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==Background==
 
==Background==
  
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'''Cambridge Security Programme''' (CSP) was an academic institution founded six months after the 11th September, 2001, in "response to the demands to find an answer to the compelling need for new ways to address the instability and uncertainties that characterise the current climate of insecurity." <ref>'[http://mediaresearchhub.ssrc.org/cambridge-university-1/institution_view  Cambridge Security Programme]', SSRC website, accessed 30 April, 2009.</ref> While the institution ceased to operate in December 2007, its website remains accessible as an archive of its activities. <ref>[http://cambridgesecurity.net Cambridge Security Programme website]</ref>  
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'''Cambridge Security Programme''' (CSP) was an academic institution founded six months after the 11th September, 2001, in "response to the demands to find an answer to the compelling need for new ways to address the instability and uncertainties that characterise the current climate of insecurity." <ref>'[http://mediaresearchhub.ssrc.org/cambridge-university-1/institution_view  Cambridge Security Programme]', SSRC website, accessed 30 April, 2009.</ref> While the institution ceased to operate in December 2007, its website remains accessible as an archive of its past activities. <ref>[http://cambridgesecurity.net Cambridge Security Programme website]</ref>  
  
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CSP worked closely with academics within the University of Cambridge, integrating work from various faculties including history, anthropology, divinity, international law, and the social and political sciences. It promoted cross-institutional research and inquiry, combining work by younger scholars with more established academics and practitioners to develop pragmatic new approaches to the challenges at hand. CSP worked with the EU, NATO, military establishments in both the UK and US, and other universities worldwide.
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==Activities==
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While going about its grand, yet vague, remit, which includes 'add[ing] value...to the well-being of Society in General,' <ref>'[http://cambridgesecurity.net/public_html/projects.html CSP Research Projects]', accessed 30 April, 2009.</ref> the CSP found time to undertake a major research project with a view to ascertaining the 'Motivations in immigrant communities for adopting terrorist activity' <ref>[http://cambridgesecurity.net/public_html/project-pspc.html Psychopathology of Socio-Political Control]', Cambridge Security Programme website, accessed 30 April, 2009.</ref> and 'identify[ing] the personality structure of individuals who become involved in political ideologies and movements that demand commitment to a set of ideas and values that emphasise the role of the collective over the individual.' <ref>'[http://cambridgesecurity.net/public_html/project-pspc.html Psychopathology of Socio-Political Control]', Cambridge Security Programme website, accessed 30 April, 2009.</ref>
  
 
==People==
 
==People==
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*[[Rafal Rohozinski]] - Research Fellow
 
*[[Rafal Rohozinski]] - Research Fellow
 
*[[Roxane Farmanfarmaian]] - Coordinator of Programme Development (2004-2007)  
 
*[[Roxane Farmanfarmaian]] - Coordinator of Programme Development (2004-2007)  
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*[[Ricardo Soares de Oliveira]] Academic Coordinator (2003-2007)
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*[[Ricardo Soares de Oliveira]] - Academic Coordinator (2003-2007)
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*Dr. [[Charles Jones]] Academic Advisor: Jones is an Academic Advisor to CSP; Reader in the History of International Studies at the University of Cambridge and Director of the University of Cambridge Centre of Latin American Studies.
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*Dr. [[Charles Jones]] - Academic Advisor (2002-2007)
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*Dr. [[Philip Towle]] - Academic Advisor (2002-2007)
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Jones studied Moral Sciences and History at Clare College, Cambridge, before turning to a doctorate on Anglo-Argentine relations. After many years teaching international political economy and developing postgraduate programmes at Warwick University, he moved to Cambridge in 1998, where he teaches international relations theory and inter-American relations.
 
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Originally a historian of direct foreign investment and the political responses it provoked, he concentrated on contemporary international economic relations in the later 1970s, publishing North-South Relations: a Brief History in 1983. More recently he has been working on civil-military relations in Latin America, the role of Christianity in the English School of International Relations, and representations of war and violence.  As Director of the Centre of Latin American Studies in Cambridge he is developing a research project on security in the Caribbean, centring on Cuba. He is a regular visitor to Argentina and Venezuela. Dr. Jones has worked extensively on the past and contemporary international economic relations of Latin America, especially the Southern Cone. His current research is concentrated on Romantic representations of organized violence in the Americas.
 
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Recent publications include:
 
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E H Carr and International Relations (1998)
 
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The Logic of Anarchy, an influential critique of neorealism (Columbia UP 1993, with Barry Buzan and Richard Little)
 
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El Reino Lunido Y America (Madrid 1992)
 
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North-South Relations: a Brief History (London 1983)
 
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Charles Jones's next book explores the treatment of war in novels by Sir Walter Scott and his imitators in the Americas, including James Fennimore Cooper and Vicente Fidel Lopez.
 
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Dr. [[Philip Towle]] Advisor; Towle is Academic Advisor to CSP and is Reader in International Relations at the University of Cambridge.
 
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Towle currently runs the course on International Security for the MPhil in International Relations, edits the alumni newsletter with Wendy Slaninka, coordinates library activities, and runs six courses each year for the Board of Continuing Education.  Towle's research interests are in East Asian security, arms control, and post-war peace conferences, and he has published analyses of media coverage of the Russo-Japanese, Falklands, Gulf and Bosnian Wars.  Towle is the longest serving member of staff at the Centre for International Relations. He joined in 1980 following a period as a Senior Research Fellow at the Australian National University, previously having worked for [[Reuters]] News Agency and the [[Foreign and Commonwealth Office]]. He was Deputy Director (1982-93) and then Director of the Centre of International Studies (1993-1998).
 
