Burgess Peter

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• Principe de disponibilité des informations

  5 mars 2007
  La question de la collaboration policière européenne est hantée depuis des années par le spectre d’un espace fédéral favorisant la mise en commun des données, avec l’institutionnalisation progressive d’entités policières véritablement supranationales, sorte de FBI européen ; appellation dont on a affublé à certains moments l’OLAF ou/et Europol, soit pour les valoriser, soit pour les discréditer.

• The principle of information availability

  1 March 2007
  European police cooperation has been haunted for years by the spectre of a federal space favouring the collectivisation of data followed by the progressive institutionalisation of genuinely supranational police bodies, a kind of European FBI, which the OLAF and/or Europol were labelled, either to valorise or discredit them.

• Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council concerning terrorist recruitment –– Addressing the factors contributing to violent radicalisation (COM/2005/0313 final)

  20 November 2006
  The immediate post-September 11 period produced a flourish of activities on the European level. These activities are characterized by three types of action: political reorientation with respect to transatlantic politics of the newly declared «war on terror», activities aimed at quickly creating legal and operational tools for use in addressing real and perceived threat in Europe, and a re-examination of the European «homeland» as the possible origin of terrorist threat. The latter type of response, which is most relevant to the Commission’s communication on terrorist recruitment, is however also the slowest to emerge. Though already in its communication of 17 October 2001 the Commission affirms that «efforts to stamp out international terrorism must be underpinned by policies addressing sources of radical discontent», the Council Framework Decision of 23 June 2002 on Combating terrorism makes no mention of either radicalisation or recruitment. In March 2004 the European Security Strategy «Fight against terrorism» affirms that «action must also be taken to address the root causes of insecurity and the factors which contribute to the emergence of terrorism».

• Pour une évaluation critique de la Communication de la Commission au Parlement européen et au Conseil concernant le recrutement des groupes terroristes – Combattre les facteurs qui contribuent à la radicalisation violente (COM/2005/0313 final)

  20 novembre 2006
  La Communication de la Commission se propose d’être une contribution préliminaire au développement d’une stratégie de long terme de l’UE visant les facteurs contribuant à la radicalisation et au recrutement en vue d’activités terroristes. La Communication est construite autour d’un ensemble important de postulats sur la nature du recrutement et de l’extrémisme et de sa relation aux questions d’immigration, d’intégration, d’éducation et de dialogue interculturel. Elle propose une série de mesures pour prévenir ou décourager le recrutement de terroristes. Cependant, ce faisant, elle omet de répondre à nombre de questions concernant les dimensions sociales et culturelles de la radicalisation violente et sur les manières appropriées de mettre en relation principes juridiques, exécution de la loi et motivations individuelles d’une part et terrorisme d’autre part. Mais, dans ce contexte, l’aspect le plus important est que la Communication suppose que la radicalisation est un ensemble de faits statiques qui peuvent être abordés au travers d’un éventail fixe d’actions. La recherche sur le sujet suggère, au contraire, que la radicalisation est un processus social et culturel nécessitant une réponse dynamique tenant compte des facteurs culturels.

• Report from the conference : 9/11 Five Years After : Values, Risk and Identity in the War on Terror

  15 November 2006
  Considerable attention was attracted to the conference in the Norwegian research and diplomatic communities. In addition to the members from the COST Action, Challenge and PRIO, 86 external people registered which included diplomats, journalists, academics and students.

• Conference : 9/11 Five Years After : Values, Risk and Identity in the War on Terror

  27 August 2006
  An international conference on the costs of security and the value of liberty in an age of trans-national terrorism

• Insecurity of the community of values : The European Union as a Security Community

  10 May 2005
  Among the multiple ways in which the European Union seeks to constitute itseself as a quasi-sovereign political body, endowed with the legitimacy neceessary to execute monetary policy, enact law, and deploy a unified foreign policy, is through a reference to a discourse of value: the EU is constured as a community of values, whose necessity, cohesion and self-evidence is implicit. A wide range of the principles and practices of the EU make reference, either directly or subjacently-to a set of fundamental values, whose origin and homogeneity is seldom put into question. One quite natural consequence of this reference to values is a certain kind of securitization of values. If the European Union faces a security challenge, it is related, in one way or another, to its security as a community of values. Yet what does it mean for a community of values to be insecurity, to be the object of security.

• The Ethical Subject of Security

  10 May 2005
  Ethics is on the rise in the field of international relations theory. In the last decade a large number of new works have contributed to debate about the norms and codes that can be and should be involved in international politics.

• Burgess Peter : curriculum vitae

  10 May 2005
  Leader, Security Programme, International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO). Research professor (tenured) of cultural studies and philosophy, Security Programme, International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO).