At the EastWest Institute’s sixth annual Worldwide Security Conference, international leaders and counterterrorism experts identified lessons learned from the “Global War on Terror” and ways to measure success in continuing counter-terrorism efforts.

Leaders from India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and several other countries presented a range of ideas to overcome terrorism, from coordination of military and police forces to an emphasis on political and social dimensions of terrorism.

Sampling of Media Coverage:

Newspapers and wire services

• EWI's sixth Worldwide Security Conference starts in Brussels Ihlas News Agency
• Afghan minister: Extra US troops should be deployed at border with Pakistan Kuwait News Agency
• OSCE's Perl calls for more diplomacy Middle East Times
• Tribes could be bin Laden's downfall: ex-spy Reuters
•  U.N. envoy urges backing for Somali leader Reuters
• Hit foreign link to heroin, Afghans ask allies Reuters
• Fast Afghan troop push may hurt Iraq: adviser Reuters
• CIS urged to guard against unrest Reuters
• Talk to some Taliban, but from strength: adviser Reuters
• Crisis sharpens scrutiny of security spending Reuters
• OSCE's Perl calls for more diplomacy UPI

Web sites and blogs

• Worldwide Security Conference 6 - Report Blairwatch
• Enhanced diplomacy, regional organizations key to countering terrorism, OSCE expert tells security conference ISRIA
• Enhanced diplomacy, regional organizations key to countering terrorism, OSCE expert tells security conference The Lift
• Interview with Kunio Mikuriya, Secretary General, World Customs OrganizationSecurityCommunity.eu
• Interview with Andrew Nagorski, Director of Public Policy and Senior Fellow, EWI SecurityCommunity.eu
• Interview with Jamie Shea, Director of Policy Planning, NATO SecurityCommunity.eu