31 December 2002. Thanks to M.
URBAN HAZARDS FORUM II
HOMELAND SECURITY AFTER 9/11
JANUARY 23-24, 2003
To be held at:
John Jay College of Criminal Justice
899 Tenth Avenue, New York, NY 10019
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United States Federal Emergency Management Agency
Region II
John Jay College of Criminal Justice
The City University of New York
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CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
DAY ONE
8:45-9:15 Welcome Address
President Gerald W. Lynch
Dr. Gerald W. Lynch is the President of John Jay College of Criminal Justice.
Charles B. Strozier
Charles B. Strozier is the Director of the Center on Terrorism and Public Safety, and professor of history at John Jay College and the Graduate Center, CUNY.
Joe Picciano
Joseph F. Picciano is Acting Regional Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency's Region II office in New York City.
9:15-10:30 Plenary One
This opening plenary session of the conference brings together the key figures in New York City and New York State responsible for homeland security. Each will address the ways in which the issues of homeland security are being addressed at their respective levels and comment on the areas of concern for the future. The goal of the session is to define the key themes, which we will be addressing in our two days of meetings.
Charles B. Strozier - Chair
Charles B. Strozier is the Director of the Center on Terrorism and Public Safety, and professor of history at John Jay College and the Graduate Center, CUNY.
John Scanlon
John Scanlon is the Director of the Office of Public Security for the State of New York.
John Odermatt
John Thomas Odermatt is Commissioner of the New York City Office of Emergency Management (OEM).
10:45 - 12:15 Cyberterrorism: The Role of Technology and Enforcement Protection Measures
One of the newer areas of concern in the world of terrorism is that of the cyber world, our latest frontier, as wild now as the West once was in American history. Cyberterrorism poses dangers in and of itself but could also work in conjunction with other kinds of attacks. It is particularly important to integrate knowledge of cyberterrorism with the larger themes in the conference, especially in view of the dependence on computers, not only of all of us, but also the first responders and anti-terrorist agencies.
Ted Brown - Chair
Dr. Ted Brown is the Executive Director of the CUNY Institute for Software Design and Development(CISDD).
Mary Riley
James Doyle
Sergeant James Doyle is President of Internet Crimes, Inc., a cybercrime training firm for law enforcement and the corporate community.
10:45 - 12:15 Biological and Chemical Terrorism
The threat of biological terrorism struck home after 9/11 with the anthrax scare (though anthrax threats were often made in the 1990s by anti-abortion terrorists). Since then, Americans have been inundated with information, much of it confusing and contradictory, of biological and chemical terrorism. This session combines the technical and scientific with the policy issues raised by such threats.
Roy Lubit - Chair
Dr. Roy Lubit is an organizational development expert in executive coaching, stress management, change management and disaster recovery.
Barbara Hatch Rosenberg
Vincent Doherty
Captain Vin Doherty is a 22 year veteran of the FDNY and the Executive Officer of Haz Mat Operations, and the former Company Commander of Haz Mat 1.
12:15 - 1:15 LUNCH
1:15 - 2:45 High Rise Evacuation
The problems of evacuating tall buildings during a disaster were once a specialized area of research. The World Trade Center Disaster made it a concern for all Americans. The importance of the topic cannot be over-emphasized. We remain an urban people who work and live in many tall buildings in cities scattered across a vast area.
Charles Jennings – Chair
Charles Jennings is the Deputy Commissioner of Public Safety and Director of Emergency Management for the City of White Plains, NY.
Norman Groner
Norman Groner studies cognitive factors related fire safety and emergency planning. He recently joined the Department of Protection Management at John Jay College.
Jake Pauls
Jake Pauls is involved with standards and model codes for building design, and stairway safety and usability including stairway use in major evacuations.
Jack Murphy
Jack Murphy is a fire protection and life safety consultant in New York City.
Erica Kuligowski
1:15 - 2:45 Technology of Surveillance
Terrorists threaten us on many fronts. One form of protection lies in advanced means of watching them, finding out where they live and what they look like, tracking them, and having adequately sophisticated data banks to process the data we learn about them in useful ways. What is the state of the technology? Are such methods of surveillance illusory? And, one might ask, what are the costs to our liberties?
Mike O'Shea - Chair
Michael O’Shea is a Program Manager for the US Department of Justice's Office of Science and Technology.
William "Brian" Matkin
Brian Matkin is the Chief, Concepts and Analysis Division with the Aviation and Missile Command.
Chris Tillery
Chris Tillery is a Senior Program Manager for the US Department of Justice's Office of Science and Technology.
Marc Rotenberg
Marc Rotenberg is Executive Director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) in Washington, DC.
