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SUMMARY:CINA Distinguished Speaker Series with Colton Seale
DESCRIPTION:Interviewer Mindset  \nJoin us on Tuesday\, March 11 for the upcoming virtual CINA Distinguished Speaker Series event featuring Colton Seale\, Founder and Principal Consultant at Pyxis Academy\, as he delves into the art and science of Intelligence Interviewing and what he’s learned from his 20 years as an FBI Special Agent with the High-Value Detainee Interrogation Group and Counterterrorism Fly Team. \nThis event will take place virtually via MS Teams. The information to attend virtually will be sent to participants upon registration. Faculty\, students\, industry\, and government attendees are welcome. \n  \nREGISTER NOW \n  \nAbstract \nDrawing from extensive experience in FBI investigations\, counterterrorism operations\, and research with the High-Value Detainee Interrogation Group (HIG)\, this presentation explores the critical role of interviewer mindset in conducting effective interviews. While traditional interrogation methods often rely on rigid procedures and control\, modern evidence-based approaches emphasize the importance of three key components: self-awareness\, confidence\, and genuine curiosity. Through real-world examples ranging from domestic criminal cases to international terrorism investigations\, the talk demonstrates how developing the right mindset—one that combines thorough preparation with adaptability and emphasizes understanding over confrontation—leads to more successful outcomes in even the most challenging interviews. The presentation argues that effective interviewing is not just about mastering techniques\, but about developing an ethos that allows interviewers to creatively apply research-based methodologies while maintaining focus on gathering accurate information rather than simply seeking confessions. This approach not only yields better intelligence and evidence but also proves more effective in building cooperation and eliciting truthful information across all types of interviews. \n  \nSpeaker Biography: \nCEO of Pyxis Academy\, Colton equips corporate leaders with the skills to master difficult conversations and navigate challenging workplace situations. With over 20 years of experience as an FBI Special Agent\, he has developed a program that surpasses the usual way of intelligence training and collection\, based on science and research. \nColton’s passion is to share his knowledge and expertise with clients who want to improve their communication\, rapport\, and influence\, regardless of their domain. He has trained more than 8\,000 students across the U.S. Intelligence Community\, Military\, and Law Enforcement\, as well as in over 15 countries globally. Colton has also received multiple commendations and awards for his outstanding performance and achievements in the intelligence field\, including the FBI Director’s Award and the National Intelligence Community Citation.
URL:https://cina.gmu.edu/event/8085/
LOCATION:Virtual\, Microsoft Teams
CATEGORIES:Information Session,Research Presentation,Seminar,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250129T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250129T133000
DTSTAMP:20260518T162809
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SUMMARY:CINA Distinguished Speaker Series with Abby Stylianou
DESCRIPTION:TraffickCam: Identifying Where Victims of Human Trafficking and Child Sexual Abuse are Photographed \nJoin us on Wednesday\, January 29 for the upcoming virtual CINA Distinguished Speaker Series event featuring Dr. Abby Stylianou\, Associate Professor of Computer Science at Saint Louis University\, and a Fellow of the Taylor Geospatial Institute as she discusses “TraffickCam: Identifying Where Victims of Human Trafficking and Child Sexual Abuse are Photographed.” \nThis event will take place virtually via MS Teams. The information to attend virtually will be sent to participants upon registration. Faculty\, students\, industry\, and government attendees are welcome. \n  \nREGISTER NOW \n  \nAbstract \nVictims of child sexual abuse and human trafficking are often photographed in hotel rooms. Identifying the hotels in these photographs is a top priority for investigators and prosecutors — they show where a victim has been and where their abused may move them or others in the future. In this talk\, Dr. Abby Stylianou will introduce TraffickCam\, platform for identifying the locations in these victim images. The platform includes a crowd-sourcing mobile application to collect images of hotel rooms from the traveling public that is currently used by over 250\,000 individuals who upload photos specifically to help combat trafficking. The data from this app\, combined with millions of publicly available images from travel websites\, support a first-in-the-world system for image search to identify hotels in trafficking imagery that is deployed at the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC). Dr. Stylianou will present the technical details behind this search system and the research that’s led to its current capabilities\, share lessons learned about real world investigative image search from years of working with the analysts at NCMEC\, and discuss the challenges and opportunities in this space in the current AI ecosystem. \n  \nSpeaker Biography:\nDr. Abby Stylianou is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Saint Louis University\, and a Fellow of the Taylor Geospatial Institute. Dr. Stylianou’s research lies at the intersection of multimodal image retrieval\, fine grained visual categorization\, and explainable AI. In recent years\, Dr. Stylianou’s research has focused on building citizen science data collection applications and global scale image search tools\, specifically to support the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children’s investigations of child sexual abuse and human trafficking. Dr. Stylianou is generally excited about applications of computer vision and machine learning that have the potential to benefit society in some way. Beyond the work to help in investigations of child sexual abuse and human trafficking\, she has worked on developing systems for making measurements of the natural environment in time-lapse imagery to understand climate change\, observing how individuals interact with the world around them in outdoor webcam images to support better design of the built environment\, and developing new vision and machine learning algorithms and systems for agriculture and plant breeding to develop more sustainable\, more resilient\, and healthier crops. Dr. Stylianou is the Communications Officer for the IEEE Technical Community on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence\, and regularly serves as Social Media Chair and Area Chair for a variety of premier computer vision conferences\, including CVPR\, ICCV\, ECCV and WACV.
