CHALLENGECHALLENGEThe Changing Landscape The Changing Landscape of European Liberty and of European Liberty and

SecuritySecurity

Sergio CarreraSergio CarreraResearch FellowResearch Fellow

Centre for European Policy StudiesCentre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) (CEPS)sergio.carrera@ceps.besergio.carrera@ceps.be

CHALLENGECHALLENGE is an Integrated Project – Sixth Framework Research Programme Theme 6.1.1 of Priority 7, “Citizens and Governance in a Knowledge based society), DG Research, European Commission – objective driven research

The project seeks to facilitate more responsive and responsible judgments about new regimesnew regimes and and practices of securitypractices of security in order to minimize the degree to which they may undermine civil liberties, human rights and social cohesion. It especially seeks to do so in the context of the new evolving international environment shaped by events: 11th September 2001, the wars of Afghanistan and Iraq and the 11th March 2004 in Madrid.

SummarySummary

The aimaim is to help reframe the security framework emerging in Europe to ensure that it starts with libertyliberty (civil liberties, human rights and social cohesion) as its point of departure.

In particular the project seeks: to understand the merging between internal merging between internal (Justice and Home

Affairs) and external and external (CFSP) security security and evaluate the changing character of the relationship between liberty and security in Europe;

to facilitate the assessment of the changing relationship changing relationship between liberty and securitybetween liberty and security over time; to look at the different institutions in charge of security and at their current transformations;

to facilitate and enhance a new interdisciplinary network of new interdisciplinary network of scholarsscholars across many regions of Europe, and from many interdisciplinary disciplines;

to bring together the new interdisciplinary network of scholars into an Integrated Project focusing on the State of exception as illiberal practice and illiberal regimes and the tensions between security and civil liberties with the same tools and same tools and methodologymethodology; and

to create an Interdisciplinary OBSERVATORYOBSERVATORY charged with the analysis and evaluation of the changing relationship between security, stability and liberty in an enlarging EU →→

CHALLENGE website (multilingual) http://www.libertysecurity.org/http://www.libertysecurity.org/:: The public section is composed by:

The ObservatoryObservatory (including bibliographies) The CHALLENGE activities/Conferences/Workshops

Information about each of the workpackages News and briefs about internal and external activities to

the project Related links on the web

The CHALLENGE observatoryCHALLENGE observatory is made of scholarly resources and interdisciplinary analysis.

What the Observatory does not:What the Observatory does not: Activism and militancy Activism and militancy LobbyingLobbying Policy advice or consultancyPolicy advice or consultancy

What the Observatory does:What the Observatory does: Maintain an exchange conduit with NGOs and GOsMaintain an exchange conduit with NGOs and GOs Make its resources and positions known to politics Make its resources and positions known to politics

and policy actors and to the industries concernedand policy actors and to the industries concerned Strive to produce the broadest possible Strive to produce the broadest possible critical critical

frameworkframework for the hegemonic security discourse in for the hegemonic security discourse in Europe and beyondEurope and beyond

CHALLENGE CHALLENGE ConsortiumConsortium

CHALLENGECHALLENGE is composed by 21 universities and research institutes (13 different countries):

- Centre for European Policy Studies, CEPS, Belgium.

- Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches Internationales (CERI), France

- King's College London, UK

- Keele University, UK

- University of Copenhagen, Denmark

- European Association for Research on Transformation – EART, Germany

- University of Leeds, UK

- University of Genoa, Italy

- Observatori del Sistema Penal i els Drets Humans, Spain

- University of Szeged, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary. - Groupe de Sociologie des Religions et de la Laïcite (GSRL)- University of Caen, France. - National Capodistrian University of Athens, Greece- University of Utrecht, the Netherlands- Foundation for International Studies, Malta. - London School of Economics and Political Science, - University of Nijmegen (Centre for Migration Law), - European Institute, Bulgaria - Stefan Batory Foundation- Instituto Universitario de Estudios Europeos, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona,

Spain. - University of Cologne, Germany

Principal Approach and Principal Approach and ImplementationImplementation

The project is organized around four sorts of questionsfour sorts of questions (each several WPs) which are central to the evolving security dynamic and its relationship with liberty in Europe:

1. CONCEPTUAL: An historical analysis of the institutionalization of exceptionalismexceptionalism as a practice of modern states; an examination of the ways in which the contemporary re-articulation of borders implies a re-articulation, de-territorialization and dispersal of practices of exceptionalism; an analysis of the changing relation between new forms of war and defense, new procedures for policing and governance, and new threats to civil liberties and social cohesion.

