The third TRANSAD workshop will focus on the topic Emerging Technologies and International Security in the Mediterranean Region. Co-organised by PRIO, the Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals (IBEI), the Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College, and the Nordic Centre of Excellence for Security Technologies and Societal Values (NordSTEVA), the workshop will take place in Barcelona on 21 and 22 November 2019.
Workshop programme
**THURSDAY, 21 November –**Open Society Foundations Barcelona (Espai Societat Oberta). Address: Carrer de Sant Eusebi, 29-31, 08006 Barcelona
18:30 – 20:00 Open roundtable and reception
‘Our Drone-Filled Future’
Roundtable discussion led by Kristoffer Lidén (Peace Research Institute Oslo) with the participation of Arthur Holland Michel (Centre for the Study of Drone and IBEI), Wali Aslam (University of Bath), Chantal Lavallée (Royal Military College Saint-Jean), Kristin B. Sandvik (University of Oslo) and Bruno Oliveira Martins (Peace Research Institute Oslo)
20:30 – Workshop dinner
FRIDAY, 22 November 2019 – Barcelona Institute of International Studies (IBEI) (Pompeu Fabra Ciutadella Campus), Building Edifici Mercè Rodoreda, address: Ramon Trias Fargas, 25-27 08005 Barcelona. Room: Sala Polivalente
9:00 – 9:15 Welcome and introduction
Arthur Holland Michel, Center for the Study of the Drone, Bard College, and IBEI
9:15 – 10:45 – MOBILITY
Panel chair: Wali Aslam, University of Bath
Moving populations, space and digital resistance in the Greek territory and borderland
Vasiliki Makrygianni, IT University of Copenhagen
The biggest database you've never heard of: how the EU is constructing a centralised identity registry
Chris Jones, Statewatch
Discussant: Kristin B. Sandvik, University of Oslo and PRIO
Coffee break
11:00 – 11:05 – Welcoming address, Esther Barbé, Director, IBEI
11:05 – 12:45 – THE DIGITAL
Panel chair: Delina Goxho, Open Society Foundations
The landscape of cyber conflict and disinformation in the Middle East and Northern Africa
James Shires, Leiden University and Oxford University's Centre for Technology and Global Affairs
Cybersecurity (counter)Norms and Technologies in Egypt: Political, Economic and Security Uncertainties – Bassant Hassib, British University in Egypt
Discussant: Kristoffer Lidén, Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)
Lunch break: 12:45 – 14:15
14:15 – 15:45 LETHALITY
Panel chair: Chantal Lavallée (Royal Military College Saint-Jean)
Deadly Drones: Trends in Drone Weaponry in Mediterranean Conflicts
Dan Gettinger, Centre for the Study of the Drone, Bard College
Turkey's self-made armed drone program, and a new age of impunity
Umar Farooq, independent journalist, Istanbul
Discussant: Diego Badell Sánchez, IBEI
16:00 – 17:30 Keynote address session
Panel chair: Andrea Silkoset, PRIO
Settler-colonialism and the imperatives of surveillance
Ahmad Sa'di, Ben Gurion University
Discussant: Bruno Oliveira Martins, PRIO and project leader of TRANSAD
17:30 – End of the workshop
