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Interview with Pilar Quintana: Colombian writer and screenwriter
Get PDFInterview with Pilar Quintana: Colombian writer and screenwrite
Adapting to New Security Realities in a Climate-Disrupted World
Get PDFOn November 26, 2021, Ms. Carol Dumaine, Nonresident Senior Fellow at Atlantic Council, presented Adapting to New Security Realities in a Climate-Disrupted World at the 2021 CASIS West Coast Security Conference. The primary concepts of Ms. Dumaine’s presentation centered on how climate change and the global pandemic are becoming significant issues of national security, and how it is vital that our concept of national security be reframed to understand and address climate change as a security issue. The presentation was followed by a question and answer period and a breakout room session with questions from the audience and CASIS Vancouver executives.  
Global Information and Digitalized Influence in a Data-driven World
Get PDFOn November 24, 2021, Dr. Emma Briant presented Global Information and Digitalized Influence in a Data-driven World at the 2021 CASIS West Coast Security Conference. The primary concepts of Dr. Briant’s presentation centered on the types of tactics and methodologies used by Cambridge Analytica during political campaigns and how these methodologies have been used to drive extremism. Dr. Briant’s presentation was followed by a question and answer period directed at a group of panelists allowing the audience and CASIS Vancouver executives to directly engage with the content of each speaker’s presentation
Communicating Uncertainty in Warning Intelligence
Get PDFOn November 23, 2021, Dr. David Mandel presented Communicating Uncertainty in Warning Intelligence at the 2021 CASIS West Coast Security Conference. The primary concepts of Dr. Mandel’s presentation centered on the utilization of verbal versus numeric probabilities, the variability in understandings of verbal probabilities, and the relationship between confidence levels and event probabilities. Dr. Mandel’s presentation was followed by a question and answer period directed at a group of panelists allowing the audience and CASIS Vancouver executives to directly engage with the content of each speaker’s presentation
Post-COVID World: Dealing with Future Health Crises and the Role of the National Intelligence Community
Get PDFOn November 26, 2021, Dr. Patrick Walsh presented on Post-COVID World: Dealing with Future Health Crises and the Role of the National Intelligence Community at the 2021 CASIS West Coast Security Conference. The presentation was followed by a question and answer period with questions from the audience and CASIS Vancouver executives. The key points discussed by Dr. Walsh were the emerging health security threats and risks and the role of the intelligence community in managing these threats and risks
Operationalizing Human Security in Contemporary Operating Environment
Get PDFOn November 24, 2021, Mr. Stephen Anning presented on Operationalizing Human Security in Contemporary Operating Environment at the 2021 CASIS West Coast Security Conference. The key points of discussion included the concept of human security, the differences between interstate and intrastate conflict, the challenges of understanding human security, and how operationalizing human security can address some of those challenges. The presentation was followed by a question and answer period with questions from the audience and CASIS Vancouver executives
MAD* Beyond Defence : *Methodology for Assessing Disruptions
Get PDFAdvancements in technology are regularly identified, assessed, and classed into emerging and/or potentially disruptive technologies, according to their ability to cause disruptions to defence systems, and in defence. Perhaps this is because defence capabilities centre on grand technology systems deployed at the level of nations. Hypersonic missiles are one example. The testing of a new hypersonic missile or a research program on types of hypersonic drones immediately sparks questions like: which other nations have such capability? or what types of technologies can be used to detect or counter these? In contrast, the ability to identify weak, faint factors that add up and lead to conflict are not brought together in a systematic manner. Nor is it common for there to be a cross-talk between a combination of methods used within military science and technology organizations over in to social sciences related to intelligence and/or conflict. This is a preventable strategic foresight issue relevant for enhancing, planning for, and investing in the security space. This paper describes the MAD (Methodology for Assessing Disruptions) tool, which is adaptable beyond the defence domain. MAD is a scenario-based two-part table-top exercise conducted to identify weak signals that have the potential to cause disruptions, which by consequence may coalesce into challenges for security. Exercising such methods is essential for security professionals to prepare and plan for future conflicts instead of constantly reacting to immediate acute problems.
Received: 2022-09-13Revised: 2022-10-1