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Exploring Asymmetric Warfare Symposium
12 -13 April, 2004
The United Arab Emirates
This symposium, for the United Arab Emirates Armed Forces will
involve
over 120 participants, made up of defence force personnel and senior
members of other government ministries from the Gulf region.
Exploring Asymmetric Warfare:
a new approach to analysing security threats and responses.
Asymmetric Warfare is a term used to describe how weak nations and ‘non-state
actors' such as terrorist organisations seek to leverage strength from studying
and attacking the vulnerabilities of their opponents. It is a way to circumvent
or undermine the strength of your opponent by attacking in unforeseen or unplanned
ways.
In terms of Exploring Asymmetric Warfare, the symposium will situate the notion
of asymmetric warfare in a broader social, defence, intelligence and international
relations context. It will look at the nexus between international and domestic
factors and examine the subtle and overt interplay between them.
The uniqueness of this particular symposium is that it is interdisciplinary
in outlook, with experts from a number of separate fields coming together with
the expressed purpose of sharing information and building networks.
Symposium provided with the cooperation and assistance of:
 
United Arab Emirates
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The University of Adelaide
