{"id":4097,"date":"2019-09-10T14:18:15","date_gmt":"2019-09-10T14:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/utsyn.komhit.com\/the-relevance-of-governance-and-social-capital-to-understanding-hybrid-threats\/"},"modified":"2026-11-02T16:39:01","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T16:39:01","slug":"the-relevance-of-governance-and-social-capital-to-understanding-hybrid-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/utsyn2.komhit.com\/en\/index.php\/2019\/09\/10\/the-relevance-of-governance-and-social-capital-to-understanding-hybrid-threats\/","title":{"rendered":"The relevance of governance and social capital to understanding hybrid threats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong> It is important for us to ask not only why and how actors conduct hybrid threats, but also to ask what about the target enables them to do so. What are the vulnerabilities in society that makes us potentially susceptible to hybrid threats?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Christian Kongstad \u2014 an erstwhile graduate student at the Centre for Peace Studies (CPS) at UiT The Arctic University of Norway \u2014 elucidated the relevance of governance and social capital to a society\u2019s vulnerability and susceptibility to hybrid threats in his dissertation. By using the concepts of hybrid threats, together with governance and social capital in the aspect of democracy, his thesis analysed the conflict in Crimea and Ukraine since 2014. The analytical framework from the Multinational Capability Development Campaign (MCDC) report was used as the main framework for understanding hybrid threats.<\/p>\n<p>The thesis concluded with a set of questions as a guideline for how to assess a society\u2019s governance and social capital situation. The questions may give an idea of the situation, which can then be used as a baseline assessment, contributing to the MCDC-report\u2019s analytical framework to expose a society\u2019s possible vulnerabilities and subsequent susceptibility towards hybrid threats.<\/p>\n<p>Kongstad&#8217;s research can be found here: <em><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/hybrid\/files\/2019\/06\/christian_research.pdf\">The relevance of governance and social capital to understanding hybrid threats<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is important for us to ask not only why and how actors conduct hybrid threats, but also to ask what about the target enables them to do so. What are the vulnerabilities in society that makes us potentially susceptible to hybrid threats?\u00a0 Christian Kongstad \u2014 an erstwhile graduate student at the Centre for Peace [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2761,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-resilient-civilians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/utsyn2.komhit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4097?lang=en"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/utsyn2.komhit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?lang=en"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/utsyn2.komhit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post?lang=en"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utsyn2.komhit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2?lang=en"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utsyn2.komhit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?lang=en&post=4097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/utsyn2.komhit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4097\/revisions?lang=en"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/utsyn2.komhit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?lang=en&parent=4097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utsyn2.komhit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?lang=en&post=4097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utsyn2.komhit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?lang=en&post=4097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}