Environmental Security and Cooperation Workshop

Abstract

The United States Army in the Pacific (USARPAC), the Department of Defense (DUSD-I&E), and the United States Army War College conducted an Environmental Security Cooperation Workshop in Bangkok, Thailand from July 19-22, 2004. The workshop was a follow-on activity from the, Addressing Transnational Threats in Southeast Asia: Environmental Security and Counter Terrorism Conference held in Manila, Republic of the Philippines (RP) in December of 2003. The objectives of the Manila conference were to promote multilateral defense and counter terrorism cooperation, to identify the best practices for prevention, mitigation, and consequence management in response to man-made and natural disasters that threaten governmental legitimacy. The Bangkok workshop was focused on multilateral cooperation in developing regional approaches to building governmental legitimacy and creating conditions inhospitable to terrorism.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2004
Accession Number
ADA426330

Entities

People

  • Curtis W. Turner
  • Kent H. Butts

Organizations

  • United States Army War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Best Practices
  • Civil Defense
  • Cooperation
  • Department Of Defense
  • Disasters
  • Environmental Protection
  • Environmental Security
  • Governments
  • National Governments
  • Natural Disasters
  • Security
  • Southeast Asia
  • Terrorism
  • Terrorists
  • United States
  • War Colleges
  • Workshops

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  • Defense Technology Research and Development.
  • East Asian Political and Security Studies within the Soviet Union
  • Emergency Management and Homeland Security.