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Janusz Bojarski

Major General (retired) Janusz Bojarski served as Commander of the NATO Defense Academy in Rome. Prior to his assignment to Rome, he was the Polish Military Representative to the NATO and European Union Committees in Brussels.

He then worked as the Director of the Human Resources Department at the Ministry of Defense for three years, managing strategic personnel policy in the Polish Armed Forces and serving as an advisor to the Minister of Defense. He also worked as the Deputy Director of the Military Intelligence Service, which included the preparation and distribution of analyses and strategic reports on the security situation in various regions of the world.

Prior to this appointment, General Bojarski held the position of Defense and Air Attaché at the Polish Embassy in Washington D.C. Early in his career, he also worked as an assistant to the defense, military, naval and air attachés at the Polish Embassy in Paris.

Mr. Bojarski earned a master’s degree in national resource strategy from the National Defense University in Washington, D.C. (2007). He also obtained a degree in Journalism from the University of Warsaw (1986). He completed a course for foreign purchasers in security assistance management at the Defense Institute of Security Assistance Management in the US, a course for international intelligence directors at the Defense Intelligence Security Centre in the UK, and a course for generals, flag officers and ambassadors at the NATO Academy in Rome.

 

Workshop description

The workshop „Security challenges resulting from illegal immigration” involved the following aspects:

– instrumentalization of migrants as a part of the “hybrid warfare” organized by state actors;
– hybrid warfare concept in Western and Russian views;
– roots of migration;
– Europe’s migration crisis (Lampedusa, the Polish-Belarusian border);
– migrant smuggling situation, routes of migration;
– EU action plan against migrant smuggling; migration – risk for European security;
– the Polish-Belarusian border – the wall, is it a good solution?
– legislative proposal to reform the EU asylum rules.

The Political Science students showed great interest in the workshop, asked plenty of questions, and expressed their wish to take part in more events of this kind.

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