Border Regimes & Border Issues Within an Integrating APSC: Society, Security, and Development

20 – 21 December 2012, Windsor Suites Hotel, Bangkok

Jointly hosted by Hanns Seidel Foundation and the German-Southeast Asian Center of Excellence for Public Policy and Good Governance (CPG), Faculty of Law, Thammasat University

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Agenda

December 20, 2012:

Topic: Security Sensitive Border Regions in Southeast Asia – Risk Analysis and Assessment of the Current Security Situation

Speaker:

Dr. Arabinda Acharya, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technology University

“Terrorist Threat Across the Borders of Southeast Asia”

Panel discussion: Thailand’s Border Regions – Main Issues and Concerns

HE. Kasit Piromya, Member of Parliament, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Thailand

HE. Horst Rudolf, Senior Advisor for Myanmar Affairs

Michiko Ito, Resettlement Officer, International Organization for Migration, Country Mission in Thailand

Topic: Operational Measures, Instruments and Strategies in Border Area Related Insurgency Scenarios

Speaker:

Col. (ret.) Karl-Bernhard Müller

“Restoring the Rule of Law in Border Areas – Strategic Approaches in Germany and Europe”

Keynote:

Mohd Zaini bin Mohd Akhir, Police Deputy Superintendent, Special Task Force Operations Counter Terrorism Division, Royal Malaysia Police

Panel discussion:

Henning Glaser, Head, German-Southeast Asian Center of Excellence for Public Policy and Good Governance (CPG)

Mohd Zaini bin Mohd Akhir, Police Deputy Superintendent, Special Task Force Operations Counter Terrorism Division, Royal Malaysia Police

Col. (ret.) Karl-Bernhard Müller

Col. Amnat Pooksrisuk, Royal Thai Army

December 21, 2012:

Topic: Organizational Structures and Legal Regimes

Panel presentations:

HE. Dr. Warawit Kanithasen, Senior Research Fellow CPG

Pol. Lt.-Gen. Suthin Khieorat, Border Patrol Police Commander (ret.), Royal Thai Police

Carolina Tinangon, First Secretary, Embassy of the Republic of Indonesia

Topic: The Border as Socio-Political Field

Keynote:

Thomas Koruth Samuel, Director (Research and Publication Division), Southeast Asia Regional Center for Counter-Terrorism, Kuala-Lumpur

“Youth and Violence”

Panel discussion: The Border as Socio-Political Field

HE. Dato Nazirah Hussain, Ambassador of The Kingdom of Malaysia

HE. Kamthorn Sithtichote, Advisor, Southern Border Provinces Administration Center

Samart Maluleem, Chairman, Committee for Border Affairs, House of Representatives

Angkana Neelapaijit, Justice for Peace Foundation (JPF)

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