COLLABORATORY: VITAL SYSTEMS SECURITY

The Vital Systems Security collaboration examines how, today, security is being constituted as an object of knowledge, intervention, and political reflection. It proposes that the security of vital systems such as energy, transportation, communication and health is one norm in relationship to which security is being reproblematized. A central goal of the collaboration is to examine these issues through collective, conceptually driven inquiry that addresses rapidly developing contemporary problems.

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Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction

Posted on September 4, 2007 by alakoff

This summer the UN-initiated “Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction” met in Geneva. The event aimed at increasing political awareness and action on system-vulnerability questions at a global scale. It is interesting to think about this use of the term … Continue reading →

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COLLABORATORY: VITAL SYSTEMS SECURITY

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Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction

Making Avian/Pandemic Flu a North American Problem

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From the VSS Archives — “Vulnerable Points” and British Vital Systems

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