Tag: security
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What is societal security? After 22/7 (in Norwegian)
Rapporten til 22. julikommisjonen har blitt rettmessig roset som et omfattende faktagrunnlag som danner utgangspunktet for reform og bedring. Men det er påfallende at kommisjonens rapport og debatten omkring den forstår samfunnets sikkerhet som en teknisk utfordring. Rapportens kritikk handler om veisperringer, radiosamband, IKT systemer, helikopter og båter, og politiets prosedyrer. Svikt i sikkerhet skyldes,… Read more →
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The societal impact of security research
The societal impact of security research PRIO Policy Brief 9/2012 Download here Read more →
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A threat against Europe?
A Threat against Europe? Security, Migration, Integration, with Serge Gutwirth (eds.) Brussels: VUB Press. Available here Read more →
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Ethics of security
Video lecture: Ten years of terror, University of Leeds, Histories of Violence project, 24 October Link here Read more →
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A necessary naïveté (in Norwegian)
From Morgenbladet 5 August 2011 Den tidligere lederen til det franske høyreradikale partiet Front National Jean-Marie Le Pen skal ha sagt denne uken at én årsak til terrorangrepet 22. juli var at nordmenn har vært ”naive” om terrortruslene de står overfor. (Aftenposten 31.07). Med dette mener han trolig at nordmenn har vist et uansvarlig mangel… Read more →
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Hva er sikkerhet?
Hva er sikkerhet [What is security]? Speech to the concluding conference of the Norwegian Research Council, SAMRISK Research Programme, Oslo, 7 June. Download Read more →
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What is societal security?
[Speech held for the European Security Research Programme Workshop Security research and Europe’s societal challenges: What do citizens want?, Oslo, 8 June 2011]. 1 Among the many successes of the European Security Research Programme is the growing wisdom and insight into what security actually means in our day. Most prominently this can be seen in… Read more →
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Security as ethos and episteme
Security as ethos and episteme DECTECTER project conference presentation Centre for Human Rights, University of Oslo, 10 February Download Read more →
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Security in the clouds
Security in the Clouds Future Internet, Ghent, 15 December. Read more →
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Rapid reactions in Greece
European history was made on Thursday as the EU Rapid Border Intervention Team (RABIT) was deployed for the first time every in its history. The team, one of several operated by Frontex, the European Border Management Agency, created in 2007, was deployed on the request of the Greek government in order to help to stop… Read more →