Security Distillery Magazine 2022

In 2022 Privacy Salon partnered with the Security Distillery for the first time. The Security Distillery is an ErasmusIMSISS project in a partnership between the University of Glasgow, Dublin City University (DCU), the University of Trento (School of International Studies - SIS) and the Charles University (Czech Republic). At CPDP, the Security Distillery set up a creative studio for planned interviews and spontaneous discussions with the speakers and audiences.

IMSISS specialises in teaching cohorts of students the complex, challenging realities of International security faces for a wide range of actors from nation-states and international organisations, to multi-national corporations. Globalisation and increased interdependency have radically changed the way we understand security in relation to the state, society, the economy, and even the biosphere. There is a growing demand for greater attention and coordinated responses from the international community, including not only individual countries but also international organisations such as the European Union (EU), the African Union (AU), the United Nations (UN) and security alliances such as NATO. To support these organisations there is a need for knowledgeable, well-informed experts with the skills to not only react to crises but to identify and anticipate the threats and challenges that create crises. These experts can and should come from civilian (e.g. academia, governmental, non-governmental and private sectors) as well as military backgrounds. Bridging these ‘expert’ security communities and ensuring opportunities for dedicated training and shared knowledge, experiences and best practice is the purpose of this IMSISS degree programme.