‘Defence Seminar 2015’ attracts 32 countries

Sri Lanka Army’s flagship project the ‘Defence Seminar 2015’ as the fifth in the sequel is expecting a plethora of experts from various countries. According to the organisers, over 64 eminent foreign personalities from 32 countries are expected at the event.

The Army is expecting over 350 participants, both local and foreign to participate at the two-day seminar which will be held under the theme ‘National Security in the Context of Emerging Global Threats’ at Colombo Galadari Hotel on September 1 and 2. Former President of Afganistan Hamid Karzai is scheduled to deliver the keynote address.

The aim is improvement of the geo-strategic security concerns with the shared knowledge and experience of national and international scholars, defence experts, policy makers, think-tanks, analysts, diplomats, advisors, state leaders and service officers, said Army Commander Lt. Gen. Crishanthe de Silva, addressing a recently held media briefing.

Under the main these number of sub-themes covering an array of subjects such as security, regional threats, disaster resilience, emerging aviation threats, migration and populations, change of contours of terrorism are scheduled. Under the main theme nine sessions under sub-themes such as ‘Nature of threats affecting the National Security of a nation, Emerging world order, Terrorism and national security of a nation and non military threats to national security’ will be touched on.

Army Commander Lt. Gen. de Silva said that the ‘Defence Seminar - 2015’ has now become a leading annual event in the Army calendar as an intellectual interactive session.

The ‘Defence Seminar’ is an annual event initiated in 2011 by the Sri Lanka Army. Since its inception, it has established itself as a platform of intellectual interaction to identify and discuss geo-strategic and security matters in the global, regional and internal contexts and share expertise on ways to foster collective strategy to meet such issues at a common standing.