 | This article needs to be updated.(April 2023) |
| Formation | 2010 |
|---|---|
| Location | |
Region served | Worldwide |
Sponsor | Mercyhurst College |
The Global Intelligence Forum was a bi-annual conference dedicated to exploring best practices in intelligence analysis. The conference took place in Dungarvan, Ireland, the sister city of Erie, Pennsylvania, [1] [2] home of Mercyhurst College, the Mercyhurst College Institute for Intelligence Studies, and the Center for Intelligence Research Analysis and Training (CIRAT).
Mercyhurst University faculty created the conference to explore best practices in intelligence analysis. The founders feel that intelligence as a field of study is best explored through a holistic and global purview. Therefore, gathering intelligence professionals from around the world in a variety of disciplines to speak on their experiences and methods can provide insight into how best to perform quality intelligence analysis. [3]
Future conferences will continue to focus on analytic best practices but will expand to explore intelligence as an enterprise essential to organizational leadership and learning. [3]
The speakers at the 2010 conference included members of the Mercyhurst College faculty, Irish and British government officials, and executives from private intelligence firms. [4] The keynote speaker was former governor of Pennsylvania and first Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge. [4] [5]
The topics at the 2010 Global Intelligence Forum looked at best practices in intelligence analysis in the national security, law enforcement, and competitive arenas. [8]
The 2011 Global Intelligence Forum is scheduled for 10–12 July 2011, in Dungarvan, Ireland. [9] [10]
A conference took place again in 2013.
The 2015 conference ran from 13-15 July in Dungarvan. [11] [12]
Each spring, Mercyhurst University students and faculty spend a term in Dungarvan as part of MU’s Study Abroad scheme. [13]
MU did consider opening a campus at Dungarvan and signed an MOU in 2016. [14] In 2018, MU decided that the costs were too high and looked a smaller project in Ireland. [15]
MU has established its first international base in Dungarvan; the base includes MU's European Centre for Intelligence Research, Analytics and Training. [16]
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