Global Security Forum
The Global Security Forum is the intellectual focal point of the Center on Law and Security, deeply rooted in the Center's mission of information sharing, collaborative analysis, and thought provoking debate.
Each spring, the Center on Law and Security convenes the foremost international and domestic practitioners, policymakers, scholars, journalists, judges, attorneys, and government officials for a multi-day, off-the-record, private conference on global security issues.
Excerpts of past conferences
2010
Focus on New York, the US, and the legal, political, and philosophical challenges the US faces with the intersection of homegrown and international terrorism.
2009
Focus on the role diplomacy plays in counterterrorism efforts in South Asia and the Gulf. Discussions of deradicalization and counterinsurgency as tools to complement military and law enforcement efforts to stem the rise of transnational terrorism.
2008
Focus on how international counterterrorism cooperation can be strengthened, how to deal with questions raised by preventive detention measures, the effects of the Iraq war, and how a new American administration might address the most pressing global security challenges.
2007
Focus on, in addition to specific law enforcement anti-terror techniques, how so-called ‘soft power’ methods of public policy and diplomacy can strengthen global security.