ResilientCivilians project ISA 2019 Abstract
Working Title: Insights from Resilience & Complexity for civilian societies at risk from hybrid warfare attacks
Hybrid warfare
- How we understand it (Curren paper)
- Civilian vulnerabilities/risks
- Loss of electricity, effects on:
- Internet (information) and internet of things (functions like banking, railway, retail, eg food)
- Interference in elections
- Stimulate social tensions, e.g around immigration
- Loss of electricity, effects on:
Insights from Complexity theory
- Explain complex systems and link to how social systems are influenced and respond to influences
- Explain concepts of self-organisaton and emergence and relevance for how civilian systems are likely to respond to influences such as hybrid attacks
Introduce concept of Resilience
- Discuss key lessons from resilience literature for hybrid warfare context
- Natural disaster literature
- Relevance for hybrid warfare context
- Resilience of technical support systems
- Electricity++
- Resilience of social systems to political interference
Recommendation and Conclusion
- Key insights from Complexity theory and Resilience for civilian societies at risk from hybrid warfare attacks
