CCISS Outreach Activities

Public Outreach

 International Outreach

CCISS outreach initiatives are intended to address the knowledge needs and interests of government, parliamentarians, the media and other civic organizations regarding intelligence and national security. Knowledge sharing is an important function for CCISS. Its Associates have been invited to participate in consultations with and in speaking engagements for a wide array of organizations in government, the security and intelligence community, justice system, media, and civic affairs, both national and international, with the aim of contributing to knowledge about Intelligence and National Security issues.

S&I Community Outreach

Canada’s S&I community is experiencing rapidly expanding needs to recruit more highly qualified staff, to acquire new skills, and to develop greater expertise in various disciplines related to intelligence analysis and assessment, in particular. The CCISS Conference program, most notably the series of Intelligence Analysis conferences and the other timely and topical conferences, have served as valuable knowledge resources for the professional development of intelligence analysts across the S&I and law enforcement communities.

CCISS has undertaken major research projects at the behest of Government of Canada departments and agencies in response to their need for specialized knowledge, analysis and policy solutions. The CCISS CEIP Policy Research project provided terrorist threat assessments, vulnerability assessments, comparative studies of international cooperation in energy sector security, and North American energy infrastructure issues, for the NRCan Energy Infrastructure Protection Division. As well, C CISS Associates have undertaken specialized research studies under contract with NRCan. The CCISS Trends in Terrorism project prepared open-source assessment studies on national security-related topics of priority concern to Canada’s security and law enforcement communities.

In addition, CCISS Associates have been invited for consultations with various components of the S&I community to address issues of topical interest and concern. These have included the Privy Council Office, Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Canada (PSEPC), Canadian Air Transport Security Authority, Department of Justice, Department of National Defence/Defence Science Advisory Board, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Security Intelligence Review Committee (SIRC), Office of the CSE Commissioner, and NRCan Energy Infrastructure Protection Division.

CCISS prepares and circulates the Internet-based “Intel-list”, a daily compendium of reports, research results and news items dealing with security and intelligence affairs. The Intel-list is circulated to academics, government officials, judges and lawyers, journalists, researchers, security managers, and officials of intelligence and law enforcement agencies in Canada, the United States, United Kingdom, Europe, Asia, and South America.

Government Outreach

Apart from the S&I community, other federal and provincial departments, agencies and programs have also benefited from CCISS outreach. CCISS Associates have contributed specialized studies for requirements of the Passport Office and NRCan. CCISS Senior Fellow Angela Gendron was appointed a member of the Office of the Auditor-General of Canada Advisory Committee for the special examination of the Canadian Air Transport Security Authority (CATSA).

Martin Rudner, the Director of CCISS, has provided expert testimony to Parliamentary committees, including the Senate Standing Committee on National Security and Defence and to the House of Commons Standing Committees on Justice, on Foreign Affairs and International Trade, and on National Defence and Veterans Affairs.

CCISS Associates have been invited to present at numerous to conferences, seminars, consultations organized by bodies such the National Policy Research Conference, Ontario Securities Commission, Canadian Museums Association, Pipeline Security Forum, and other regulatory fora coordinated by NR Can.

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Justice System Outreach

CCISS Associated have engaged in outreach towards Canada’s justice system, including the judiciary, law enforcement and policy echelons.

Martin Rudner, the Director of CCISS, has been a member of the Policy Review Advisory Panel of the Commission of Inquiry into the Actions of Canadian Officials in Relation to Maher Arar (Arar Commission). He has also served as expert witnesses on security-related cases before the Federal Court.

CCISS Associates have been invited to speak at fora organized by the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police, Department of Justice, FBI National Academy Associates, Federal Court, Lord Reading Law Society, Royal Canadian Mounted Police. David Carment has been involved in the design and implementation of environmental scanning procedures with Criminal Intelligence Service Canada.

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Media Outreach

CCISS has become a key information resource on Intelligence and Security matters for the Canadian and international media, including print, radio and television.

News commentaries and interviews citing CCISS and its associates have appeared in the Globe and Mail, National Post, Ottawa Citizen, Montreal Gazette, Toronto Star, The Province (Vancouver), Washington Post, New York Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, Baltimore Sun, The Scotsman, MacLeans, Time, The Walrus, Le Soleil.

CCISS Associates have been featured in interviews and commentaries on electronic media as well, including CBC radio and television and CBC Newsworld; CTV and CTV Newsnet; Global Television; CPAC; TV Ontario; the Discovery Channel; Radio Canada International; CNN; BBC; Voice of America; Radio Teheran; and on local radio stations in Ottawa, Halifax, Montreal, Toronto, Regina, Quebec City, Windsor, Winnipeg, Vancouver, and elsewhere.

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Academic Outreach

CCISS Associates have delivered guest lectures at other academic institutions in Canada and abroad. This academic outreach has served to bring CCISS expertise in Intelligence and National Security before wider scholarly audiences.

Among the institutions at which CCISS Associates delivered guest lectures were:

Corpus Christi College , University of Cambridge ( UK); Center for International Studies,
Bangkok ( Thailand); Faculty of International Relations, University of Bucharest ( Romania);
Brunel University Centre for Intelligence and Security Studies ( UK);
Department of International Relations, Bilkent University ( Ankara, Turkey);
Bahçeşehir University ( Istanbul, Turkey);
Department of International Relations, Istanbul Kültür University ( Istanbul, Turkey).

Angela Gendron, Senior Fellow at CCISS, delivered a lecture series on the Intelligence -Diplomacy Interface to the Kuwait Diplomatic Training Program organized by NPSIA at Carleton University in 2006.

CCISS has played a leading role in the Intelligence Liaison Alliance Research (ILAR) group, a consortium of scholars of international intelligence relations from Canada, France, Germany, Israel, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

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Public Outreach

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International Outreach

CCISS has had, since its establishment, a salient international presence marked by the participation of foreign academics, journalists and officials in various activities and programs along with outreach activities extending abroad.

CCISS Associates have been invited for consultations and speaking engagements by international authorities, including the British Home Office, Romanian Foreign Intelligence Service (SIE), Thailand Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs/Center for Strategic Research. Angela Gendron, Senior Fellow at CCISS, has served as an instructor for National Security training courses organized by the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

Faculty associated with CCISS addressed conferences and seminars organized by international organizations including the CIA Sherman Kent Center; German Bundesszentrale fur politische Bildung, AK Geschichte de Nachrichtendienste e.V., and Evangilische Akademie zu Berlin; Mexican Council on Foreign Relations; Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies; Swedish Emergency Management Agency; Swedish National Defence College; Taipei Economic and Cultural Office Canada; and United States Military Academy at West Point.

CCISS associates Martin Rudner and Angela Gendron were appointed Members of the Program Committee for the First International Conference on Intelligence Analysis:  Methods and Tools, organized by Mitre Corporation in McLean, Virginia in 2005. Angela Gendron, CCISS Senior Fellow, was appointed a member of the board of the International Association for the Study of Ethics of Intelligence.

CCISS joined with the CyberSecurity and Emergency Preparedness Institute of the University of Texas at Dallas in mounting a specialized Research Workshop on North American Energy Infrastructure Protection and Policies in Dallas, Texas, in January 2006, under the auspices of the CEIP Policy Project. Participants included representatives of Canadian and US government agencies responsible for energy policy and security, state and provincial authorities, academic researchers, and the energy (oil, natural gas and electric power) industry.

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