SALIENT: Building a Secure and Resilient World: Research and Coordination Hub

我们正在经历的地缘政治和地缘经济变化对联合王国的国家安全和韧性构成了压力考验。欧盟退出、新冠肺炎、俄罗斯入侵乌克兰以及其他具有国家重要性的事件的后果，围绕着三个将塑造我们经济和社会未来走向的全球性挑战：能源安全、气候变化和网络安全。我们的世界的特点是高度的波动性、不确定性、复杂性和模糊性；这种情况意味着突发事件的频率将大大增加，并可能对我们的国民经济产生深远的影响。因此，英国必须确保采取一种复杂而微妙的方法来理解和沟通风险。如果我们要通过改进风险管理来增强韧性和安全性，那么在任何可能的情况下，“预防而不是治疗”的原则应该指导政策。然而，认识和量化良好风险管理的价值这一棘手问题无处不在。我们认为，风险管理是一个强大的弹性系统的前提；它是连接中央政府、权力下放的政府、地方当局以及私人和第三部门的粘合剂。风险情报对于有效的决策至关重要，这在紧急情况和危机情况下尤其重要，这些情况要求政府采取完全不同的‘操作节奏’，决策和行动发生在节奏上。对此，2021年成立了“政府风险专业”，以提高风险管理的专业性、有效性和效率。显然，社会技术系统方法将复原力视为社会和技术层面的一组相互作用的子系统，这对于采用以人为中心的方法至关重要，这种方法将与综合评论对“为我们的复原力做出贡献的人的专业精神和承诺”的认可保持一致我们提议建立一个新的协调中心(显著)，以支持英国为建设一个安全和有弹性的世界所做的贡献，这将通过以人为中心的系统思维的视角，将英国的研究努力集中在国家复原力上。我们的五年研究计划将提供一系列证据和见解，以支持中央和地方政府的行动，并最终增强英国对民事突发事件和威胁的应变能力。我们以人为中心的方法，以明显的人类学观点为依据，将使突出者能够确定和阐明加强复原力所需的系统性变化。我们知道，应变能力需要“整个社会”的心态；这意味着组织我们的社会秩序和政府的方式，以提高透明度，领导力和促进更大的责任。仅仅是以复原力为中心的观点本身就需要考虑我们如何利用“未来”来让公民参与进来，以增强他们的社区的能力。因此，支持这一努力的研究必须在原创性、方法的丰富性和影响力方面具有最高的质量。突出将提供在广泛的学科和部门之间协调研究行动的手段，并提供证据，这些证据将塑造英国对日益复杂的威胁格局的反应。

The geopolitical and geo-economic shifts we are experiencing have stress-tested the national security and resilience of the United Kingdom. The consequences of EU Exit, COVID-19, Russia's invasion of Ukraine and other events of national importance, have coalesced around three global challenges that will shape the future direction of our economy and society; energy security, climate change and cyber security. Our world is characterised by high degrees of volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity (VUCA); this context means that emergencies will be much greater in frequency and are likely to have far reaching consequences for our national economy. It is therefore essential for the UK to ensure adopt a sophisticated and nuanced approach to our understanding and communication of risk.If we are to enhance resilience and security through improved risk management, it follows that the doctrine of 'prevention rather than cure' should guide policy wherever possible. However, the intractable problem of recognising and quantifying the value of good risk management is omnipresent. We believe that risk management is the antecedent to a robust resilience system; it is the glue which connects central government, the devolved administrations, local authorities, and the private and third sectors.Risk intelligence is crucial to effective decision-making, this is particularly important in the context of emergency and crisis situations that require government to adopt a radically different 'operating rhythm' and where decisions and actions occur at pace. In response, the 'Government Risk Profession' was launched in 2021 to advance professionalism, effectiveness and efficiency in the way risk is managed.It is clear that a socio-technical systems approach that recognises resilience as an interacting set of sub-systems at both social and technical levels is crucial to adopting a human-centred approach that aligns will the Integrated Reviews' recognition of the 'professionalism and commitment of the people who contribute to our resilience'Our proposal for a new coordination hub (SALIENT) to support the UK's contribution to building a secure and resilient world will focus the UK's research effort on national resilience through the lens of human centred systems-thinking. Our five-year programme of research will deliver a portfolio of evidence and insight to support central and local governmental actions and ultimately strengthen the UK's resilience to civil contingencies and threats. Our human-centred approach, informed by a distinctly anthropological perspective, will enable SALIENT to identify and articulate the systemic changes that are needed to strengthen resilience. We know that resilience requires a 'whole of society' mindset; this means organising our social order and government in ways that enhances transparency, leadership and promotes greater accountability. The mere notion of a resilience-focused outlook requires consideration of how we use 'futures' to engage citizens in ways that empower their communities. It follows that the research to underpin this effort must be of the highest quality in terms of originality, methodological richness and impact. SALIENT will provide the means to coordinate research actions across a broad spectrum of disciplines and sectors and deliver evidence that will shape the UK's response to the increasingly complex threat landscape.