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The key note speaker was Dr. Hans-Jakob Schinder, Senior Director of the CounterExtremism Project (CEP), New York, and a former UNSC diplomat

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Program

Welcome and Introduction

Dr. Ellinor Zeino, KAS Resident Representative

First session: Transnational Jihadism from a Global and Regional Perspective

Chair: Intizar Khadim

Transnational Terrorist Groups in Syria and Iraq

Nils Wörmer, Head of Department for Foreign & Security Affairs, KAS, Berlin

Recent Global Developments of Transnational Terrorist and Jihadist groups (al-Qaida & IS)

Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler, Senior Director Counterterrorism Project, New York

Transnational Elements of the Afghan Insurgency: Recent Developments and its Implication for Peace and Stability in Afghanistan

Deputy Director, CAPS Center for Peace and Conflict Studies

Q & A

Lunch Buffet

Second session: National Insurgency and Transnational Jihadism in the Afghan Context

Chair: Dr. Ellinor Zeino, KAS Country Representative

Recent Observations of Radicalisation in Syria

UNDP Damascus, Syria

Faith and Identity in a community bound by history in the Age of Global Jihadism

Country Director, American Institute of Afghanistan Studies
The Taliban: Political aspiration, military strategy, and recruitment

Lecturer Kardan University

Current Jihadist Trends in North Afghanistan

Journalist LA Times

Local legitimacy of the Taliban Movements – Findings from Field Research in Faryab Province

Dr. Florian Weigand, PostDoc, London School of Economics

Q & A / Conclusion