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Sascha-Dominik Bachmann, Associate Professor, Dep Law, as part of an ongoing research collaboration on Hybrid Threats and Cyber Terrorism with the Swedisch National Defence College and BU will visit Stockholm and give a lecture on the use of Improvised Explosive Devices (IED) by Terrorist Groups and the legal ramifications for Nation State Combatants.

Besides his role as an Associate Professor in International Law Sascha holds the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the German Army and served as a peacekeeper in the Balkans (Kosovo) on three occasions while completing his LL.D with the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. 

Trained as a Mountain Warfare Officer he had the privilege to be seconded to the 23rd Marines as an exchange officer as part of the official US-German Reserve Officers Foreign Exchange Officer Program.

His lecture focuses on the use of IEDs by terrorist non state actors when engaging with conventional forces and touches upon questions of criminal responsibility, countermeasures, deterrence, reciprocity, targeting practices and policy issues.

As part of his ongoing research collaboration with the SNDC

he argues that an unconvential approach to such assymetric

threats is needed.