Virtual Centre of Excellence for Research Support and Coordination on Societal Security (SOURCE)
Led by Kristoffer Lidén
Jan 2014 – Dec 2018
- networking activities
- research
- information gathering
- education and training
- knowledge-sharing
Through an integrated information gathering hub, education programmes across the security sectors, and a comprehensive programme of networking activities, the SOURCE project will advance European excellence in research and industrial innovation and form the foundation for a permanent virtual centre of excellence capable of continuing to bring added-value to research on societal security. Through a broad set of concerted activities the centre will gather experts and actors from all levels of the security chain (researchers, industry actors, policy-makers, civil society, end-users and the public at large), all linked by a common project of documenting, analysing and understanding the link between security and the society in which it is played out. Through an array of networking activities, meetings, scientific and popular publications, film, press and social media, a scholarly journal and the formation of an international association for the study and improvement of societal security, the SOURCE Network of Excellence will meet the goals of raising the awareness among policy makers and end-users, raising the competitiveness of the security industry by better applying it to the social layers of insecurity in society and, as a consequence, contribute to the improvement of the well-being and security of European citizens.
The aim of the SOURCE Network of Excellence is to create a robust and sustainable virtual centre of excellence capable of exploring and advancing societal issues in security research and development.
For further information on activities and results, please visit the website of the centre: www.societalsecurity.net. 
Call for Applications: PhD Course 'Societal Security: Critical Perspectives'
The Research School on Peace and Conflict invites applications for the course Societal security: critical perspectives, to take place at VUB-IES in Brussels on 17-19 October 2018. The deadline for applications is 15 August 2018.
PhD Course on Interconnections of Finance and Security
The Research School on Peace and Conflict invites applications for the course Interconnections of Finance and Security, 8th -10th October 2015. The course is organized by Nina Boy (PRIO). Course lecturers include Marieke de Goede (University of Amsterdam), Martijn Konings (University of Sydney), Daniela Gabor (University of the West of England), Andreas Langenohl (Justus Liebig University Giessen) and Luis Lobo-Guerrero (University of Groningen).
Participate in an important Survey on Security in Europe
This survey aims to understand the European citizens’ perceptions of security.
SOURCE launches an Online-Questionnaire
The SOURCE project has developed a questionnaire to understand how the different sectors involved in societal security interact, and whether or not they encounter any difficulties thereby. The aim is further to develop tools, processes and guidelines to improve the knowledge exchange between the different sectors.
PRIO awarded funding for a Nordic Centre of Excellence
The NordForsk board has decided to award one of the two new Nordic Centres of Excellence under the Nordic Societal Security Programme to PRIO. NOK 22 million have been allocated to the centre to be headed by J. Peter Burgess from the Dimensions of Security department at PRIO.
SOURCE Sector Survey Meeting in Brussels
The SOURCE Network of Excellence on societal security organized a sector survey meeting with high-ranking experts from different fields at the VUB on 5 June 2014. About 20 invited representatives from different professions and institutions, including partners of the SOURCE consortium discussed a number of security problems and solutions, following a structured approach of decision support for security solutions, based on the DESSI method.
SOURCE Website Launched
The website for the FP7-funded SOURCE project has been launched today. Created jointly by CEPS and VUB, the website presents the project, the partners, the primary network and the upcoming news and activities.
Visit the project on www.societalsecurity.net
You can also follow SOURCE on Twitter (@source_eu), LinkedIn (Societal Security Network) and Facebook (Source - Societal Security Network).
Successful Launch of the SOURCE Project
The PRIO coordinated SOURCE project “Virtual centre of excellence for research support and coordination on societal security" held its kick-off meeting on 28 January 2014 thereby officially launching the five-year project funded by the EU FP7 programme.
PRIO Vacancy: Senior Researcher in Financial Security (temporary position)
PRIO invites applications for a full-time position for 16 months for a highly competent researcher in support of PRIO’s EU project portfolio in security research. The successful candidate will join PRIO’s security research team and carry out research on the intersections of security and finance with a particular focus on societal security. The researcher will work on the project ”SOURCE – Virtual centre of excellence for research support and coordination of societal security”. Security research at PRIO seeks to contribute to innovation in Norwegian and European security thinking by fostering synergies between research in the human and social sciences and technological innovation.
A better foundation for national security? The ethics of national risk assessments in the Nordic region
Journal Article in Cooperation and Conflict
Putting critique to work: Ethics in EU security research
Journal Article in Security Dialogue
Societal and Ethical Impact of Biometrics: European regulations regarding data in financial services
PRIO Policy Brief
A war on values? On the politics of countering the values of violent extremism
Journal Article in Security, Society and Technology (pilot journal issue)
Norms and Ethics in Security Preparedness
Report - Other
The globalisation of Countering Violent Extremism policies: Undermining human rights, instrumentalising civil society
Report - External Series
Societal Ethics of Biometric Technologies. 2nd edition
PRIO Paper
Discussing the ethics of countering violent extremism
Conference Paper
Ethics and Extremism: Report on ethical and legal parameters for dealing with extremism
Report - Other
Ethics Report 2, SOURCE Project, D1.6
Report - Other
Harmonising Security with Human Rights
Conference Paper
Oiling the machinery of the European security industry? The Ethics of Ethics in EU Security Research
Conference Paper
The Ethics of Biometric Security Technologies
Conference Paper
Ethics and extremism: perceptions of the role of values in counter-radicalisation
Conference Paper
Security, critique and normative orders
Conference Paper
Policing ideas: the counter-democratic effects of technologies for Countering Violent Extremism
Conference Paper
The Politics of Public Risk Communication in Norway
Conference Paper
Introduction to the ethics of humanitarian action
Conference Paper
Policing Ideas: the counter-democratic effects of technologies for countering violent extremism
Conference Paper
Societal Ethics and Biometric Technologies
Report - Other
Oiling the Machinery of European Security Technology? The role of ethics in EU Security Research
Conference Paper
Ethics Report 1
Report - Other
Financial security
Book Chapter in Transformations of Security Studies: Dialogues, Diversity and Discipline
EU support to civil society organizations in conflict-ridden countries: A governance perspective from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cyprus and Georgia
Journal Article in International Peacekeeping
Sovereign safety
Journal Article in Security Dialogue
What ‘society’ must be defended? The ethics of societal security in Norway
Conference Paper
SOURCE deliverable 5.2 Report on the role of financial regulation in the provision of security
Report - Other
SOURCE deliverable 5.1 Report on the theory of risk as a societal security instrument
Report - Other
SOURCE deliverable 5.3 Analytic report on the impact of the financial crisis on societal security
Report - Other
The backstory of the risk-free asset: how government debt became "safe"
Book Chapter in Central Banking at a Crossroads
Report on human values in threat analysis
Report - Other
Oeffentlichkeit als public credit
Book Chapter in Finanzmarktpublika: Moralitaet, Krisen und Teilhabe in der oekonomischen Moderne/ Financial market publics: Morality, Crises and Participation in Economic Modernity
Countering Violent Extremism in the War on Terror: Ethical Problems
Ethics and Extremism
PhD Course on Interconnections of Finance and Security
From Innovation to Imposition: How Technology is Shaping EU Security Policy and Transforming European Values
PhD Course on Methods in Critical Security Studies
Terror og risikokommunikasjon
Justice Past, Justice Present, Justice Future: Three Messages to the European Council
