Vienna Centre for Societal Security is a private non-profit research and
consulting organisation, focussing on the analysis of a wide array of
security issues in a broader societal context. Locating security problems
and proposed solutions emerging at local, national and European levels in
wider social and historical contexts VICESSE operates at the interface
between science, technology, law and policy. Conceiving of security as a
societal concept VICESSE strives to integrate and combine different
analytical perspectives into a complex framework providing the basis for
rigorous empirical and theoretical academic studies and pragmatic policy
solutions alike. The VICESSE mission statement is to bring security back
into society. This entails a dual task: linking contemporary security
solutions to the everyday world of citizens and giving members of society a
critical voice in security research.