Comprehensive Security Responses to Terrorism Course

Description: 

This course provides CT security practitioners in the Asia-Pacific region, as well as other designated countries around the world, the operational and strategic-level skills necessary to enhance their ability to understand and combat terrorism and transnational threats.  Through faculty lectures, guest speaker presentations, real-world case studies, seminar discussions and tailored CT exercise scenarios, CSRT fellows explore the nature of today’s terrorist threats, better appreciate the challenges associated with countering ideological support for terrorism, achieve a more common understanding of global and regional terrorism challenges, analyze tools and capabilities for combating terrorism and transnational threat in order to promote appropriate strategies.  The CSRT course is designed to build relationships between and among the United States and current and future counterterrorism practitioners of participating countries in order to develop trust, confidence and specific methods necessary for increased information sharing, reduction of obstacles to cooperation in the international collaborative effort against those who use terror to achieve goals.  The curriculum focuses on the non-warfighting aspects of security and is divided as follows:  assessing the challenge; formulating responses to the challenge; identifying trends and challenges; strategy application and measures of effectiveness.

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