The Roe Green Foundation Conference: SACRED VIOLENCE: RELIGION & TERRORISM (Session 3)

March 30, 2007
Speaker: Professor Bruce Hoffman, Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University; former Corporate Chair in Counterterrorism and Counterinsurgency, RAND Corporation, former director of RAND Corporations Washington, D.C. office
Presented by: the Institute for Global Security Law and Policy

Summary: Keynote: The Impact of Religious Extremism on U.S. Counter-Terrorism Policy

Dr. Bruce Hoffman has been studying terrorism and insurgency for nearly thirty years. He was recently elected Professor of Security Studies at Georgetown Universitys School of Foreign Service, a full-time appointment that he began in September 2006. Dr. Hoffman presently holds the Corporate Chair in Counterterrorism and Counterinsurgency at the RAND Corporation and is also Director of RANDs Washington, D.C. Office. From 2001 to 2004, Dr. Hoffman served as RAND's Vice President for External Affairs and in 2004 he also was Acting Director of RANDs Center for Middle East Public Policy. Dr. Hoffman was Senior Adviser on Counterterrorism to the Office of National Security Affairs, Coalition Provisional Authority, Baghdad, Iraq during the spring of 2004 and from 2004-2005 was an adviser on counterinsurgency to the Strategy, Plans, and Analysis Office at Multi-National Forces-Iraq Headquarters, Baghdad.

Dr. Hoffman is a Senior Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C.; a Senior Fellow at the Combating Terrorism Center, U.S. Military Academy, West Point, NY; an Adjunct Professor in the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.; a Senior Fellow at the National Security Studies Center at Haifa University, Israel; and, a Visiting Senior Fellow at the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He was the founding Director of the Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, where he was also Reader in International Relations and Chairman of the Department of International Relations. Dr. Hoffman is Editor-in-Chief of Studies in Conflict and Terrorism and a member of the advisory board of Terrorism and Political Violence. He holds degrees in government, history, and international relations and received his doctorate from Oxford University. In November 1994, the Director of Central Intelligence awarded Dr. Hoffman the United States Intelligence Community Seal Medallion the highest level of commendation given to a non-government employee, which recognizes sustained superior performance of high value that distinctly benefits the interests and national security of the United States.

A revised and updated edition of his acclaimed 1998 book, Inside Terrorism, was published in May 2006 by Columbia University Press in the U.S. and S. Fischer Verlag in Germany. Foreign language editions of the first edition have been published in ten countries. Dr. Hoffman is also a regular contributor to the Atlantic Monthly and was the author of "The Logic of Suicide Terrorism," which was the cover story of the June 2003 issue.

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