URL:https://cina.gmu.edu/event/stylianou/
LOCATION:Virtual\, Microsoft Teams
CATEGORIES:Information Session,Research Presentation,Seminar,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240416T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240416T133000
DTSTAMP:20260518T162809
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SUMMARY:CINA Distinguished Speaker Series with Christian Meissner
DESCRIPTION:Mitigating Resistance by Developing Rapport and Trust in Investigative Interviews\nJoin us on Tuesday\, April 16 for the upcoming virtual CINA Distinguished Speaker Series event featuring Christian Meissner\, Professor and Director of Graduate Education in the Department of Psychology at Iowa State University as he discusses “Mitigating Resistance by Developing Rapport and Trust in Investigative Interviews.” \nThis event will take place virtually via MS Teams. The information to attend virtually will be sent to participants upon registering. \nREGISTER NOW \n  \nAbstract \nMore than a decade of research on interviews and interrogations has led to a model of science-based practice. Studies supporting the effectiveness of this model will be discussed including: (i) specific approaches for developing rapport and trust\, and (ii) a framework for understanding and mitigating the motivations that drive resistance behaviors by interview subjects. \n  \nSpeaker Biography \n \nChristian Meissner is currently Professor and Director of Graduate Education in the Department of Psychology at Iowa State University. He received a Ph.D. in Cognitive & Behavioral Science from Florida State University (2001) and conducts empirical studies on the psychological processes involved in developing rapport and trust\, understanding resistance motivations\, facilitating recollection\, and assessing credibility in investigative interviews. Dr. Meissner’s research has been funded by the National Science Foundation\, the U.S. Departments of Defense\, Justice\, and Homeland Security\, and the U.S. Intelligence Community. His scholarly and practice contributions have been recognized by such organizations such as the American Psychology-Law Society (Div. 41 of the American Psychological Association)\, the International Investigative Interviewing Research Group\, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. He is an elected Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science\, the American Psychological Association\, and the Psychonomic Society.
URL:https://cina.gmu.edu/event/cina-distinguished-speaker-series-with-christian-meissner/
LOCATION:Virtual\, Microsoft Teams
CATEGORIES:Research Presentation,Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230928T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230928T133000
DTSTAMP:20260518T162809
CREATED:20230908T153632Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230908T153905Z
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SUMMARY:CINA Distinguished Speaker Series with Nick Nikiforakis: "Bridgespotting: How Web3 Attackers Target Web2 Cryptocurrency Users"
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Thursday\, September 28th\, for the virtual CINA Distinguished Speaker Series event featuring Nick Nikiforakis\, Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Stony Brook University as he discusses “Bridgespotting: How Web3 Attackers Target Web2 Cryptocurrency Users.” \n  \nREGISTER NOW \n  \nThe talk will take place from 12:00-12:45 p.m.\, with an interactive audience Q&A from 12:45-1:30 p.m.  \nCall-in details for the virtual meeting will be provided upon registration. \nPresentation Abstract \nAs cryptocurrencies increase in popularity and users obtain and manage their own assets\, attackers are pivoting from just abusing cryptocurrencies as a payment mechanism\, to stealing crypto assets from end users. Since only a small fraction of users own crypto assets\, attackers must somehow identify these users among the crowd\, in order to target them. \nIn this presentation\, we will introduce the concept of Web2-to-Web3 bridges\, i.e.\, ways that attackers discover users on the traditional web in order to attack their cryptocurrency (i.e. Web3) assets. First\, we will cover one of the most popular social-engineering attacks involving fake crypto giveaway events and describe our system for automatically discovering these attacks in the wild. We will review patterns and characteristics of more than 10K giveaway scams that our tool discovered over a period of 6 months and trace these scams back to attacker wallets and millions of dollars worth of stolen funds. Second\, we will present a different bridge targeting users who are interested in personal-finance content. We will show how attackers are relying on automation to bait users on large video platforms before moving them over to an instant-messaging medium where they eventually try to steal their crypto assets. Throughout the talk\, we will describe how automation\, network-security mechanisms\, and public APIs can be combined to produce accurate and automated solutions that can identify Web3 attacks\, giving a chance to defenders to disrupt these bridges before user assets are irrevocably lost. \n  \nSpeaker Bio \nDr. Nick Nikiforakis (PhD’13) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Stony Brook University. He leads the PragSec Lab\, where his students conduct research in cyber security\, with a focus on web security\, web privacy\, DNS security\, attack-surface reduction\, and deception-based security. He is the author of more than 80 peer-reviewed academic publications and his work is often discussed in the popular press. He is the recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER award (2020)\, the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award (2020)\, as well as a range of other security-related and privacy-related awards by federal funding agencies.
