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Sign up for 2021 international deterrence and assurance conference

Dstl partners with U.S. Strategic Command and U.S. Naval War College for the 6th annual deterrence and assurance academic alliance event.

Speaker and audience at a previous international deterrence conference

Registrations are open for a fully virtual event being held from 30 March to 1 April 2021, hosted by the University of Nebraska in Omaha, USA.

This year’s theme is ‘Building a Common Language: Integrating Deterrence and Competition with Allies’ and it will feature panel discussions with participants from around the world, plus an experiential learning event designed to challenge participant understanding of deterrence. The event is free, but you must register.

Sign up for the U.S. Strategic Command Academic Alliance Conference and Workshop 2021.

Dstl runs a parallel Deterrence and Assurance Academic Alliance in the UK, bringing together students and academics with an interest in deterrence and assurance. This community of interest, made up of academic institutions in partnership with Dstl, conducts new research on deterrence and related topics such as coercion and conflict escalation.

Published 10 December 2020