{"id":1292,"date":"2023-10-30T14:24:04","date_gmt":"2023-10-30T14:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1292"},"modified":"2024-01-30T15:13:11","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T15:13:11","slug":"security-safety-challenges-in-a-globalised-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/2023\/10\/security-safety-challenges-in-a-globalised-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Security & Safety Challenges in a Globalised World"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have just completed and passed Leiden University’s Security & Safety Challenges in a Globalied World<\/a> course on Coursera.\u00a0 I started it on 17th April 2023.\u00a0 I got 98.5% \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

A simple Mindmap of the content (click to expand):<\/p>\n

\"Mindmap<\/a>Complex security challenges can be global in impac<\/i>t or reac<\/em>h<\/i> (e.g. nuclear reactor meltdown or refugees from a war) or global in scale<\/i> (e.g. climate change).\u00a0 \u2018Glocal<\/strong>\u2019 = local and<\/em> global.\u00a0 Examples of problems that are local in scale<\/em> but global in impact or reach<\/em> are terrorism, war, conflict and cybersecurity risks.<\/p>\n

Societal problems, which includes complex security challenges, are often \u2018wicked\u2018 problems<\/strong>. You cannot try lots of things to see what happens. The rules are not clear. Opinions differ on societal issues. Gaining agreement on a solution is difficult.<\/p>\n

\u2018Safety<\/strong>\u2019 and \u2018security<\/strong>\u2019 have different meanings around the world and both are \u2018contested concepts\u2019.<\/p>\n

Safety<\/strong> is related to things of value being harmed by flaws or mistakes.\u00a0 It can be about protection from accidental harm, such as lightning.\u00a0 It is protection from undesirable outcomes caused unintentionally<\/span>.<\/p>\n

Security<\/strong> \u2013 relates to things of value being harmed intentionally<\/span> by people. Deliberate actions by a person or group comprise a security threat.\u00a0 Security is protection from harm by people.<\/p>\n

Both safety and security are about potential or actual harms.\u00a0 The difference lies in the nature of the threat: unintentional versus intentional.<\/p>\n

Securitisation<\/strong>: labelling challenges, issues or subjects as security issues.\u00a0 This politicises them, meaning they get priority and prominence.\u00a0 It also legitimises measures to address them, which may exceed ordinary measures.\u00a0 Because they have been politicised and given precedence, they than shape how safety and security are defined through a process called ‘mutual shaping’<\/b>.<\/p>\n

Because what we value changes with time and culture, so what we consider risks<\/strong>, threats<\/strong> and vulnerabilities<\/strong> can change.<\/p>\n

That was just the introduction.\u00a0 It then got into integrative perspectives on security and safety.\u00a0 Then the multi-level perspective.\u00a0 Risk management and the risk continuum.\u00a0 Multi-actor responses, how we live in a risk society and risk management.\u00a0 Risk identification, assessment and mitigation.\u00a0 Objectivity and quantifiable risks and risk as a social construct.<\/p>\n

The Explore \/ Understand \/ Do approach<\/strong> was used to analyse a number of events to determine to what extent they were safety or security issues or both.\u00a0 This is a very useful tool that encourages one to use a multi-actor perspective and move away from traditional national or single-sector views.<\/p>\n

The relevance of this was to (a) prove to myself I can still study and (b) better understand globalisation and its relevance to understanding conflict.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have just completed and passed Leiden University’s Security & Safety Challenges in a Globalied World course on Coursera.\u00a0 I started it on 17th April 2023.\u00a0 I got 98.5% \ud83d\ude42 A simple Mindmap of the content (click to expand): Complex … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85,387,86,257,286],"tags":[88,388,89,259,285],"class_list":["post-1292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-national-security","category-peace-studies","category-social-science","category-techniques","tag-education","tag-national-security","tag-peace-studies","tag-social-science","tag-techniques"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1292"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1296,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292\/revisions\/1296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}