Taking Stock of Trust

A conference organised by SCARR and CARR

Change and Uncertainty • • Trust as an increasing useful method of managing uncertainties – ‘The ongoing process of global interdependency will only increase the demand for trust as an essential condition for co operation’ – Misztal

Growing demands placed on trust vs. shrinking supply

Handling Trust • The ‘Audit Society’ • The new public managerialism • • The ‘precautionary principle’ and the ‘culture of fear’

Trust may be damaged by policies intended to enhance it

The new risk management

Scepticism and Trust • • Increasing value of accurate mistrust • Critical citizens • Sceptical individuals • Active trust, engagement and dialogic democracy

Appropriate trust may depend on accurate mistrust