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In 1999, 2002 and 2005
NISA organized
highly successful
intelligence conferences
about Signals Intelligence
in the Cold War,
Peacekeeping
Intelligence and Intelligence Operations in Germany and the Netherlands.
The conference papers
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Great-Britain and the USA


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UPCOMING NISA SEMINAR

Predictive Profiling; heeft de praktijk
de wetenschap ingehaald ?

Vrijdag 8 juni 2012 in Amsterdam

Click hier voor het PROGRAMMA


Het seminar wordt ondersteund door de Directie Bescherming Burgerluchtvaart
en de Eenheid Bewaken en Beveiligen van de NCTV,
alsmede door De Nederlandsche Bank.


NISA's 20th Anniversary Conference
succesfully concluded

The Future of Intelligence:
Threats, Challenges, Opportunities

A large part of the conference program was recorded on video.
Click on the picture above for a choice of eight
separate videos

Closing remarks Chairman NISA


NISA's 20th Anniversary Conference

The Future of Intelligence:
Threats, Challenges and Opportunities

27 and 28 May 2011 at the
Netherlands Defence Academy, The Hague

Opening Address by Sir David Omand GCB, Former UK Security and Intelligence Coordinator, JIC-member and Director GCHQ

Biography Sir David Omand

In 2011 the Netherlands Intelligence Studies Association (NISA) is planning to organize another of its international tri-annual two-day conferences. The theme of the conference will be the future of intelligence and counter-intelligence. The conference will be held in The Hague on 27 and 28 May 2011, marking the 20th anniversary of NISA.
At this two-day conference present and future developments in the field of intelligence and security will be discussed by an array of leading experts from the USA, UK, Sweden, Germany, Greece, Canada, Bulgaria, the Netherlands and other countries. The conference will be chaired by Arthur Docters van Leeuwen, former Head of the Netherlands Security Service, and John Morrison, former Deputy Head UK Defence Intelligence Staff. There will be plenary sessions and workshops with a focus on specific intelligence, counterintelligence and global security challenges. A Panel Discussion will close the conference.

THE CONFERENCE PROGRAM

CONFERENCE FLYER

THIS NISA CONFERENCE IS SUPPORTED BY THE NETHERLANDS DEFENCE INTELLIGENCE AND SECURITY SERVICE MIVD, NETHERLANDS NATIONAL COORDINATOR FOR COUNTERTERRORISM NCTB, FOX-IT EXPERTS IN IT SECURITY, EUROPEAN SECURITY AND INTELLIGENCE FOUNDATION
ESIF, ASIS INTERNATIONAL BENELUX CHAPTER AND THE EMBASSIES
OF THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA


PAST NISA CONFERENCES IN 2010, 2009, 2008, 2006 and 2005


NISA-studiedag Ethiek & Effectiviteit van inlichtingen
in het kader van contraterrorisme

De Netherlands Intelligence Studies Association organiseerde op 10 september 2010 een op Nederland gerichte studiedag over Ethiek & Effectiviteit van Inlichtingen in het kader van Contraterrorisme. Meer dan 120 deelnemers hadden zich voor deze studiedag aangemeld.

programma (PDF)

Tekst van lezing Dr. Bob de Graaff

Inlichtingen spelen een cruciale rol bij de vormgeving van contraterrorisme. Dit geldt niet alleen voor het dagelijkse werk van inlichtingen- en veiligheidsdiensten. Ook politie, justitie en andere bij de preventie en repressie van terrorisme betrokkenen vallen uiteindelijke terug op inlichtingen. Op de studiedag wordt stilgestaan bij de centrale rol van inlichtingen voor het contraterrorisme in den breedte. Vooraanstaande deskundigen op het gebied van inlichtingen en contraterrorisme reflecteren samen met ervaringsdeskundigen uit de praktijk van terrorismebestrijding op de periode sinds 9/11.

Hoe werken inlichtingen door op de contraterrorisme-strategie enerzijds en de contraterrorisme-praktijk anderzijds? Hoe kunnen inlichtingen in een situatie van een asymmetrische dreiging zo optimaal mogelijk worden ingezet? Welke ethische grenzen komen hierbij in beeld? Hoe kon het zo ver komen dat waterboarding en marteling in retrospectief voor velen synomien is komen te staan voor de westerse methodes van inlichtingenvergaring na 9/11? Welke rol had Nederland als gidsland van de brede benadering in de westerse CT-coalitie? Hoe effectief is de ontwikkeling van inlichtingen richting grootschalige datavergaring en datamining gebleken?

Het blijft echter niet alleen bij een terugblik of wijsheid achteraf. In de eendaagse studiedag reflecteren gezaghebbende sprekers ook over de toekomstige rol van inlichtingen in het kader van terrorismebestrijding. Welke lessen kunnen uit de periode na 9/11 getrokken voor de rol van inlichtingen in de toekomst? Hoe zit het met de effectiviteit van de diverse inlichtingenmiddelen?
Welke kant gaan de inlichtingen van de toekomst op? Wat betekent de winds of change onder Obama voor het contraterrorismebeleid van Nederland van het tweede decennium van deze eeuw? Welke ethische uitgangspunten blijven overeind zonder de ogen voor de dreiging van morgen te willen sluiten?


Spycatchers: The Counterintelligence Battle between Western Services and the KGB/SVR

Lecturers: Dan Mulvenna and Col Val Aksilenko (ret.)

