Building Whole-of-Society Resilience Workshop (WoS2)
Background: Revisionist state and non-state actors continue to challenge international order and stability, utilizing a range of ever-evolving hybrid threats in order to weaken and undermine their adversaries. This workshop is the second in a series of events aimed at sharing international experiences and best practices in countering these threats, with a particular emphasis on building whole-of-society resilience and cooperation, so that those who are targeted are able to lessen the impact, adapt, and ‘rebound forward’.
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Concept: The second in an intended series, this 3-day workshop aims to facilitate continued professional exchanges between security professionals and subject matter experts from the Indo-Pacific and European theaters in order to a) gain deeper understanding of hybrid threats and related vulnerabilities; b) exchange best practices in building resilience; and c) identify opportunities for cross-sectoral and international cooperation.
Objectives:
- Increase participant understanding of hybrid threats and related vulnerabilities;
- Exchange lessons learned and best practices in building resilience;
- Identify key areas for expanded cross-sectoral and international cooperation among likeminded allies and partners;
- Facilitate ongoing professional networking in order to continue these exchanges beyond the current workshop.
Useful Resources
- Preparing for Gray Zone Threats to the Energy Sector
- Threats to Critical Infrastructure
- The Threat from Russia’s Unconventional Warfare Beyond Ukraine, 2022–24
- Building resilience to hybrid threats: Best practices in the Nordics
- 2nd EEAS Report on Foreign Information Manipulation & Inteference Threats
- WoS Workshop Day 2 Polling Results
- Japan Economic Resiliency Plan
- Preparing for and Mitigating Foreign Influence Operations Targeting Critical Infrastructure (CISA)
- US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Resource webpage
- CISA Resiliency Services and Resources webpage
- Hybrid CoE Resources webpage (Center of Excellence)
- Black Sea Security - Analytical Journal 1 - 2024
- Wars XXI: Russia's Polyhybression
- Endgame Scenarios for Russia's War in Ukraine
- Russian Octopus in Action: Case Ukraine
