Globalization and Maritime Security 2008 Workshop Report -Released-

Goals and Objectives for the Security Workshop

• Provide a forum to bring researchers and sponsors together to share research and education interests
related to maritime security & globalization effects.
• Better comprehend the systems in which crises emerge, in order to shift awareness from a response
mode to a more proactive, predictive mode.
• Identify leadership competencies required to facilitate these shifts and manage change in complex
environments.
• Establish support, sponsorship, and follow-on activities for research ideas generated.
• Generate ideas, proposals, and action items for future research that will move the body of work and
knowledge forward.

Several themes featured prominently in discussion: systemic approaches to Maritime Security and
globalization, specifi c technological research approaches, the diffusion of control in a globalized environment,
and how best to measure and detect the “weak signals” of latent confl ict.