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industRY EvEnts www.vanguardcanada.com APRIL/MAY 2018 41 rising and the other part is deciding how deterrence could work in non-traditional realms regarding hybrid warfare. "We're not as far along in the cyber do- main. It gets fuzzy when you start talking about things like cyber and redlines and how do you respond with kinetic weapons against an electronic attack? How do you determine when an attack occurred? How do you know who did it? How do you attri- bute the attack to a particular adversary, and then how do you respond?" These are all questions that Dr. Larsen said would need to be addressed in shaping future deterrence strategies. He also believes that the deterrence domain has expanded significantly from that of the Cold War era. The United States, for instance, is investigating what is called cross-domain deterrence to decide what to do across all these different domains. "For example, can you treat a missile attack the same way as you might treat a cyber-attack or against a country taking out a satellite? Are these attacks equal and would it require the same response, or do we need to tailor it by having something dif- ferent for each situation?" The conference The agenda for the full two-day KCIS con- ference is a year-round collaboration be- tween academic and military partners from different countries and organizations who work to build a program from the ground up. "This partnership is central to every- thing that we do in contributing to the advancement of knowledge and discussion surrounding a specific topic year after year," said Dr. Stéfanie von Hlatky, Director of the Centre for International and Defence Policy at Queen's University. Regarding the selection of deterrence as the theme for this year's event, Dr. von Hlatky said, "Deterrence is a term that was dominant throughout the Cold War and had since disappeared from at least the Ca- nadian defence lexicon since the end of the Cold War. Now all of a sudden we are seeing it re-emerging in speeches and policy docu- ments. Is it relevant; does it mean the same thing like in the days of the Cold War? And if not, how is it different now?" She went on to explain that the aim of the conference is to shape a common un- derstanding of what deterrence challenges are now and also to broaden the discussion so that it's not only limited to military but reaches across sectors. It will draw from the best that both academics and industry have to offer, and will have both a civilian and military perspective with a multi-sector ap- proach. The agenda has a good gender balance and will include a number of female experts in the field, including: • Dr. Amy Woolf, Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress • Dr. Stephanie Carvin, Carleton University • M. Elaine Bunn, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear and Mis- sile Defense Policy, U.S. Department of Defense • Kristin Bruusgaard, Center for Interna- tional Security and Cooperation, Stanford University • Prof. Cori E. Dauber, Triangle Institute for Security Studies, University of North Carolina • Dr. C. Christine Fair, Security Studies Program, Georgetown University • Dr. Chloe Berger, Middle East Faculty, NATO Defence College • Loren DeJonge Schulman, Center for a New American Security Learning outcomes The conference is designed to bring some- thing different, depending on whether you are military, a policymaker or an academic. Everyone will be able to take away some- thing unique. Learning outcomes will in- clude: understanding deterrence as a con- cept, how it is interpreted and translated into practice – not only in national defence policies but on NATO level policies and strategic priorities – and understanding how the strategic direction translates into opera- tional guidance for missions. "Based on the feedback from that experi- ence, recommendations can be formulated so that policymakers can adjust the policy and strategic direction of the return of de- terrence," said Dr. von Hlatky. KCIS 2018 will be held from June 11-13 at the Holiday Inn in Kingston, Ontario. To learn more about this conference, visit http://www. queensu.ca/kcis/home.

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