The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAS)
are inviting you to a webinar focusing on the reemerging security risks
emanating from Afghanistan.





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



(New York, N.Y. / Berlin, Germany) – The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) and
the Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAS) are inviting you to a webinar 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 concentrating 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. Therefore, a clear gap in perception among policymakers and the
general public seems to exist in this regard.



In 2022, the Counter Extremism Project (CEP) and the Konrad Adenauer
Foundation (KAS) embarked on a series of events and compiled a report
highlighting and analyzing a range of these reemerging security risks connected
with the Taliban movement.



The report can be accessed here:
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With this webinar, CEP and KAS begin the public roll-out of the report,
looking at two aspects outlined in the report. The Islamic Republic of Iran
plays an increasingly problematic regional role. Not only has the regime
embarked on widescale human rights violations internally, but also has
significantly increased its malign regional influence over the past decade.
Given the highly problematic role of the Taliban regime in connection with
terrorist entities operating on Afghan soil, any cooperation between the two
regimes would greatly exacerbate the reemerging terrorist risks in the region.
The European Union counterterrorism architecture put in place and refined over
the past two decades will be crucial to counter such risks. Given the current
focus on the war in Ukraine, maintaining and strengthening these mechanisms
will be of central importance.



During this webinar, two authors of the report, Hessam Habibi Doroh,
researcher and lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences, FH Campus Wien
in Vienna, and Dr. Gerhard Conrad, member of the CEP Advisory Board, board
member of the Forum Intelligence Services in Germany, and intelligence advisor
to the Munich Security Conference will discuss these issues with Ellinor Zeino,
head of the Regional Programme Southwest Asia of KAS.



The webinar will be conducted in English via Zoom.



Date: February 28, 2023

Time: 9:00 a.m. ET / 15:00 CET to 10:30 am ET / 16:30 CET



EVENT PROGRAM:



Presentations:



Iran Facing Two Taliban: Iran-Taliban Changing Relations
Hessam Habibi Doroh
Researcher and lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences, FH Campus Wien
in Vienna



Germany and Europe’s Upcoming Fight Against Terrorism
Dr. Gerhard Conrad
Member of the CEP Advisory Board, board member of the Forum Intelligence
Services in Germany, and intelligence advisor to the Munich Security Conference



Discussant:

Dr. Ellinor Zeino
Head of the Regional Programme Southwest Asia, Konrad Adenauer Foundation



Moderator and Introductory Remarks:

Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler

Senior Director, Counter Extremism Project (CEP)



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



REGISTRATION:

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Please register up to 1 hour before the webinar start so that your
registration can be approved in time.



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