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Asia-Pacific Center graduates ninety-one from terrorism course.


Ninety-one military officers and civilians graduated from the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies The Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies (APCSS) is a Department of Defense regional study, conference, and research center established in Honolulu on September 4, 1995. The Center supports the U. S.  "Comprehensive Security Responses to Terrorism Responses to terrorism are broad in scope. They can include re-alignments of the political spectrum and reassessments of fundamental values. The term counter-terrorism has a narrower connotation, implying that it is directed at terrorist actors.  Course (CSRT CSRT Combatant Status Review Tribunal
CSRT Conseil Supérieur de la Recherche et de la Technologie (France)
CSRT Canadian Society of Respiratory Therapists
CSRT Combat Status Review Tribunal
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)" in Honolulu on September 16, 2005. The participants attending this three-week course were from thirty-three countries throughout the Asia-Pacific region.

The Comprehensive Security Responses to Terrorism course is designed to build relationships between and among the United States and current and future counterterrorism coun·ter·ter·ror  
adj.
Intended to prevent or counteract terrorism: counterterror measures; counterterror weapons.

n.
Action or strategy intended to counteract or suppress terrorism.
 practitioners of participating countries, to develop the trust and confidence necessary for increased information sharing, and to identify ways to reduce obstacles to cooperation in the international struggle against those who use terror to promote their goals.

Participants represented Australia, Bangladesh, Botswana, Brunei, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Colombia, Comoros, East Timor, Ecuador, Fiji, Guam, India, Indonesia, Lithuania, Malaysia, Mauritius, Mongolia, Nepal, New Zealand, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea (păp`ə, –y , Peru, Philippines, Rwanda, Saipan, Saudi Arabia, Sir Lanka, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, and Vietnam.
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Publication:DISAM Journal
Date:Sep 22, 2005
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