URL:https://cina.gmu.edu/event/cina-distinguished-speaker-series-with-nick-nikiforakis-bridgespotting-how-web3-attackers-target-web2-cryptocurrency-users/
LOCATION:Virtual\, Microsoft Teams
CATEGORIES:Seminar,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230419T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230419T133000
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SUMMARY:CINA Distinguished Speaker Series with Joe Weiss: "Control System Cyber Security is More than Network Cyber Security"
DESCRIPTION:“Control System Cyber Security is More than Network Cyber Security”\nJoin us on Wednesday\, April 19 for the upcoming virtual CINA Distinguished Speaker Series event featuring Joe Weiss\, Managing Director at Applied Control Solutions\, LLC as he discusses “Control System Cyber Security is More than Network Cyber Security.” \nThis event will take place virtually via Zoom as well as via YouTube live stream. The information to attend virtually will be sent to participants upon registering. \nREGISTER NOW \n  \nAbstract: \nDefense and critical infrastructures including electric grids\, water systems\, manufacturing\, transportation\, etc. rely on control systems. Control systems consist of engineering devices “owned” by engineering and Ethernet networks “owned” by network security. Networks have cyber security\, cyber forensic capabilities\, and network personnel have cyber security training and a cyber security ethic. The engineering devices have no cyber security\, cyber forensic capabilities\, and the engineers have no cyber security training nor cyber security ethic. The culture gap is the defensive network people do not understand the control systems and generally won’t reach out to the engineers and the engineers view cyber security as e-mail” and do not feel cyber affects them. Meanwhile\, the offensive cyber people realize attacking control system devices can cause great harm to physical equipment with no attribution or cyber detection. Applying inappropriate network cyber security technologies have impacted the operation of the control system field devices exacerbating the culture divide. There have been more than 17 million control system cyber incidents that have directly resulted in more than 34\,000 deaths and many region-wide electric outages. Despite the improvement in network security technologies\, sophisticated attackers can compromise IP networks as demonstrated by Solarwinds. Ransomware has shut down manufacturing facilities due to “an abundance of caution:” Industrial\, manufacturing\, and transportation facilities cannot be protected by addressing networks alone. Consequently\, technologies have been demonstrated that can provide an unhackable approach to control system devices which can help overcome the cultural divide while improving reliability\, productivity\, and process safety. \n  \nBiography: \n \nJoe Weiss is an expert on control system cyber security. In 2000\, he helped start the control system cyber security program for the electric utilities. He has published over 80 papers on instrumentation and control systems\, control system cyber security\, book chapters on cyber security for electric substations\, water/wastewater\, data centers\, and cyber policy\, and authored Protecting Industrial Control Systems from Electronic Threats. He has amassed a database of more than 17 million control system incidents. He is an ISA Fellow\, Managing Director of ISA99\, a Ponemon Institute Fellow\, and an IEEE Senior Member. He was featured in Richard Clarke’s book- Warning – Finding Cassandras to Stop Catastrophes. He has patents on instrumentation\, control systems\, and OT networks\, is a registered professional engineer and has CISM and CRISC certifications.
URL:https://cina.gmu.edu/event/cina-distinguished-speaker-series-with-joe-weiss-control-system-cyber-security-is-more-than-network-cyber-security/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Research Presentation,Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230412T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230412T114500
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SUMMARY:CINA Research Findings Presentation: “Understanding Cryptomixing Services in Context of the Open and Dark Web”
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Wednesday\, April 12th\, from 11:00 – 11:45 a.m. for a webinar on “Understanding Cryptomixing Services in Context of the Open and Dark Web.” \nThe Internet has become a popular marketplace for the sale of illicit products\, including stolen personal information\, drugs\, and firearms. Many of these products are purchased using cryptocurrencies\, which is generally defined as forms of digital currency that are traceable through blockchain ledger technology. Cryptocurrencies are thought to be more secure than other forms of digital payment\, though law enforcement and financial service providers have found ways to investigate account holders and their transactions. Consequently\, several service providers have begun to offer cryptomixing services\, which effectively launders payments to circumvent detection and investigation tools. Few have explored the practices of cryptomixing services\, or the ways in which they are marketed on the Open and Dark Web. This inductive qualitative analysis will examine a sample of 18 cryptomixing services advertised on both the Open and Dark Web to better understand cryptomixing and its role in facilitating illicit transactions in various contexts. \nThe findings presented during this webinar are informed by work led by Dr. Thomas J. Holt (Michigan State University) through an active CINA project\, “Understanding the Economy and Social Organization of the Underground Market for Cybercrime as a Service.” \nThis webinar is open only to attendees from DHS\, federal government\, and state and local law enforcement. \nCall-in details for the virtual meeting will be provided upon registration. \n  \nREGISTER NOW \n  \nSpeaker Biography \nThomas J. Holt is a Professor in the School of Criminal Justice at Michigan State University specializing in cybercrime\, technology\, and deviance. His research focuses on computer hacking\, malware\, and the role that technology and the Internet play in facilitating all manner of crime and terror. Dr. Holt has been published in a variety of academic journals\, including British Journal of Criminology\, Crime and Delinquency\, Deviant Behavior\, and the Journal of Criminal Justice.  He is also a coauthor of the books Cybercrime and Digital Forensics: An Introduction (2015) and Cybercrime in Progress: Theory and Prevention of Technology-Enabled Offenses (2016)\, both published through Routledge.
URL:https://cina.gmu.edu/event/cina-research-findings-presentation-understanding-cryptomixing-services-in-context-of-the-open-and-dark-web/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Research Presentation,Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230308T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230308T133000
DTSTAMP:20260518T162809
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SUMMARY:CINA Distinguished Speaker Series with Nic McKinley: "Using Transaction Data to Disrupt Illicit Commodity Markets"
DESCRIPTION:Disrupting Global Human Trafficking Networks\nJoin us on Wednesday\, March 8 for the upcoming virtual CINA Distinguished Speaker Series event featuring Nic McKinley\, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of DeliverFund as he discusses “Using Transaction Data to Disrupt Illicit Commodity Markets.” \nThis event will take place virtually via Zoom as well as via YouTube live stream. The information to attend virtually will be sent to participants upon registering. \nREGISTER NOW \n  \nAbstract: \nIllicit markets for commodities involve transactional nodes that delineate the commercial interactions between participants. These nodes represent crucial opportunities for stakeholders such as law enforcement\, regulators\, and industry partners to gather and analyze data\, with the aim of thwarting the sale of illegal goods. Nic McKinleywill elaborate on this theme by drawing on the specific case of human trafficking. Through his presentation\, McKinley will underscore how proficient data collection and analysis can expedite the identification of pertinent information\, leading to more precise and expeditious intervention. \n  \nBiography: \n \nNic McKinley – As an Operative who served as a Country Chief for a Special Unit within the CIA\, Nic witnessed not only the epidemic of child trafficking within illicit markets\, but also the unrealized opportunity to apply his understanding and training to influence this global crisis. As Nic began to work with experts to better understand the problem in the United States\, he found it impossible to turn a blind eye. \nAs a result\, DeliverFund was officially established as a 501c3 in October 2014 and our counter human trafficking organization\, focused on ending sex slavery in the United States got to work. Nic spent 11 years in US Special Operations as an Air Force Pararescueman prior to being recruited to the Central Intelligence Agency. Due to his highly specialized training and experience in both special and intelligence operations\, Nic has a firm understanding about these illicit\, illegal markets and has the highest levels of training to effectively combat them.