1:15 - 2:45 Women and Terrorism
One of the surprising developments in the last two decades has the marked increase in the direct participation of women in terrorism. Increasingly, we live in an era of equal opportunity in death-making. This panel considers the role that women play in carrying out terrorist acts, both in secular and religious groups. Despite strict Moslem beliefs limiting their role in society, one wonders whether women's participation in Islamist groups around the globe will increase.
Cindy Ness - Chair
Joyce Davis
Joyce M. Davis is Deputy Foreign Editor for Knight Ridder Newspapers.
Sue Mahan
Sue Mahan is the author of three books about women and crime.
3:00 - 4:30 Training Police and Emergency Management in Counterterrorism
Police are on the front lines and in the trenches in the war against terrorism. It is they who must spot the suspicious man who lingers outside a hotel, and deal with the backpack left on the train, and protect the bridges and tunnels that make up the infrastructure of a city. But police must also interpret new kinds of electronic and other data in creative ways, evaluate and learn to use new technologies, and work as best they can with other local and national agencies feeding them information about terrorist-related threats.
Bob Louden - Chair
Robert J. Louden, Ph.D. is the Director of the Criminal Justice Center and Security Management Institute at John Jay College of Criminal Justice.
Maki Haberfeld
Maria (Maki) Haberfeld is a Professor of Police Science at John Jay College and coordinates a special training program for the NYPD.
Alain Bauer
Alain Bauer is a Criminologist at the Sorbonne University and the former Vice President of the Sorbonne University.
3:00 - 4:30 Legal and Constitutional Issues of Homeland Security
The central question for a free society as it grapples with the new terrorism is how to balance concerns for security with the preservation of our liberty. This panel addresses both sides of this complex question and seeks to ask intelligent questions as we move forward in a new world after 9/11.
Itai Sneh - Chair
Itai Sneh’s academic background is in the historical study of human rights and international law, and he teaches at John Jay College.
Barry Latzer
Michael Posner
Michael Posner is the Executive Director of the Lawyers Committee.
4:45 - 6:00 Plenary Discussion
We will convene for an hour’s summary discussion of the day’s themes. After this session, there will be a reception for all participants generously hosted by John Jay College President Gerald W. Lynch.
6:00 - 8:00 Reception hosted by President Gerald Lynch
DAY TWO
8:30 - 9:30 Plenary Speaker TO BE ANNOUNCED
9:45 - 11:15 Infrastructure Protection - Session 1
We watched hijacked planes fly into the Twin Towers and were horrified. Many wondered why such acts had not been tried before–and considered by the intelligence community. We now realize the same threats apply to our ports, to our subways, to our buses, to our bridges and tunnels, to our streets, to our parks, to our hotels, to our very homes. This two-part session brings together authorities on all aspects of this topic and both addresses the many concerns and looks to meaningful solutions for "hardening" our infrastructure.
Victor Goldsmith - Chair
Victor Goldsmith is the Director of the CUNY- wide Center for Applied Studies of the Environment of the City University of New York.
Anthony Perl
Anthony Perl is the founding director of CUNY's Aviation Institute at York College.
John Paczkowski
9:45 - 11:15 Psychology of Fear in an Age of Terrorism
We would have to be numb and cut off not to feel afraid in the new age of terror. The threats are everywhere, and they are real. At the same time, many collapse in panic and dread that is neither psychologically healthy nor politically useful. Certainly, one needs to understand the dangers, and the fears that are generated, how such fears express themselves directly and indirectly, and what we can do to search for ways to contain the fear within reasonable bounds.
Robert Lichtman - Chair
Dr. Lichtman is the Director of Service at the Mount Vernon Service Center and an Associate Professor of Psychology at John Jay College.
Charles B. Strozier
Charles B. Strozier is the Director of the Center on Terrorism and Public Safety, and a professor of history at John Jay College and the Graduate Center, CUNY.
Guy Burgel
James Skelly
Dr. James Skelly is a Senior Fellow at the Baker Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies at Juniata College in Pennsylvania.
11:30 - 1:00 Infrastructure Protection-Session 2
We watched hijacked planes fly into the Twin Towers and were horrified. Many wondered why such acts had not been tried before–and considered by the intelligence community. We now realize the same threats apply to our ports, to our subways, to our buses, to our bridges and tunnels, to our streets, to our parks, to our hotels, to our very homes. This two-part session brings together authorities on all aspects of this topic and both addresses the many concerns and looks to meaningful solutions for "hardening" our infrastructure.
Victor Goldsmith - Chair
Victor Goldsmith is the Director of the CUNY- wide Center for Applied Studies of the Environment of the City University of New York.
Eva Lerner-Lam
Eva Lerner-Lam is the Founder and President of the Palisades Consulting Group, Inc.
