Events 2023
Dates will be confirmed when the funding is available, and the number of delegates is sufficient.
Please note, most delegates are self-funded or are fully sponsored by their institutions.
As a non-profit forum, APSI Forum relies on its delegate fees in order to fund its events. Therefore, paid registration is not refundable but is transferable.
1. APSI Community Hub
Project Joseph 2: Crisis Planning and the Management of Food Security
Starting Date: 20th of January 2023
Project leaders: Drs Eddy and Renny Kristianto
Facilitator: Zipora and Bill Millward
2. Virtual Congress, APSI Forum
Date: March 13
3. Strategic Discussion Forum:
The future of force and statecraft
Date: March 16
Venue: Double Tree by Hilton
28 Grey Street Cnr. Lambton Quay
Wellington CBD, 6011, New Zealand
10am-2pm
4. The Solomon Project
Stage 1: Vision, missions, planning
Stage 2: Ideation and design thinking
Starting Date: March 18, 2023
Project leader:
Krendo Wahono
5. International Parliamentary Assembly
Date: TBA
Time: 9am-5pm NZST
Venue: Sofitel Hotel Wellington, New Zealand (TBC)
6. Advanced Collaborative Workshops
Date: TBA
Venue: TBA
7. End of Year Retreat
Date: TBA (after International Parliamentary Assembly and Summit)
Venue: Waihoanga, New Zealand (TBC)
8. Professional Studies, APSI Research Institute for Security Studies
The Future of Force and Statecraft
May - December 2023 (Dates to be announced)
Please see the details of the courses below
SCTP workshop on Simulation of the crisis scenario and use of Strategic Foresight Analysis in practice
Instructors:
Dr Vira Ratsiborynska
MGen Adrian Ciolponea (Ret)
Lt.Col (Res) Uri Ben Yakoov (TBC)
VAdm Paul Bennett (Ret)
Date: TBA
New tactics and direction of global war (part 1)
Instructors:
Guest instructors (TBA)
Major General Gert-Johannes Hagemann (Ret)
Strategies: grand, regional, national, transnational, and individual strategies
* Does the strategy of individual matter?
Case Study: Osama Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda
Case Study: Hitler and the final solution: Learning from the past
New tactics and direction of global war (part 2)
Instructors:
Anita Abbott, PhD
MGen Gert-Johannes Hagemann (Ret)
Lt.Col (Res) Uri Ben Yakoov (TBC)
Strategies: grand, regional, national, transnational, and individual strategies
Iran's global ambition
* Israel and the EU
* Germany and the Gulf: A mystery alliance?
* Emerging signals and whirlwind strategy
New tactics and direction of global war (part 3)
Instructors:
MGen Ravi Arora (Ret)
Rodger Baker
Prof David Jonas (TBC)
Challenging status quo thinking
* India-China: Can they get along?
* India-China-Russia: A resilient partnership?
* Infusing strategic thinking with foresight
* Meeting the challenges of the future
SCTP Course:
NATO’s 360-degree approach and adaptation process
Instructor:
General James Everard
Dr Vira Ratsiborynska
Content:
- 360 degree approach and adaptation process
- Strengths of strategists
- NATO Concept for the Deterrence and Defence of the Euro-Atlantic Area
- Domain Sub-Strategic
Strategic Insight for Foresight Analysis: Methodology
Instructors:
Anita Abbott, PhD
Paul Cobaugh
- Scaffolding method vs multiple horizon approach
- Interpretive approach
- How to identify the others' endgames: Strategic Insight
- Strategic conversation
- Narrative Strategy, Scenario thinking
Russia, China and SFA: What do we learn and how do we identify threats?
Instructors:
Dr Vira Ratsibornyska
Rodger Baker
- Sino-Russia relations: An overview
-Backcasting and forecasting
-Flash foresight and its triggers
- A new look at scenarios
-Thinking about the future
Balance of power and threats in the Asia-Pacific region
Instructors:
Anita Abbott,PhD
MGen Ravi Arora (Ret)
Guest instructor (TBA)
- Balance of power and threats in the Asia-Pacific region: An introduction
- Infusing strategic thinking with foresight
- Barriers to SFA
- Meeting the challenges of the future
Institutional approaches to contemporary security threats
Instructors:
Dr Joanna Siekiera (TBC)
Dr Fabrizio Bozzato
- Institutional approaches to contemporary security threats
-Foresight based policy analysis
- SFA for multilateral policy
Food Security and Economic Statecraft
Instructors:
Professor Dwi Andreas Santosa (TBC)
Guest instructor (TBA)
- Inflation and hyperinflation
- Food sovereignty and security
- Adaptation to climate change
- Smallholder farmers and participatory development strategy
- Early warning system and food security
Table top exercise: Simulation of the crisis scenario and use of SFA in practice
Instructors:
Dr Vira Ratsibornyska
Vice Admiral (Ret) Paul Bennett
- Doctrine and concept, and high readiness force: The need for SFA
- Top table exercise and simulation
9. Writer in residence workshop: The Art of Strategic Thinking
December 2023 (Date to be announced)
Venue: TBA