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One BCMS with Societal Benefits, please

Business Continuity Management can still be seen as an excessive activity without quick rewards. Legal obligations would not necessarily ensure the quality of Business Continuity Management plans. That said, in many organizations they might end up providing company for lonely and dusty emergency response plans. On the other hand, legally based requirements would provide principal and practical support for the planning and implementing Business Continuity Management, a preparedness measure that clearly still needs to earn some justification for its existence.

From protection to resilience, to immortality?

So if, or more correctly when, this next stage of human evolution is achieved, a new approach to security will have to rise together with it. A drastic change to the four components of security governance — mentalities, institutions and organizations, technologies, and practices — can be expected. How do you address a situation where the human race could be suddenly perceived to pose a threat to the society it has developed? How do you manage the (super)human race without overstepping the line of privacy and freedom? Are superhumans even subjected to the same norms and rights as today’s human race?

Societal security: Public good or a private commodity?

Violence, and operatively the use of force, have traditionally been seen as a monopoly of the state. In democratic Nordic states, for example, the transparency in governance also translates to transparency in use of force. Outsourcing this has the danger of muddying the relationship between the protector and the protected. As a population, we might trust the Police, but can we place equal trust in the private service providers the state security utilizes?

Societal Security and the Threat of Migration

In accordance with Copenhagen school’s perception of societal security, migration could be seen as a security threat, as societal security is understood as an existential threats to identity patterns, such as language, culture, religion, nationality and customs. However, national identities are constantly changing in response to the mechanisms of globalization, which imply a constant internal-external exchange of people, goods and services. In this sense, what does national identity mean? Is it still a valid concept?