URL:https://cina.gmu.edu/event/cina-distinguished-speaker-series-with-nic-mckinley/
LOCATION:Virtual (Zoom Meeting)
CATEGORIES:Research Presentation,Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221207T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221207T133000
DTSTAMP:20260518T162809
CREATED:20221129T002140Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221129T002140Z
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SUMMARY:CINA Distinguished Speaker Series: "Working with Law Enforcement and Brands to Hold Bad Actors Accountable and Protect Consumers" with Joe Wheatley
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Wednesday\, December 7 for the upcoming virtual CINA Distinguished Speaker Series event featuring Joe Wheatley\, Senior Corporate Counsel of the Amazon Counterfeit Crimes Unit where he will discuss “Working with Law Enforcement and Brands to Hold Bad Actors Accountable and Protect Consumers.” \nThis event will take place virtually via Zoom. The information to attend virtually will be sent to participants upon registering. \nREGISTER NOW \n  \n 
URL:https://cina.gmu.edu/event/cina-distinguished-speaker-series-working-with-law-enforcement-and-brands-to-hold-bad-actors-accountable-and-protect-consumers-with-joe-wheatley/
LOCATION:Virtual (Zoom Meeting)
CATEGORIES:Information Session,Research Presentation,Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220922T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220922T133000
DTSTAMP:20260518T162809
CREATED:20220801T181615Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221109T181726Z
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SUMMARY:CINA Distinguished Speaker Series: Arun Ross – “Privacy in the era of automated face recognition”
DESCRIPTION:Tune in on Thursday\, September 22nd at 12:00 p.m. when Arun Ross\, Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Michigan State University and the Director of the i-PRoBe Lab will talk about privacy implications of automated face recognition (AFR) technology. Ross will describe the auxiliary information that can be extracted from face images and the ability to link disparate face images using AFR\, thereby divulging the identity of individuals in applications where anonymity is expected. The purpose of this talk is to help explore the boundaries of this powerful technology as it intersects with societal expectations and perceptions on one hand\, and the need for reliable human identification technology on the other hand.  \nThis event will take place virtually via Zoom. The information to attend virtually will be sent to participants upon registering. \nREGISTER NOW \n  \nSpeaker Biography: \nArun Ross is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Michigan State University (MSU) and the Director of the i-PRoBe Lab. He received the B.E. (Hons.) degree in Computer Science from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science\, Pilani\, India\, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science and Engineering from Michigan State University. He is the coauthor of the textbook “Introduction to Biometrics” and the monograph “Handbook of Multibiometrics\,” and the co-editor of “Handbook of Biometrics”.
URL:https://cina.gmu.edu/event/2889/
CATEGORIES:Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220217T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220217T133000
DTSTAMP:20260518T162809
CREATED:20211207T194546Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220216T174640Z
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SUMMARY:CINA Distinguished Speaker Series: Jay Kennedy - "The Future of Counterfeiting"
DESCRIPTION:Tune in on Thursday\, February 17 at 12:00 p.m. when Jay Kennedy\, Assistant Professor at Michigan State University will discuss “The Future of Counterfeiting:\nShifting Patterns in Enforcement\, Opportunity Structures and Consumer Engagement”. \nIn this presentation Dr. Kennedy will discuss: \n\nThe value and importance of public-private collaboration in addressing counterfeiting risks for consumers\nThe shifting dynamics of e-commerce and social commerce and how consumers are responding;\nEmerging socio-technical changes that are impacting counterfeiting schemes and consumer complicity\nThe impact of global supply/manufacturing developments (supply chain shortages\, Free Trade Zones) on global counterfeiting schemes.\n\nDr. Kennedy is actively involved in research\, education\, and outreach efforts that focus on external partners including corporations\, industry associations\, and law enforcement agencies. \nThis event will be completely virtual. \n  \nREGISTER NOW \n  \nSpeaker Biography: \nDr. Jay P. Kennedy is an Assistant Professor at Michigan State University\, jointly appointed to the School of Criminal Justice and the Center for Anti-Counterfeiting and Product Protection where serves the Assistant Director of Research. He is a Faculty Affiliate with the Michigan State University Graduate School\, and an Affiliated Faculty member with the Institute for Public Policy and Social Research\, the Center for Business and Social Analytics\, and the Canadian Studies Center. Dr. Kennedy’s current research explores managerial and organizational responses to employee theft within small and medium enterprises and the sale of counterfeit goods on the Internet through social media and e-commerce. His work has been published in a number of outlets\, including Criminology and Public Policy\, American Behavioral Scientist\, Maritime Economics and Logistics\, Criminal Justice Review\, Journal of Crime and Justice\, Journal of Financial Crime\,Security Journal\, and Victims and Offenders. He is currently serving as an elected board member of the American Society of Criminology’s Division of White-Collar and Corporate Crime and is an editorial board member for the Journal of White-Collar and Corporate Crime and the International Journal of Cybercrime Intelligence and Cybersecurity.
