On November 7-8, 2015, the SIAS and the Center for Taiwan Studies at Fudan University jointly hosted a seminar entitled “Global Terrorism: Trends, Impacts, and Countermeasures” at the university’s Center for American Studies. The conference was held with support from the Collaborative Innovation Center for Peaceful Development of Cross-Strait Relations. Experts on counter-terrorism studies – eight from Taiwan, and about 20 from the Chinese mainland – attended the seminar. 

Panel discussions focused on six topics: the current trends of terrorism in the world and cross-Straits collaboration on counter-terrorism; terrorism situations in four regions, namely South Asia and Southeast Asia, Europe and the US, the Middle East and North Africa, Central Asia and Russia; and the latest development of cyber terrorism and mass destruction terrorism. 

Experts from the mainland and Taiwan agreed that both sides can make use of academic exchanges and enhance, institutionalize and normalize collaboration on the study of counter-terrorism and non-traditional security. Wang Yuwei, a professor at the Department of Border Police and Director of the Terrorism Research Center at Taiwan’s “Central Police University,” invited two experts from the Crisis Management and Anti-Terrorism Research Center at the SIAS, to attend a seminar on counter-terrorism and non-traditional security in Taipei at the end of November. A collection of theses on the seminar will be published in 2016.