We are pleased to announce that the 2009 Project GOA Videoconference Report is now available. The conference took place in July 2009 simultaneously in Oxford, UK and Adelaide, Australia, and was a proof of concept demonstration of the value of Project GOA in bringing practitioners and students together across continents to analyse current events. At the conference, several graduate students presented their work, and engaged in dialogue with an oversight group composed of academic faculty and current and former members of police and intelligence forces.
You may view the report here. It includes an overview of Project GOA and the purpose of the videoconference, a synopsis of the papers presented, a summary of discussion with the oversight board, major themes arising from the conference, and some future directions for the Project. The papers were as follows:
Managing Violence: The Soldier, The Group, The State
David James Olney, University of Adelaide
Intelligence and the Challenge of Non-State Threats: Actor-based versus Environmental Methodologies
Charles Vandepeer, University of Adelaide
Measuring Terrorist Activity on the Web: Do Current Methods and Practices Oversimplify an Overly Complex Phenomenon?
Lawrence Ampofo, Royal Holloway, University of London
A Flawed Model? Building Community Trust and the Failure of the ‘Prevent’ Strategy
Benedict Wilkinson, King’s College, London
As the first global video conference the Project has produced, we would like to touch on each of our themes: intelligence, terrorism, and international relations. All are welcome to suggest topics by commenting on this post.
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