The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAS)
invite you to a webinar on Thursday, June 29, 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.





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CEP-KAS Webinar: The Taliban’s Takeover In Afghanistan – Effects On Global
Terrorism



This webinar was originally scheduled for June 7, 2023, and has been
rescheduled for June 29, 2023



(New York, N.Y. / Berlin, Germany) – The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) and
the Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAS) invite you to a webinar on Thursday, June
29, 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 regional and international terrorist
threats emanating from the situation in Afghanistan. The first is the ongoing
threat of foreign terrorist fighters (FTFs) that currently operate in
Afghanistan and the latent threat of new FTF flows to the country. Secondly,
the withdrawal of international forces from Afghanistan and the subsequent
swift takeover of power by the Taliban, the traditional protectors of
al-Qaeda-Core, sent a strong message to the international terrorist community
that victory is possible.



The webinar will be conducted in English via Zoom.



Date: Thursday, June 29, 2023

Time: 10:00 a.m. ET / 16:00 CET to 11:30 am ET / 17:30 CET



EVENT PROGRAM:



Presentations:



Should I Go Or Should I Stay: Foreign Terrorist Fighter Mobilization After The
Taliban’s Takeover In Afghanistan

Sofia Koller

Senior Research Analyst, Counter Extremism Project (CEP)



Taliban Regime: Effects On Global Terrorist Organizations

Dr. Guido Steinberg

Senior Fellow at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs
(Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP), Member of the CEP Advisory Board



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 and Introductory Remarks:

Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler

Senior Director, Counter Extremism Project



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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