What should governments tell the public about terror threats?
What is the role of the media in the war on terror?
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  What should governments tell the public about terror threats?
What is the role of the media in the war on terror?
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Closing plenary: 4.30 - 5.30
Engaging the public
Governments are exploring new ways to engage the public in matters relating to national security. What is the government trying out, and can it hope to be successful? How best to engage us - by revealing all information pertaining to a potential terrorist assault, or by initiating serious political debates about the terror threat?
 
speakers:
 
  Frank Furedi
Professor of Sociology
University of Kent
England
  biography
  Thomas Glass
Associate Professor of Epidemiology
John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Baltimore
Maryland
USA
  biography
Susan Scholefield
Head of UK Government's Civil Contingencies Secretariat
London
England
  biography
chair:
Chris Dandeker
Professor of Military Sociology,
Department of War Studies
King's College London
England
  biography
 
 
The ‘Communicating the War on Terror’ conference was part of a wider set of research activities co-ordinated by King’s College London with a number of partner institutions within its Economic and Social Research Council funded project on ‘The Domestic Management of Terrorist Attacks’ under the ‘New Security Challenges’ programme.
 
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