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Zachary Abuza - The Potential for Terrorism in Southeast Asia and the Pacific

March 1, 2007

Zachary Abuza during his presentation at the U.S. Embassy, Wellington March 1.

Zachary Abuza spoke to a full embassy audience on March 1, 2007 about the potential for terrorism in Southeast Asia and the Pacific.

Zachary Abuza specializes in Southeast Asian politics and security issues. He received his MALD and PhD from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.

He is the author of Uncivil Islam: Muslims, Politics and Violence in Indonesia (Routledge, 2006), Conspiracy of Silence: The Insurgency in Southern Thailand and its Implications for Southeast Asian Security (US Institute of Peace Press, 2006), Militant Islam in Southeast Asia (Lynne Rienner, 2003) and Renovating Politics in Contemporary Vietnam (Lynne Rienner, 2001). He has also authored two studies for the National Bureau of Asian Research, entitled Funding Terrorism in Southeast Asia: The Financial Network of Al Qaeda and Jemaah Islamiya, NBR Analysis (2003) and Muslims, Politics and Violence in Indonesia, NBR Analysis (2004). His monograph, Balik Terrorism: The Return of the Abu Sayyaf Group was published by the US Army War College's Security Studies Institute in 2005. He is currently undertaking a major study of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front under support from the United States Institute of Peace and the Smith Richardson Foundation. Professor Abuza authored the Vietnam chapters in the 2004 and 2006 Countries at the Crossroads annual reports for Freedom House; and from 2001-2003 he served as Vietnam country advisor for Amnesty International (USA).

In 2006-07 Professor Abuza will be on sabbatical and will be working on a regional security assessment, as part of a global five-year assessment of the war on terror. Dr. Abuza consults widely and is a frequent commentator in the press. He is a visiting guest lecturer at the Foreign Service Institute, U.S. Dept. of State, and at the Dept. of Defense's Joint Special Operations University.

In 2005 he was a Senior Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace.

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