GCAT - Fighting Terrorist Infrastructures
Global Coalition Against Terrorism, is a worldwide non-government non-profit organization which is fighting terrorism by identifying terrorist infrastructures, exposing the links between terrorist infrastructures, terrorist organizations and terrorist attacks and causing the conceptual and legal change in the attitude towards terrorist infrastructures:
1. Identifying and exposing terrorist infrastructures:
Global Coalition Against Terrorism strives to put in the sunlight those who assist terrorists by providing material support, religious justification and political assistance for terrorists and terrist organizations, or are engaged in terrorist propaganda and indoctrination.
2. Information activities:
Global Coalition Against Terrorism conducts worldwide media campaigns against terrorism and terrorist infrastructures in order to influence public agenda and to increase awareness of terrorist support networks.
3. Lawsuits against terrorist infrastructures:
Global Coalition Against Terrorism provides assistance to victims of terrorist attacks in filing civil lawsuits against organizations and individuals that form part of terrorist infrastructures in order to obtain compensation for injuries suffered in terrorist attacks from those who aid terrorists.
4. Legislation and policies:
Global Coalition Against Terrorism is engaged through its regional and country offices in various activities in order to better reflect issues concerning terrorism and terrorist infrastructures in legislation and policies. The coalition maintains contacts with law and policy makers on local, country and international level.
5. Promoting tolerance and peaceful resolution of conflicts:
Global Coalition Against Terrorism supports projects aimed to promote tolerance, peaceful coexistance and non-violent ways of dealing with conflict and grievances as an alternative to hatred and violence dissiminated by terrorist networks.
Board of Directors
Shabtai Shavit
Former Head of Secret Intelligence Service of Israel (Mossad).
General (Ret.) Yom Tov Tamir
Regional President, Middle East. Former Advisor to the Prime Minister and Minister of Internal Security of Israel, Deputy Head of Planning Directorate, Israel Defense Forces, Defense Attache of Israel in the United Kingdom.
Mikhail Alexeev
Managing Director of an International Consulting Corporation, Russia/Australia.
Maxim Rakov
President & CEO. Former Legal Advisor, National Security Council, Deputy General Counsel (Foreign Relations & Security), Prime Minister's Office, Legal Advisor, Bureau for Counter Terrorism of Israel. Research Fellow, International Policy Institute for Counter Terrorism.
General (Ret.) Dov Shefi
Lecturer on Defense Laws and Laws of War, Bar Ilan University, Military Advocate General, Israel Defense Forces, General Counsel to the Ministry of Defense. General Shefi's son, Hagay (34), a prominent businessman, has been killed in the 9/11 terrorist attack at the World Trade Center.
Alan Pierre Gucker
Former Managing Director, International Insurance Claims Settling Corporation (Avus Gr.), France
International Board of Governors
Mr. Jacob Schlesinger
Founder and Honorary Chairman
Ambassador Dore Gold
President of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, former Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations, Foreign Policy Advisor to the Prime Minister.
Mr. Radek Sikorski
Resident Fellow, America Enterprise Institute and Executive Director of AEI's New Atlantic Initiative, former Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Deputy Minister of Defense of Poland.
Mr. Nicolai I. Scherbinin
Member of the Committee on International Affairs, Defense and Security of the Majlis (Parliament) - Kazakhstan
Dr. Ariel Cohen
Ariel Cohen, Ph.D., is a Research Fellow at the Heritage Foundation, a Washington, D.C., leading think tank, and a widely published author on foreign and defense policy and international energy security.
Gen. (Ret.) Avihu Ben Nun
Chairman, UMI Motors, former Commander of Israeli Air Force.
Gen. (Ret.) Slawomir Petilicki
Strategic Consultant, Ernst & Young, Advisor to the Prime Minister, Founder and first Commander of the Polish Special Operations Force GROM.
General (Ret.) Avigdor Kahalani
Former Minister of Internal Security of Israel.
General (Ret.) Gideon Shefer
Vice President, Elbit Systems, former Head of National Security Council of Israel, Chief of Staff, Israel Air Force.
General (Ret.) David Shoval
CEO, SIBDC ltd. Former Head of Israeli Ministry of Defense Delegation in Germany, Head of Military Export Directorate, Ministry of Defense.
General (Ret.) Oleg Nechiporenko
Director General, National Anti-criminal and Antiterrorist Foundation-Russia
Gen. (Ret.) Prof. Isaac Ben-Israel
Head of Curiel Center for International Studies & Program for Security Studies, Tel Aviv University, Former Director of Defense Research and Development of Israel.
