Did the global response to 9/11 make us safer? | Benedetta Berti

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🗓️ 11 September 2018

⏱️ 8 minutes

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If we want sustainable, long-term security to be the norm in the world, it's time to radically rethink how we can achieve it, says TED Fellow and conflict researcher Benedetta Berti. In an eye-opening talk, Berti explains how building a safer world has a lot less to do with crushing enemies on the battlefield and a lot more to do with protecting civilians -- no matter where they're from or where they live.

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0:00.0	This TED Talk features international policy analyst Benedetta Bertie, recorded live at TED 2018.
0:08.0	Almost 20 years have passed since 9-11.
0:14.0	It is time to take stock of where we stand and stop and think.
0:20.0	It is time to ask ourselves, have the assumptions and
0:23.8	policies we develop in the wake of those tragic events truly made us more secure. Have they made
0:30.9	our societies, both in Europe and in the United States, more resilient? I've worked all my life in the field of security and defense, and I am convinced that now,
0:43.3	more than ever, we need to radically reframe the way we think and act about security,
0:49.9	and especially about international security.
0:53.2	By international security, I actually mean what we do,
0:57.1	how we prepare our countries to better respond and prevent external threats,
1:02.0	and how we protect our citizens.
1:05.2	The key to both is to focus on protecting civilians,
1:09.6	both in our own countries and in those where we are present in the name of security.
1:14.6	Now, this idea goes against the fixed narrative that we developed
1:18.6	over the past 20 years, over what security is and how to get it.
1:24.6	But that narrative is flawed, and worse, it is counterproductive. Over the past 20 years,
1:33.1	both in the United States and in Europe, we've come to accept that we must talk about security
1:38.6	in zero-sum terms, as if the only way to gain more security is by compromising on values and rights.
1:46.0	Security versus human rights.
1:49.0	Safety versus freedom and development.
1:53.0	This is a false opposition.
1:56.0	It just doesn't work like that.
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