Research for a Safer Society - New knowledge for future challenges is MSB’s research strategy for the period 2014-2018. The strategy presents five areas of research that describe and explain MSB’s research focus. To these areas six specific perspectives are added. All research initiatives are geared from the start towards a desired effect. Using this strategy as a guide MSB designs, assesses and evaluates calls for proposals and research applications. It is our belief that this research strategy will contribute to the production of relevant, research-based and useful knowledge that all actors in the field of societal security will find useful - in our common work for a safer society.