Cranfield University

Cranfield University is a postgraduate British university. Its major thematic areas are: aerospace, automotive, energy, environment, engineering, healthcare, management, manufacturing, and security and defence.

Structure

Cranfield has five specialist schools:

• Applied Sciences
• Defence and Security
• Engineering
• Health
• Management

Defence and Security

Cranfield's website describes the university as at the forefront of the field of defence and security. It is the academic provider and partner to the Defence Academy, UK.

Where experts from Academia - Cranfield University - and Officers of the British Armed Forces meet to teach Defence Science, Technology and Management.

Our partnership with the UK’s Ministry of Defence (MOD) offers a unique gateway for teaching, research and consultancy, which allows us to deliver practical solutions to make a real difference to the lives of military and civilian personnel across the world.

From technology research and development on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and infrared camouflage materials, through to humanitarian demining activities, Cranfield is providing specialist knowledge to military personnel, emergency services, governments and NGOs in the UK and around the world.

Events

Understanding Islamist Radicalization and Violence in the 21st Century. A Decade after 9/11: Lessons Learned and New Challenges for the Coming Decade

In October 2010 Cranfield held this joint symposium event with the Defence Academy and the George C Marshall Center at the campus in Shrivenham. Building upon "the very successful series of annual symposia on Understanding Islam", its purpose was to examine any lessons learned in the decade after the atrocities of 11 September 2001, and to identify new challenges. Topics for discussion included:

• Threats and vulnerabilities which radical Islamism has raised in the last decade
• Which processes (legal, political, military) have worked and which have not
• Successes, failures and lessons learned
• New emergent threats in the decade ahead (what, where, who the opposition leaders are, and when such threats may be expected) and how they correspond with any vulnerabilities that can be identified; the legal situation domestically and internationally
• How our partners and allies have changed over the last decade
• Any clearly identifiable risks.

The event was chaired over the three days by Professor Nick Pratt of the George C Marshall Center, Professor Patrick Sookhdeo, Visiting Professor, Defence Academy of the United Kingdom and Dr Sebastian Gorka of the College of International Security Affairs, National Defense University.

Speakers included: Brian Jenkins of the RAND Corporation (Keynote Speaker), Dr Sebastian Gorka,Patrick Sookhdeo, Nick Pratt, Dr John Le Beau, Prof Nick Pratt and Prof James Wither, George C Marshall Center, Dr Tawfik Hamid, Senior Fellow, Potomac Institute for Policy Studies, Washington, Dr Muhammad Al-Hussaini, Fellow in Islamic Studies at Leo Baeck Rabbinical College, and Lecturer in Abrahamic Religions at Al-Azhar College, Al-Azhar Al-Sharif, Judge Marilyn Mornington, Ministry of Justice, Family Justice Council, Stephen Ulph, Senior Fellow, The Jamestown Foundation, and Dr Taj Hargey, Chairman, Muslim Educational Centre of Oxford, Douglas Murray of the Centre for Social Cohesion, Mitchell Silber, New York City Police Department, Dr John Schindler, U.S. Naval War College, Shima Keene ISG, Lord Carlile of Berriew QC, Lee Rowland, Strategic Communication Laboratories

Forthcoming

• Culture in Conflict, 8-9 June 2011
• National Security and Intelligence: The Resilience Agenda 30 June 2011
• Countering Home Grown Terrorism 18-19 October 2011

Contact

Address:

Phone: * Tel: +44 (0) 1793 785810

Email: enquiries@cranfield.ac.uk

Website: http://www.cranfield.ac.uk/

Resources

See also: Teaching About Terrorism: University of Cranfield