Boaz Ganor

A biographical note states:

Dr. Boaz Ganor is the deputy dean of the Lauder School of Government and Diplomacy at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya. He is also the founder and the Executive Director of the International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT - http://www.ict.org.il). He is a member of Israel’s National Committee for Homeland Security Technologies, of the International Advisory Board of Institute of Defense and Strategic Studies, (IDSS), Singapore, and of the International Advisory team of the Manhattan Institute (CTCT) to the New-York Police Department (NYPD). Dr. Ganor lectures on Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism at the High Command Academic Courses of the Israel’s Defense Forces, as well as at the Lauder School of Government and Diplomacy, and other Academic and International forums. Boaz Ganor obtained his B.A. in Political Sciences from Hebrew University, and his M.A. in Political Studies from Tel-Aviv University (thesis: “Terrorism and Public Opinion in Israel”). His Ph.D. thesis for the Hebrew University was on “Israel’s Counter-Terrorism Strategy”. Dr. Ganor served as a consultant to Israeli Government Ministries on Counter-Terrorism. From 1989 to 2003, he was a member of the trilateral—Palestinian, Israeli, American—Committee on Incitement, established under the Wye Accords. Boaz Ganor is the author of numerous articles on counter-terrorism published in Israel and abroad.

Official advisor

A biographical note states:

Ganor was Israel's counter-terrorism coordinator at the Prime Minister’s office from 1993-1996, advised the Israel Defense Ministry on counter-terrorism issues and was a consultant to former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on his book Fighting Terrorism – How Democracies Can Defeat Domestic and International Terrorism.

Affiliations

• International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research, International Advisory Council
• International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence, leadership
• Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism, Senior Fellow

Publications

• Boaz Ganor, 'Defining Terrorism: Is One Man's Terrorist another Man's Freedom Fighter?', Police Practice and Research, 3, no. 4 (2002), pp. 287-304
• Boaz Ganor, 'Terrorism as a Strategy of Psychological Welfare', Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment & Trauma, 9, no. 1/2 (2004), pp. 33-43
• Boaz Ganor, The Counter-Terrorism Puzzle: A Guide for Decision Makers (ISBN: 141280602X / 1-4128-0602-X) Transaction Publishers, 2007.
• Boaz Ganor Hypermedia Seduction for Terrorist Recruiting (NATO Science for Peace and Security Series: Human and Societal Dynamics) (ISBN: 1586037617 / 1-58603-761-7), Ios Pr Inc, 2007