Intelligence and Law Enforcement in the 21st Century

Multidisciplinary research is steadily revolutionizing traditional education, scientific approaches, and activities related to security matters. Therefore, the knowledge generated through multidisciplinary research into the field of application of scientific inquiry could be utilized to protect critical and vital assets of a country. The field of security requires focus on the assessment and resolution of complex systems. Consequently, the dynamics of the intelligence field leads to the necessity of raising awareness and placing priority on improved ideas using scientific inquiry. Intelligence and Law Enforcement in the 21st Century provides personnel directly working in the fields of intelligence and law enforcement with an opportunity to deeply delve into to the challenges, choices, and complications in finding, applying, and presenting the gathered intelligence through various methods and then presenting them through available policies and procedures in the arena of law and order. The book also addresses how law enforcement is critically assessed in the 21st century when implementing the rule of law and order. Covering topics such as counterterrorism, cybersecurity, biological and chemical weapons, and scientific inquiry, this is an essential text for law enforcement, intelligence specialists, analysts, cybersecurity professionals, government officials, students, teachers, professors, practitioners, and researchers in fields that include terrorism and national security.

Eugene de Silva has been an educator for over 25 years. As a professor of physics and chemistry, he developed the first online college physics programs under the auspices of Walters State Community College and the Board of Regents for the State of Tennessee. He established the National Accrediting Commission for Martial Arts (NACMA)- a registered charity- and Virginia Research Institute (VRI) – a non-profit organization in the United States in 2004. These foundations were set in place to spark the younger generation’s interest in furthering their education and research. He has been the President of the Tennessee Science Department Chairs Association since 2008. He is also the Chair of Institute of Physics UK/USA Branch (South Eastern USA). He is an Executive Member of the Tennessee Academy of Sciences. De Silva has written several books including textbooks in physics and chemistry and is an internationally recognized educator with his name entered in the Who’s Who in the World, Who’s Who in American Education, and Who’s Who in America. He developed the first Martial Arts educational degree in the world in 1993 when he was in the UK. He holds the highest Dan grade in martial arts and is the founder of an international charity known as The Society of Martial Arts, UK. He, as a practitioner of martial arts, introduced a syllabus of teaching physics through martial arts in 2007. He introduced Physics Day in the USA, which has been in place since 2005 for high school students where mechanics section of physics is taught through martial arts. He has also won the “Innovative Teaching Award,” “Above and Beyond Award,” and has received recognition awards from the Tennessee Academy of Sciences, USA and the Institute of Chemistry, Sri Lanka. He is a chartered chemist, chartered scientist, and chartered physicist; he was also elected as a fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce in recognition of his outstanding work in the field of education. The World Head of Family Sokeship Council also inducted him to the Hall of Fame in 2001 in Florida, USA. His novel teaching model, “START,” is now being introduced in the teaching of science through the Virginia Research Institute. He also holds two world records in breaking cinder blocks on different parts of his body.

Asanga Abeyagoonasekera is an International Security and Geopolitics Analyst and Strategic Advisor from Sri Lanka. His new book is on Sri Lanka’s Geopolitical challenges ‘Conundrum of an Island’ (2021, Published by World Scientific, Singapore) endorsed by Walter Russell Mead as a “Useful text to understand emerging dynamics of the Indo-Pacific”. He is the author of ‘Sri Lanka at Crossroads’ (2019) and ‘Towards A Better World Order’ (2015). He is a keen commentator on Geopolitics, Intranational Relations and South Asian Security matters and has written extensively and published on international journals and think tanks. He has provided consultancy to multiple development partners, private firms, and government. He is a Senior Researcher for Social Impact (USA). He serves as the Senior Advisor for Security and Geopolitics to Leader of the Opposition in Parliament of Sri Lanka. He has led two Government think tanks providing strategic advocacy on Foreign Policy and Defense in Sri Lanka. He was the Founding Director-General of the National Security Think Tank under the Ministry of Defense (INSSSL) until January 2020. Before this, he has served as the Executive Director at the Foreign Policy think tank ((Kadirgamar Institute LKIIRSS). He was the advisor to Minister of External Affairs from 2011-2015. Asanga served as a Visiting Professor for Geopolitics and Global Leadership (NKU, USA), Visiting Lecturer for International Security (Colombo University, Sri Lanka), International Political Economy (University of London in Colombo RIC). He is an Alumnus of the US State Department IVLP, Fellow at National Defense University (NESA, NDU) in Washington DC, Fellow at APCSS (Hawaii) and Young Global Leader World Economic Forum (Geneva). For his academic contribution, he was awarded the accolade Ambassador of Knowledge in 2015 from Life Learning Academia, Slovenia. In 2021 he was appointed to the Global Advisory Council along with former New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark and several other distinguished individuals to the Apolitical Global Academy.