The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAS)
invite you to a webinar on Thursday, July 6, 2023, focusing on the reemerging
security risks emanating from Afghanistan. More than two years after the
forceful takeover of power in Afghanistan by the Taliban regime, much of the
public discussion is justifiably concentrated on the dire humanitarian
circumstances in the country and the Taliban’s ever-increasing return to their
harsh rule of the 1990s, including brutal and public punishments and the near
total exclusion of women from education as well as professional and public life.





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CEP-KAS Webinar: The Taliban’s Takeover In Afghanistan – Effects On Global
Terrorism | Part III Of Webinar Series



(New York, N.Y. / Berlin, Germany) – The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) and
the Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAS) invite you to a webinar on Thursday, July
6, 2023, focusing on the reemerging security risks emanating from Afghanistan.



More than two years after the forceful takeover of power in Afghanistan by the
Taliban regime, much of the public discussion is justifiably concentrated on
the dire humanitarian circumstances in the country and the Taliban’s
ever-increasing return to their harsh rule of the 1990s, including brutal and
public punishments and the near total exclusion of women from education as well
as professional and public life. Less attention has been paid to the security
and terrorist threats that are likely to emerge from the new situation in
Afghanistan.



In 2022, CEP and KAS embarked on a series of events and compiled the report,
The Taliban’s Takeover in Afghanistan – Effects on Global Terrorism
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highlighting and analyzing a range of these reemerging security risks connected
with the Taliban movement.



This webinar will focus on two of the key terrorist threats emanating from the
situation in Afghanistan. The Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP) is one of
the most active regional affiliates of ISIS’s global network. ISKP remains in a
complex relationship with the Taliban, in particular the powerful Haqqani
Network and has operational ambitions that are not confined to Afghanistan.
Furthermore, due to the symbiotic relationship of the Taliban movement with a
wide range of terror groups, which the movement shelters and protects, as well
as with the illegal drug industry in Afghanistan, the risks of aid diversion
for the financing of terrorism and large-scale money laundering are
significant. Therefore, more effective monitoring and control mechanisms should
be introduced to mitigate these risks.



The webinar will be conducted in English via Zoom.



Date: Thursday, July 6, 2023

Time: 08:00 a.m. ET / 14:00 CET to 9:30 am ET / 15:30 CET



EVENT PROGRAM:



Opening Remarks:

Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler

Senior Director, Counter Extremism Project (CEP)



Presentations:



Daesh in Afghanistan

Khalilullah Safi

Founder and director of the Afghanistan Peace Studies Organization (APSO)



The Taliban Regime: Regional and International Financial Risks

Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler

Senior Director, Counter Extremism Project (CEP)



Discussant:

Ambassador Edmund Fitton-Brown

Former Coordinator of the ISIL, Al-Qaeda and Taliban Monitoring Team of the
United Nations Security Council, Member of the CEP Advisory Board



Moderator:

Dr. Ellinor Zeino

Head of the Regional Programme Southwest Asia

Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAS), Tashkent



The presentations will be followed by a Q&A-session open to all participants.



REGISTRATION:



To participate in this webinar please register via this link:

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Please register up to one hour before the webinar start so that your
registration can be approved in time.


This webinar is part of a series of online and in-person events through which
CEP and KAS are presenting its jointpublication
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A recording of the first webinar of this series can be found here:
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Please feel free to forward this invitation to colleagues with an interest in
the subject.



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