{"id":1332,"date":"2019-04-01T07:05:07","date_gmt":"2019-04-01T07:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.caps.af\/?p=1332"},"modified":"2019-04-01T07:05:07","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T07:05:07","slug":"caps-analysts-attend-rnssc-meeting-in-colombo-sri-lanka-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caps.af\/?p=1332","title":{"rendered":"CAPS Analysts attend RNSSC meeting in Colombo, Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Jul 12, 2009<\/strong><br style=\"font-weight: 400;\" \/><br style=\"font-weight: 400;\" \/>Mr. Saifullah Ahmadzai, Senior Research Analyst, and Mr. Hyder Akbar, Research Analyst, participated in a Regional Network of Strategic Studies Center (RNSSC) conference from 22-24 June, 2009, hosted by the\u00a0RegionalCenter\u00a0for Strategic Studies (RCSS) in\u00a0Colombo,\u00a0Sri Lanka. The ongoing participation of CAPS is part of the RNSSC\u2019s program to have research centres from the Near East and\u00a0South Asia\u00a0to work on the important issues facing their region.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span>During the meeting in\u00a0Colombo, the two working groups that participated were The Non-Traditional Security Issues (NTSI) and Weapons of Mass Destructions and Border Security (WMD).\u00a0Mr. Ahmadzai actively participated in the NTSI working group meeting, where the two main issues that were discussed were small arms and light weapons as well as disaster management. Mr. Ahmadzai talked about his case study on small arms and light weapons in\u00a0Afghanistan\u00a0and delivered a presentation on this topic.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span>Mr. Akbar participated in the WMD group where representatives from different organizations gave reports about their border security and there were discussions about nuclear energy and confidence building measures. On the topic of border security, Mr. Akbar presented on the border situation in\u00a0Afghanistan\u00a0with a particular focus on the Af-Pak area. He also presented on Nuclear Terrorism and\u00a0Afghanistan, in which he discussed the pursuit of nuclear weapons by groups like Al-Qaeda and their use of\u00a0Afghanistan\u00a0as a base.<\/p>\n<p><br style=\"font-weight: 400;\" \/><br style=\"font-weight: 400;\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jul 12, 2009Mr. Saifullah Ahmadzai, Senior Research Analyst, and Mr. Hyder Akbar, Research Analyst, participated in a Regional Network of Strategic Studies Center (RNSSC) conference from 22-24 June, 2009, hosted by the\u00a0RegionalCenter\u00a0for Strategic Studies (RCSS) in\u00a0Colombo,\u00a0Sri Lanka. The ongoing participation of CAPS is part of the RNSSC\u2019s program to have research centres from the Near [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1332"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1333,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1332\/revisions\/1333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}