Conf * Responding to societal needs through security policy * 28 nov 2018 * Bruxelles

Colloque du programme FP7 SOURCE (Societal Security Network) intitulé “Responding to societal needs through security policy” le 28 novembre 2018 au Centre for European Policy Studies (Bruxelles, Belgique). Inscription : Ici. Bourses de voyage pour les doctorants : Ici.


Programme main features:

  • Keynote lectures
  • Multi-stakeholder panel discussions confronting scientific insights with policy realities surrounding
  • 4 thematic areas:
  • Managing the freedom-technology-surveillance paradox
  • Integrating the heterodox political groups into security policy
  • Governing the Internet of Things
  • Assuring ethical conduct when countering violent extremism
  • Wide-ranging debates on how best to respond to societal security needs through security policy
  • Presentation of the main outcomes of SOURCE
  • Networking

Panel 1/ Managing the Freedom-Technology-Surveillance Paradox This panel explores the way in which the dynamics at work between freedom, security and fear of global threats has evolved into a vision of ‘solutions’ to insecurity based on technological tools and a different economy of surveillance, restructuring the idea of criminal justice and presumption of innocence towards a preventive, pro-active, predictive understanding of ‘security’. This paradigmatic change, and its effects, will be explored through a trans-disciplinary approach connecting international politics, sociology of technology, socio-legal analysis, sociology of surveillance and anthropological research on borders.

Panel 2/ Integrating the heterodox political groups into security policy This panel will discuss how extremist and radicalised groups, organising around specific ideologies and belief systems are considered as a significant security challenge across Europe. Their radicalised activists justify all kinds of criminal acts and even terrorist attacks as legitimate means to pursue their ideologically motivated ends. The standard categories, used by law enforcement, public discourse and the research community distinguish between politically left-wing and right-wing extremism, nationalist-separatist and religiously motivated groups. In our thematic working group, we focus on a recently emerging new type of extremism, developing new forms of protest, sometimes also spilling over into violent actions. The term heterodox is used as a label for groups showing a number of features cutting across the standard categories used to describe the field of extremist and radical movements.

Panel 3/ Governing the Internet of Things This panel will discuss the new relationship between people and machinesbrought about by the Internet of Things, beyond the new potentially valuable services and the need for a better security, IoT implies a new relationship between people and machines.  Machines are gaining a higher level of autonomy thanks to artificial intelligence and they are able to interact by themselves, without human intervention. Within this scenario people could be starting to lose some control on their own information and could be led into a state of full dependency on machines. At the same time, according to the European Commission, the market value of the IoT in the EU is expected to exceed one trillion euros in 2020. At the same time, the pervasive connectivity brings about new security and safety challenges.

Panel 4/ Assuring ethical conduct when countering violent extremism This panel will explore the justification and effects of ‘Countering Violent Extremism’ (CVE) CVE from an ethical perspective. On the one hand, there is strong support in European countries for fighting extremist ideology that justifies political violence. On the other hand, these efforts have entailed a broadening of counter-terrorism into ever new realms of social and cultural life that were previously separated from security politics in liberal democratic countries. Yet, experts on radicalisation and extremism present us with quite a different picture of the connections between values, violence and extremism. When explaining radicalisation, they emphasise a range of other values, like social recognition, self-esteem, belonging and justice. Mental problems, social marginalisation and political exclusion are highlighted as causes of extremism rather than the belief in extremist values as such.


Detailed programme

8.30 Welcoming Guests and Participants
9.00 Conference opening Welcome: Sergio Carreras, Centre for European Policy Studies Opening remarks: J. Peter Burgess, SOURCE Scientific Coordinator
9.15 Panel 1/ Managing the Freedom-Technology-Surveillance Paradox Chair: Didier Bigo (KCL) Speakers: Reinhard Kreissl (VICESSE), Christian Olsson (ULB), Eva Joly (European Parliament), Frederica Infantino (EUI/ ULB)
10.30 Panel 2/ Integrating the heterodox political groups into security policy Chair: Reinhard Kreissl (VICESSE) Speakers: Kristoffer Lidén (PRIO), Susann Bischof (Thünen Institut), Judith Faessler (Bavarian Intelligence Services), Erroll G. Southers (University of Southern California)
11.45 Coffee break
12.00 Panel 3/ Governing the Internet of Things Chair: Javier Herrera (TECNALIA) Speakers: Francisco Andrès (TECNALIA), Hui Song (SINTEF), Karsten Dehler (IT-Forum), Georgios Kolliarakis (Goethe Universität Frankfurt)
13.15 Lunch break
14.00 Keynote Address – Sir Julian King (European Commissioner for the Security Union) : ‘Implementing the Security Union: Priority Areas & Future Challenges’
15.00 Panel 4/ Assuring ethical conduct when countering violent extremism Chair: Kristoffer Lidén (PRIO) Speakers: Sergio Bianchi (Ministry of Justice in Italy) (tbc), Ervjola Selenica, Alessandra Russo, Ben Hayes (PRIO), Francesco Ragazzi (Uni Leiden) & Sarah Perret (ENS)
16.15 Conference closing Conclusion: J. Peter Burgess, SOURCE Scientific Coordinator The way forward: Reinhard Kreissl, Director SOURCE Virtual Centre of Excellence
16.30 Presentation of SOURCE Guidebook: Knowledge sharing on societal security – Meaning, challenges and tools/methods
16.45 Film competition: ‘Societal challenges of Humanitarian Refugee Crisis’
18.00 Cocktail

OpenEdition vous propose de citer ce billet de la manière suivante :
Jeanne Pawella (7 novembre 2018). Conf * Responding to societal needs through security policy * 28 nov 2018 * Bruxelles. Radicalisations. Consulté le 18 avril 2025 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/t5h4


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