URL:https://cina.gmu.edu/event/cina-distinguished-speaker-series-jay-kennedy-anti-counterfeiting-and-product-protection/
LOCATION:Virtual (Zoom Meeting)
CATEGORIES:Research Presentation,Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220111T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220111T133000
DTSTAMP:20260518T162809
CREATED:20210921T181727Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211217T182815Z
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SUMMARY:CINA Distinguished Speaker Series: Lindsey Roberson\, Human Trafficking Institute
DESCRIPTION:Tune in on Tuesday\, January 11 at 12:00 p.m. when Lindsey Roberson\, Executive Director of Legal Engagement at the Human Trafficking Institute speaks about her organization’s work in developing and advocating for innovative and data-driven strategies for combatting human trafficking based on proven victim-centered enforcement models. \nThis is a completely virtual event. \nREGISTER NOW \n  \nSpeaker Biography: \nLindsey Roberson oversees HTI’s Country Programs prosecution efforts in Uganda and Belize\, where she focuses on increasing the specialized knowledge of prosecutors and other criminal justice practitioners handling human trafficking cases. Lindsey also leads HTI’s Thought Leadership team\, which develops and advocates for innovative and data-driven strategies for combatting human trafficking based on proven victim-centered enforcement models. Lindsey is an experienced federal and state prosecutor\, with over a decade of anti-trafficking litigation experience. Most recently she served as a trial attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice’s Human Trafficking Prosecution Unit\, a component of the Criminal Section of the Civil Rights Division which focuses on enforcing the federal laws that prohibit forced labor and sex trafficking in the United States. Before her work as a federal prosecutor\, Lindsey served as an assistant district attorney in North Carolina\, where she prosecuted some of the first sex trafficking cases to conviction and drafted the state’s Safe Harbor Act for Victims of Sex Trafficking. Lindsey is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s School of Law and served as a law clerk to the Honorable James C. Fox for the Eastern District of North Carolina following graduation.
URL:https://cina.gmu.edu/event/cina-distinguished-speaker-series-lindsey-roberson-human-trafficking-institute/
LOCATION:Virtual (Zoom Meeting)
CATEGORIES:Seminar,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211112T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211112T130000
DTSTAMP:20260518T162809
CREATED:20210830T205237Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211022T141848Z
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SUMMARY:CINA Virtual Distinguished Speaker Series: Marie Tillyer “Place-Based Improvements for Public Safety: Public Regulation\, Private Investment\, and Changes in Crime at Micro-places Across 6 US Cities"
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Friday\, November 12 at 11:30 a.m. when Dr. Marie Tillyer\, Professor of Criminology & Criminal Justice at the University of Texas at San Antonio discusses place-based improvements for public safety: Public regulation\, private investment\, and changes in crime at micro-places across 6 US cities. This event will be completely virtual.\n  \nREGISTER NOW \n \nResearch on spatiotemporal crime patterns reveals that crime is concentrated at relatively few micro-places (e.g.\, addresses\, intersections\, street segments)\, it tends to be stable over time\, and changes at a small proportion of micro-places can have a considerable effect on a city’s overall crime level. These findings have prompted calls for targeted place-based interventions to efficiently allocate scarce prevention resources.  This presentation uses data from six unique urban landscapes (Chicago\, Los Angeles\, New York City\, Philadelphia\, San Antonio\, and Seattle) to explore spatiotemporal crime patterns.  Specifically\, we examine the relationship between two mechanisms for place-based improvements – public regulation in the form of municipal code enforcement and private investment in the form of building permits – and changes in crime at street segments over time.  The findings highlight how non-criminal justice policies\, such as incentivizing targeted private investment and prioritizing code enforcement at crime hot spots\, might be strategically implemented to enhance public safety. \n  \nSpeaker Biography: \nMarie Skubak Tillyer\, who serves as Principal Investigator on the project\, is a professor of criminology and criminal justice at the University of Texas at San Antonio. She has published over 40 peer reviewed journal articles\, with a focus on violence\, victimization\, and the spatial distribution of crime. She is co-author of School Zone: A Problem Analysis of Student Offending and Victimization (forthcoming\, Temple University Press)\, a place-focused analysis of crime involving adolescents in schools\, and current Co-Principal Investigator on a prospective\, longitudinal study funded by the National Institute of Justice examining the cumulative financial costs of victimization among college students at minority serving institutions.  In addition\, her past applied research has examined community supervision outcomes\, violence reduction\, crime analysis\, and human trafficking.  Much of her research is informed by an environmental criminological perspective that examines crime events and the immediate spatiotemporal circumstances in which they occur. Her collaborations with Drs. Walter and Acolin\, the project Co-Principal Investigators\, have led her to apply this perspective to studying crime across various geographical units\, including low-income housing developments\, businesses\, street blocks\, and street segments.
URL:https://cina.gmu.edu/event/cina-virtual-distinguished-speaker-series-marie-tillyer-open-source-data-and-predictive-modeling-for-high-density-crime-areas/
LOCATION:Virtual (Zoom Meeting)
CATEGORIES:Research Presentation,Seminar,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211013T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211013T133000
DTSTAMP:20260518T162809
CREATED:20210830T193620Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210921T184441Z
UID:2720-1634126400-1634131800@cina.gmu.edu
SUMMARY:CINA Distinguished Speaker Series: Gretchen Peters “How Organized Crime Weaponized Social Media"
DESCRIPTION:Tune in on Wednesday\, October 13 at 12:00 p.m. when Gretchen Peters\, Executive Director of The Center on Illicit Networks and Transnational Organized Crime who will speak about her organization’s work on the way organized crime has weaponized social media. In-person attendance is on a first come first serve basis. You must register in advance to attend.\n  \nREGISTER NOW \n \nThe in-person event will take place at the George Mason University\, Fairfax campus: Room 3301\, Exploratory Hall 4400 University Drive\, Fairfax\, VA 22030 \n  \nSpeaker Biography: \nGretchen Peters is the Executive Director of The Center on Illicit Networks and Transnational Organized Crime (CINTOC). She has served as a consultant to the U.S. Defense Department and U.S. law enforcement on transnational organized crime and co-chaired an OECD Task Force on fighting wildlife crime. Her expertise is in researching and mapping transnational organized crime networks\, working with U.S. Central Command and U.S. Special Operations Command among others. Gretchen authored the groundbreaking book\, Seeds of Terror\, about the Taliban’s role in the Afghan heroin trade. She has also written various chapters in leading academic books about the intersection of crime and conflict.
