Book Launch and reflections on: The Significance of Private Security

Book Launch and reflections on: The Significance of Private Security

Join us when the CBS Public-Private Platform will host the launch event of Platform LEAF (Law Enforcement and Armed Forces) cluster member Anna Leander and co-editor Rita Abrahamsen's new book "Routledge Handbook of Private Security Studies".
The launch and seminar will be an occasion to reflect collectively on the implications of the rapidly expanding commercialization of security/military. The event therefore engages professionals working with private security and academics including contributors to the volume in an open debate.

The focus of the discussion will be:
-          The evolving place of private security and its reasons.
-          The core opportunities and challenges this development creates.
-          What role and responsibility academia (education/research) has in relation to   these developments.
 

Program
15.00-15.15: Welcome & book presentation by Anna Leander & Lotte Jensen (CBS)

15:15-16:30: Roundtable discussion, featuring:

Birgit Feldtmann (Associate Professor of law, SDU, legal expert for the Contact Group on Piracy off the Coast of Somalia)

Henrik Ehlers Kragh (Risk Intelligence, Head of Advisory Services)

Morten Glamsø (Senior Adviser at Security, Health, Environment and Innovation. Danish Shipowners' Association)

Peter Alexander Albrecht (Senior Researcher, DIIS and  consultant with the UN Mission in Somalia)

Paul du Gay (Academic Co-director, CBS Public-Private Platform and Professor CBS)

16:30-17:00: Contributors response & open debate, featuring:

Joakim Berndtsson (Associate Professor of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg)

Leila Stockmarr (PhD Candidate, Roskilde University)

Thomas Gammeltoft Hansen (Research Director, Danish Institute of Human Rights)

Anna Leander (Professor MSO, Dept. of Management, Politics and Philosophy, CBS)

17.00-18.00: Light reception

Read more about the Platform’s LEAF cluster: http://www.cbs.dk/viden-samfundet/business-in-society/public-private/research-and-platform-clusters/clusters