» Global Climate Change: Building Consilience Between Science, Security and Policy. CENS Workshop

14 July 2008, Traders Hotel, Singapore

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» Radicalization: Foresight and Warning. CENS-GFF Workshop

4–5 February 2008, Marina Mandarin Hotel, Singapore

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» Networked Government and Homeland Security Workshop

7 January 2008, Marina Mandarin Hotel, Singapore

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» Asia-Pacific Programme for Senior National Security Officers (APPSNO) 08

21 February 2008, The Sentosa Resort and Spa, Singapore

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» (Un)Problematic Multiculturalism and Social Resilience

21 February 2008, RSIS, Singapore

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» “Future Studies” Workshop: A Brief Review

10 December 2007, RSIS, Singapore

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» Conference Report: Pandemics Surveillance Workshop

24 September 2007, Grand Copthorne Waterfront hotel, Singapore

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» Conference Report: Asia-Pacific Programme for Senior National Security Officers (APPSNO)

14-20 January 2007, The Sentosa Resort & Spa, Singapore

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» Conference Report: Land Transport Security In Singapore Current Realities, Future Possibilities

5 February 2007, Traders Hotel, Singapore

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» Conference Report: International Risk Assessment and Horizon Scanning Symposium 2007

19-20 March 2007, Shangri-La Hotel, Singapore

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» Seeing the Invisible: National Security Intelligence in an Uncertain Age, Thomas Quiggin. World Scientific, 2007

Intelligence is critical to ensuring national security, especially with asymmetric threats making up most of the new challenges. Knowledge, rather than power, is the only weapon that can prevail in a complex and uncertain environment awash with asymmetric threats, some known, many currently unknown. This book shows how such a changing national security environment has had profound implications for the strategic intelligence requirements of states in the 21st century. The book shows up the fallacy underlying the age-old assumption that intelligence agencies must do a better job of connecting the dots and avoiding future failures. It argues that this cannot and will not happen for a variety of reasons. Instead of seeking to predict discrete future events, the strategic intelligence community must focus rather on risk-based anticipatory warnings concerning the nature and impact of a range of potential threats. In this respect, the book argues for a full and creative exploitation of technology to support - but not supplant - the work of the strategic intelligence community, and illustrates this ideal with reference to Singapore's path-breaking Risk Assessment and Horizon Scanning (RAHS) program.

 

 

» Social Resilience in Singapore: Reflections from the London Bombings, Norman Vasu. Select Publishing, 2007

In the wake of terrorist attacks including the London Bombings on 7 July 2005, the notion of resilience is receiving increased attention from social scientists. Based on the Latin word resilire - meaning to jump back or recoil - the phenomenon has been applied to the study of societies' reactions to exogenous or endogenous shocks. Using the London bombings as the impetus for reflection, Social Resilience in Singapore: Reflections from the London Bombings considers the concepts of social resilience in a time where terrorist actions are calculated not just to do damage and cause harm but also to rupture the social fabric of pluralistic societies.