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Homeland Security Program

Homeland Security Program Projects

PUBLIC PROGRAMS

In June 2010, the program, in partnership with The New York Times and GSN: Government Security News, launched the first annual "Aspen Security Forum" at our campus in Aspen. Each year the forum will bring to Aspen top policymakers; leading thinkers; industry insiders, and concerned citizens together to explore aviation security; maritime security; border security; mass transit security; cyber-security and other aspects of citical infrastructure security; "soft targets" security; intelligence; counterterrorism strategy; and more. For more information, please visit the Aspen Security Forum page.

INVITATION-ONLY POLICY PROGRAMS

Luncheon Roundtables

The program occasionally features government officials and other newsmakers for luncheon roundtable discussions about key homeland security/counterterrorism issues. Featured guests have included Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano; National Counterterrorism Center Director Michael Leiter; and Terrorist Screening Center Director Timothy Healy.

Cities' Preparedness for Terrorism Roundtables

Thanks to a generous lead grant from the Ford Foundation, supplemented by additional grants from the Rockefeller Foundation, the McCormick Foundation, and the Houston Endowment, the program convened policymakers and leading thinkers in five cities - New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, and New Orleans - to assess those cities' preparedness for terrorism. For more information, please see http://www.aspeninstitute.org/publications?program=282.

Aspen Homeland Security Group

Modeled on the longstanding Aspen Strategy Group, a bipartisan group of foreign policy experts, the Aspen Homeland Security Group is a bipartisan group of homeland security and counterterrorism experts whom the program periodically convenes at our Aspen and Wye River, Maryland campuses to discuss issues in depth and make recommendations to policymakers. Key participants have included former Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff; former Homeland Security Deputy Secretary, TSA Administrator, and Coast Guard Commandant Jim Loyl former Homeland Security Under Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis Charlie Allenl former Ambassador-at-Large for Counterterrorism Hank Crumpton; former State Department Legal Advisor John Bellinger; and former 9/11 Commisioner Richard Ben-Veniste.

Roundtable on How the Venture Capital Industry Can Help to Secure the Homeland

In partnership with the Officer of the Director of National Intelligence; Stanford University; and a Silicon Valley venture capital firm, Levensohn Venture Partners, the program convened Silicon Valley centure capitalists and key Washington decision makers in the homeland security and intelligence communities at Stanford in October, 2009 to discuss how the venture capital industry can play a greater role in founding and funding homeland security-related technologies. A follow-up discussion is planned for October, 2010 in the Boston area for Boston-area  venture capitalists

Carnegie-Aspen Brainstorming Session on the Real Role of Islam in Motivating Terrorists, July 25, 2007, Washington, DC. Thanks to a generous grant from the Carnegie Corporation’s Islam Initiative, the Aspen Institute’s Homeland Security Program convened a small group of experts on July 25, 2007 to discuss the role that Islam does and does not play in motivating terrorists. Please find the highlights of that discussion.

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The Aspen Security Forum

July 27, 2011 - July 30, 2011
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