Senior Executive Course:  Transnational Security Cooperation (SEC)

Description: 

An intensive program for current leaders on the upward track for positions of significant national (and possibly international) responsibility. Designed for senior security practitioners from the Asia-Pacific region now serving in positions that require experience and rank at the one- to four-star military and civilian-equivalent level (intent is to replicate a forum consisting of practitioners who influence security cooperation). Curriculum emphasizes the impact of change in the region, as well as capacities - - leader and institutional - - to manage change. The course integrates a challenging program of guest speakers, along with interactive seminar workshop dialogues and action-planning.For additional information about the Senior Executive Course:  Transnational Security Cooperation (SEC), click on the following hyperlinks:

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Executive Course: Advanced Security Cooperation  (EC)

Description: 

An intensive program which focuses on building relationships among mid-career security-practitioner leaders and decision-makers within the region.  Course is composed of three elements:  a Core Curriculum, an Advanced Studies Program of electives and a Professional Enhancement Program that includes skills courses, guest speakers and possibly field trips.  Fellows examine present and future regional security issues, assess regional and transnational threats impacting the Asia-Pacific region, examine the roles of all involved in security and security-cooperation programs, and practice multi-lateral, multi-national collaboration toward needed security approaches and solutions.  The curriculum focuses on the non-warfighting aspects of regional and global security, now and ahead, and is divided into three modules:  (1) Security Foundations & Perspectives, (2) Transnational Security Issues & Challenges, and (3) Ways, Means and Ends to Security Cooperation (Governance to Leader Roles and Actions needed).  Throughout the course security is emphasized as a multi-dimensional and linked mix of political, diplomatic, economic, environmental, informational, technological, social and military agendas and factors.  Study and discussion emphasize cultural, as well as national- and regional-level strategies and policies.

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• Executive Bio Form

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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 into three parts:  (1) Common Perspectives and Definitions, (2) Tools, Resources, Strategies and Measures of Effectiveness, and (3) Strategy Formulation and Application.

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Comprehensive Crisis Management (CCM): Preventing, Preparing, and Responding (former Stability, Security, Transition, and Reconstruction (SSTR) Course )

Purpose:    The CCM course exists to educate and socialize regional security practitioners into a “Community of Expertise” that values collaborative regional efforts at comprehensive crisis management and is equipped with the knowledge and tools needed to support those efforts.   Additionally, the course seeks to build regional security capability thru the development of individual leader skills in critical thinking, communication and collaboration which can be applied not only to CCM situations but to any collaborative effort. The course is based on the broad notion that regional security is significantly enhanced by collaborative efforts at preventing, preparing for or responding to any crisis—natural or man-made—that threatens stability within nations within the context of national sovereignty.  By helping others help themselves, the entire region benefits.

Description: 

This course is a comprehensive examination of current thinking about how to deal with both man-made and natural crises.  Crises are comprehensive in nature; they involve, in interdependent ways, all elements of security (political, social, economic, military, etc.) and multiple, interactive players (domestic, international and non-governmental.)  The degree to which we can build resilience into our societies will greatly influence the long-term impact of any crisis.  While crises are often thought of as time-bound, having a beginning and an end, in fact they have deep roots in the past and long shadows into the future.  A major skill involved in crisis management is the smooth interplay between routine activities (normally focused on building a better, more efficient society) and the extraordinary requirements of life saving and damage mitigation throughout the life-cycle of a crisis situation. Accordingly, course content focuses on three broad topical areas: (1) crisis assessments and condition-setting, (2) transitions across the prevent-prepare-respond cycle and (3) during- and post-crisis reconstruction.  In addition to this conceptual framework, the CCM course also addresses CCM-task coalition building and operations, inter-agency coordination, stability trends analysis, preventative activities as well as international interventions, post-emergency reconstruction, transition shaping, and strategic communications.  The course curriculum is generally divided into three major blocks: (1) Framing the CCM Problem, (2) Elements of Stability and, (3) Making Collaborative CCM Operations Work.  Course learning objectives are achieved by preface topical lectures, followed by “learning by doing” small-group activities.  Seminars are activity-based.  Course includes three learning objective reinforcing exercises:

• Complex Problem Analysis
• Integration of Lines of Effort:  East Timor Case
• Post-shock event reconstruction: planning for a multinational, whole of government, civil society effort that synergistically develops all five major lines of effort towards restoring stability in the affected nation.

All course attendees attain membership in an expanded network of contacts among security practitioners that includes their fellow class-mates and APCSS faculty as well as the APCSS alumni network and a regional CCM “community of expertise” via a dedicated web portal.

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Asia-Pacific Orientation Course (APOC) Course Description  

Description:  The course provides an introduction to Asia-Pacific culture, politics, protocols and challenges, while addressing U.S. interests in the region. The curriculum is focused by day and examines: Day One - Security Foundations, Day Two - Regional Perspectives, Day Three - Country Specific Issues, Day Four- Regional Cooperation on Interstate Challenges, and Day Five - Regional Responses to Transnational Challenges. Attention is given to both historical and emerging issues. The course includes a rigorous program of lectures and interactive sessions, and three break-out seminar sessions.

APOC Bioform

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Senior Executive Asia-Pacific Orientation Course (SEAPOC)

Description: 

SEAPOC provides an introduction to Asia-Pacific culture, politics, protocols and challenges, while addressing U.S. interests in the region. The curriculum is focused by day and examines: Day One - Regional Perspectives; Day Two - Regional Issues; and Day Three -Transnational Challenges. Attention is given to both historical and emerging issues. The course includes a rigorous program of lectures and interactive sessions, and three senior-leader seminar sessions.

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