Centre Français de Recherche sur le Renseignement (CF2R)
Think Tanks - Paris, Île-de-France, France
Centre Français de Recherche sur le Renseignement (CF2R) Employees
Centre Français de Recherche sur le Renseignement (CF2R) Details
Founded in 2000, the Centre Français de Recherche sur le Renseignement (CF2R) (French Centre for Intelligence Studies) is an independent non-governmental Think-Tank. The Centre specialises in intelligence history, techniques and politics. Around these broad themes, the CR2R develops: - Research activities and workshops, which are provided exclusively to its active members (lunch-conferences, working groups) ; - Sensitization activities aimed at the media, Members of Parliament, universities and economic decision-makers ; - Publications addressed to the general public ; - A postgraduate diploma « Intelligence Study », in partnership with the University Montesquieu Bordeaux IV. - Studies and training sessions provided according to clients‚ needs and requests; In this perspective, the CF2R is structured into different commissions: . Intelligence History, . Intelligence Management, . Technical intelligence and intelligence technologies, . Special and covert operations, . Psychological operations and deception, . Private military companies and mercenary activities . Competitive intelligence and influence, . Drugs, criminality and mafias, . Terrorism and Islamic extremism In parallel, the CF2R conducts regional studies and research, allowing a follow-up on a number of geopolitical situations. The CF2R has at its disposal around twenty Associate Researchers. All are researchers in their own field of expertise and have both reckoned scholar competencies as well as real hands-on experiences. CF2R's publications include : . News reports, analysis and research papers written by experts on a regular basis (www.cf2r.org), . Weekly electronic bulletin, Renseignor, (Broadcast Intelligence gathered from foreign radio programs in French), . In addition, many collective books
