Walters State's Rose Chosen for Anti-Terrorist Training

John Rose, assistant professor of criminal justice, will travel to Tel Aviv in June for ten days of extensive training and discussion with others who teach terrorism and counter-terrorism. The goal of the program is to offer information to teaching professionals about the ideologies, motives and operations of terrorists. Rose is one of only 43 professors in the United States chosen to attend the Academic Fellows Program.

Rose teaches terrorism to new police officers attending Walters State's Basic Law Enforcement Officer Academy in Greeneville and offers a more extensive in-service for current officers. He also teaches a three-hour credit course each semester at Walters State and as an adjunct faculty member at East Tennessee State University. He joined the Walters State faculty in 2003.

"After 9/11, I became very interested in terrorism and became involved in ways that we can detect terrorists cells before groups have a chance to carry out an attack," Rose said.

The Foundation for Defense of Democracies fights terrorism through research, communications and education. In this Academic Fellowship, Rose will learn from diplomats, military and intelligence officials from Israel, Jordan, India and Turkey. He will also have the opportunity to visit military bases, border zones and security installations to see the practical side of deterring terrorist attacks.