The Marshall Center’s Seminar on Transatlantic Civil Security (STACS) is designed to educate professionals from domestic security agencies in Europe and Eurasia on best practices for ensuring civil security and preventing, preparing for, and managing the consequences of domestic and regional crises and disasters. The program is designed to build transatlantic partnership capability in civil security.

STACS is a three week professional development program conducted twice a year. The course focuses on developing a range of core competencies for civil security professionals, including:

• Collaboration



• Communication



• Creative and Critical Thinking



• Strategic Leadership



• Management and Planning Skills



• Adaptability



• Crisis Management Skills



• Risk Management Skills

The key topics covered in the course include:

• Understanding the challenges posed by terrorist threats and “all hazards” events



• Protecting and managing risks to critical infrastructure



• Achieving secure borders and enhancing transportation security efforts



• Planning for and executing integrated interagency crisis and consequence management



• Providing defense support to civil authorities



• Managing media and public information



• Enhancing interagency and international processes for civil security



• Improving the sharing and use of intelligence and information in support of civil security

The STACS is organized in four modules:

• Threats and Hazards. The module looks at the range of terrorist and all-hazards challenges, to include terrorist employment of WMD, and introduces the case study methodology.



• Prepare and Protect. This module examines the need to develop strategies for civil security, as well as the need for intelligence sharing and the appropriate legal structures. Other topics include protecting critical infrastructure and risk management, as well as the role of the military in civil security.



• Respond and Recover. This module focuses on developing the capacity for civil emergency planning and consequence management. It also looks at crisis communications and command-and-control issues.



• Capstone: The program concludes with visits to civil security agencies in a major German city and a crisis management exercise.

Audiences

The program is designed for mid-career government officials, military officers, and emergency response personnel with responsibility for planning and executing civil security policies and programs within their governments.

Applications

For application and deadline information, contact the George C. Marshall Center Registrar at registrar@marshallcenter.org, your Ministry point of contact, or the US or German Embassy in your capital city.

Other Marshall Center Programs

In addition to the STACS, the George C. Marshall Center offers four other programs that examine complex national security problems: The Program and Advanced Security Studies (PASS), the Program on Terrorism and Security Studies (PTSS) - with or without the Combating Terrorism Language Programs (CTLP) - and the Senior Executive Seminar (SES). These resident programs advance participants’ professional development at various stages of their careers. Additional details on these and other current Marshall Center activities, initiatives and events are available at www.marshallcenter.org.