is a Reader at the Law School at Westminster University and part of CAMPACC – The Campaign Against Criminalising Communities.

The response to the Coronavirus pandemic by governments and public worldwide has shone a light on two very different approaches to the world: we have seen an exceptional outpouring of support, solidarity and mutual aid, and an extraordinary ratcheting up of surveillance and policing.

What awaits us in our post-pandemic reality will be very different from the one that existed before it, but exactly what that looks like will be determined by the struggle between these two very different visions.

As CAGE’s report Exploiting a Pandemic - The Security Industry's Race to Infiltrate Public Health has shown, the forces of the security and counter-terror industries have been working to find their place in this new context.

We need to provide a real alternative to the failed status quo and bring about an abrupt turn away from the overtly securitised and surveillance framework of the past two decades.

Join CAGE, alongside the Campaign Against Criminalising Communities (CAMPACC) and the Transnational Institute (TNI) for an interactive panel, on the road ahead towards achieving this goal.

SPEAKERS:

Radha D’Souza is a Reader at the Law School at Westminster University and part of CAMPACC – The Campaign Against Criminalising Communities formed in 2001, includes human rights activists, lawyers, journalists, and communities which find themselves targeted by so-called 'anti-terrorism' legislation. Radha has also practiced as a barrister in India and taught at the Universities of Auckland and Waikato in New Zealand.

Sita Balani is a lecturer in contemporary literature and culture at King's College London.Her research and teaching explores the relationship between imperialism and identity in contemporary Britain.

Dr Asim Qureshi is Research Director at CAGE, and author of two books: Rules of the Game: Detention, Deportation, Disappearance and A Virtue of Disobedience.