11:30 - 1:00 Immigration Issues after 9/11
America was built by immigrants, first by the English and enslaved Africans, then by Europeans from all other parts of Europe, and since 1965 by a peopling of the country from distant shores. The new terrorism has put the brakes on that immigration as sharply as anything in our history. What really has happened and what lies ahead? Who suffers? Is it fair? What is necessary to keep us safe and what is leading us into a new isolationism?
Sean Wheeler - Chair
Sean Wheeler is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice.
Nora Pharaon
Nora Pharaon is a psychologist at the Gramercy Park Counseling Center and a consulting psychologist at the Arab American Family Support Center in Brooklyn, NY.
Philip Kasinitz
Philip Kasinitz holds a joint appointment as Professor of Sociology at Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
Eleanor Acer
Eleanor Acer is the director of the Lawyers Committee’s Asylum Program.
1:00-2:00 LUNCH
2:00 - 3:30 Nuclear Threat
Most assume that if Osama bin Laden had had access to a suitcase nuclear weapon it would have been on one of the planes crashing into the World Trade Center. That terrifying thought reflects the new public awareness of nuclear threat. After the cold war ended a decade ago there was not an appropriate level of fear of nuclear weapons. Now we are in a panic. This panel will address the real problems of nuclear weapons in the world, the scientific state of knowledge among those who aspire to acquire such weapons, and what are the areas of hope for the future.
Michael Flynn - Chair
John Burroughs
John Burroughs is the executive director of the Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy and an adjunct professor of international law at Rutgers Law School.
Michael Levi
Michael Levi is Director of the Strategic Security Project at the Federation of American Scientists.
2:00 - 3:30 Future of Urban Architecture
The World Trade Center disaster will surely alter the face of cities for decades to come. There is a question whether we should build excessively tall structures again. The infrastructure will alter profoundly to make it more secure against attacks. Terrorism will affect every architectural decision, and in the process our culture and very identities. This panel addresses the technical architectural aspects of this question, as well as its more human and psychological dimensions.
Michael Sorkin - Chair
Michael Sorkin is the principal of the Michael Sorkin Studio in New York City.
Tom Vanderbilt
Mortimer Downey
Mortimer L. Downey, III is a principal consultant at PBConsult, a Parsons Brinckerhoff subsidiary.
Art Langer
Arthur M. Langer is Professor and Director of the Environmental Sciences Laboratory of the Institutes of Applied Sciences, Brooklyn College, CUNY.
2:00 - 3:30 Terrorist Profiling
The need for accurate profiling of terrorists is just as self-evident as it is in criminal investigations. The question is whether it is possible. The case of the snipers in Washington certainly made fools out of many "experts" traipsing before the TV cameras. What is possible in the way of profiling terrorists? What can we learn from the sniper case? Are random checks in airports better for us than using profiling?
Bob Louden - Chair
Robert J. Louden, Ph.D. is the Director of the Criminal Justice Center and Security Management Institute at John Jay College of Criminal Justice.
Steve Band
David Harris
David A. Harris is the Balk Professor of Law and Values at the University of Toledo College of Law.
3:45 - 5:15 Public Education and Homeland Security
It is never easy to inform children, students, and the public about violence that may threaten their lives. How young, for example, should children begin to learn about murder, rape, or nuclear weapons? The danger is that information coming too soon or too fast, whether we are four or forty, can create fear and panic that is dangerous and unproductive. At the same time, informed citizens in a functioning democracy must know of real dangers. How that process should proceed is the subject of this panel.
Madeline Brand - Chair
Madeline Brand covers breaking news, business, politics, social issues, culture and the arts for NPR's Morning Edition.
Alan Schulman
Alan Schulman is the founder and director of the International Bridges Project.
Michael Flynn
Jaimie Cloud
Jaimie P. Cloud is the founder and president of the Sustainability Education Center in New York City.
3:45 - 5:15 Suicide Terrorism
One of the dramatically new aspects of terrorism in the last two decades has been the sudden rise of the suicide terrorist. Such killers are everywhere in the Middle East, in Sri Lanka, and of course tragically reached our shores on 9/11. This panel explores the theological roots of Jihad, the psychology of the suicide terrorist, and the practical steps being taken in New York City to prevent any further such attacks.
Cindy Ness - Chair
David Cook
David Cook is assistant professor of religious studies at Rice University, Houston.
Ariel Merari
John Rowland
Lieutenant John Rowland is the Commanding Officer of the NYPD's Counterterrorism Division’s Training Section.
5:15 - 6:00 Closing Plenary Discussion
In a final plenary session, the key themes of the conference will be discussed and the ways to mitigate such dangers addressed. Speakers will be available to answer questions.