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Theme : security
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Launch Event: The Business of Resilience
The pamphlet is based on a year long project looking at how companies align security with their business objectives.
from : mollywebb
19th June 2006
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The Business of Resilience - Launch
The Business of Resilience: Corporate security for the 21st century will be launched by Demos on Thursday, 29th July 2006
from : mollywebb
16th June 2006
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Picture This
We are working with the SSR strategy team (made up of representatives from the FCO, MoD and DFID) which has become increasingly concerned about the growing divide between policy developed at home and its implementation in countries like Sierra Leone, Afghanistan, and the DRC. While there is no shortage of policy documents and guidelines on the subject, most of them go unread by practitioners, who complain that they bear little resemblance to the realities they face on the ground. My initial...
from : charlieedwards
24th March 2006
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Get your trousers on, you're nicked!
If I'm honest, my view of the police force is shaped almost entirely by The Sweeney and Life on Mars. So my illusions were completely shattered by actually spending time with some officers over the past few days. Charlie E, Duncan and I went down to Hampshire to do some futures training with some senior policemen and women - and not only are these people very sophisticated public servants, they're also some of the most idealistic I've come across.Their vision of the future is all about...
from : simonparker
23rd February 2006
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Security System Reform in Ghana
As part of a project for the Department for International Development (DFID) Hannah Green and I went to Accra, Ghana for a three day workshop on Security System Reform (SSR), hosted by the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre (KAIPTC). The workshop was run by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development - Development Co-operation Directorate (OECD DAC). The OECD DAC are looking to develop more concrete guidance for development practitioners on how to engage in...
from : charlieedwards
9th December 2005
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2,749 reasons why...
The response to the 9/11 attacks in London was the creation of Project Griffin. The initiative aims to train security officers from the major City organisations, Westminster and Canary Wharf, in various disciplines so that they are better equipped to be of assistance to the police in the event of a major incident. Project Griffin has been such a success that the New York Police Department has adopted something similar. NYPD Shield is the department?s counter-terrorism programme, a...
from : charlieedwards
6th November 2005
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The name's blond, James Blond
The new James Bond is due to be announced shortly. Thanks to a slip from his understandably excited mother this morning, it?s expected that the part will fall to Daniel Craig. If so, that would make him the first blond Bond to hit our screens. Questions have already been raised on the BBC?s Have Your Say website as to whether he has the looks for the role, but producers have insisted that the next Bond film, Casino Royale, will be a departure from previous films, with Director Martin Campbell...
from : mischabalen
14th October 2005
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It's an open secret...
... as security has tended to be one of the most closed areas of policy, centred around the government and linked public bodies. But the world has changed and the government has finally come round to the idea that opening our security architecture is crucial if we are to bring a wide range of actors together to deliver security.
from : charlieedwards
13th October 2005
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Identity and terrorism - a step too far?...
In a speech today he argues that we need a new British identity, one that allows us to be "British first and British last, while staunchly adhering to our respective faiths". Of course we need to open up this debate, and Demos has plans for some work in the area in the Autumn and into next year. But Howard misunderstands the nature of the challenge we face when he says seemingly makes a direct link between a crisis of identity and suicide bombers: "If we can establish this strong sense of...
from : rachelbriggs
17th August 2005
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Tehran or bust
The international approach to addressing Iran's nuclear ambitions looks set to be the key global issue over the next 12 months. For the time being, a diplomatic approach based on EU-led talks with Tehran and support for civil society groups in Iran looks set to continue. But if Fenby is right, it may not be given much time to bear fruit.
from : samhintonsmith
1st August 2005
