Dr. Ely Karmon is a Senior Research Scholar at The International Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT) and fellow at the Institute for Policy and Strategy (IPS) at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC), Herzliya, Israel. His fields of research include political violence, international terrorism, WMD terrorism, and strategic issues in the Middle East. Dr. Karmon is a member of The Atlantic Forum of Israel and is involved in NATO workshops on terrorism and on the Mediterranean Dialogue. He is also a member of the International Permanent Observatory on Security Measures during Majors Events at the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute, Turin, Italy. Dr. Karmon is a fellow at the Proteus Management Group, Center for Strategic Leadership, U.S. Army War College, and was a visiting fellow 2002 at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy. He has served as an advisor to the Israeli Ministry of Defense and to the Anti-Semitism Monitoring Forum of the Israeli Government Secretariat.