WAAF - World Anticriminal and Antiterrorist Forum

2/24, BLD. 1, BOLSHOY RZHEVSKY PEREULOK
121069 MOSCOW
RUSSIA
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waaf@waaf.ru
http://www.waaf.ru

Individuals registered by WAAF - World Anticriminal and Antiterrorist Forum

• Dr. Oleg E. PAVLOV

World Anticriminal and Antiterrorist Forum "WAAF"

The World Anticriminal and Antiterrorist Forum (WAAF) is planned as an international nongovernment organization. The purpose of the Forum is to create an international grouping of anticrime and antiterrorist forces. Under the auspices of the WAAF, people in power, law enforcers, scientists and scholars, businesspeople, financiers and journalists will join their effort and professional possibilities for combating the expanding criminality.

Main activities of the Forum shall be as follows

• To forecast the development of the criminal situation worldwide and assess the threat and scale of organised crime and terrorism at national and international levels
• To elaborate counteraction strategies and tactics to be employed at national, regional and international levels in combating organised crime and terrorism, particularly with respect to
  • acts of terrorism
  • kidnapping and hostage taking
  • financial fraud
  • money laundering
  • illegal trafficking in narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances
  • illegal trafficking in weapons, nuclear materials and radioactive substances
  • illegal trafficking in cultural values
  • high-tech crimes
  • corruption
  • illegal migration
  • sexual abuse of children, child pornography and prostitution
  • and other types of organised crime.

The Forum shall provide consultations to interested individuals and organisations on how to carry out anticrime programs and projects. The Forum shall analyse and summarise available information, conduct research studies and surveys, hold conferences and workshops on issues related to organised crime and terrorism.

The Forums ultimate goal is to build a premise for national and international crime-combating strategies and to work out a practical program for counteracting transnational crime.

After 3 and a half years of preparatory work the registration of WAAF took place on 14th February 2002 in Berlin, Germany. Also, the Board was elected and is comprised of

• Anatoly S. KULIKOV - Chairman of the Board of the WAAF (Chairman of the Subcommittee on Combating Terrorism and Transnational Crime of the Committee on Security of the State Duma of the Russian Federation)
• Rupert SCHOLZ - Deputy Chairman of the Board (Chairman of the Committee on Legal Issues, Bundestag, GER)
• Thomas A. KELLEY - Deputy Chairman of the Board (Vice President of Global Options LLC, USA)
• Andrejs VILKS - Member of the Board (Dr. of Law, Director of the Criminological Research Center of the Ministry of Justice of Latvia, and Chairman of the Committee on Security, Riga Municipal Council, Latvia)
• Patrick BRUNOT - Member of the Board (Dr. of Law, Attorney-at-Law, Paris Court of Appeal, and President of France-Russia 2000 Society, France)
• Kirill A. TROPOV - Deputy Director General for International Relations, National Anticriminal and Antiterrorist Foundation of Russia, was appointed Executive Secretary of WAAF