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A criminologist and the founder of New Dimension Group, Dr. Nicholas Janitsary has global consulting experience in Singapore, Dubai, Delhi, and other regions throughout Asia and the Middle East. Dr. Nicholas Janitsary additionally speaks on issues of global security at various and international summits and conferences, including the INTERPOL General Assembly.

The INTERPOL General Assembly functions as the preeminent governing body for INTERPOL, a globalized police network with nearly 200 member nations. Headed by an executive committee, the assembly meets annually to address matters of operational strategy, international communication, new programs, and general organizational policy.

The INTERPOL General Assembly consists of delegates from each member nation’s government. In most situations, delegates vote and decide on matters through simple majority rules, with delegates all casting a single vote. The 84th INTERPOL General Assembly met in Kigali, Rwanda, in November 2015. The next assembly is scheduled to take place in November 2016, in Bali, Indonesia.

A Criminology Theory Approach to Global Drug Counterfeiting

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Nicholas Janitsary is a global security consultant who guides New Dimension Group as managing director and provides a host of services ranging from intelligence gathering to critical crisis management. In providing client-driven training solutions, Nicholas Janitsary draws on a doctoral background in criminology.

This discipline has a wide range of applications, with recent Michigan State University research published in the Journal of Forensic Science and Criminology pointing to criminology theory as a foundation for addressing medication fraud. A number of developing world countries have set in place rapid response and intervention protocol for addressing the production and distribution of drugs that are fake and substandard. Unfortunately, this alone has proved insufficient in protecting people from the impacts of drug counterfeiting.

In conceptualizing the issue, the MSU researchers applied crime triangle theory, which links the potential for successful fraud to lack of enforcement and the presence of a victim. Effective countermeasures must take a coordinated approach in shrinking the triangle size.

This goes beyond reacting to existing problems and involves proactively seeking to understand the underlying dynamics that allow them to arise. Only when key pressure points are identified can they be removed from the equation; preventing medication fraud and counterfeiting in countries such as India and Nigeria has been described as comparable to treating a patient with a chronic condition.

Honor Culture in Middle Eastern Business

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Nicholas Janitsary conducts business through his company, New Dimension Group. The managing director for the group, founded in 2000, Nicholas Janitsary serves as a consultant to firms in the areas of security, aviation, and business development. Through this work, Dr. Janitsary strives to bring cultural understanding to various areas of the world including the Middle East, where he regularly conducts business.

Middle Eastern business practices are generally thought to be driven by an honor culture, different from the dignity culture common in the Western world. An honor culture values self-worth through social interactions and competition, while a dignity culture values self-worth through social status, which develops outside of social interaction. These variances can lead to different practices when it comes to business.

In business dealings, an honor culture tends to view the task at hand as a competition, while a dignity culture views it as a problem needing resolution. Due to this, individuals from an honor culture can be slower to trust, as trust needs to be earned through repeated interactions, and they may be more likely to use emotional tactics such as anger and sympathy to influence negotiations. Due to these differences, successful business dealings require an understanding of the local culture.

Diving in the Middle East

Nicholas Janitsary serves as the managing director of the New Dimension Group, a consulting firm with offices in Asia, India, and the Middle East with interests in security management, defense training, aviation, and business development. Nicholas Janitsary leverages his cultural expertise to assist clients in transitioning their businesses to Asian, Indian, and Middle Eastern markets by helping them understand and adapt top native business cultures. In his free time, Mr. Janitsary is a SCUBA diving enthusiast.

The Middle East has some of the most interesting dive sites in the world. One of the most intriguing Middle Eastern dive sites is the beautiful Aqaba Marine Park, a seven-kilometer stretch of protected marine preserve just south of the city of Aqaba at the tip of the Red Sea, in Jordan. There, divers will be treated to vibrant coral and thousands of species of fish and other aquatic life. The underwater wreck of a Lebanese freighter that sank in 1985, the Cedar Pride, represents another draw as it is great fun for divers to explore.

In Saudi Arabia, the most popular dive site is the Boiler Wreck, an old coal-fired shipwreck that also features an abundance of unusual marine life. Other popular dive sites there include, Ala’s Reef, which is great for viewing sharks; Redmah Wall, a stunning 150m soft coral reef; and Sheraton Beach in the city of Jeddah, which is offers good visibility in summer and a multitude of diverse marine life to observe.

An Introduction to Wine Tasting

Dr. Nicholas Janitsary is a criminologist who also serves as managing director of New Dimension Group. In his spare time, Nicholas Janitsary enjoys scuba diving, sailing, and sampling various wines.

Wine tasting is an enjoyable and relatively inexpensive hobby that can be acquired at any point in a person’s life, as long as they are of legal drinking age. While collectors of fine wine may spend several hundred dollars on a single bottle, wine tasters often sample dozens of rare and exotic wines during a tasting for a single price.

