Institute of Security and Global Affairs Conference Who Determines the Security (Research) Agenda? Who Determines the Security (Research) Agenda?

ISGA Conference The Hague 9-10 Nov. 2016 Institute of Security and Global Affairs Conference Who determines the security (research) agenda? Who determines the security (research) agenda? Facing contemporary security and global affairs challenges such as terrorism, cyber-attacks and hybrid warfare requires dialogue and collaboration between various disciplines within academia, as well as between academia and other stakeholders in the public and private sector. Such collaborations raise new questions and dilemmas, for instance about roles and responsibilities of stakeholders. One of the most important questions is what security issues or challenges to focus on and who should take the lead? The Leiden University’s Institute of Security and Global Affairs (ISGA) focused on these questions during its opening conference on the 9th and 10th of November 2016 in The Hague. ISGA welcomed more than 200 actors from the security and global affairs field to discuss the central question ‘Who determines the security (research) agenda?’. Browse through this brochure and relive some of the most memorable moments of the ISGA Conference 2016. ISGA Site Visit contact in the field of ICT threats and cyber security incidents. The NCSC is also a key figure in On 9th November 2016, a few hours before the official the operational coordination at a major ICT crisis opening of the ISGA Conference, participants interested and the Computer Emergency Response Team in national security, counterterrorism, crisismanagement (CERT) for the Dutch central government. and cyber security issues were invited for an exclusive site visit to the National Coordinator for Security and Barend Sluijter, senior advisor cyber security of Counterterrorism (NCTV) and the National Cyber the NCSC, and Hans van Miert, strategic analyst 9 NOVEMBER 2016 Security Centre of the Ministry of Security and Justice in counterterrorism of the NCTV, discussed several The Hague. topics related to the mission and vision of the NCTV and the NCSC during this information visit. Sluijter for The National Coordinator for Security and instance stressed the importance of cooperation within Counterterrorism protects the Netherlands from the cyber security domain: “One of our future threats that could disrupt Dutch society. Together ambitions is to bring technical and crisis disciplines with the partners within the government, the research together”. Van Miert highlighted the importance of community and the private sector, the NCTV ensures reintegration and rehabilitation procedures related to that the Netherlands’ critical infrastructure is safe and a terrorism threat: “Sanctions cannot mitigate a long remains that way. term threat: rehabilitation must be the aim”. Please visit www.english.nctv.nl for more information on the NCTV The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) is the and www.ncsc.nl/english for information on the NCSC. central information hub and centre of expertise for cyber security in the Netherlands. NCSC’s mission is Summary of the ISGA Site Visit to the National Coordinator to contribute to the enhancement of the resilience of for Security and Counterterrorism (NCTV) and the National Dutch society in the digital domain, and thus to create Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) in The Hague, The Netherlands. a secure, open and stable information society. On an international level, the NCSC is the Dutch point of Keynote Speech Deputy Mayor of The Hague Ingrid van Engelshoven Ladies and Gentlemen, I don’t know if you realized it when you came here, Something we soon noticed here in The Hague where but the Institute of Security and Global Affairs has the number of international organisations in our city 9 NOVEMBER 2016 chosen an historic and entirely fitting date for its has grown enormously. official opening. I don’t know whether this decision was deliberate or whether it was arrived at more on But it was not long before new security problems the basis of the schedules of the speakers and other raised their head, some with dramatic consequences: guests! the ICTY still reminds of this daily. Since the start of this century the situation on the world stage has But it was on this day 98 years ago Germany was not become any better. Something we have also declared a republic (twice even), Kaiser Wilhelm II seen here in this city, and in almost every other city. was deposed and then fled to the Netherlands, Globalization and the internet have brought problems where Jelle Troelstra was also trying to incite elsewhere to our doorstep. revolution. A fiasco which ended with a huge demonstration in favor of the House of Orange And that is why I am so pleased that we now have right here on the Malieveld. Despite the peace this new Institute of Security and Global Affairs. settlement Germany continued to be unsettled, Because it will help to build a bridge between the weighed down by the burden of reparations, world stage and the local community. Like The Hague hyperinflation and followed by the crisis of 1929. Institute for Global Justice, it is, first and foremost, a Large parts of the population were against the new think-and-do tank. With short lines of communication constitutional structure right from the start. We all into the field. And something which is new and is only know the course that history took and its world to be lauded is that this institute is here for everyone: shattering consequences in the end. for the government minister and the local police officer. Offering knowledge, guidance and context. Although the events of 9 November 1989 were Something that is needed more than ever before. considerably more propitious, not least because Particularly as we see the rule of law under threat that same date had been further laden by the from all sides. events of Kristallnacht in 1938. Further to a somewhat improvised statement made at the end of In cyber space, for example. The internet, which has a press conference in East Berlin, that same evening evolved to become the backbone of our economies the symbol of the Cold War - the Berlin Wall - fell. We and our society, has already been discovered as a entered a new era, and for a while there was even potential battle ground. Only if the internet remains a sense of euphoria. Of course, the re-unification of free, open and accessible to all, can it serve as the Germany and the end of the East-West confrontation engine of democracy and freedom, for innovation, brought much that is good, such as the completion social development and economic growth. But the of European unification and a renaissance in internet must also be safe and secure, of course. international cooperation in the field of security. At the same time that security must not be at the Another topical question is how we can best protect expense of individual freedom and privacy, or in any ourselves from the consequences of the military defeat event, that we be asked to give up as little as possible. of IS. As it is becoming increasingly likely that IS will be Orwellian interventions will rob the internet of the wiped off the face of the map, so to speak, dynamic which has made it such a powerful medium. now is the time to ask ourselves what we are going to do with the people returning from the war zone. And that is why it is so good that The Hague is They will be quite different from those we have seen becoming the Cyber Security Capital of Europe. returning thus far. People with more experience of war, And together with its international partners, is working worse traumas and possibly more willing to continue to create a secure and open cyber domain, one in which the battle in Europe. This is the time to ask ourselves: the opportunities offered by this digital environment are we adequately prepared to be able to deal with an can be fully utilized, and threats countered, while influx of returning fighters? This is another area where I fundamental rights and values are protected. There is see a role for this new institute. already a great deal of expertise available here, to a large extent concentrated in The Hague Security Delta. But to get back to today, 9 November. The tears of joy The Institute of Security and Global Affairs, however, at regaining freedom 27 years ago, have long dried. And could also provide an important addition. In this context long gone too is the thankfulness that our continent is I am thinking of research questions such as: how can no longer divided by concrete, barbed wire and mines. cyber security issues be managed? Who decides what Indeed, nationalism is on the rise as people are building measures are necessary, for which issues and why? new walls everywhere, in words and deeds. There is a growing tendency to withdraw from international I mentioned the bridge which this institute intends cooperation. While that cooperation is now so building between the world stage and local desperately needed as the world faces such enormous communities. This aspect is particularly interesting challenges. Including in the area of our security. in the area of counter terrorism. Because here there may be information sources all over the world on the It is up to us to turn the tide. Time is slipping away. We one hand, while vital information can be gathered cannot leave the world as it is, to future generations. at community level, specifically from local residents, Knowledge and guidance are essential. Knowledge on the other. It was decided right from the start of and guidance which will then enable us to act. All the the Netherlands’ anti-radicalisation policy that the more so, in this age of populism and fact-free politics.

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