Breakfast Session under the Chatham House Rule

The Home Front: Domestic Security Between Vigilance and Values

May 17, 08:30-09:45

Room: Seville

The threats that once stopped at the border no longer do. Hybrid operations, foreign intelligence activity, radicalisation, and state-sponsored subversion exploit the openness that defines democratic societies. External conflicts generate domestic aftershocks, and domestic security services are being asked to do more, do it faster, and across a wider threat spectrum than ever before. But the tools of protection—surveillance, disruption, pre-emption—may sit in tension with the values they are designed to defend. How far can democracies go in protecting themselves before they become something they are trying to protect against? Can intelligence services cooperate more effectively across borders and communicate more openly with the publics they serve—without compromising either security or trust?

Speakers

Beth Sanner

Distinguished Fellow at the German Marshall Fund

Mari-Liis Tori

Deputy Director General of the Internal Security Service of Estonia

Elizabeth Tsurkov

Senior Non-Resident Fellow at the New Lines Institute

Moderator

David Cattler

Non-resident Senior Fellow at the International Centre for Defence and Security

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