Beginning wine tasters should start by evaluating the color and clarity of the wine they are trying. By tilting a wine glass away, the taster will be able to better examine the color. Red wines range from a maroon or ruby hue to brick or slightly brown, while white wines can be yellow, golden, or even subtly green. Before sampling the wine, tasters should smell the wine they are about to drink. A proper scent test is conducted by swirling the wine glass for several seconds before taking a brief yet deep breath. Finally, the taster can drink the wine and enjoy the taste. The complexities and richness of various wines are truly the backbone of this hobby, as individuals can savor the wine from its initial impact all the way through the after taste.

Nicholas Janitsary – Tips for Effective Public Speaking

Dr. Nicholas Janitsary currently operates as founder and managing director of Singapore-based New Dimension Group. In this capacity, Dr. Nicholas Janitsary has spoken at numerous conferences, including the Interpol General Assembly and the Asia-Pacific Superyacht Conference. He offers several recommendations for effective public speaking.

Focus on the audience – In order to overcome anxiety, speakers should focus on the audience and the message. By doing so, speakers can achieve their goals of entertaining, motivating, and informing the audience.

Share personal anecdotes – Regardless of the topic, audiences usually respond better and retain more information when presentations include a personal touch. Sharing personal anecdotes makes speakers more interesting and more relatable to the audience.

Visualize a successful delivery – Experts claim all winners in life visualize themselves achieving their goals. The same is true for public speaking. If speakers feel anxious or nervous, they should visualize themselves successfully delivering the message to the audience.

The Need for Cultural Understanding in Business

Nicholas Janitsary has spent more than a decade working as the founder and managing director of Singapore’s New Dimension Group, a business development firm particularly active in the aviation space. In addition to his work in Singapore, his work with the group has required Nicholas Janitsary to spend time in the Middle East in attempts to help Middle Eastern business professionals understand the Asian business culture, and vice versa.

Bridging the cultural divides that separate one part of the world from another has long been paramount to the success of international business, and now analysts are saying that cultural awareness training is a necessity for all businesses. The bane of any efficient executive’s existence is miscommunication, as it inevitably leads to decreased productivity and costly mistakes. The likelihood of miscommunication is always high in today’s fast-paced, increasingly digital business world, and cultural misunderstandings only serve to compound this issue.

Contrary to popular belief, cultural miscommunication in business goes far beyond a simple language barrier. Small and middle-sized businesses in America, in particular, need to start fostering international business relationships in anticipation of payoffs down the road. This business strategy stands in stark contrast to the American business notion of making a profitable deal that yields immediate results.

International Security Leaders Meet at the 81st Interpol General Assembly

Interpol, the International Criminal Police Organization, has over 190 member countries working together to make the world safer through international police cooperation. Interpol holds a General Assembly in a different country each year in order to further this goal. Nicholas Janitsary has spoken at past Interpol General Assemblies on topics related to criminology, international security, and business. The founder of New Dimension Group, a security and defense consulting firm, Nicholas Janitsary works to facilitate understanding of differing business practices between countries.

The 81st Interpol General Assembly took place in November 2012, in Rome, Italy. Delegates appointed by their countries’ governments met to discuss the Assembly’s theme: challenges for the police in addressing contemporary criminal violence. Law enforcement officials examined those challenges and shared strategies for responding to national and international criminal violence.

The Interpol General Assembly makes all major decisions affecting the organization, including developing and establishing policies and electing Interpol’s Executive Committee.

Singapore History, by Nicholas Janitsary

When establishing the Singapore branch of my consultancy the New Dimensions Group, I researched the city’s rich history. Singapore’s strategic location in Southeast Asia has paved the way for its trade and wealth.

Needing a place to maintain its naval forces in the Far East, Great Britain claimed the island in 1819. It became prosperous as it supplied rubber for the rest of the world. In 1941 and 1942 Japanese forces took over the city and occupied it for three years.

After World War II, desire for an independent Singapore grew. It did not attain self-government until 1959, after a state of emergency declared by Britain and lasting for twelve years, brought on by Communist advances in nearby Malaya.

Singapore associated itself with the new nation of Malaysia, but in 1965 pulled out of that federation and became truly independent. Britain withdrew its armed forces from Singapore in 1971, encouraging the island nation to build up its own armed forces.

-About the author: Nicholas Janitsary works for cultural understanding between Westerners and their Asian business interests.

Bomb Detector Smells like a Moth

By Nicholas Janitsary

For years, law enforcement agencies around the world have used dogs to sniff for explosives, but dogs are not the only animals now in use. In 2009, DARPA began experiments using bees to locate landmines, but now a new detection technology has been developed based on moths.

The silkmoth, or Bombyx mori, has antennae that are highly evolved to detect smells in very low concentrations. The new detector imitates the design of the moth’s antennae, and consists of a long spine covered with up to half a million microscopic nanotubes made from titanium dioxide. The system, developed by a team of researchers in Europe, has the potential to be 1,000 times more sensitive than current TNT detectors. The detector has successfully completed laboratory testing, but has not been tested yet in the field.

Nicholas Janitsary has a Ph.D. in Criminology and is the Managing Director of New Dimension Group.