Beyond Swords: Expertise, Knowledge and Security

The fourth session of the symposium Beyond Swords: Reconceptualizing (In)Security in the Aftermath of October 7th focused on knowledge and its management as factors of security and insecurity: how does knowledge create a sense of security and states of security, and under what circumstances does knowledge create insecurity? How can existing and comparative knowledge prevent security breaches? Whose knowledge counts (expertise, gender, local)? How does excess/lack of knowledge affect our sense and state of security? Our ontological security?
The session was chaired by Dr. Roi Kabrick, director of research at the Mitvim Institute, a lecturer at Yezreel Valley College, a researcher in the Hebrew University's International Relations Department, CEO of the Democratic School Association in the Emek, a member of Kibbutz Mizra.
This video includes the three lectures in the session:
Between Thin and Thick Security: Reflections on Israel's Police and the Policing Network
Dr. Yael Litmanovitz, Center for Security & Democracy, Israel Democracy Institute, and Dr. Naomi Levenkron, Kinneret College
Feminist Vernacular Security Expertise and its Aftermath: A Dialogue during War
Dr. Sarai B. Aharoni, Ben Gurion University of the Negev
Between Public and Covert Knowledge: Feminist Epistemology and National Security
Dr. Tal Nitsán, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
And the symposium’s concluding remarks by:
• Dr. Roee Kibrik, Mitvim Institute and the Yezreel Valley College
• Prof. Galia Press-Barnathan, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
• Prof. Ayelet Harel, Ben Gurion University of the Negev
Beyond Swords: Reconceptualizing (In)Security in the Aftermath of October 7th is a symposium that took place on June 18-19 2024 and was organized by the Sophie Davis Forum on Gender, Conflict Resolution and Peace, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.