1. What is security?
Lesson material from Quakers in Britain and ForcesWatch

2. A fable for the nations…
With a partner, sort the six strips into order
What is the message of this story?
Click to reveal animated story.
Click to reveal story

3. Musk oxen Excerpt from Teach Peace Click 1– the young
Click 1: reveal the young ox, the most precious thing the herd has.
Click 2: reveal the wolf, the predator
Click 3: animate how the adult muskoxen encircle the young to keep it safe
Click 1– the young
Click 2 – the predator
Click 3 – defending the young
Excerpt from Teach Peace

4. Which images make you feel safer or less safe?
Click on an image to enlarge. Click again to make it disappear

5. What makes each person less secure?
Suggested identities
Police officer
Farmer
Member of Parliament (MP)
Soldier in the British Army
Refugee from war
Single mother
A young Muslim man in a British city
A retired person
Factory employee
A city banker
Nurse
Schoolchild
A fisher
Social housing resident
Think about the kinds of thing that might make your person feel insecure…

6. Security timeline
needing
more help
Struggle to find work

7. Security threats Running out of energy War Terrorism
Running out of energy
War
Terrorism
Environmental destruction
Competition over resources
Espionage (spying)
Inequality – some people have lots, some people have little
Marginalisation – treating people as unimportant
More weapons of mass destruction
Food shortages
Climate change
Cyber attacks
Disease and failing healthcare
Immigration – people moving between countries
Global militarisation – making more armies and weapons

8. security Types of security Food Climate National Human Border Cyber
Sustainable
security

9. Security spending
See Combat vs. Climate from Institute for Policy Studies

10. Different approaches Traditional security Sustainable security
How you describe the problem
Us versus them
Problems are shared
Goal
Protect yourself
Threats must be defeated, destroyed or contained
Try to make everyone safer
Approach
Short-term reaction to threats
Competition
Look at the root causes of insecurity
Work together
Tools
Military force
Making people do what you want
Cooperation and diplomacy
Nonviolent ideas and actions
Result
Temporary fix
More violence and insecurity
Causes as well as symptoms addressed
Trust

11. Likelihood (between 0 and 1)
Risk assessment
Risk
Severity
(1–5, 5 being the worst) X
Likelihood (between 0 and 1) =
Risk rating (0-5)
Example risk 4 X
0.25 = 1

12. Rank security issues

13. Problem tree Put your main problem on the trunk of the tree.
Deaths in winter
Put your main problem on the trunk of the tree.
Add the effects to the branches of the tree.
Add causes to the roots.
Wars over fuel
High prices and poverty
Energy shortage
Fossil fuels running out
Not enough renewables

14. Solution tree Put your main goal on the trunk of the tree.
Money for other things
Put your main goal on the trunk of the tree.
Add the effects to the branches of the tree.
Add your ideas for solutions to the roots.
Less killing
Feel safer
End war
Make and sell fewer weapons
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