URL:https://cina.gmu.edu/event/cina-virtual-distinguished-speaker-series-gretchen-peters-how-organized-crime-weaponized-social-media/
LOCATION:George Mason University\, Fairfax Campus\, Exploratory Hall 4400 University Drive\, Fairfax\, VA\, 22030\, United States
CATEGORIES:Research Presentation,Seminar
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210414T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210414T133000
DTSTAMP:20260518T162809
CREATED:20210112T184956Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210205T213701Z
UID:2400-1618401600-1618407000@cina.gmu.edu
SUMMARY:CINA Virtual Distinguished Speaker Series: Jeffrey Hardy "Illicit Trade in the Forms of Trademark Counterfeiting and Copyright Piracy"
DESCRIPTION:From smuggling\, counterfeiting and tax evasion\, to the trafficking of humans and wildlife\, illicit trade holds back progress\, increases costs and pushes the goals further away. While data on this clandestine activity has previously been scarce\, there is mounting evidence of the economic\, social and environmental losses it can cause.  \n  \nREGISTER NOW \n  \nSpeaker Biography: \nJeffrey Hardy is the Director-General of the Transnational Alliance to Combat Illicit Trade\, where he manages a unique multi-sector business approach to combatting illicit trade. Before joining TRACIT\, he served as the Director of the International Chamber of Commerce’s Business Action to Stop Counterfeiting and Piracy (BASCAP)\, where he united the global business community to fight illicit trade in the forms of trademark counterfeiting and copyright piracy. From 2010-2017\, he also served as Director of the ICC G20 CEO Advisory Group\, where he coordinated international business priorities on the G20 policy agenda related to trade\, investment and anti-corruption. Jeff has long been an advocate for open and fair trade\, and to achieve these goals he mobilizes expertise from companies and business organizations. \nAs President of IDA Consulting\, Jeff has worked with dozens of international trade associations to help them more effectively navigate key policy arenas and gain from emerging legislative and regulatory regimes. \nFrom 1985 to 1998\, Jeff worked for the U.S. Department of Energy\, where he held positions as International Energy Economist and Director of the U.S. Clean Cities program. He holds a Master of Public Administration and Policy from George Mason University\, a Bachelor of Science in Economics from Illinois State University and an Honorary Degree for Energy Policy from the Oxford College of Petroleum Studies. In 1992\, he was awarded the U.S. Secretary of Energy’s Silver Medal for his meritorious service during the Gulf War. \nContact: \nJeff.Hardy@TRACIT.org \n+1.239.935.9839
URL:https://cina.gmu.edu/event/cina-virtual-distinguished-speaker-series-jeffrey-hardy-illicit-trade-in-the-forms-of-trademark-counterfeiting-and-copyright-piracy/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210325T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210325T143000
DTSTAMP:20260518T162809
CREATED:20210301T214533Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210308T170302Z
UID:2449-1616668200-1616682600@cina.gmu.edu
SUMMARY:Cyber Extremism and Violence in a Hyperconnected World
DESCRIPTION:Cyberspace content and interactions have emerged as a breeding ground for the spread\, or even birth of extremism and violence. From the large-scale spreading of authority-undermining or divisive misinformation\, to the recruitment of terrorists or gang members\, to the planning of extremist activities\, we are increasingly observing the growth of a cyberphysical nexus of extremism. Within this dynamic connection\, extremist ideas spill over from cyberspace to the real world\, leading to violence and increasingly complex threats to homeland security.\n  \nREGISTER NOW \n \nIn this event we bring together leading academic experts to discuss this catalyst of extremism and violence\, aiming at advancing our ability to identify and monitor such activities across the cyberphysical spectrum. Panel discussions are followed by breakout sessions to identify relevant research priorities. \nView the agenda \n  \nKeynote Speaker\n \n  \nJohn Picarelli\, Director\, Office for Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention at U.S. Department of Homeland Security \n\n\nModerators\n \n  \n  \nWilliam Braniff\, Director\, National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START)\, University of Maryland \n  \n \n  \n\nGina Scott Ligon\, Program Director\, National Counterterrorism Innovation\, Technology\, and Education Center (NCITE)\, University of Nebraska Omaha \n\n  \n  \n\n \n\n  \n  \n\nAnthony Stefanidis\, Professor of Computer Science\, College of William & Mary \n\n\n  \nSpeakers\n \n  \n  \nAudrey Alexander\, Instructor\, Combating Terrorism Center\, West Point \n  \n  \n \n  \nTerry Gudaitis\, Director of the Intelligence Studies Program\, Department of Criminology\, Law and Society\, George Mason University \n  \n  \n \n  \n  \nNicolás Velasquez Hernandez\, Post-Doctoral Research Scientist\, Institute for Data\, Democracy & Politics\, George Washington University \n  \n\n\n  \nSeamus Hughes\, Deputy Director\, Program on Extremism\, George Washington University \n  \n  \n \n  \n  \nSheehan Kane\, Researcher/Data Collection Manager\, National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START)\, University of Maryland \n  \n \n  \n  \nJillian Peterson\, Associate Professor – Criminal Justice\, Hamline University \n 
URL:https://cina.gmu.edu/event/cyber-extremism-and-violence-in-a-hyperconnected-world/
LOCATION:Virtual (WebEx)
CATEGORIES:Seminar
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210317T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210317T133000
DTSTAMP:20260518T162809
CREATED:20210112T184511Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210112T184627Z
UID:2399-1615982400-1615987800@cina.gmu.edu
SUMMARY:CINA Virtual Distinguished Speaker Series: Diana Dolliver "Cryptocurrencies and Criminal Investigations: From Transaction to Seizure"
DESCRIPTION:This presentation will cover the fundamentals of cryptocurrencies\, transactions\, and blockchain technologies\, and how this form of currency can be used to facilitate criminal activity. Dr. Dolliver will explain how cryptocurrencies can be obtained and stored\, how transactions can be traced\, and how these assets can be potentially seized by law enforcement officials through legal processes and the use of digital forensic evidence. Dr. Dolliver will also cover the methods criminals take to obfuscate transactions to hide their activities and avoid attribution\, as well as discussing best practices for law enforcement agencies when handling cryptocurrencies. \n  \nREGISTER NOW \n  \nSpeaker Biography: \nDr. Diana Dolliver is a cyber criminologist and policing scholar at the University of Alabama and serves as a Task Force Officer for the Federal Bureau of Investigation on the Cyber Squad. Dr. Dolliver has an active TS/SCI national security clearance and her areas of expertise include darknet-based criminality\, cryptocurrency transaction analysis\, and digital forensics. Dr. Dolliver also studies matters of national security and cybersecurity and warfare. She is a certified Chainalysis Investigation Specialist and holds multiple other certifications in cryptocurrency transaction analysis\, mobile device forensics\, and vehicle forensics.
