CONFERENCE

Working Wicked Intelligence Challenges 

The 2022 IAFIE and IAFIE-EC Conference is hosted by École Universitaire Internationale.

The Conference will take place in the territories that have witnessed the rise of the first structured Intelligence service in the world, and have always been the bridge between west and east, forefront observer of their evolution through time;

Be with us to live what freedom and Republic are. Be with us to be a sign, a design for what freedom and Republic will be in the future.

We will meet in Treviso, near Venice, crossroad city that unites cultures, east-west, north-south for a vision of the global universe.

CONCEPT NOTE

The Working Wicked Intelligence Challenges overarching theme will focus on the practice of Intelligence operations, collection, analysis, training, and education and impact over the coming decade, considering the rapid pace of change we are experiencing in the world and the needs of the future Intelligence workforce.

A butterfly wing beat can still provoke a hurricane on the other side of the world? If we take into consideration the concept of the butterfly effect in the current scenario, it is clear how – in the current era – Intelligence officers and analysts have to be able analyse and work in scenarios with multiple movements and strategies that can rapidly change both on a small and a large scale.

What is fundamental is the need to develop the ability to have a global vision in Intelligence, to understand and anticipate the previously cited butterfly wing beat as a concept with implications outside the context of mathematics and weather science, and to describe any situation where a small change is supposed to be the cause of larger consequences. 

In the near-future Intelligence scenarios, the Intelligence Community needs analysts who can promptly analyse without overlooking in-depth and extensive collaboration as well as senior and operational officers with global knowledge and capability. Hyper-specialization has value but also limits your ability to comprehend the butterfly.

In a global context of a constantly changing Intelligence, geopolitical, political and geo-economics environment, one of the absolute priorities of Intelligence is the education and training of performing and chameleonic practitioners. National borders are becoming increasingly blurred so that the human ability to deal with unplanned and changing situations with extreme speed represents the quality that makes an Intelligence practitioner unique, developing the ability of thinking about and often foreseeing alternatives in the shortest time by being able to think of them and foresee them. The key is developing the habit of always considering alternatives.

The human being is – and always will be – essential to manage complex situations. For this reason, the Conference host École Universitaire Internationale – plays an important role on the global chessboard in developing and conducting research on specific Intelligence domains and  to how neuropsychology and neuroscience can be applied to Intelligence. This research paves the way for conceiving and offering new operational and training methods for Intelligence practitioners and offering solution for problems Intelligence practitioners and decision-makers deal with now and in the future.

CONFERENCE FORMAT

The conference format is multifaceted and developed to have a global vision of what has happened and what will happen in the near future. It has been conceived to promote an interdisciplinary and interactive exchange that leverages academic-scientific and operational knowledge to support the work of those in Intelligence fields. The conference format includes papers and panels, workshops, discussion session, posters presentation with awards and students’ discussion session, roundtables, and an Authors Roundtable.

CALL for PAPERS

It includes 6 main themes along with the general theme that addresses the general and traditional issues of Intelligence (that were also described in detail in the previous Call for Papers).

read the Call for Papers

DEADLINE

Submission of Abstracts: by: 15 April 2022.

Notification of Acceptance by: 30 April 2022.

Submission of Papers, Presentations, Workshop Material and Posters by: 25 May 2022.

Specific deadline are due for New Study Group Initiative.

PUBLICATIONS

• CONFERENCE PROCEEDING: All presenters will be encouraged to submit 1-page summary of each paper/presentation/poster with the aim to make it available to the IAFIE-Members section of the IAFIE website and to the entire IAFIE Community promoting your work. IAFIE will announce the requirements when sending an email notifying you of acceptance of the abstract.
• JOURNAL ARTICLE: Presenters will be encouraged to submit papers for publication in the peer-reviewed Journal of Security, Intelligence, and Resilience Education (JSIRE). Those interested in publishing their papers in JSIRE must submit their final draft article by 31 July 2022. IAFIE will announce the requirements for a paper when email acceptance notification.

For a full-experience conference, you can enroll for a PRE and POST workshop delivered by international experts:

–A IAFIE has partnered with PHERSON/Globalytica to provide exclusive training opportunities for IAFIE members at the IAFIE Conference in Treviso, Italy, 19-22 June 2022.

The topic is: The Impact of Global Climate Change on Law Enforcement and Security Forces. The workshop will be held on Saturday and Sunday,18-19 June from 0900 to 1600 and will be taught by Randy Pherson and Kathy Pherson. The conference kick-off reception will be held Sunday night.

IAFIE/Globalytica Course Fee:    $495 professional / $295 student

Early Bird Discount:

Register before May 1:                $445 professional / $245 student

Workshop attendance is limited – register now to receive your discount and ensure your participation: https://shop.globalytica.com/collections/iap/products/iafie-strategic-foresight-sat-certificate-workshop

Attendees will be candidates for receiving an Intelligence Analysis Professional (IAP) Certification and internet badge documenting their proficiency in Foresight Structured Analytic Techniques. This will require doing a post-course capstone exercise and passing an exam. 

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