Leslie W Kennedy Director RUTGERS Newark

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Leslie W KennedyDirectorRUTGERS Newark

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• Sponsored by the Rutgers School of Criminal
  Justice, Center for Global Change and Governance,
  College of Nursing and Rutgers School of
  Law-Newark

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Criminal Justice

• The center is exploring the questions relating
  to the control and prevention of terrorism.
  Included in this analysis are methods for
  managing terrorist groups, controlling support
  for terror, detecting and suppressing new
  attacks, and removing opportunities for such
  activities. In addition, research will focus on
  risk assessments and impacts of heightened
  security.

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Global Change

• The Center for Global Change and Governance is
  facilitating research that explains what is
  different about the sources and behavior of
  contemporary terrorism and terrorists. The goal
  is to develop an understanding of how terrorism
  has evolved and what its contemporary objectives
  have become.

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School of Law-Newark

• The center will facilitate analysis of the laws
  developed by law enforcement that are intended to
  suppress and control terror. This work is drawing
  upon the legal expertise of the law school
  faculty to examine the legal responses to
  terrorism and heightened security.

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College of Nursing

• Nursing Center for Bioterrorism and Infectious
  Diseases Preparedness
• The newly formed Nursing Center for Bioterrorism
  and Infectious Diseases Preparedness at Rutgers,
  The State University of New Jersey, College of
  Nursing will serve as a primary source of
  education, information and research initiatives
  for nurses, nurse practitioners, and all allied
  nursing personnel on practice matters relating to
  biological, chemical and nuclear terrorism as
  well as emerging infectious diseases.

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Sectors of Interest

• 1. Public health
• 2. Law enforcement
• 3. Corporate security

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Partners in Public Health
PHRI - Newark
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Corporate Security
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Law Enforcement
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Initiatives

• Counterterrorism Information Task Force
• Technology and terrorism
• Public health responses to conventional and
  unconventional threats
• Critical infrastructure protection through
  environmental design
• Social and economic consequences of heightened
  security

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Public Policy Impacts

• Identify sources and spread of terrorism and
  other threats to public security
• Research organizational responses to heightened
  security
• Work with agencies to coordinate strategic
  responses
• Coordinate public discussion of public security

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Past and Current Sponsors

• Rutgers Newark
• Fund for New Jersey
• Prudential Financial
• Horizon Blue Cross
• State of New Jersey