The Evolution of Homeland Security, Home Affairs, and Civil Security Policies around the World: Values vs. Resilience?

Homeland security, home affairs, and civil security-related policy concepts and strategies have started to disseminate around the world and across cultures. They are also being adopted more globally and increasingly connected to human security and resilience. The panel will explore how the adaptation and application of homeland and civil security policies in different regions, political cultures, and nations vary, to what extent shared and/or global values prevail, and how priority and value conflicts are resolved in order to achieve democratic, citizen-owned solutions to security and safety challenges emanating from a globalizing threat environment. Papers will address the all-hazards and whole-community spectrum across different political systems; different approaches to the liberty–security continuum; public opinion about homeland and civil security policies; comparative studies of how knowledge and interpretation, normative values, common symbols, and/or action repertories inform the evolution of homeland security, home affairs, and civil security mission spaces; as well as case studies from the mission spaces focused on cultural and national responses to the evolving global risk environment, including but not limited to pandemic response, climate change resilience, or processes of autocratization and polarization (including violent extremism) of societies. Overall, panelists will address how to accomplish democratic homeland security, civil security, and home affairs in the current era characterized by a complex mixture of traditional, advanced persistent, and emerging transboundary crises, where the provision of security is oriented toward the goal of resilient societies and infrastructures while equally based on safeguarding societiesʼ commonly acquired values.