Security

submitted by Joyce Fedeczko

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

August 5, 2011 17:54
Source: White House
Excerpts:
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.

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.