DEMOS

While the British Government focus on, and direct resources to counter-terrorism, the UK continues to face a broad spectrum of complex and interrelated threats at home and abroad. The challenges of serious and organised crime, WMD proliferation, pandemics, natural and man-made disasters, as well as failed states, such as Iraq and Afghanistan, demand an increasingly joined-up approach from the British government’s security architecture. An overall framework that places all of these initiatives in context with one another is noticeable by its absence.

The seminar will explore the value in creating such a strategy; its impact on how the Government is organised for national security; the scope of a strategy, encompassing the public and private sectors; and its role in communicating the Government’s response to the challenges facing society to the British public.

Speakers

Professor Sir Lawrence Freedman, Professor of War Studies and Vice Principal (Research) King's College
Leon Fuerth, former National Security Adviser to Vice President Al Gore and Research Professor of International Affairs, The George Washington University
Sir David Omand KCB, former UK Security and Intelligence Coordinator, Cabinet Office and Visiting Professor, King’s College London
Charlie Edwards, Security Programme, Demos will chair the seminar