Pre-Conference Workshop: 8th December, 2008

13:00 - 17:00 EMERGING CONCEPTS AND DEVELOPMENTS IN JPR

Since 9/11 and the start of the Global War on Terror, JPR and CSAR have been stretched to new levels and faced new challenges. PR has grown from its infancy in WWII through its formative years of Korea and Vietnam to its adolescence in Gulf Wars 1 &2. However, it is clear that the concepts and full spectrum of PR are yet to reach full maturity. The specific and narrow CSAR mission of rescuing downed aircrew from behind enemy lines has had to broaden to incorporate a very different set of tasks, from recovering ground troops to supporting humanitarian relief operations.

Many lessons have been learned from current operations, yet how they may be applied outside of those theatres is still to be determined. Western militaries are now facing a threat that stretches CSAR assets and personnel as never before. It is no longer wholly a military dilemma or problem, as all western citizens in hostile environments are now potential targets for our adversaries. Furthermore, the previously clearly defined and hard-edged ‘hostile environment’ has now changed and defining it has now become blurred. As such, the field of JPR has been forced to increase in complexity in a way which is upon us quicker than many could have foreseen. This means that the best practises for dealing in complex environments and with non military organizations has yet to be determined.

This workshop will, through a series of presentations, group work and discussion address current and future potential issues facing JPR:

• How PR has arrived at its current situation?
• Why does PR have to change?
• How new concepts of PR are driving changes?

About the Workshop Leader:

Conrad Allen Joined the RAF straight from school in Jan 1987 serving on a RAF Mountain Rescue Team, during which time he responded to many aircraft crashes as well as the recovery of military and civilian personnel in distress in the UK. In 1998 he was commissioned into the RAF Regiment and served operationally in Northern Ireland, the Falkland Islands and conducted psychological operations in Bosnia as part of EUFOR. His last tour of duty, before retiring, was as a SERE instructor at the Defence SERE Training Centre St Mawgan where his particular skills were used to conduct a groundbreaking study into evasion in the urban environment. He has become the UK subject matter expert in Urban Evasion and Escape and is currently engaged with several government agencies in promoting and developing PR in this taxing and dynamic environment.

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