2. EMPIRICAL:-The ObservatoryObservatory: mapping the merging between internal and external security and their transnational relation with regard to national political life;-Sociology/Economy: analyzing new vulnerabilities (targeted others, critical infrastructures) and social in-cohesion (such as the perception of other religious groups, etc)

3. GOVERNANCE/POLITY/LEGAL: -The dangers to liberty under conditions of violence when the state no longer has the last word on the monopoly on the legitimate use of violence.-The danger that “technical responses” reproduce the old habit of seeking greater control in the name of exceptional circumstances.

-Questions about the changing relation between violence and risk, how violence works today if the old interstate wars are no longer understood to be the paradigmatic form of violence and the effects of new patterns of liberty and security, or their absence, on the contemporary political imagination.

4. POLICY:-an examination of the implications of the dispersal of exceptionalism for the changing relationship between: government departments concerned with Security, Justice and Home Affairs; the securing of state borders and the policing of foreign interventions; etc.

CHALLENGE aims to run over a period of 5 years5 years and will be implemented in 5 phases5 phases. It consists of 17 workpackages, which include 15 substantive workpackages to implement the above approach addressing both macro and more micro aspects of the issues at hand in the context of an enlarged Europe, 2 co-ordination packages (scientific and administrative management) and the observatory as WP17.

CoordinationCoordination Administrative Co-ordinationAdministrative Co-ordination - - Leader: The Centre for Leader: The Centre for

European Policy Studies (European Policy Studies (CEPS): Joanna Apap & Sergio CEPS): Joanna Apap & Sergio CarreraCarrera

The co-ordination and management involve the following taskstasks:- *provide continuous monitoring of the progress of individual

elements and the overall coherence of the project, - *general management and administration, consortium agreement,

preparation of costs statements, verification of cost statements of participants,

- *coordinate with the scientific council and the advisory committee the quality management of the project,

- *provide Annual progress reports to the European Commission Annually (*)

- *prepare the meetings of the Steering Committee

- *prepare the workshops

- *co-ordinate training sessions organised by the consortium, and

- *ensure exploitation and dissemination of results and assist the scientific co-ordinator in knowledge management

-Scientific coordination-Scientific coordination is different from the administrative coordination and is managed by CERI (France) – CERI (France) – Didier BigoDidier Bigo in consultation with a permanent scientific council .permanent scientific council .

*Permanent scientific council*Permanent scientific council which includes Didier Bigo (Sciences Po), Elspeth Guild (University of Nijmegen), Rob Walker (University of Keele), Joanna Apap (CEPS) and Vivienne Jabri (Kings College London).

Expected BenefitsExpected BenefitsThis project is expected to bring benefits in four main areas:four main areas:

First, it will result in the development of a significant institution, the ObservatoryObservatory, specifically charged with making informed analyses of developing patterns of exceptionalism at the boundary between practices of liberty and practices of security in European public life. This in turn will be policy relevant and produce a database from which more sustainable research can proceed into core public policy dilemmas based on intellectually rigorous scientific research of an applied nature – benefits at conceptual, substantial and benefits at conceptual, substantial and policy-relevant levelspolicy-relevant levels

Second, it will enable the development of an innovative an innovative interdisciplinaryinterdisciplinary network of scholarsnetwork of scholars who have been influential in placing questions about the changing relationship between liberty and security on both intellectual and policy agendas not only in Europe but also in North America and elsewhere.

Third, it will generate a broad array of research resourcesresearch resources (databases, website, expertise, observatory, reports, books, classified bibliography, workshops, conferences, etc) in the general areas of sociology, law, criminology, security, civil society, religion, citizenship and human rights.

Finally, it will enhance an emerging cross-cultural and enhance an emerging cross-cultural and cross-national conversationcross-national conversation about fundamental questions concerning the way new relations between the norms of civil society and the exceptionalisms generated by a broad range of contemporary risks and dangers are rescripting the possibilities of a liberal democratic politics in many different settings.

What is next?What is next? Conference in Brussels (CEPS) the Conference in Brussels (CEPS) the 10th June 2005 – the CHALLENGE Observatory.10th June 2005 – the CHALLENGE Observatory.

For more details: For more details:

www.ceps.bewww.ceps.be

www.libertysecurity.orgwww.libertysecurity.org