David Charters

Biog note on the Gregg Centre [http://www.unbf.ca/arts/MSS/faculty.html website:

David Charters is one of Canada's foremost authorities on modern low-intensity conflict, with particular expertise in terrorism, countering terrorism, insurgency, counter-insurgency, and intelligence. Thus, his field of expertise lies at the heart of the mandate of UNB's Gregg Gregg Centre. Dr. Charters was a co-founder of UNB's Centre for Conflict Studies and served as its Director from 1986 to 2005. He has taught, researched, and published in this field for almost 30 years. In addition to his academic teaching on modern warfare, and on the Middle East, he has lectured regularly to military audiences, such as the Canadian Forces College and the Combat Training Gregg Centre. His major publications include: The British Army and Jewish Insurgency in Palestine, 1945-47 (Macmillan 1989) (author); The Deadly Sin of Terrorism (Greenwood, 1994) (editor); After 9/11: Terrorism and Crime in a Globalised World (Gregg Centre for Foreign Policy Studies, 2005) (co-editor and contributing author).