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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Opening plenary: 10.20 - 11.20
Warnings
There have been many terror warnings since the events of 9/11 - but what is the role of the modern terror warning? Has it gone beyond giving the public practical information to help us avoid being harmed or killed, towards something else? Do warnings bring people together against a common threat - or further atomise us by heightening our sense of fear?
 
speakers:
 
Sir Lawrence Freedman
Professor of War Studies
King's College London
England
  biography
  John Wadham
Director
Liberty (The National Council for Civil Liberties)
London
England
  biography
  Patrick Mercer OBE MP
Member of the UK Select Committee on Defence
House of Commons
London
England
  biography
chair:
  Professor Michael Clarke
Director,
International Policy Institute,
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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