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Charlie Edwards

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Charlie is Director of National Security and Resilience Studies at the Royal United Services Institute.

Charlie Edwards is Director of National Security and Resilience Studies at the Royal United Services Institute. Prior to RUSI he was a Research Leader at the RAND Corporation focusing on Defence and Security where he conducted research and analysis on a broad range of subject areas including: the evaluation and implementation of counter-violent extremism programmes in Europe and Africa, UK cyber strategy, European emergency management, and the role of the internet in the process of radicalisation.  He has undertaken fieldwork in Iraq, Somalia, and the wider Horn of Africa region.

Charlie is a former Deputy Director for Strategy and Planning in the Office for Security and Counter Terrorism (Home Office). In this role he was responsible for the development of the UK's counter-terrorism strategy (CONTEST 2011) and was the official charged with independent oversight of the Prevent Review. He ran the security programme at the think tank Demos for three years where he worked on UK national security strategy and resilience. He has conducted major research and analysis projects for the European Commission, European and Canadian Governments, and the US Administration. He is a regular commentator in national and international media.

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A Force For Change
Authors
Charlie Edwards, Paul Skidmore
Publication Date
2006-04-07
Publication Type
Pamphlet

Based on interviews with 150 senior police officers over a two-year peiod, A Force For Change argues that police reform needs to be 'future proof'.

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The Business of Resilience
Authors
Charlie Edwards, Rachel Briggs
Publication Date
2006-06-29
Publication Type
Pamphlet

The Business of Resilience sets out a manifesto for corporate security in the 21st century. In an increasingly complex and fast moving world, business-aligned security not only makes companies safer. It is the new source of competitive advantage.

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The Case for a National Security Strategy
Authors
Charlie Edwards
Publication Date
2007-02-23
Publication Type
Report

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National Security for the Twenty-First Century
Authors
Charlie Edwards
Publication Date
2007-12-10
Publication Type
Pamphlet

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UK Confidential
Authors
Charlie Edwards, Catherine Fieschi
Publication Date
2008-05-19
Publication Type
Collections

The transformation of our social lives and the increase in surveillance and technological innovations have led us to believe that privacy is in the midst of a very public death. But privacy is not dying, nor can we let it do so.

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Resilient Nation
Authors
Charlie Edwards
Publication Date
2009-04-20
Publication Type
Pamphlet

Next generation resilience relies on citizens and communities, not the institutions of state...

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Connecting the Dots
Authors
Jake Chapman, Charlie Edwards, Simon Hampson
Publication Date
2009-11-04
Publication Type
Pamphlet

Wicked problems have no single solution.  Connecting the Dots looks at the issues of drug trafficking, gang crime and climate change and asks how a joined-up approach will help has approach these issues in more realistic and successful way.

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Futures Thinking

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Thinking about the future is tough – it’s all too easy to take a fatalistic approach and assume there’s nothing we can do to shape impersonal global forces, or to cling to ‘official’ versions of the future set out in government visions and policy documents.

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Private Lives?

Charlie Edwards, Peter Bradwell, Catherine Fieschi

This Demos collection will highlight new thinking about privacy in the UK, and seek to address the future challenges of the privacy agenda in an increasingly open society.

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Networked Security

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The security of the UK has been the focus of an extraordinary level of interest since 9/11. This has given rise to new legislation, partnerships between the private and public sectors and created a plethora of initiatives, all accompanied by a vigorous public debate.

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Delivering Security

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The New Public Diplomacy

Charlie Edwards, Alex Evans, David Steven

Public diplomacy – diplomacy directed at people rather than other diplomats – is vital for tackling global risks like climate change, terrorism or HIV obliterate geographic, disciplinary and organisational borders. This project explores how governments can equip themselves to operate effectively in this new context.

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Resilient Nation

Charlie Edwards

This pamphlet calls for a radical rethink of resilience. Instead of structures and centralised services, it argues that citizens and communities are the true source of resilience for our society. People must learn adapt and work together to make Britain a resilient nation.

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Connecting the Dots

Charlie Edwards, Simon Hampson

Tackling the causes of risks and the drivers of insecurity is complex, time consuming and rarely has an immediate or obvious impact.

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Basra Journal

Charlie Edwards

In October 2008, Charlie Edwards, Head of Security at Demos made a trip to Basra, Iraq.

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Risk and Security Management

The course has been developed in conjunction with the private security industry and it aims to equip security professionals and those working in occupations with a significant security role, the ability to understand and apply relevant approaches, techniques and processes from both general management and their own specialist management field.

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The Cranfield Resilience Centre

The purpose of the Cranfield University Resilience Centre is "to improve the capacity of organisations to respond to emergency and disruptive challenges - whether natural, accidental or deliberate - through the provision of relevant education, training, research and operational support".

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International Security Management Association

ISMA's mission is to provide and support an international forum of selected security executives whose combined expertise will be utilized in a synergistic manner in developing, organizing, assimilating, and sharing knowledge within security disciplines for the ultimate purpose of enhancing professional and business standards.

