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This is a list of conferences and events scheduled to discuss human security and its interlinkages with a broad range of issues. Some of these events are organized by the United Nations and/or its specialized agencies, others are hosted by independent non-governmental organizations, research foundations or academic institutions.
Please click on the table to the right to select a month, or scroll down the calendar.
May 2008
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Date and Venue |
Organization |
Themes and Participants |
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Religion and Human Security Conference: Negotiating the Power of Religious Non-State Actors Strategies
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May 8
- 9, 2008 Seattle,
USA |
Organized by the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion |
Scholars and academics will discuss how religious non-state actors can often compete with states in their impact on human welfare, and the various effects, benign or detrimental, of this emerging practice in the context of humanitarian action. |
| Website: http://www.sssrweb.org/news.cfm?newsid=82 |
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Date and Venue |
Organization |
Themes and Participants |
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Fourth Meeting of the Friends of Human Security
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May 15
, 2008
New York,
USA
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Co-organized by the Government of Japan, the Government of Mexico and the Human Security Unit, OCHA. |
Member States, plan to discuss developments since the Third Meeting held in November 2007, as well as consider possible areas for future cooperation, including responding to climate change, achieving the MDGs, addressing peacebuilding, and supporting the protection of children and human rights education. |
| Title of Event |
Date and Venue |
Organization |
Themes and Participants |
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Pathways to International Security: A Multidisciplinary Approach
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May 17-18, 2008
Brussels,
Belgium
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Organized by University of Kent – Brussels School of International Studies |
The 2008 Annual Conference of the Brussels School of International Studies will tackle international security challenges by fostering a multidisciplinary debate among scholars and specialists of security issues. Among others, the conference will focus on the EU and international security, as well as issues ranging from underdevelopment, migration and the environment and the impacts of these issues on international security. |
| Website: http://www.kent.ac.uk/brussels/conf2008.html |
| Title of Event |
Date and Venue |
Organization |
Themes and Participants |
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Informal Thematic Debate on Human Security at the United Nations General Assembly
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May 22
, 2008
New York ,
USA
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Organized by the President of the United Nations General Assembly. |
As a follow up to the 2005 World Summit Outcome, Permanent Representatives and delegates from UN Member States, as well as UN officials, will convene to discuss human security in the General Assembly. |
| Title of Event |
Date and Venue |
Organization |
Themes and Participants |
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Challenges in Protecting Civilians - Women Targeted or Affected by Armed Conflict: What Role for Military Peacekeepers?
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May 27
-30, 2008
Steynig,
United Kingdom
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Organized by Wilton Park Conferences. |
Participants will discuss contemporary challenges in conflict resolution, including effective mechanisms for protection of civilians. Representatives from UN-DPKO and the UN at large will also discuss different means to build the capacity of peacekeeping troops in order to better protect women and children from sexual and gender based violence in situations of armed conflict. |
| Website: http://www.wiltonpark.org.uk/themes/governance/conference.aspx?confref=WP914 |
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Date and Venue |
Organization |
Themes and Participants |
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Tokyo International Conference on Africa Development – IV (TICAD IV)
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May 28
- 30, 2008 Yokohama,
Japan |
Organized by Japan, the UN, UNDP and the World Bank. |
Priorities at TICAD IV will include boosting economic growth in Africa, addressing environmental issues including climate change, and ensuring human security in Africa. The event will include high-level discussions on assistance towards achieving the MDGs and on the challenge of consolidating peace and supporting democratization. |
| Title of Event |
Date and Venue |
Organization |
Themes and Participants |
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Tenth Ministerial Meeting of the Human Security Network
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May 29
-30, 2008
Athens,
Greece
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Organized by the Government of Greece, Chair of the Human Security Network. |
Members of the Human Security Network, as well as UN officials and civil society representative will convene to raise political and public awareness on the human security implications of climate change, with special emphasis on its impact on the vulnerable population groups of children, women and persons on the move. |
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June - July 2008
| Title of Event |
Date and Venue |
Organization |
Themes and Participants |
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Liberal Peace: Value-Based External Models and Local Alternatives in Peacebuilding
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June 16
-17, 2008
Paris,
France
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Organized by CERI Program for Peace and Human Security. |
Expert practitioners, academics and policy specialists will gather to discuss the liberal peace model, its implications and its local alternatives. Participants will notably examine processes of democratization and economic liberalization in post-conflict situations. |
| Website: http://www.peacecenter.sciences-po.fr/ |
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Date and Venue |
Organization |
Themes and Participants |
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Addressing the root causes of human insecurity
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July 18-23, 2008 Caux,
Switzerland |
Organized by Foundation Caux - Initiatives of Change. |
Various practitioners and representatives of civil society will gather to discuss the root causes of human insecurity including social breakdown, war, the destruction of cultures and the challenges of globalization without equity and social justice. |
| Website: http://www.caux.ch/en/centre/programme/#program |
September 2008 and onwards
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Date and Venue |
Organization |
Themes and Participants |
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Women Peacemakers Conference - Crafting Human Security in an Insecure World
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September 24
-26, 2008
San Diego ,
USA
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Organized by the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice, University of San Diego. |
The conference will focus on gender based violence and abuse during peacemaking and peacekeeping missions. Delegates from civil society and the UN will focus on strategies to end cycles of conflict through gender inclusive peacebuilding, protecting civilians from violence, including sexual violence, and on enforcing justice over impunity at all stages of conflict transformation. |
| Website: http://peace.sandiego.edu/events/womenpeace/info.php |
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Date and Venue |
Organization |
Themes and Participants |
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Policing Post-Conflict Situations
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October 6
-9, 2008
Steynig, United Kingdom
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Organized by Wilton Park Conferences. |
Policy experts, practitioners and academics will discuss effective policing solutions for post-conflict situations as well as lessons learned from past experience. Participants will also study the role of the international community in post-conflict, the subsequent role of local security and judicial sectors, and the multiple challenges involved in coordinating post-conflict responses. |
| Website: http://www.wiltonpark.org.uk/themes/defence/conference.aspx?confref=WP930 |
| Title of Event |
Date and Venue |
Organization |
Themes and Participants |
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International Conference on Environment, Forced Migration and Social Vulnerability
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October 9-11 2008 Bonn,
Germany |
Organized by United Nations University - Institute for Environment and Human Security |
Academics, practitioners, and professionals from organizations that assist migrants and/or shape migration policy and humanitarian assistance will explore the environmental drivers of migration; migration as a coping strategy to reduce vulnerability; temporary and permanent migration; environmentally forced migration; assessment of migratory fluxes due to environmental drivers; and geographical distribution and trends in vulnerability and migration. |
| Website: http://www.ehs.unu.edu/article:381?menu=61 |
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Date and Venue |
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Themes and Participants |
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13th International Anti-Corruption Conference (IACC) – Global Transparency: fighting corruption for a sustainable future
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October 30 - November 2, 2008
Athens,
Greece
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Organized by the Government of Greece, the IACC Council and Transparency International. |
Human security, climate change, compromised livelihoods and energy security are some of the critical issues of sustainability which will define our common future. To tackle the unprecedented challenges they pose to our global and local socio-ecosystems, fighting corruption must form an integral part of the solutions proposed. Representatives of civil society, government and business from around will therefore debate to find effective solutions for tackling corruption and limit its pervasive impact on peoples’ lives, particularly on the most vulnerable. |
| Website: http://www.13iacc.org/ |
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