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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Workshop Strand F: 1.45 - 2.45
Risk communication
Many argue that risk communication needs to come with a punch, in order to get people to take it seriously. Others argue that risk should be communicated truthfully and rationally. How should we communicate risk without overblowing threats, while ensuring that the public pays
attention?
 
speakers:
 
  William Hallman PhD
Associate Director of the Food Biotech Programme
Department of Human Ecology
Rutgers University
New Jersey
USA
  biography
James Humphreys
former Head of Corporate Communications
Prime Mininster's Office
10 Downing Street
London
  biography
  Arieh Shalev MD
Professor of Psychiatry
Hadassah University Hospital
Jerusalem
Israel
  biography
chair:
  Laura Trevelyan
Political Correspondent
BBC News
London
  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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