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The Forum offers a wide range of opportunities for young national security professionals to gain practical, professional experience and develop a network with the current and next generations of Australian strategic thinkers. Seminars The Forum is based around a series of monthly seminars focusing on strategic and professional development themes. Some of Australia’s Government and national security leaders, industry representatives and world-renowned experts will present this series. At each seminar a theme is discussed in-depth with the opportunity for young leaders to discuss these and many other issues with recognised experts in national security policy and the long-term issues facing Australia. Other special events in which young strategic leaders will have the opportunity to participate include closed seminars with world-renowned experts in a number of fields from policing to diplomacy and military strategy. YSL Congress Twice a year Kokoda offers Young Strategic Leaders the opportunity to attend a weekend long Congress. The weekend retreat involves a series of workshops and seminars with senior national security community leaders and industry heads. Activities are structured around a central theme with time in between seminars and workshops to talk informally with some of Australia’s senior officials. For more information see Young Strategic Leaders' Congress. National Security Careers Night
ADBR Magazine Strategic Essay Prize Call for Articles for the 2008 Young Strategic Writers Competition The Australian Defence Business Review is supporting Security Challenges by sponsoring an annual competition for young scholars or professionals writing on Australia's national security challenges. Generous prizes of $A1000, $A500 and $A250 are awarded for the top three submissions by authors under 35 years of age. Contributions can be made throughout the year until Friday, 17 October 2008. All winning articles will be published in forthcoming editions of Security Challenges. Articles submitted and published before the closing date of the competition are also eligible to participate. The competition is open to all young scholars or professionals under 35 years of age (as of 17 October 2008). About the ADBR Magazine Strategic Essay Prize The Kokoda Foundation’s vision for encouraging a new generation of young Australian strategic thinkers is now clearly shared by many colleagues and friends. Trevor Thomas, the Editor-in-Chief of Australian Defence Business Review Magazine generously sponsors an annual essay competition to find the best articles on forward-looking strategic issues written by Australians under the age of 35. The prize for 2008 was awarded at the 2008 Trilogy Seminar dinner on 20 November.
All three winning articles and a few other outstanding entries were published in subsequent editions of Robert Chaloner Prize The Rob Chaloner Prize is awarded annually as recognition of outstanding young strategic leadership. The Prize consists of $1000 to allow the winner to undertake further personal development. Nominations will be judged by a sub-committee of the Kokoda Foundation Board on the following criteria:
The recommendation of the selection committee will be presented to the Kokoda Foundation Board for endorsement. The winner will be announced at the Young Strategic Leaders Forum Congress held late in the year. The decision of the selection committee and the Kokoda Foundation Board is final and binding, and no correspondence will be entered into regarding the decision or any part of the selection process. The nomination form for the 2008 Robert Chaloner Prize can be downloaded here. History of the Robert Chaloner Prize Rob Chaloner was an energetic supporter of the Kokoda Foundation from its very beginnings. He was particularly enthusiastic to see young strategic thinkers encouraged to strengthen their strategic analytical skills, understanding and expertise as well as their practical work, leadership and management capacities. In memory of her husband Frances Chaloner donated a sum of money to the Kokoda Foundation in order to fund an annual prize in memory of her late husband. Research Young Strategic leaders may also be invited to participate in Kokoda Foundation research projects and attend closed workshops where senior government officials discuss some of Australia’s most challenging future security challenges with academic and industry experts from Australia and around the world. Some of the projects in which young strategic leaders have participated include:
Participants in the Forum will also have opportunities to write for Security Challenges, the Foundation’s reviewed journal.
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