Hybrid Threats - The destabilization of democracies?

International conference: Hybrid threats – The destabilization of democracies?

The Danish membership of NATO, the EU and circle of liberal states, means that Denmark, like many other countries, is exposed to a variety of hybdrid threats and attacks in the gray zone between war and peace under the threshold of conventional war.

These hybdrid threats and attacks take place by disinformation campaigns, cyberattacks and compromise of infrastructures - among others - and constitutes a new normal that Denmark must be able to counter.

That is why the conference is so important and timely. At the conference you will hear about findings and results from academia and also how the EU coordinates its efforts and not least what other countries have experienced and how they go about countering hybrid threats and attacks on their nation. Also we will discuss and find solutions and give recommendations on how we can become more resilient and better coordinated in countering hybrid threats and attacks.

Countering of hybrid threats and attacks requires national and international cooperation and understanding of how to secure societies and democracies.

Conference theme: What are the threats? What should and could be done – and how? What are others doing and what are the pros and cons with that approach.

When: November 18th. 2019, 12:00 -16:30 IDA Conference, Congress, Kalvebod Brygge 31, 1790 Copenhagen V

Arranged by: IDA Engineering Society (IDA Militærteknik) and Folk og Sikkerhed

The audience will come from both private entities and public sectors.

Definition: According to Multinational Capability Development Campaign Project (MCDC) The Publication: “Countering Hybrid Warfare”:

Hybrid Warfare is the synchronized use of multiple instruments of power tailored to specific vulnerabilities across the full spectrum of societal functions to achieve synergistic effects.

Findings and conclusions as noted in the MCDC publication Hybrid Warfare:

• Countering hybrid warfare (threats) is a “Whole-of-government activity”
• Countering hybrid warfare (threats) requires a multinational approach
• Rather than creating new institutional machinery, existing institutions, processes and organizations should be adjusted and augmented

Download report concerning hybrid threats and the countering of these (Når hydra angriber) Danish report from october 2019

Program: (Download program)

• 12:00 - 12:30 Registration + Sandwiches and fruit
• 12:30 - 12:40 Welcome and introduction by Mr.Troels Ørting, Chairman of the Board of World Economic Forum Centre for Cybersecurity and John Michael Foley, Board Member IDA Militærteknik, Danish Engineering Society.
• 12:40 - 13:00 Hybrid threats: Grey Zone conflict, actors and institutional responses, by: André Ken Jakobsson, Ph.d, post-doc, Centre for Military Studies, Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen.
• 13:00 - 13:30 The Georgian & Ukrainian experience and lessons learned. Briefing by H.E Gigi Gigiadze, Georgian Ambassador to Denmark & Mykhailo Vydoinyk, Ukrainian Ambassador to Denmark
• 13:30 - 14:00 Break – Afternoon Buffet
• 14:00 - 14:30 The EU initiative and nations response. Briefing by General Staff Officer Jukka Savolainen, Director European Centre of Excellence For Countering Hybrid Threaths (Hybrid CoE)
• 14:30 - 16:00 Paneldebate – What should and could be done?
• 16:00 - 16:30 Networking + Refreshments +snacks

Panelboard: Briefers (see above) and Tobias Liebetrau, Ph.d, Postdoc, Institut for Samfundsvidenskab, Center for Militære Studier, Københavns Universitet, André Ken Jakobsson, Ph.d, Postdoc, Institut for Samfundsvidenskab, Center for Militære Studier, Københavns Universitet, and the ambassador of Ukranie to Denmark, H.E. Mr. Mykhailo Vydoinyk.

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