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(1) After the events of 9/11, the University of Cambridge created the Cambridge Security Programme. It was focused on finding answers to the insecurities of the world by, essentially, becoming a cross-institutional think tank.

cambridgesecurity.net/about.html
(2) The Cambridge Security Programme had far reaching connections, working with the European Union, NATO, UK and USA military establishments, and multiple universities around the world.

cambridgesecurity.net/about.html
(3) People connected to the Cambridge Security Programme included Professor James Mayall, Peter Cavanagh, Nick Sinclair-Brown, Rafal Rohozinski, Roxane Farmanfarmaian, Ricardo Soares de Oliveira, Dr. Charles Jones and Dr. Philip Towle.

cambridgesecurity.net/people.html
(4) The Cambridge Security Programme also had ties to the Cambridge Centre of International Studies, the Cambridge Security Seminar, the Israeli-Palestinian Peacekeeping Project, the Information Society in Palestine, the Cambridge Review of International Affairs...
(5) ... the OpenNet Initiative, the Infowar Monitor, the Airey Neave Trust and the Citizen Lab.

cambridgesecurity.net/links.html
(6) The Cambridge Centre of International Studies is a part of the Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS) at the University of Cambridge. Wait, I have seen that before...

polis.cam.ac.uk/centre-of-inte…
(7) Yes, Stefan Halper is an Emeritus Senior Fellow of the Centre of International Studies, part of the Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS) at Cambridge University.

polis.cam.ac.uk/Staff_and_Stud…
(8) The Cambridge Security Seminar was a series of talks hosted by the Cambridge Security Programme in locations such as Moscow, Pennsylvania, Cambridge and Amsterdam.

cambridgesecurity.net/events.html
(9) The Israeli-Palestinian Peacekeeping Project was another project of the Cambridge Security Programme. The Peacekeeping Forum met 2 - 3 times a year.

cambridgesecurity.net/project-ppp.ht…
(10) The Information Society In Palestine website takes you to a 404 page on the International Development Research Centre's website. They did help with workshops in Amsterdam with the Govcom.org Foundation.

idrc.ca/en/ev-59292-20…

govcom.org/pisp_maps1.html
(11) The Cambridge Review of International Affairs is a quarterly-released publication, which is also a part of the Politics and International Studies (POLIS) department at Cambridge University.

cria.polis.cam.ac.uk
(12) OpenNet Initiative is a partnership between the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs, Harvard University's Berkman Center For Internet and Society, and the SecDev Group.

opennet.net/about-oni
(13) The people in charge of the OpenNet Initiative (ONI) are Ronald Deibert, John Palfrey, Rafal Rohozinski and Jonathan Zittrain.

opennet.net/about-oni
(14) The Information Warfare Monitor (IWM) was founded in 2002 by Ronald Deibert and Rafal Rohozinski as a sister project to the OpenNet Initiative.

iwm.citizenlab.info
(15) The Information Warfare Monitor was supported by the University of Toronto's Canada Centre For Global Security Studies, a grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and a software donation from Palantir Technologies.

iwm.citizenlab.info
(16) The Airey Neave Trust is an organisation named after Airey Neave, former MP of Abingdon, who was killed by terrorists in March 1979. As such, the Trust focuses on anti-terrorist issues.

aireyneavetrust.org.uk/about-us
(17) Citizen Lab is ran by Ronald Deibert, who acts as the Director, and focuses on research, development, high-level strategic policy, human rights and global security.

citizenlab.ca/people/

citizenlab.ca/about/
(18) Citizen Lab is financially supported by the Canada Centre For Global Security Studies, the Donner Canadian Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Hewlett Foundation, Hivos, the International Development Research Centre, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation...
(19) ... the Oak Foundation, the Open Society Foundations, Psiphon, Inc., The Sigrid Rausing Trust, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and the Walter and Duncan Gordon Foundation.

citizenlab.ca/about/
(20) The Cambridge Security Programme itself, however, closed down in December 2007, its work completed.

cambridgesecurity.net/news.html
(21) And now for some random connections in relation to the Cambridge Security Programme and Stefan Halper.
(22) Photograph of Stefan Halper, Professor James Mayall and Dr. Philip Towle.

i.ytimg.com/vi/B2SNlmj1N-Q…
(23) Stefan Halper, Professor James Mayall, Dr. Philip Towle and Roxane Farmanfarmaian, with Stefan Halper also connected to the Donner Foundation in the United States.

images.tandf.co.uk/common/jcovers…
(24) Stefan Halper, Professor James Mayall and Ricardo Soares de Oliviera.

amazon.co.uk/New-Protectora…
(25) Stefan Halper, Professor James Mayall, Dr. Philip Towle and Dr. Charles Jones.

assets.cambridge.org/97805218/38344…
(26) And just because I noticed it: Stefan Halper and Max Boot who, coincidentally, is also on the advisory board for the Committee to Investigate Russia.

assets.cambridge.org/97805218/38344…

investigaterussia.org/advisory-board
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