Terror in an age of insecurity
Speaker: Bill Durodié
15th May 2004
How much does our response to terrorism as individuals and as a society teach us about ourselves rather than the terrorists? What do recent events indicate about the nature and provenance of terror in our post-political age? Is our society resilient, or has it been left fundamentally unarmed by its failure to engage people more broadly?
BILL DURODIÉ is Director of the International Centre for Security Analysis at King’s College London. There he co-ordinates the Economic and Social Research Council-funded Domestic Management of Terrorist Attacks programme. This examines the cultural context and impact, both actual and perceived, of terrorist attacks. Bill was educated at Imperial College, the London School of Economics and New College Oxford. His research focuses on risk perception and he is also interested in examining the erosion of expertise, the demoralisation of the élite, the rise of risk-management and the growing demand to include the public in scientific decision-making.
He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA), an Associate of the Royal College of Science (ARCS), a Member of the Society for Risk Analysis (MSRA), and an Advisory Forum Member of the Scientific Alliance.
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