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Recent publications include:
 
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Democracy and Peacemaking: Negotiations and Debates 1815-1973, Routledge, London, 2000
 
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Japanese Prisoners of War (Ed. with Margaret Kosuge and Yoichi Kibata), Hambledon and London, 2000
 
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Enforced Disarmament from the Napoleonic Campaigns to the Gulf War Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1997
 
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Dr. Towle has just completed contributions to five edited books: Treaty of Locarno; British General Staff between the two World Wars; Physicist PMS Blackett's contribution to nuclear strategy; US policy towards missile defences; and media reactions to September 11th.
 
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Dr. Towle is now editing a collection of essays on Anglo-Japanese economic relations and working on civil-military relations in Britain.
 
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== Recent Events ==
 
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*Unconventional Information Warfare and the Global War on Terror: Critical Issues and International Cooperation Workshop, 2-3 November 2005
 
  
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Moscow State University, Moscow, Russian Federation
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A NATO Advanced Research Workshop, held jointly with MABIT’05 in cooperation with the Institute of Information Security (Moscow State University), National Security Council of the Russian Federation, and the Institute of Cryptography.
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*'Unconventional Information Warfare and the Global War on Terror: Critical Issues and International Cooperation Workshop', 2-3 November, 2005, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russian Federation. (A [[NATO]] Advanced Research Workshop, held jointly with MABIT’05 in cooperation with the Institute of Information Security (Moscow State University), National Security Council of the Russian Federation, and the Institute of Cryptography.)
  
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*'Information Operations and Winning the Peace?: Lessons Learned from the Israeli/Palestinian Conflict', in cooperation with the Center for Strategic Leadership Workshop, 28 Nov - 1 December, 2005, US Army War College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, USA.
  
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*Information Operations and Winning the Peace?: Lessons Learned from the Israeli/Palestinian Conflict in cooperation with the Center for Strategic Leadership Workshop, 28 Nov - 1 December, 2005
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==Affiliations==
  
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US Army War College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, USA
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*[[EU]]
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*[[NATO]]
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*[[Israeli-Palestinian Peacekeeping Project]]
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*[[OpenNet Initiative]]
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*[[Infowar Monitor]]
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*[[Airey Neave Trust]]
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*[[Citizen Lab]]
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*[[Information Society in Palestine]]
  
 
==Contact==
 
==Contact==

Latest revision as of 16:34, 30 April 2009

Background

Cambridge Security Programme (CSP) was an academic institution founded six months after the 11th September, 2001, in "response to the demands to find an answer to the compelling need for new ways to address the instability and uncertainties that characterise the current climate of insecurity." [1] While the institution ceased to operate in December 2007, its website remains accessible as an archive of its past activities. [2]

Activities

While going about its grand, yet vague, remit, which includes 'add[ing] value...to the well-being of Society in General,' [3] the CSP found time to undertake a major research project with a view to ascertaining the 'Motivations in immigrant communities for adopting terrorist activity' [4] and 'identify[ing] the personality structure of individuals who become involved in political ideologies and movements that demand commitment to a set of ideas and values that emphasise the role of the collective over the individual.' [5]

People

  • Professor James Mayall - Academic Director (2002-2006)
  • Peter Cavanagh - Executive Director (2002-2007). Cavanagh was responsible for the feasibility study, development plan and executive direction of CSP, university-wide and cross-disciplinary research programme, as well as for building up a related international network.
  • Nick Sinclair-Brown - Academic Advisor (2002-2006) The CSP website lists Sinclair-Brown as active in the organisation until 2007 when in fact he died in 2006. This failure to acknowledge the death of an advisor could be read in a number of ways...
  • Rafal Rohozinski - Research Fellow
  • Roxane Farmanfarmaian - Coordinator of Programme Development (2004-2007)
  • Ricardo Soares de Oliveira - Academic Coordinator (2003-2007)
  • Dr. Charles Jones - Academic Advisor (2002-2007)
  • Dr. Philip Towle - Academic Advisor (2002-2007)

Events

  • 'Unconventional Information Warfare and the Global War on Terror: Critical Issues and International Cooperation Workshop', 2-3 November, 2005, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russian Federation. (A NATO Advanced Research Workshop, held jointly with MABIT’05 in cooperation with the Institute of Information Security (Moscow State University), National Security Council of the Russian Federation, and the Institute of Cryptography.)
  • 'Information Operations and Winning the Peace?: Lessons Learned from the Israeli/Palestinian Conflict', in cooperation with the Center for Strategic Leadership Workshop, 28 Nov - 1 December, 2005, US Army War College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, USA.

Affiliations

Contact

Cambridge Security Programme
Cambridge University
18 Millers Yard
Mill Lane
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Contact information:
Telephone: 44-0-1223 741747
Email: info@removeme.cambridgesecurity.net
Website: http://cambridgesecurity.net

Notes

  1. ↑ 'Cambridge Security Programme', SSRC website, accessed 30 April, 2009.
  2. ↑ Cambridge Security Programme website
  3. ↑ 'CSP Research Projects', accessed 30 April, 2009.
  4. ↑ Psychopathology of Socio-Political Control', Cambridge Security Programme website, accessed 30 April, 2009.
  5. ↑ 'Psychopathology of Socio-Political Control', Cambridge Security Programme website, accessed 30 April, 2009.
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