CCSP | COMPETENCE CENTER FOR SECURITY POLITICS

The Competence Center sees itself as a hub between business, politics and institutions on the one hand and research and teaching on the other. The Competence Center promotes the discussion and development of a comprehensive and holistic security policy view in the sense of the securitization concept, which includes space security, cyber security, economic security, environmental security, societal security, political security and public security.

Successful security policy and the design of security strategies for the public and private sector – in a global context – especially in the development of forward-looking concepts for resilience and the protection of critical infrastructures, requires an open and unbiased exchange of ideas between all stakeholders in society, politics, business, public administration, science and research. The discussion of complexity and the change in complexity over time as well as the conclusions drawn from the behavior of a system are essential aspects for the generation of security policy concepts and the strategies derived from them by and for individual and collective social actors.

In order to promote this discourse and to provide theoretical, methodological and practical impulses for security policy practice, we want to design and shape a security policy think tank that deals with innovations in qualitative and quantitative concepts, models, methods and tools in the field of monitoring, risk assessment, modeling and simulation in order to assess the future degree of resilience required at different system levels in the face of variable security challenges and to be able to support them as thought leaders.

The aim of such a think tank will therefore also be to draw up fundamental security policy concepts for increasing resilience and practical proposals for further development.

In the field of tension between, for example, globalization, discovery, design and economization of space as well as digitalization and automation, interest is growing in a holistic view and the development of strategies for risk reduction and resilience.

The tasks of the Competence Center include:

• Positioning the Competence Center as a visible, accessible, reliable and credible source of information on strategy, security policy and resilience research in the context of a comprehensive approach
• Developing methods for monitoring and analyzing strategic vulnerabilities and developing resilience strategies in priority areas to be determined
• Identification of (new) technologies and evaluation for supply chain applications
• Identifying and disseminating best practice in the field of resilience building on a scientific basis through research, publishing and organizing/participating in congresses, symposia, seminars and the “Science Cloud”
• Conception of an exemplary analysis and information center for strategic monitoring of selected security policy fields and risk environments