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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These two online discussions will run in parallel to the conference at the Royal Institution, both to set the scene for the debates at the conference and to allow the discussion to continue afterwards.

The dialogues begin with specially commissioned lead articles. Readers are invited to put forward their own comments in response.
 
What should governments tell the public about terror threats?
  Are we getting the balance right?
Bill Durodié
Senior Research Fellow
Centre for Defence Studies
King's College London

If we are to engage in a fight for freedom and democracy, we need an open debate about what they mean.
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  Is public information desirable?
Garth Whitty
Head of Homeland Security and Resilience,
Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security

We can learn a lot from the UK's previous experience of terrorism, but unity of purpose is vital.
Read on...
Responses:
20 May 2003
Some pertinent questions
Ceri M. Bowen
Bradford Hospitals/Dept. of Peace Studies
 
 
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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