Mr. Julian Jacobson
President of Jacobson Insurance & Financial Services in Los Angeles, California.
Prof. Moshe Arens
Former Minister of Foreign Affairs and Minister of Defense in the Government of Israel and Ambassador of Israel in the USA.
Mr. Micha Goldman
Former Deputy Minister of Education, Culture and Sport in the Government of Israel under Prime Minister Rabin, Chairman of Internal Affairs Committee of the Knesset (Parliament).
Adm. (Ret.) Panagiotis Kikareas
President of International Foundation for Peace and Security, Athens, President & CEO, Hellenic Aspis & Associates Inc., former Director of Operational Planning, NATO Headquarters, National Representative of Greece to NATO Command, Director of Fleet Operations, Hellenic Navy - Greece.
Prof. Howard Adelman
University of York & University of Toronto, world famous expert on refugees, former Director of Center for Refugee Studies, Editor, "Refuge" Canada's Periodical on Refugees - Toronto, Canada.
Prof. Aleksander V. Lagutkin,
Vice President of Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, former Prorector of Moscow State Academy of Law.
Gen (Ret.) Dipankar Banerjee
Director of Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, International Adviser to the ICRC, former Executive Director, South Asian Regional Center for Strategic Studies - India.
General (Ret.) (Police) Assaf Heffetz
Former National Police Commissioner of Israel, Commander of Police Special Counter Terrorist Force.
General (Ret.) Azriel Nevo
Former Military Secretary to the Prime Minister of Israel under Prime Ministers Begin, Shamir, Peres and Rabin, Defense Attache of Israel in the United Kingdom.
General (Ret.) Yechiam Sasson
CEO, Pro-Tact Terrorism Risk Management Ltd., former Head of Bureau for Counter Terrorism, Prime Minister's office of Israel.
General (Ret.) Salach Haiel
Business executive, former commander of division, IDF.
General (Ret.) Oleksiy Chistiakov
Head of International Anti-criminal and Anti-terrorist Committee of Ukraine, former Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs-Ukraine.
Air Commodore (Ret.) Prashant Dikshit
Deputy Director, Institute of Peace Conflict Studies, proliferation and weapons expert, former Indian Air Force, Senior Fellow at the Institute for Defense Studies and Analyses (IDSA).
1. Identifying and exposing terrorist infrastructures:
Global Coalition Against Terrorism strives to put in the sunlight those who assist terrorists by providing material support, religious justification and political assistance for terrorists and terrist organizations, or are engaged in terrorist propaganda and indoctrination.
2. Information activities:
Global Coalition Against Terrorism conducts worldwide media campaigns against terrorism and terrorist infrastructures in order to influence public agenda and to increase awareness of terrorist support networks.
3. Lawsuits against terrorist infrastructures:
Global Coalition Against Terrorism provides assistance to victims of terrorist attacks in filing civil lawsuits against organizations and individuals that form part of terrorist infrastructures in order to obtain compensation for injuries suffered in terrorist attacks from those who aid terrorists.
4. Legislation and policies:
Global Coalition Against Terrorism is engaged through its regional and country offices in various activities in order to better reflect issues concerning terrorism and terrorist infrastructures in legislation and policies. The coalition maintains contacts with law and policy makers on local, country and international level.
5. Promoting tolerance and peaceful resolution of conflicts:
Global Coalition Against Terrorism supports projects aimed to promote tolerance, peaceful coexistance and non-violent ways of dealing with conflict and grievances as an alternative to hatred and violence dissiminated by terrorist networks.
Board of Directors
Shabtai Shavit
Former Head of Secret Intelligence Service of Israel (Mossad).
General (Ret.) Yom Tov Tamir
Regional President, Middle East. Former Advisor to the Prime Minister and Minister of Internal Security of Israel, Deputy Head of Planning Directorate, Israel Defense Forces, Defense Attache of Israel in the United Kingdom.
Mikhail Alexeev
Managing Director of an International Consulting Corporation, Russia/Australia.
Maxim Rakov
President & CEO. Former Legal Advisor, National Security Council, Deputy General Counsel (Foreign Relations & Security), Prime Minister's Office, Legal Advisor, Bureau for Counter Terrorism of Israel. Research Fellow, International Policy Institute for Counter Terrorism.
