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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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While going about their grand, yet vague, remit of 'add[ing] value...to the well-being of Society in General,' <ref>[http://cambridgesecurity.net/public_html/projects.html]</ref> the CSP undertook an extensive 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]</ref> and 'identify 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]</ref>
  
 
==People==
 
==People==

Revision as of 16:16, 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]

While going about their grand, yet vague, remit of 'add[ing] value...to the well-being of Society in General,' [3] the CSP undertook an extensive research project with a view to ascertaining the 'Motivations in immigrant communities for adopting terrorist activity' [4] and 'identify 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.

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. ↑ [1]
  4. ↑ [2]
  5. ↑ [3]
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