Security

Empowering Local Partners to Prevent Violent Extremism in the United States

Wed, 2011-08-10 00:37 — Kathy Gilbeaux

submitted by Joyce Fedeczko

http://web.docuticker.com/go/docubase/64803

August 5, 2011 17:54
Source: White House
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Our research and consultations with local stakeholders, communities, and foreign partners have underscored that the Federal Government’s most effective role in strengthening community partnerships and preventing violent extremism is as a facilitator, convener, and source of information. The Federal Government will often be ill-suited to intervene in the niches of society where radicalization to violence takes place, but it can foster partnerships to support communities through its connections to local government, law enforcement, Mayor’s offices, the private sector, local service providers, academia, and many others who can help prevent violent extremism.

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David Alberts on the Agility Imperative

Wed, 2011-07-13 19:31 — mdmcdonald

Agility and the Collective

21^st Century Imperatives

Dr. David S. Alberts

June 2011

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The Human Security Index: Pushing the Perceptiveness Envelope on Security Situations?

Thu, 2011-07-07 13:32 — Kathy Gilbeaux

submitted by David Hastings

The Human Security Index: Pushing the Perceptiveness Envelope on Security Situations?

How do we look at security? With respect to American vs. other country interests, stability, terrorism? Gathering intelligence on adversaries? Do we use GDP per capita, the Freedom in the World Index, Failed States Index, Happy Planet Index, Human Development Index, Global Competitiveness Index, Country Comparisons in the CIA World Factbook and other data/indicators to help with background?

But aren't those admirable approaches just subsets of our potential capabilities? Would they have helped us to forecast and respond wisely to events of, say, 1848? The Russian or Iranian Revolutions? Did they help us respond wisely to Katrina or Deepwater Horizon? Are they helping us with our many-year-evolving US Dollar, competitiveness, sustainability and social vulnerabilities? To many, the answer is no.

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Week's Quote by Michael Chertoff: On the Importance of Open Source Data

Fri, 2011-06-24 10:43 — mdmcdonald

"When you're dealing with a large social phenomenon, there is a huge
amount of open-source data out there. If you can marry that together
with sophisticated analytic tools and subject matter expertise, you can
see a lot about trends and things that are developing that you're not
going to get in an intelligence report."

http://gigaom.com/cloud/big-data-analysis-can-thwart-combat-threats/

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Vermont Resilience Serious Game Simulation

Mon, 2011-06-20 09:52 — mdmcdonald

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Failed States Index 2011 Launch Event: National Press Club on June 29

Wed, 2011-06-15 08:41 — mdmcdonald

oin The Fund for Peace (FfP) and BENS for the launch of this year’s Failed States Index (FSI). The FSI is a leading index that annually highlights current trends in social, economic and political pressures that affect all states, but can strain some beyond their capacity to cope. Apart from the impact on their people, fragile and failed states present the international community with a variety of challenges. In today's world, with its globalized economy, information systems and security challenges, pressures on one fragile state can have serious repercussions not only for that state and its people, but also for its neighbors and other states halfway across the globe.

The Launch event will include:

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