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ASIS

ASIS International, with more than 33,000 members, is the largest international organization for professionals responsible for security, including managers and directors of security. In addition, corporate executives and other management personnel, as well as consultants, architects, attorneys, and federal, state, and local law enforcement, are becoming involved with ASIS to better understand the constant changes in security issues and solutions.

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Global Business Network

As a worldwide membership organization and scenario and strategy consultancy, GBN engages in a collaborative exploration of the future, discovering the frontiers of knowledge and creating innovative tools for strategic action and adaptive advantage. GBN chairman Peter Schwartz is the guru of scenario planning.

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In Pursuit of the Future

A three-year research project under the UK Economic and Social Research Council’s Professorial Fellowship Scheme.

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Shaping Tomorrow

Shaping Tomorrow helps people and organisations better anticipate and respond to world trends.

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Shell Global Scenarios

Shell's global scenarios to 2025.

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WorldChanging

WorldChanging.com works from a simple premise: that the tools, models and ideas for building a better future lie all around us. That plenty of people are working on tools for change, but the fields in which they work remain unconnected. That the motive, means and opportunity for profound positive change are already present. That another world is not just possible, it's here. We only need to put the pieces together.

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Mapping the Global Future

Mapping the Global Future: Report of the National Intelligence Council’s 2020 Project is the third unclassified report prepared by the National Intelligence Council (NIC) in recent years that takes a long-term view of the future. It offers a fresh look at how key global trends might develop over the next decade and a half to influence world events. Mindful that there are many possible "futures," our report offers a range of possibilities and potential discontinuities, as a way of opening our minds to developments we might otherwise miss.

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Centre for Longer Range Global Policy and the Future Human Condition

he RAND Pardee Center pursues ambitious objectives: to improve our ability to think about the longer-range future--from 35 to as far as 200 years ahead--and to develop new methods of analyzing potential long-range, global effects of today's policy options in order to design sound policies that are sensitive to those effects.

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Mapping the Global Future: Report of the National Intelligence Council’s 2020 Project

Mapping the Global Future: Report of the National Intelligence Council’s 2020 Project is the third unclassified report prepared by the National Intelligence Council (NIC) in recent years that takes a long-term view of the future. It offers a fresh look at how key global trends might develop over the next decade and a half to influence world events. Mindful that there are many possible "futures," our report offers a range of possibilities and potential discontinuities, as a way of opening our minds to developments we might otherwise miss.

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WBCSD Global Scenarios 2000-2050: Exploring sustainable development

Scenarios are powerful tools for addressing what is both fundamentally significant and profoundly unknowable -- the future. Unlike forecasts, which extrapolate patterns for the future based on facts from the past, scenarios are plausible, pertinent, and alternative stories that are concerned more with strategic thinking versus strategic planning. The three different scenarios outlined in this report promote a flexible approach to the future, and alter our mental maps.

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Sky News' take on today's speech

The Home Secretary has called for society to help defend Britain from international terrorism, saying the Government cannot do it alone. John Reid said a new way of thinking about national security is needed if terror is to be defeated.

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Colin James

Interesting NZ political writer and analyst.

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Centre for Longer Range Global Policy and the Future Human Condition

he RAND Pardee Center pursues ambitious objectives: to improve our ability to think about the longer-range future--from 35 to as far as 200 years ahead--and to develop new methods of analyzing potential long-range, global effects of today's policy options in order to design sound policies that are sensitive to those effects.

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Production Values: Futures for Professionalism

Demos collection on the changing nature of (and context for) professionalism. Argues that citizen autonomy and professional autonomy must grow together.

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Geoff Mason report on relationship between high skills and high value added product strategies (pdf)

Finds that there is a link between: (1) high skills and high value added product strategies, and (2) exposure to competition and high value added product strategies. Suggests that this means employers in some sectors will be resistent to moving up the value chain.

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How to do your homework on the bus, with a little help from a school i pod.

Twenty-three pupils at Astley Community high school in Seaton Delaval will be given iPods in September at the start of their GCSE year in an attempt to encourage them to practice foreign languages outside the classroom. The pupils, who are studying French and Spanish, will be able to download tailormade study material to their iPods from the school's website.

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Dr Joolz: Snapshotz on Life: Flickr in the classroom

Dr Joolz: Snapshotz on Life: Flickr in the classroom

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Defra, UK; Speech by the Rt Hon David Miliband MP - -

Imagine a country where carbon becomes a new currency.

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Consevative policy review report: Responsible Business (pdf)

New report from the Tories' policy review. Floats the idea of 'responsibility deals', which reward/incentivise socially responsible businesses with lighter regulatory burdens.

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South Korean pupils to get bodyguards | Schools special reports | EducationGuardian.co.uk

Street violence and fear of leaving one's house is a widespread problem among young people world wide. This report doesn't comment on gender, but my money is on the worst affected being boys, again.