Jihadi Terrorism – Where Do We Stand ?

Second IRRI Conference on International terrorism

February 13, 2006

Read the presentations:

08.30 – 09.00               Registration

09.00 – 09.10                Introduction by Professor Rik Coolsaet, Royal Institute for International Relations (IRRI-KIIB)

09.10 – 09.30               Opening Session

Keynote speaker: Mr. Gijs De Vries, Counter-Terrorism Co-ordinator for the Council of the European Union

09.30 – 11.00                Jihadi Terrorism – The State of the Threat

                                   Chair: Mr. Jim Cloos, Council of the European Union

Keynote speaker: Mr. Paul R. Pillar, Georgetown University

-        Panel:

o        Twenty Years of Radical Islamist Groups’ Presence in Belgium : History of a Globalization

Mr. Alain Grignard, Belgian Federal Police/ ULB

o        Jihadi Movements in North Africa: the Dynamics of Radicalisation, De-radicalisation and Redeployment

Mr. Hugh Roberts, International Crisis Group

Discussion

11.00 – 11.30               Coffee Break

11.30 – 13.00                Old and New Terrorism – Lessons Learned

                                   Chair: Ms. Michèle Coninsx, EUROJUST

Keynote speaker: Prof. Martha Crenshaw, Wesleyan University

-        Panel:

o        Fighting ‘Revolutionary Terror’ in Western Europe and

Safeguarding the Rule of Law

H.E. Mr. Gerhart Baum, Former German Interior Minister

o        Lessons Learned from Fighting  Nationalist Terror in Western Europe

Mr. Peter Clarke, UK National Coordinator for Terrorist Investigations

Discussion

13.00 – 14.30               Lunch

14.30 – 16.30                Radicalisation Process - Underlying Factor in Europe

Chair: Mr. Jozef De Witte, Centre for Equal Opportunities and Opposition to Racism

Keynote speaker: Prof. Olivier Roy, FNRS

-        Panel:

o        Countering Radicalisation and Recruitment : EU Perspective

Mr. Gilles de Kerchove, Council of the European Union

o        Countering Radicalisation and Recruitment : Belgian Perspective

                                                        Luc Verheyden, Head of the Counterterrorism Joint Unit ( AGG /
                                                        GIA - future OCAD / OCAM )