THE HIJACKING OF SECRET
AIRWAYS FLIGHT 999
Amy Thornton
ISLAMIC RADICALISATION
Foreign radicals
Home grown radicals
Organised groups
(Al Qaeda)
vs
lone wolves
Transnational networks
and fragile states
Some reasons behind radicalisation
•Political
•Socio-economic
•Religious
•Social identity
CHEMISTRY
Chiaki Crews
Preventing Nuclear Proliferation
• Aim is to tackle
unauthorized
movement of special
nuclear materials
• Large-scale liquid
scintillators placed in
strategic positions
• Cost-effective and
innovative solution
Passport Control
• Nanoparticle tags to
create high-security
inks
• Fight product
counterfeiting
• Applications for a
variety of consumer
goods
Sam Baron
DETECTING DECEPTION
Selina Kolokytha
RADIATION PHYSICS
Explosives Detection
Full Body Scanner
Baggage Screening
Science Challenges
Technology must take consideration of the human factor
•Radiation Protection
•Radiation Limits
•Ethics: Privacy
Technology must comply with suppliers demands
•Time
•Cost
•Efficiency
Technology must keep up with the criminal’s advances
•New methods
•New materials
Liz Stones
CONFLICT RESOLUTION
SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY
Conflict Resolution
• Prevention
• Training in mediation &
negotiation skills
• Appropriate & effective
responses to situations
• Effective communication
• Developing strategies
for collaborative
prevention & detection
Conflict and Culture
• Causes & motivations
• Reasoning & logic
• Cultural beliefs
• Social influence
• Patterns & trends
• Detecting
developing threats
Dagmar Heinrich
FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGY
2001
9/11 attacks, 4 planes
hijacked, 2 crashed into
the World Trade Centre,
New York, 1 into the
Pentagon, the last in rural
Pennsylvania, killing 2996
1996
Ethiopian Airlines
Flight 961, hijacked
to fly to Australia,
killing 125
Disaster Victim Identification
• It is a basic human right to be properly
identified after death
• Legal, religious and cultural
requirements
• Disaster Victim Identification
– Biological profiles
– Craniofacial reconstruction
Forensic Evidence
• Identification is necessary for police investigations
• Physical evidence collection
– External: description, fingerprints
– Internal: medical (osteological), dental, DNA
• Determination of
cause/manner of death
• Identification of the offender
• Presentation of evidence
Ensuring Air Travel Security Near You
Selina Kolokytha
Radiation Physics
Chiaki Crews
Synthetic &
Analytical Chemistry
Amy Thornton
Politics & Islamic
Radicalisation
Sam Baron
Psychology
Deceptive Behaviour
Dagmar Heinrich
Forensic Anthropology
Liz Stones
Conflict Resolution
Social Anthropology