Israels sikkerhedsindustri og dens globale forgreninger

The Israeli Homeland Security Industry and its Global Impact

The seminar will be conducted in English and live streamed on www.diis.dk

Participation is free of charge, but registration is required. Please use our online registration form on https://conferencemanager.events/The-Israeli-Homeland-Security-Industry-And-Its-Global-Impact/sign-up.html

And do so no later than Tuesday 8. March at 12.00 noon.

Background

Over time Israel’s booming homeland security sector has developed in choir with Israel’s practices of security and ongoing occupation of the Palestinian territories. 

Israeli security companies develop and refine products and services in close cooperation with the Israeli military and benefit from a closely knit social network integrating the Israeli military with industry and a broad array of state agencies. These activities and networks predate the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948.

At the same time the influence of Israel’s homeland security is understood to be increasingly global in scope. Israeli security experts and trainers have advised a wide range of governments, militaries, and police forces around the world, supplying them with specialized technologies, tactics and policy expertise.

Scholars and activists have increasingly argued that these interactions are “Palestinizing” (or “Israelizing”) conditions beyond Israel/Palestine.

This seminar asks, how are Israeli security technologies developed and refined through the occupation of Palestine?

It further interrogates what it means, exactly, for practices of policing and control developed and refined in Israel/Palestine to travel elsewhere?  
Finally it asks how we go about following policies and tactics empirically, particularly when the agencies involved in these exchanges are typically governed by intense secrecy?

Both scholars draw on empirical fieldwork including interviews with Israeli security industry representatives, attendance of security fairs and by following the work of Israeli police trainers and counter-terror experts in contexts beyond Israel/Palestine.

Speakers

Lars Erslev Andersen, Senior Researcher, DIIS
Leila Stockmarr, Ph.D., Roskilde University
Rhys Machold, Guest Researcher, DIIS

Programme

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