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WORLD SECURITY NETWORK FOUNDATION OFFICE IN ATHENS AND SOUTHEAST EUROPE The World Security Network Foundation has recently opened its Office in Athens, covering the South Eastern European Region. The Office will be based along the RIEAS Institute and Dr. John M. Nomikos is in charge of the ISN Athens and South Eastern Europe Office. The main tasks of the WSN-Athens & SEE Office will be: Information on World Security Network Foundation: Aims-strategy-goals: “Networking a Safer World” with the vision of implementing the goals of the UN Charter—mutual respect and tolerance, human rights, economic growth; To rouse people out of their apathy, to raise awareness of trouble spots before war breaks out, to outline proposed solutions and to draw media attention to security issues at an early stage; To network the strategic community focusing on the new young global elite in foreign and defense affairs specialists; Convey new, creative ideas and policy recommendations to decision-makers at the lightning speed of the internet A new kind of global foreign affairs action network in the age of globalization using the internet and local Task Force meetings; 46 respected experts from 14 countries—the USA, Germany, Russia, the UK, Turkey, France, Switzerland, Estonia, Serbia, Hungary, Italy, Lebanon, Pakistan and Greece—including eleven generals and admirals. World Security Network Foundation Global Reach Fifty (50) senior and mostly young editors with 25 nationalities report from New York, Washington D.C., Tokyo, Paris, Vienna, Cambridge (UK), Rome, Moscow, Singapore, Beirut, New Delhi, Germany, Greece, Belgium, Bulgaria, Turkey, China, Pakistan, Nepal and Peru led by WSN Global-Editor-in-Chief BrigGen (Ret.) Dieter Farwick, former Director of Germany's "Federal Armed Forces Intelligence Office" and close aid to former German Defense Minister and later NATO Secretary General Manfred Woerner. Global impact of the World Security Network Foundation Three million hits per month on www.worldsecuritynetwork.com, 303,000 members of the international information elite -including more than 123,000 members of foreign affairs networks, 66,000 business executives and lawyers, 41,000 professors and students of elite universities, 34,000 journalists, 19,000 foreign and defense specialists, 6,000 religious leaders and more than 3,000 members and staff of parliaments - receive WSN weekly electronic newsletter. This makes it the largest of its kind worldwide. WSN TV provides video streams with exclusive statements from leading global experts on hot topics in foreign and defense affairs. As well WSN TV, focusing on the young, new elite of the world with its WSN Academy, provides an internet-based learning platform distributing the wisdom of senior experts and mentors in basic questions of foreign policy, transferring their decades of know-how to the next generation. World Security Network Foundation. Dr John M. Nomikos MEMBERS OF THE WORLD SECURITY NETWORK FOUNDATION: Athens Dr. John M. Nomikos (Balkan Intelligence studies, Greek security studies and Transatlantic (USA-EU) Intelligence studies. Director at the Research Institute for European and American Studies and lecturer at the University of Indianapolis (Athens Campus). Member of the international Advisor Board of the World Security Network Foundation, Member of the Editorial Advisory Board for the Journal of Intelligence, Propaganda and Security Studies at the Austrian Center for Intelligence Propaganda and Security Studies, and Director of the working group "Greek Scholars for Intelligence Education." Belgrade Dr. Darko Trifunovic (Balkan security, international terrorism, Serbian politics) Lawyer & Lecturer -Security University Belgrade. Mr. Darko Trifunovic is a lawyer based in Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro and working as lecturer at the Faculty of Security University of Belgrade. He is a specialist in Terrorist and Security Studies, and was the author among other books & studies in 2002 of the study: Islamic Fundamentalists, Global Network and Modus Operandi: Model Bosnia Part I, and in 2004 Islamic Fundamentalists, Global Network and Modus Operandi: Model Bosnia, Part II published by the Documentation Center of the Government of Republica Srpska's [Bureau for Relations with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. Mr. Trifunovic was previously a diplomat (First Secretary) in the foreign service of Bosnia &Herzegovina at UN and in 2005 Adviser to the Minister of Interior of the Republic of Srpska, BIH. Since 2004, Darko Trifunovic was designate as representative for Serbia and Montenegro of International Strategic Studies Association (ISSA), Defense & Foreign Affairs publications, the Global Information System (GIS). ISSA is the Washington-based worldwide membership organization of professionals involved in national management, and particularly national and international security policy. Prof. Darko Trifunovic is Chief Editor of the prestigious University international bulletin "Security in Serbia" Russell Gordon (Serbian politics, regional development) Journalist, correspondent & professional photographer. Russell Gordon is a journalist and photographer specializing in Yugoslavia and Mexico. He was a Mexico correspondent and has worked in more than two dozen countries and covered four armed conflicts. He covered civil wars and armed conflicts in Afghanistan, Cambodia, Yugoslavia and the Bosnian Serb