Friday, 29 May 2009, 9.00-20.00 hrs. at TNO Defence, Security and Safety, The Hague

The Netherlands Intelligence Studies Association (NISA) organizes a multimedia seminar entitled 'Spy-catchers: The Counterintelligence Battle between the Western Services and the KGB/SVR' on Friday, 29 May 2009 at TNO Defence, Security and Safety in The Hague. The speakers at the seminar are: Dan Mulvenna and Col Val Aksilenko (ret.).

Uniquely this seminar is presented jointly by a retired Western CI officer and a retired Colonel from the First Chief Directorate (foreign intelligence) of the KGB. Mr Aksilenko served for many years in the North American Department. He was a specialist in agent recruitment and active measures, among other things. For further information on his career with the KGB see the enclosed short biography of Val Aksilenko.

The presentation examines espionage and the pursuit of "spies" from a variety of perspectives. It first provides an overview of both Western and Russian counterintelligence doctrine and practices through the Cold War to the present and much more! Note: The Chatham House Rule applies to this meeting.

The registration fee for the course, which also covers coffee breaks and lunch, is 130 euros (dinner excluded) or 150 euros (including dinner). There are a limited number of places available for students at a discount fee of 55 euros (excluding dinner) or 75 euros (dinner included).

See the Full Programme for more details about the Presentations, the Lecturers, Venue and Registration (pdf).


'Intelligence Failures and Cultural Misperceptions:
Asia, 1945 till the Present'

Conference organised by the Netherlands Intelligence Studies Association
NISA and the Netherlands Centre for Terrorism and Counterterrorism Studies CTC
Friday 26 and Saturday 27 september 2008
at the Netherlands Defence College (IDL) in The Hague.

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS (PDF)

Eyes and Ears of the Dragon
Chinese intelligence services Organisation and activities
by Peter Becker

The Importance of actor-specific behavioral models in conflict situations:
The case of Saddam Hussein of Iraq
by Jerrold M. Post, M.D.

German intelligence in Afghanistan from the 1950's
to the present day

by Erich Schmidt-Eenboom

Strategic Culture and Japanese Military Intelligence during the Pacific War, 1941-45
by Douglas Ford

The new nature of war and the intelligence required for victory
by Yoaz Hendel

With the organisation of this conference, NISA and CTC wish to contribute to the discussion on intelligence failures and cultural misperceptions in Asia, with a focus on counterinsurgency and counterterrorism. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have clearly shown the shortcomings of intel-ligence collection and analysis on the part of the United States and its allies. Quite a few of these shortcomings are the result of cultural misperceptions.

The Conference Program and Speakers Abstracts and Résumés


De Stichting Inlichtingen Studies Nederland is bij de Kamer van Koophandel Haaglanden in Den Haag ingeschreven onder nummer: 41157022. International Bank Account/Number (IBAN: NL 16 PSTB 0000 725980) en Bank Identifier Code (BIC: PSTBNL21).


De opkomst van China als militaire macht -
lessen uit de Koude Oorlog?

vrijdag 20 oktober 2006

De Netherlands Intelligence Studies Association (NISA) organiseert in samenwerking met Clingendael Centre for Strategic Studies (CCSS) een middag over het thema:

'De opkomst van China als militaire macht - lessen uit de Koude Oorlog?'.

De bijeenkomst zal plaats vinden op vrijdag 20 oktober 2006 bij TNO Defence Security and Safety, Oude Waalsdorperweg 63 te Den Haag.
Het seminar wordt verzorgd door Boris Timmer, werkzaam geweest bij wat nu de MIVD is, bij het bureau Defensie Strategisch Concept van de Defensiestaf en bij KMA en KIM als docent Internationale Betrekkingen, strategie en crisisbesluitvorming.
De middag is alleen toegankelijk voor NISA-leden en genodigden. Er zijn geen kosten aan verbonden. Degenen die een uitnodiging op prijs zouden stellen, wordt verzocht zich per email aan te melden bij secretaris NISA, de heer G. de Valk, email: giliamdv@xs4all.nl o.v.v. naam,adres, telefoonnummer en affiliatie resp. gebleken (intelligence) interesse in het onderwerp.

Meer informatie over het programma en de aanmelding


'GERMAN -DUTCH RELATIONS IN THE 20TH CENTURY'
An International Intelligence Perspective

Conference organised by the International Intelligence History Association (IIHA) and the Netherlands Intelligence Studies Association (NISA)
17 - 19 June 2005

at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences Amsterdam
Kloveniersburgwal 29, 1011 JV Amsterdam

Partly as a consequence of the international war against terrorism, intelligence has become a hotly debated topic. Almost daily, the role of intelligence services in international events is front page news. Intelligence and security services, with their natural tendency towards secrecy and avoidance of public scrutiny, are confronted with a growing interest on the part of politicians, scholars and the general public. Especially since the end of the Cold War, a growing number of historians have done research in archives that were closed until recently. In many cases this has shed new light on the role of intelligence services in international relations during the last century. With this conference, IIHA and NISA wish to make a further contribution to the study of this important topic.
The focus of the conference is on the German-Dutch intelligence and security relationship in the twentieth century, which covers periods of mutual confrontation, war, occupation, alliance and cooperation. The relationship of the services of other states with German and Dutch intelligence will be addressed at this conference as well.

  • Conference Programme (PDF)
  • Programma (PDF)

    The international conference was financially supported by three Dutch organizations: Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), Amsterdam Institute for German Studies (DIA) and Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences (KNAW).


LAST UPDATE 1 February, 2012