General (Ret.) Dov Shefi
Lecturer on Defense Laws and Laws of War, Bar Ilan University, Military Advocate General, Israel Defense Forces, General Counsel to the Ministry of Defense. General Shefi's son, Hagay (34), a prominent businessman, has been killed in the 9/11 terrorist attack at the World Trade Center.
Alan Pierre Gucker
Former Managing Director, International Insurance Claims Settling Corporation (Avus Gr.), France
International Board of Governors
Mr. Jacob Schlesinger
Founder and Honorary Chairman
Ambassador Dore Gold
President of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, former Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations, Foreign Policy Advisor to the Prime Minister.
Mr. Radek Sikorski
Resident Fellow, America Enterprise Institute and Executive Director of AEI's New Atlantic Initiative, former Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Deputy Minister of Defense of Poland.
Mr. Nicolai I. Scherbinin
Member of the Committee on International Affairs, Defense and Security of the Majlis (Parliament) - Kazakhstan
Dr. Ariel Cohen
Ariel Cohen, Ph.D., is a Research Fellow at the Heritage Foundation, a Washington, D.C., leading think tank, and a widely published author on foreign and defense policy and international energy security.
Gen. (Ret.) Avihu Ben Nun
Chairman, UMI Motors, former Commander of Israeli Air Force.
Gen. (Ret.) Slawomir Petilicki
Strategic Consultant, Ernst & Young, Advisor to the Prime Minister, Founder and first Commander of the Polish Special Operations Force GROM.
General (Ret.) Avigdor Kahalani
Former Minister of Internal Security of Israel.
General (Ret.) Gideon Shefer
Vice President, Elbit Systems, former Head of National Security Council of Israel, Chief of Staff, Israel Air Force.
General (Ret.) David Shoval
CEO, SIBDC ltd. Former Head of Israeli Ministry of Defense Delegation in Germany, Head of Military Export Directorate, Ministry of Defense.
General (Ret.) Oleg Nechiporenko
Director General, National Anti-criminal and Antiterrorist Foundation-Russia
Gen. (Ret.) Prof. Isaac Ben-Israel
Head of Curiel Center for International Studies & Program for Security Studies, Tel Aviv University, Former Director of Defense Research and Development of Israel.
Mr. Julian Jacobson
President of Jacobson Insurance & Financial Services in Los Angeles, California.
Prof. Moshe Arens
Former Minister of Foreign Affairs and Minister of Defense in the Government of Israel and Ambassador of Israel in the USA.
Mr. Micha Goldman
Former Deputy Minister of Education, Culture and Sport in the Government of Israel under Prime Minister Rabin, Chairman of Internal Affairs Committee of the Knesset (Parliament).
Adm. (Ret.) Panagiotis Kikareas
President of International Foundation for Peace and Security, Athens, President & CEO, Hellenic Aspis & Associates Inc., former Director of Operational Planning, NATO Headquarters, National Representative of Greece to NATO Command, Director of Fleet Operations, Hellenic Navy - Greece.
Prof. Howard Adelman
University of York & University of Toronto, world famous expert on refugees, former Director of Center for Refugee Studies, Editor, "Refuge" Canada's Periodical on Refugees - Toronto, Canada.
Prof. Aleksander V. Lagutkin,
Vice President of Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, former Prorector of Moscow State Academy of Law.
Gen (Ret.) Dipankar Banerjee
Director of Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, International Adviser to the ICRC, former Executive Director, South Asian Regional Center for Strategic Studies - India.
General (Ret.) (Police) Assaf Heffetz
Former National Police Commissioner of Israel, Commander of Police Special Counter Terrorist Force.
General (Ret.) Azriel Nevo
Former Military Secretary to the Prime Minister of Israel under Prime Ministers Begin, Shamir, Peres and Rabin, Defense Attache of Israel in the United Kingdom.
General (Ret.) Yechiam Sasson
CEO, Pro-Tact Terrorism Risk Management Ltd., former Head of Bureau for Counter Terrorism, Prime Minister's office of Israel.
General (Ret.) Salach Haiel
Business executive, former commander of division, IDF.
General (Ret.) Oleksiy Chistiakov
Head of International Anti-criminal and Anti-terrorist Committee of Ukraine, former Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs-Ukraine.
Air Commodore (Ret.) Prashant Dikshit
Deputy Director, Institute of Peace Conflict Studies, proliferation and weapons expert, former Indian Air Force, Senior Fellow at the Institute for Defense Studies and Analyses (IDSA).
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