Dr Dries Putter will visit UiT under GLOBSEC’s teaching mobility in September 2023.
Capt (SAN) Dr Dries Putter joined the South African National Defence Force in 1988 as a SA Navy Marine, served as a Marine Instructor and later as a Naval Officer on board the SAS Drakensberg, SAS Maria van Riebeeck, with brief deployments on the SA Sederberg, SAS Tafelberg and SAS Protea. He joined the Defence Intelligence community in 1998, then joined Special Forces Brigade research and development section in 2001. Since 2003 he has served at the Secretariat for Defence in various positions focussing on defence policy, strategy, defence industry, intellectual property and knowledge management. He represented Defence Material Division at the Wassenaar Arrangement Expert Meetings in Vienna since 2016. Capt (SAN) Dr Putter was awarded the best student on the Advanced Intelligence Course for International Students (1999); the Advanced Intelligence, Counterintelligence and Collection Symposium (2002) and the best overall Command Research Paper for JSCSP (2008) and best academic student on the Strategic Defence Studies Programme (2019). Capt (SAN) Dr Putter completed the Regional Peacekeeping Course for Commanders in 1998 and the Defence Attaché programme in 2014. He holds BMil, PDM(S), MBL, MM(S), MMil (cum laude) and PhD degrees focusing on defence, security, defence industry, strategy and defence knowledge management issues. Capt (SAN) Dr Putter is currently the School Chair for Security and Africa Studies at the Faculty of Military Science, University of Stellenbosch and a senior lecturer in Intelligence Studies – focussing on counterintelligence. He is a researcher for SIGLA, Stellenbosch University, an affiliated member of the National Security Hub and the University of Canberra and the University of Canberra (Australia) and a researcher for Africa Research Institute, Obuda University (Hungary). His research interests are intelligence, counterintelligence, covert action, hybrid warfare and the defence industry.
Dr Putter prepared a seminar on civil-military relations, especially for Samfunnssikkerhet students at UiT. This seminar will unpack the very key concepts of civil-military relations that inform the debate and explain how South Africa institutionalized civil-military relations as a necessity for national security.
It will take place on 27.09.2023 (Wednesday) from 10:00 to 12:00 in Medisin og helsefagbygget 1: Auditorium 5.
PLEASE do let us know if you wish to attend.