URL:https://cina.gmu.edu/event/cina-virtual-distinguished-speaker-series-diana-dolliver-cryptocurrencies-and-criminal-investigations-from-transaction-to-seizure/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210217T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210217T133000
DTSTAMP:20260518T162809
CREATED:20201216T191029Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210112T184600Z
UID:2366-1613563200-1613568600@cina.gmu.edu
SUMMARY:CINA Virtual Distinguished Speaker Series: Celina Realuyo “The Impact of COVID-19 on the Economy\, Security and Transnational Organized Crime in the Americas”
DESCRIPTION:Latin America and the Caribbean have been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic that will have a detrimental impact on the health\, economy\, budgets and security of the region. Prior to the pandemic\, Latin America and the Caribbean were already facing slow growth\, indebtedness\, inequality\, inadequate healthcare\, corruption\, transnational organized crime\, migration crises and social protests. Governments will be hard pressed to provide and finance the services necessary for the medical and socio-economic recovery from the pandemic. Meanwhile\, transnational criminal organizations will capitalize on governments’ preoccupation with COVID-19 to diversify and expand their activities that will likely result in more violence\, instability and challenges to governance throughout the Americas. The U.S. must strive to remain the “partner of choice” in region by bolstering efforts to assist its neighbors in promoting health\, prosperity and security in the Hemisphere during the pandemic and beyond. \n  \nREGISTER NOW \n  \nSpeaker Biography: \nCelina Realuyo is Professor of Practice at the William J. Perry Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies at the National Defense University where she focuses on US national security\, illicit networks\, transnational organized crime\, counterterrorism and threat finance issues in the Americas. As a former US diplomat\, international banker with Goldman Sachs\, US counterterrorism official\, and professor of international security affairs at the National Defense\, Georgetown\, George Washington\, and Joint Special Operations Universities\, Professor Realuyo has over two decades of international experience in the public\, private\, and academic sectors. She speaks regularly in English and Spanish on “Managing US National Security in 21st Century\,” “The 3 R’s: Responding to Risk with Resourcefulness\,” “Following the Money Trail to Combat Terrorism\, Crime\, and Corruption\,” and “Combating the Convergence of Illicit Networks in an Age of Globalization.” Professor Realuyo is a regular commentator in the international media\, including CNN en Español\, Deutsche Welle\, Foreign Policy\, Reuters\, and Univisión and has testified before Congress on national security\, terrorism\, and crime issues. \nThroughout her career\, Professor Realuyo has been a trusted strategic advisor to the most senior leaders in US government\, military\, business\, and academic circles on international issues. As a professor of national security at the National Defense University since 2007\, she has educated top US and foreign military and civilian leaders. From 2002-2006\, Professor Realuyo served as the State Department Director of Counterterrorism Finance Programs in the US Secretary of State’s Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism in Washington\, DC In the wake of the September 11\, 2001 attacks\, she returned to government service to apply her international banking skills to the financial front of the war on terror. She co-chaired the Terrorist Financing Working Group and managed a multi-million dollar foreign assistance program to safeguard financial systems against terrorist financing. Under her stewardship\, the US delivered training and technical assistance to over 20 countries across four continents (including Afghanistan\, Indonesia\, Iraq\, Pakistan\, and Saudi Arabia\, for over 1800 foreign counterparts\, and her team received an “A-” from the 9/11 Commission for their efforts to combat terrorist financing in 2005. Prior to returning to Washington\, Professor Realuyo was a private banker in London with Goldman Sachs International providing strategic wealth advisory services to the most prominent families in the world. Previously\, she had a distinguished career as a US Foreign Service Officer serving as a political officer abroad in Madrid\, Panama\, and the US Mission to NATO\, Brussels. In Washington\, she served at the highest levels of government\, in the State Department Operations Center\, National Security Council’s White House Situation Room\, and as Special Assistant to the Secretary of State. \nProfessor Realuyo is a graduate the Harvard Business School\, Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)\, Georgetown University School of Foreign Service\, and holds a Certificate from l’Institut d’Etudes Politiques (Sciences Po) in Paris\, France. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations\, International Institute for Strategic Studies\, and Women in International Security. Professor Realuyo has traveled to over 70 countries and speaks English\, French\, and Spanish fluently\, and is conversant in Italian\, German\, Filipino\, and Arabic.
