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Young Strategic Leaders' Congress
Intelligence and Australia's National Security - Future challenges in a global domain
25-27 May 2012
ANU Campus, Kioloa, NSW South Coast
Congress Registrations are currently full. Please email info@kokodafoundation.org to be placed on the waiting list.
The proliferation of threats to national security, and the ambiguous nature of these threats make intelligence - including its organisation, products, processes, and systems - a key enabler of national security decision-making. Yet intelligence remains the most commonly misunderstood aspect of national security. What is the role of intelligence in contemporary society, and how should it evolve to meet emerging challenges to national security?
More information is available here
Young Strategic Leaders Forum
June Seminar
The future of the Australia-Indonesia security relationship
LIEUTENANT GENERAL (RETIRED)
AGUS WIDJOYO
21 June 2012 at 5.45 for 6pm - 7.30
Lieutenant General (Retired) Agus Widjoyo graduated from the Indonesian National Military Academy in 1970. Among other postings he served as a staff officer in the International Commission for Control and Supervision in Vietnam in 1973 and with the Indonesian battalion with UNEF II in the Sinai in 1975.
More Information is Available here
The Kokoda Foundation is Calling for expressions of interest to join the Young Strategic Leaders Forum (YSLF) Committee
The YSLF Committee is a group of 10 young professionals involved and / or working in the national security community, including students with an interest in joining. The role of the YSLF committee is to assist in the planning and organising of events in support of the strategic leaders forum . The forum consists of monthly seminars, biannual weekend-long congresses, networking functions and other special events, with access to senior strategic decision makers.
For more information is available here.
New Kokoda Paper released
Sub Judice: Australia's Future Submarine
by Brice Pacey
The purpose of this Kokoda study has been to assess how best to deliver a submarine capable of meeting a unique requirement for range, endurance and stealth, able to operate over the vast distances inherent in Australia’s strategic geography and to exploit the depth that it affords.
More information and the full text of this paper is available here.
Security Challenges
Responsibility to Protect and Protection of Civilians
The Summer 2011 edition of Security Challenges contains up-to-date articles on two issues of major importance for internatinal security in recent months: The Responsibility to Protect concept after the Libya Intervention, and political change and reform in Myanmar.
Vesselin Popovski; Ramesh Thakur; Michael Smith, Jeni Whalan and Peter Thomson; Hugh Breakey and Angus Francis; and Charles Sampford all examine the relationship between the two related concepts of Responsibility to Protect, and the Protection of Civilians in wartime, in light of recent developments in Libya and elsewhere.
John Blaxland and Christopher Roberts argue that the time for Western engagement with Myanmar has now come.
For links to the abstracts of the articles in this edition, see the Security Challenges website. Hard copies can be ordered here and electronic copies are available to members of the Kokoda Foundation in the members-only section of this website.
Executive Business Breakfasts
The Executive Business Breakfast (EBB) series is a Kokoda Foundation initiative to provide career development and networking opportunities to individuals at the 'middle management' or the EL1/EL2 level within the National Security community who are looking to advance into senior management. EBB’s are run through out the year and keynote speakers are drawn from senior national and international security leaders.
Limited to 20 invited guests, these breakfasts offer an opportunity to participate in a confidential and open discussion with a senior keynote speaker on career development within the Australian Defence Force and the National Security community more generally. Speakers will provide a brief snapshot of their own successful careers but more importantly will highlight some of the strategies that enabled them to progress through to senior management.
Attendance at EBBs is by invitation only. Invitees are selected from our Professional Development and Training Program, from organisational nominations and from our EBB register. If you would like to register your interest to attend you can do so online here.
More information on upcoming keynote speakers is available here.
Membership
Chairman’s Circle – a special level of Kokoda Membership
The Chairman’s Circle is a new exclusive level of membership of the Foundation which recognises publically the support and assistance that an individual or a company provides. It enables people to help contribute to the national security debate by supporting the Foundation in a philanthropic manner.
As a member of the Chairman’s Circle you will receive all the benefits of general membership including receiving Security Challenges, research papers and invitations to Kokoda events and activities. Whenever possible members of the Chairman’s Circle will receive exclusive invitations to Kokoda Closed workshop activities and VIP access at our larger events. Please note closed workshop invitations are issued based on subject matter expertise and required security clearances.
In addition all members of the Chairman’s Circle will be listed on the Kokoda Foundation website, acknowledged in the Annual Report to members and welcomed formally in Kokoda’s quarterly newsletters.
Register for Chairman's Circle here
More information on all membership levels and online registration is available here.
