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New social contract

  • Better technological means and society's cooperation are needed to identify hybrid threats or terrorists before they act. However, the effectiveness of some measures depends on the values of society.
  • A new social contract should assure civilans full cooperation for increasing security.
  • Increasing threats of terrorism and hybrid warfare might lead to the emergence of a “stronger” state which will put in place measures for pre-detection and preemptive action that today are rejected by a large part of the citizens. 
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  • The on-going struggle between the need to improve security and the wish to limit the impact on civil liberty should be a key consideration in protection policy trying to achieve the right effective balance.
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  • Education systems should explicitly promote tolerance and a culture of peace, while any extremism should be outlawed. 

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