October 7th-8th, 2022
7th ZAGREB SECURITY FORUM 2022
Hybrid Threats and Resilience of Society, Critical Infrastructure and the State - Making Society and Critical Infrastructure Resilient
Organized by Hybrid Warfare Research Institute & St. George Association
Day 0: Thursday, October 6th, 2022
20:00 Dinner for Speakers, Panel Chairs, and Guests of Honor (Invitation only)
Day 1: Friday, October 7th, 2022
08:30 – 09:00 Arrival and Registration
09:00 - 09:30 Opening Ceremony
Assist.Prof. Gordan Akrap, Hybrid Warfare Research Institute, Zagreb
Prof.Dr. Shlomo Shpiro, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan
Mr. Holger Haibach, Head of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung Office in Zagreb
Lt. General Mate Pađen, Commandant of the Croatian Defence Academy "Dr. Franjo Tuđman"
09:30- 11.00 Keynote Speakers
Konrad Adenauer Stiftung
Embassy of the USA in Croatia
NATO
Mrs. Dubravka Šuica, Vice-President (2019-2024) of European Commission for Democracy and Demography (tbc)
Mr. Andrej Plenković, President of the Government of the Republic of Croatia (tbc)
11:00-11:15 Coffee Break
11:15-13:00 Panel I
Hybrid Threats, NATO, and national case studies
Chair: General (ret., OF-9) Mirko Šundov, PhD
National Case Study I-1 - Canada
National Case Study I-2 - Finland
National Case Study I-3 - UK
National Case Study I-4 - Sweden
13:00-14:00 Lunch (one non-alcoholic beverage included)
14:00-16:00 Panel II
Hybrid Warfare in East Europe – joint Lithuanian-Ukrainian panel of national military academies
Chair: Assist.Prof. Gordan Akrap, Neil Chuka
Military academy of Ukraine: Joined operation as the main form of countering Russian hybrid aggression
Military academy of Lithuania: Total defence/whole of the government approach: the analysis or initial steps: Lithuania 2021
Military academy of Ukraine: Influence operations as part of a hybrid war against Ukraine and the West
Military academy of Lithuania: Societal resilience as the important factor in whole of the government/total defence framework: Lithuania 2021.
*(This panel papers will be updated according to the present situation and best lessons learned examples)
16:00-17:50 Panel III
Hybrid Threats, NATO, and national case studies
Chair: Prof.Dr. John Nomikos, RIEAS, Athens, Greece
National Case Study III-1 - Latvia
National Case Study III-2 - Kosovo
National Case Study III-3 - Lithuania
National Case Study III-4 - Israel
18.00-19.15 Panel IV
Hybrid Threats in a Regional Context
Chair: Prof.Dr.Shlomo Shpiro, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel
Ljubomir Filipović, Analyst, Montenegro:
Russian and Serbian Influence Operations in, and against, Montenegro
Dr. Whitney Grespin, Institute for Future Conflict, US Air Force Academy:
Countering Malicious Aspects of Hybrid warfare in the Horn of Africa: Priorities Emanating from the IGAD Centre of Excellence for PCVE (Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism)
Ephraim Lapid, The Europa Institute, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat - Gan, Israel:
Israeli Intelligence Jointness: Present and future challenges
Dr. Vira Ratsiborynska, Adjunct professor on NATO and transatlantic approaches to security, Free University of Brussels (VUB):
Disinformation, Misinformation, and use if propaganda (Case study on Russia)
20:15 -
Networking dinner for all Forum participants, (two non-alcoholic beverages included)
Day 2: Saturday, October 8th, 2022
10.00-11.40 Panel V
Hybrid Threats, NATO, and national case studies
Chair: Neil Chuka, Ministry of Defence, Canada
National Case Study II-1 - Ukraine
National Case Study II-2 - Czech Republic
National Case Study II-3 - Croatia
National Case Study II-4 - ...
11.50-13 Panel VI
Smart Critical Infrastructure Protection and Hybrid Threats
Chair: Hrvoje Sagrak, INFODOM, Croatia
David Vaandrager & Prof.Dr. Gilliam de Valk, University of Leiden:
System analysis, a horizon scan of factors – related to globalisation, interstate competition, climate, and economy – posing a threat to the critical infrastructure
Naval Lieutenant Teun van de Ven, M.A. & Prof.dr. Sebastiaan Rietjens, Netherlands Defence Academy:
Warning for hybrid threats: the role of sensemaking
Prof.Dr. Artur Gruszczak, Chair of National Security, Jagiellonian University, Krakow:
“Resilience Dividend” and the Mitigation of Hybrid Threats: Lessons Learnt and Recommendations
13:00-14:15 Lunch (one non-alcoholic beverage included)
14.15-15.30 Panel VII
Young Researchers and Hybrid Threats Resiliency
Chair: ir. Yvan de Mesmaeker, ECSA, Belgium
Eleni Kapsokoli, University of Piraeus: Electoral interference in the EU:
Regulating technology to protect democracy
Amelia Tomalska, University of Warsaw:
Critical infrastructure in the twilight zone
Mislav Novaković, University of Zagreb:
Regional security: Bosnia and Herzegovina
15.30-15.45 Forum Conclusions
Future Challenges, Joint Responses
Co-chairs: Assist.Prof. Gordan Akrap, Prof. Dr. Shlomo Shpiro
The aim of this session is to integrate the lessons learned from the individual presentations of the previous two days, both in terms of threat analysis and of networked responses. Furthermore, this session will facilitate a wider discussion on the needs for joint capacity building, intensive inter-operability, and mutual multi-level crisis assistance.
Important information:
- Forum is organised according to pandemic situation in a hybrid way – “in situ” and online
- Forum has the highest possible epidemiological standards. Entrance to the Forum area will be allowed only for persons with valid EU Digital COVID 19 certificates, with our ID accreditations and after temperature checking.
- Every activity (conference halls, restaurants, coffee breaks, rooms) are going to be organised in a Hotel due to the disease prevention.
- Forum organisers are reserving the right to change the Program according to the necessities.