URL:https://cina.gmu.edu/event/cina-virtual-distinguished-speaker-series-celina-realuyo-the-impact-of-covid-19-on-the-economy-security-and-transnational-organized-crime-in-the-americas/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200916T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200916T133000
DTSTAMP:20260518T162809
CREATED:20200820T193001Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200821T190430Z
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SUMMARY:CINA Virtual Distinguished Speaker Series: “Finding Trafficking Networks in Online Commercial Sex Ads” with Crysta Price\, HTI Labs\, Creighton University
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a discussion about human trafficking\, including a case walkthrough that describes how data analytics\, AI\, and collaboration with law enforcement agencies led to the dismantling of a large international sex trafficking organization. \nREGISTER NOW \nSpeaker Biography:  \nCrysta Price\, the founder of HTI Labs\, a company using data science to unmask trafficking networks\, will discuss the origins of her company and the ecosystem of products that she is developing to counter human trafficking. She will discuss her basic approach as well as some of the tools used in these products and conclude with a discussion of the support HTI Labs provided to Operation Extended Stay\, an HSI investigation resulting in the dismantling of the largest international commercial sex network operating in the United States. \n 
URL:https://cina.gmu.edu/event/cina-virtual-distinguished-speaker-series-crysta-price-finding-trafficking-networks-in-online-commercial-sex-ads/
LOCATION:Virtual (WebEx)
CATEGORIES:Seminar,Webinar
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200423
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200515
DTSTAMP:20260518T162809
CREATED:20200410T194922Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200416T191113Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual CINA Distinguished Speaker Series - April and May 2020
DESCRIPTION:Please click here to register and get more information about the April 23rd speaker series event with Siddharth Chandra (Using Economic Principles to Identify and Understand Drug Trafficking Networks). \nPlease click here to register and get more information about the April 30th speaker series event with Padhu Seshaiyer (Computational Mathematics for Solving Global Challenges Involving Criminal Activities). \nPlease click here to register and get more information about the May 14th speaker series event with Jodi Quas (Enhancing Disclosures in Victims of Sex Trafficking: Science Guiding Solutions). \n 
URL:https://cina.gmu.edu/event/virtual-cina-distinguished-speaker-series-april-and-may-2020/
CATEGORIES:Seminar,Webinar
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190305T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190305T133000
DTSTAMP:20260518T162809
CREATED:20190211T185744Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190301T185311Z
UID:991-1551787200-1551792600@cina.gmu.edu
SUMMARY:CINA Distinguished Speakers Series 2019: The Business of Transnational Crime\, Channing Mavrellis
DESCRIPTION:Sign up to attend through Eventbrite.  \nChanning Mavrellis is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS)\, transnational crime analyst\, and author of the March 2017 report\, “Transnational Crime and the Developing World\,” which explores 11 different criminal markets\, and their dynamics and impact on developing countries. \nJoin us on Tuesday March 5th in Exploratory Hall 3301 from 12:00 pm- 1:30 pm for food\, refreshments\, and learning about the business of transnational organized crime (TOC)\, focusing on the professionalization of different sectors and roles\, the interplay between legal and illegal trades\, and the need to change the lens through which we view\, discuss\, and combat TOC. \nSign up to attend through Eventbrite.  \nTransnational crime is business\, and business is good. \nMost of the organized criminal groups and networks engaged in transnational crime share many similarities with the companies found on the Fortune 500 list: they are overwhelmingly profit-motivated; they are always looking for a better way to do business; they closely follow and adopt technological advances; they employ the best of the best gatekeepers—lawyers\, accountants\, and company formation agents; they have benefited considerably from globalization and the greater connectivity between buyer and seller; they diversify into new markets and products. Of the few major differences that separate them\, most glaring are the products they deal in\, the methods they use to obtain goods and services\, and/or the violence used to obtain and maintain a competitive advantage. For transnational crimes that also have legal trades\, particularly environmental crimes\, there is a strong overlap between legal and illegal actors with a fine line\, often just a piece of paper\, separating them. \nDespite all of the similarities with business\, transnational crime has frequently been viewed and combated through a moral lens that overlooks basic economic and business principles and treats organized crime groups and networks as unique actors. This approach will never produce meaningful results. \nSign up to attend through Eventbrite. 
URL:https://cina.gmu.edu/event/cina-distinguished-speakers-series-first-installment/
CATEGORIES:Seminar
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180611T141500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180611T154500
DTSTAMP:20260518T162809
CREATED:20180613T175817Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180613T175817Z
UID:852-1528726500-1528731900@cina.gmu.edu
SUMMARY:CINA-Organized Session on Detecting and Disrupting Transnational Criminal Activities
DESCRIPTION: CINA Director Dr. Anthony Stefanidis organized and moderated the panel on Detecting and Disrupting Transnational Criminal Activities as part of the 2018 Commonwealth Conference on National Defense and Intelligence (www.ccndi.org)\, in Charlottesville\, VA\, on June 11\, 2018. A featured a panel of experts on the topic of transnational criminal activities\, comprised of CINA researchers Dr. Rangwala and Dr\, Costa (both with GMU)\, Ms. Veronica Buckley (intelligence analysis manager for the Polaris NGO)\, and Mr. Tom Pocorobba (Deputy Director\, JTF)  addressed issues related to human trafficking\, transnational gang networks\, financial crime\, and associated operational issues. \n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://cina.gmu.edu/event/cina-organized-session-on-detecting-and-disrupting-transnational-criminal-activities/
LOCATION:University of Virginia and Rivanna Station in Charlottesville\, VA
CATEGORIES:Seminar
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