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12th Annual Conference organised by Finland Futures Research Centre and Finland Futures Academy

Security means that something is safe and protected – the absence of threats. Empirically, that is not possible and in consequence security is always a relative concept. Security is something that guarantees our lives to continue without fear of termination in physical and mental domains under a shield provided by the society.

This conference aims to look deeply into the inevitable changes of security issues. The traditional way we experience our existence in the world faces new challenges. The situation may feel obscure, fuzzy and even weird or frightening. Thus, it will increase and change the quality and quantity of security we demand from our communities. At the same time, awareness of the ways of interacting with the world is gradually slipping away from our own control. To decrease the feeling and, further on, the realization of insecurity, the foreseen changes and the states of the futures shall be brought closer to our everyday by introducing novel and innovative ideas of making the future more feasible. Novel thinking and solutions are required to fulfil the human need to feel secure and to build more reasonable security solutions for futures’ world.

This conference brings together the best experts of its fields in the scientific community to interact with policymakers and representatives of companies. By developing images of alternative futures, the goal of the conference is to give new viewpoints and novel ideas to decision-makers to assist them towards more feasible decisions to construct the world a better place.