Accommodation:

Rooms have been block booked at a discount under CASIS at the Crowne Plaza Hotel Georgia, 801 West Georgia Street, Vancouver, about a 7 minute walk to the conference site. If you wish to reserve a room, please telephone either the central Crowne Plaza booking service at 1-800-2CROWNE, or the hotel itself (604-642-5554). These rooms will be held until September 15 only and are available on a first come first served basis.

 

CASIS Annual General Meeting:

The meeting will be held at 12:45 pm on Saturday, October 18th. Sandwiches will be available for those who attend. Membership benefits include a 20% discount on Frank Cass & Co publications which include such journals as: Intelligence and National Security and Terrorism and Political Violence as well as books in the series Studies in Intelligence.


CASIS 2003 Program

 

Thursday, October 16

 

1:30���� Conference Opening

����������� Welcome:������ Tony Campbell � President of CASIS

����������������������������������� Michael Stevenson � President of Simon Fraser University (TBC)

 

2:00���� Keynote Guest Speaker (TBC)

 

2:30���� Panel 1������������ Homeland Security/Insecurity: Canadian and American Responses ������� ����������������������������������� to 9/11

 

3:30���� Break

 

3:45���� Panel 2������������ Terrorism

 

5:00���� Panel 3������������ Urban Security and Resiliency

 

6:30���� No Host Reception - Crown Plaza Georgia Hotel

����������������������������������� Weller Prize Awards

 

8:30���� Meeting of CASIS Executive - Georgia Hotel Boardroom

 


����������������������������������������������������������� Friday, October 17

 

8:30���� Panel 4������������ Roundtable � Asian Security Outlook

 

9:45���� Break

 

10:00�� Concurrent Panels

����������� Panel 5������������ International Intelligence Cooperation

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����������� Panel 6������������ North Asia Political and Economic Trends

 

11:25�� Concurrent Panels

����������� Panel 7 ����������� Organized Crime � Challenges of Shifting Boundaries

 

����������� Panel 8 ����������� South and Southeast Asian Trends and Prospects

 

12:45�� Informal Buffet Lunch - Conference Hall

 

1:45���������������������������� Keynote Speaker: The Solicitor General of Canada � The Hon. Wayne ������������������������� Easter, P.C., M.P. (TBC)

 

2:15���� Panel 9������������ Iraq Lessons: Intelligence and Information Warfare

 

3:30���� Break

 

3:45���� Concurrent Panels

����������� Panel 10���������� Policing and Security in B.C.: Ports, Boundaries and Other Priorities

 

����������� Panel 11���������� Signals Intelligence History

 

5:00���� Panel 12���������� Student Panel

 

6:15���� Close

 

6:30 for 7:15��������������� Reception and Gala Dinner - Hotel Crown Plaza Georgia

 

����������������������������������� The John Tait Memorial Lecture: Mr. Ward Elcock (TBC), Director

����������������������������������� Canadian Security Intelligence Service


Saturday, October 18

 

9:00���� Panel 13���������� New Dimensions in Critical Infrastructure Protection

 

10:15�� Break

 

10:30�� Concurrent Panels

����������� Panel 14���������� Leadership in Intelligence Organizations

 

����������� Panel 15���������� Innovation in Security, Intelligence and Law Enforcement �

����������������������������������� Case Studies and Best Practices Chair: TBC

 

11:45�� Keynote Speaker � The Post Iraq Security Outlook (TBC)

 

12:30�� Lunch Break

 

12:45�� CASIS Annual General Meeting

 

2:30���� Panel 16 ��������� Teaching and Learning: Security, Intelligence and Policing Studies

 

3:45���� Break

 

4:00���� Panel 17���������� International Trends and Challenges

 

4:45���� Panel 18���������� Lessons Learned: Conference Wrap-Up

 

5:30���� Conclusion

 

 

 

If you have any questions about the conference on registration please contact [email protected]