ADVERTORIAL
The Increasing Relevance of Non-Conventional Threats for International Security CBRN threats are nothing new: chemical agents have been used in confl icts since World War I, the 1918 fl u pandemic killed up to 100 million people across the globe and the threat of nuclear war has had a considerable infl uence on preparedness and response strategies since the Cold War. However, the use of nuclear warfare in
involvement of non-state actors raise great concerns globally about prolifera- tion issues and the alleged intentions of radicalized terrorist networks. Furthermore, pandemic outbreaks and incidents involving hazardous materials have increasingly compromised political and economic stability as well as public health in the last decade.
The threat is real More particularly, countries from
not only limited to the Asian region: the Anthrax Attacks in the USA (2001), the H1N1 virus in Mexico (2009) and EHEC outbreak in Northern Europe (2011) have raised strong concerns in Europe and the US about fi rst-response strategies and national emergency preparedness. The number of NCT related incidents has increased tremendously over the past decade; policy makers and fi rst responders worldwide have now come to realise
CBRNe Asia 2013 The Non-Conventional Threat:
Hiroshima and Nagasaki and chemical agents during the Vietnam War and the fi rst Gulf War have had a severe eff ect on the perpetrator’s reputations and therefore on international politics in the long-term. Even the latest concerns about the use of chemical weapons during the Syrian Civil War reveal that CBRN agents remain non-conventional threats. Nevertheless, recent developments
have had an even more devastating and potentially catastrophic aff ect in our increasingly interdependent and confl ict-ridden world. The globalization of supply chains renders suitable controls of CBRN proliferation relatively impossible, while in some regions political instabilities and the
Central Asia to the Pacifi c are threatened by CBRNe agents, proliferation, disasters and terrorism on a frequent basis. The Asian continent is littered with numerous regional confl icts involving up to four offi cial nuclear weapon states and diffi cult to control non-state actors who are operating from the Mediterranean Sea to the Pacifi c Ocean. In the recent past the region has also been the theatre of catastrophic natural disasters and a source of pandemics. The Anthrax and Sarin attacks of the 90s in Japan, and more recently the Fukushima disaster make this region a focal point for CBRN. It is also clear that CBRN threats are
that preparing against these threats is of crucial importance for public security.
Countering the threat in Southeast Asia IB Consultancy is committed to supporting society in the prevention, preparation and response to non- conventional threats and provided an outstanding platform for the exchange of fi rst-hand information about fundamental CBRNe issues in the Southeast Asian region, during last year’s inaugural NCT: CBRNe Asia 2012 event, held in Bangkok. Key priorities identifi ed during that event were all related to the perception and prioritisation of CBRN threats. The
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