GOA FOCAL POINTS
About ‘GOA FOCAL POINTS’:
‘GOA FOCAL POINTS’ (see below) are essentially ‘strategic comments’, which are:
- authored by various attributed GOA Project participants/contributors (Information for contributors >>>);
- focussed on a contemporary ‘theme/functional issue’ and/or ‘geographic/regional issue’;
- intended to stimulate further discussion and communication of perspectives/views on the website leading towards a GOA Conference due to be held in late 2011.
Product information:
In summary, each GOA FOCAL POINT begins with a succinct appraisal of the issue being examined – including key debates, links and ties to topical/current affairs, etc. – which is essentially presented in the style of a mini-intelligence brief.
Posing questions, these FOCAL POINTS then allow room for stimulating further discussion and commentary off that initial ‘introduction’.
With their aim of being ‘thought-provoking’, these FOCAL POINTS will also form the basis of discussion and debates held during the annual GOA Conference, due to take place in October this year.
Together with the proceedings from the conference, the FOCAL POINTS will then be used to help produce the GOA Annual Report, which will then be published.
GOA FOCAL POINTS 2011 – CURRENT WORK and AREAS OF FOCUS/INTEREST:
Building on work from 2009, during 2011 GOA FOCAL POINTS shall concentrate on the following areas (click on each for more information):
- GOA FOCAL POINT 1: Radicalisation/de-radicalisation >>>
- GOA FOCAL POINT 2: Identity >>>
- GOA FOCAL POINT 3: Threat assessment >>>
- GOA FOCAL POINT 4: Intelligence methodologies/models and their development >>>
(Produced subject to PROJECT GOA terms & conditions >>>)
2009 Videoconference Report
