International Cooperation in Criminal Matters Between the Visegrad Group States
– Combating Terrorism
8-9 September 2016, Cracow, Poland

AGENDA

7 September 2016 (Wednesday)

from 16:00		Arrival and check-in
			Dom Aplikanta
			ul. Przy Rondzie 5

8 September 2016 (Thursday)

8:00 – 8:40		Breakfast
8:40 – 9:00		Registration of participants
9:00 – 9:30		Opening of the seminar and presentation of the main assumptions 				and objectives
9:30 – 10.15		Terrorism – origins, development and forms of terrorist actions
	Prof. Adam Hołub, Ph.D., Police Academy in Szczytno
10:15 – 11:00 	Contemporary terrorism threat around the world and in Europe, including predictions for Central and Eastern Europe.
Prof. Tomasz Aleksandrowicz, Ph.D., Police Academy in Szczytno
11:00 – 11:30	Coffee break
11:30 – 12:15		Anti-terrorism systems in the EU, including the Visegrad Group States
Tomasz Bąk, Ret. Gen., Ph.D.,  Rzeszów School of Business
12:30 – 13:30		Lunch
13:30 – 14:15	Anti-terrorism and counter-terrorism activities in the Polish anti-terrorist system
Prof. Kuba Jałoszyński, Ph.D., Police Academy in Szczytno

14:15 – 15:00		Anti-terrorism activities undertaken by the Czech Republic
			Speaker from the Czech Republic
15:00 – 15:15		Coffee break
15:15 – 16:00		Anti-terrorism activities undertaken by Hungary
			Speaker from Hungary
16:00 – 16:45		Anti-terrorism activities undertaken by Slovakia
			Speaker from Slovakia
16:45 – 17:30	Political and legal undertakings related to combating terrorism– the global and European perspective
Prof. Krzysztof Wiak, JPII Catholic University of Lublin
17:30 – 17:45		Discussion and summary of the first day
19:00			Dinner

9 September 2016 (Friday)

8:00 – 9:00		Breakfast
9:00 – 9:45	Combating terrorism – detecting, counteracting, monitoring and controlling activities undertaken to meet the objectives set by authorities (terrorism and human rights in view of the use of illicit methods in proceedings, e.g. torture)
	Prof. Robert Borkowski, Ph.D., Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski Krakow University
9:45 – 10:30	International cooperation in preventing and combating terrorist threats – Interpol, Europol, Eurojust
Łukasz Wiliski, Polish Section of Interpol, Polish National Police Headquarters
10:30 – 11:00	Coffee break
11:00 – 11:45	Institutional frames of combating financing of terrorism – national and international aspects (roles of GIIF, FATF, MONEYVAL, EGMONT)
			Prof. Wojciech Filipkowski, University of Bialystok
11:45 – 12:15	Discussion, summary, and closing of the seminar
12.15	Lunch
Organised crime, and terrorism in particular, is one of the greatest threats to human life and health. Although terrorism is not a new phenomenon, its nature has been changing in the modern world, taking on innovative and unknown forms. Some of the distinguishing features of modern organised crime include the determination of terrorists, lack of respect for their own and other people’s lives and, especially, the fact that terrorism is targeted at civilians, relying each time on the element of surprise. Starting from 11 September 2001, when the World Trade Center attacks took place, terrorism has been increasingly present in the public and academic discourse. This is the aftermath of at least two factors. The first of these would be a very wide and ongoing coverage of current terrorist activities by the mass media. The second factor has a more practical dimension – the size and scale of the phenomenon turn it into a global issue. Acts of terror not only affect the way in which governments and supranational organisations develop their actions and policies, viewing them as a matter of priority, but also have a significant economic impact, leading to investment and infrastructural losses, as well as the destruction of buildings. They also have a devastating, widespread impact on social capital (causing civilian deaths), which leads to chronic fear and a sense of threat, both of which are hard to measure. The effects of modern types of terrorism on the everyday lives of citizens and the shape of international relations that have been outlined above are just a few of the numerous topics that can be discussed as part of the seminar. The event’s organisers strongly believe that the issue should be approached from many different angles, and so they have invited representatives from academia, public administration and law enforcement authorities to take part in the seminar.