The  workshop is intended to address the challenges of “Ungoverned Spaces” in a North Asian context specifically addressing the following areas that have been developed from assessment of the most relevant issues as well as consideration for the areas of greatest potential for impact in combating terrorism in

  • Physical “Ungoverned Spaces”, the geographic challenges of porous borders including governance and corruption that is conducive to transnational trafficking in goods (drugs, weapons, commercial and counterfeit products etc…) and persons (TIP) and the resultant enabling environment (financial and logistical) that contributes to terrorism.
  • Virtual “Ungoverned Spaces”, specifically focused on challenges of cyber security issues that impact state capacity to secure critical infrastructure protection (CIP) against the vulnerability to terrorist attack.

Attendees include more than 40 participants and Subject-Matter-Experts from Mongolia, Hong Kong, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, People’s Republic of China, Republic of Korea, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, and the United States.  Participants are security practitioners and academics from those nations.

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