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英国的国家安全和复原力进行了压力测试。欧盟退出、COVID-19、俄罗斯入侵乌克兰和其他国家重大事件的后果，围绕着三大全球性挑战--能源安全、气候变化和网络安全--汇聚在一起，将塑造我们经济和社会的未来方向。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（VUCA）;这种情况意味着紧急情况将更加频繁，并可能对我们的国民经济产生深远的影响。因此，英国有必要确保采用一种复杂而细致的方法来理解和传达风险。如果我们要通过改进风险管理来提高弹性和安全性，那么“预防而不是治疗”的原则应尽可能指导政策。然而，识别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，风险管理是强大的复原力系统的先决条件;它是连接中央政府、地方政府、私营部门和第三部门的粘合剂。风险情报对有效决策至关重要，在紧急和危机情况下，这一点尤其重要，因为这些情况要求政府采取完全不同的“运作节奏”，发生在pace。为此，政府于2021年推出了“政府风险专业”，以促进专业化，风险管理方式的有效性和效率。很明显，社会技术系统方法将恢复力视为社会和技术层面的一组相互作用的子系统，这对于采用人类-一种中心化的方法，将使综合审查对“为我们的复原力做出贡献的人的专业精神和承诺”的认可与我们关于新协调中心（SALIENT）的建议保持一致支持联合王国为建设一个安全和有复原力的世界所作的贡献，将通过以人为本的系统思维的透镜，把联合王国的研究工作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，并最终加强英国对民事突发事件和威胁的抵御能力。我们以人为本的方法，由一个独特的人类学的角度，将使SALIENT确定和阐明所需的系统性变化，以加强复原力。我们知道，韧性需要一个“全社会”的心态;这意味着组织我们的社会秩序和政府的方式，提高透明度，领导力和促进更大的问责制。仅仅是以服从为中心的观点就需要考虑我们如何利用“未来”来让公民参与到赋予他们社区权力的方式中来。因此，支持这一努力的研究必须在独创性、丰富的方法和影响方面达到最高质量。SALIENT将提供协调跨学科和部门的研究行动的手段，并提供将塑造英国对日益复杂的威胁格局的反应的证据。

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.