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- I'm James Howcroft.

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I'm the Program Director

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for the Program on Terrorism
and Security Studies.

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The PTSS brings together counter-terrorism

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practitioners and professionals
from around the world

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to learn about how terrorism
manifests itself today in 2019

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and more importantly, what to do about it.

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These professionals from around the world

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share their best practices and experiences

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with each other, so when they go home,

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they're better equipped
to deal with terrorism

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in their own country.

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For this particular course,
we have 63 participants

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from 47 countries from around the world.

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These practitioners are
usually mid-level officers

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and officials from a
variety of organizations

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and ministries within their government.

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I look upon the PTSS as sort
of a buffet or a smorgasbord

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of subjects and issues
to talk about terrorism

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and what people are doing about it.

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I want them to learn from each other

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what works in their respective countries,

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and then when they go home,
they choose what's applicable

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and what's useful for them to employ.

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I think the PTSS network is
probably the most important

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outcome of the course.

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We have nearly 2,000 alumni
who share best practices,

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who share information, who work together

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across borders and across
ministries on a daily basis

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to fight terrorism.

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I bring back alumni to
participate in the course.

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I have 10 alumni speakers
coming to the PTSS

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to share what their country
is doing about terrorism.

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I bring back alumni as adjunct professors.

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I have an alumni from
India, from Kazakhstan,

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from Lebanon, from Uganda, from Albania,

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and from the United States coming back

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to help me teach the PTSS this week.