Republic, ethnic hostilities in Burundi, and the Zapatista rebellion in Mexico. Former Latin Trade contributor and staff photographer at La Nacion Daily in Argentina, Russell Gordon is currently based in Serbia tours the SEE Region and publishes analysis and reports. Prof. Zoran Dragisic (National Security System, Security Management, Counter-Terrorism Studies) – Faculty of Security Studies, University of Belgrade Prof. Dr. Zoran Dragisic is an Associate Professor in Security Management at the Faculty of Security Studies at the University of Belgrade. He has studied Law and Political Science and he has done research in non-international armed conflicts (Academy for International Law, Hague), Peace Studies (University of Florence), and Crisis Management (University of Florence). Currently, he conducts high-level research and analysis on issues concerning security management in the Balkans, threat assessment of organized crime, terrorism developments and counter-terrorism studies. Bucharest Manuela Paraipan (Balkan-Middle East Relations, Romanian studies) Manuela Paraipan is a Bucharest based independent foreign policy analyst. She has been published in the Washington Times, World Press Review, Yemen Times, Global Politician, Lebanon Wire, World Security Network, Ya Libnan and other publications. She has also been invited as a speaker at multiple political conferences. Sofia Prof. Jordan Baev (Security, Defense & Conflict Expert, Bulgarian studies, Historian). Associate Professor in International History and Senior Research Fellow in Security Studies at National Security & Defense Faculty of the G. S. Rakovsky Defense and Staff College in Sofia. Dr.Baev's academic record comprises international research fellowships at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington D.C., National Defence College in Stockholm, Nobel Institute in Oslo, and National Defense University in Washington D.C.In the last 25 years he wrote more than 150 publications, published in eleven languages, among them several books and documentary volumes on Cold War military and political history Florence Veljko Milutinovic (EU Law, EU-Balkan relations, market regulation expert). PHD Candidate in the European University Institute-European competition law. He has studied in the universities of Essex, Bristol (UK) and LUISS Guido Carli University of Rome. His research is on European banking law and competition and he has participated in numerous international workshop, conferences and research projects. His specialization is on European banking law with an interest on emerging & in transition markets. He speaks English, French, Serbian, Greek and Italian. Pristina Julia Nietsch (EU Integration of Western Balkans; civil society development in post-communist and post-conflict societies; Kosovo: political, social, cultural, education issues; EU development policies; development and conflict management). German Liaison Office – Attaché for Politics, Press and Cultural Affairs Studies in Germany (English, French, Philosophy), and France (Sciences- Paris). Diploma in International Relations and Development Studies. Three years of work experience in the Balkans (Kosovo and Bosnia-Herzegovina) for the OSCE, the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Languages spoken: German, French, English, Spanish, Italian, Greek, Albanian, Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian. Publications on Kosovo and on Civil Society in Kosovo and Bosnia – Herzegovina. Sarajevo Bernd Papenkort (Bosnia-Herzegovina, Balkan foreign policy, Balkan security). Thirty years military service in German Armed Forces in command and staff functions. Work experiences in International Organizations (NATO, UN) at the political-military interface. Moreover, he is a Fellow and Regional Coordinator of the Oxford Leadership Academy, South East Europe and an organizer of multilateral international & regional training programs. Skopje Christopher Deliso (Balkan security developments, Balkan history, Balkan ethnology, journalism project management) Journalist, Analyst on Balkan security. Balkanalysis.com director Christopher Deliso has lived and traveled widely in SE Europe and has a master's degree with distinction in Byzantine Studies from Oxford University (1999). Since 2001, he has published many articles on Balkan politics, economics, security issues, travel, history and culture in US and world newspapers, analysis firms such as the Economist Intelligence Unit, and in numerous magazines and websites. He is also a travel writer for Lonely Planet, covering SE Europe. He is the author of a book-to-be published in USA on Balkan security affairs and he has interviewed leading figures in the Balkans on political and diplomatic affairs. Zoran Necev (IR, CFSP, ESDP, Geopolitics of European Peripheries) Public Policy Analyst – Centre for Research and Policy Making He holds a Master degree in International Business and Public Policy from the University di Catania, Sicily, Italy. He has conducted an internship as an assistant lecturer to Prof. Francesco Strazzari at the Amsterdam Centre for Conflict Studies (ACS) at the University of Amsterdam and at the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs. In addition, Zoran Nacev has experience in institutional policy analysis and has also published reports and analyses in the media and scientific journals. Tirana Stavros Markos (Albanian politics, NGO & Minorities studies).
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