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Human Security Symposium
Interdisciplinary Symposium on Human Security:
“Building a
Human Security Network between the US and Japan”
March 29-30, 2012 Northeastern
Illinois University
Symposium Website
Since the publication of the 1994 Human Development Report
by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the concept of human
security has attracted considerable attention in civil society and in academic
and governmental circles. Characterized by a shift from the state to the
individual as the primary referent of security, human security sees both human
rights and sustainable development as central to national and international
security. On the premise that it is impossible to protect human freedom and
welfare exclusively through traditional concepts of military security, a
growing number of scholars and policymakers are addressing the importance of nontraditional
challenges such as poverty, environmental degradation, famine, and diseases.
Proponents of human security view it as “a condition of existence” that entails
the satisfaction of basic material needs and the preservation of human dignity
through meaningful participation in the life of the community, from the local
to the global.
The Department of Political Science at Northeastern Illinois
University, in cooperation with the Graduate Program on Human Security at the
University of Tokyo, is hosting a symposium entitled, Building a Human Security
Network between the US and Japan. The symposium will bring together a group of
leading scholars to present papers on a range of empirical and theoretical
issues related to human security. The scholars are from well-regarded human
security programs in the United States and Japan. Each participant in the
United States and Japan has a different regional or area focus: from Asia and
Africa to Europe and Latin America, and from the issues of globalization and
economic sustainability to refugees and peace building. This event is
being funded by a grant from the Japan Foundation. If you have any questions
about the symposium, please contact the Project Director, Sangmin Bae
(sbae@neiu.edu; 773-442-5662) or the Department Chair, Dr. David Leaman
(dleaman@neiu.edu; 773-442-5657).
Symposium highlights:
KEYNOTE SPEAKER:
Yokio Tasaku (Permanent Representative to the UN for Japan,
Special Advisor on Human Security to UN’s Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon)
PRESENTERS:
Makoto Maruyama (Chair of the Human Security Program,
University of Tokyo)
Hideaki Asahi (Former Japanese Ambassador to East Timor,
University of Tokyo)
Richard Matthew (Director of the Center for Unconventional
Security Affairs, Univ. of California, Irvine)
Matthew Marr (Department of Global and Sociocultural
Studies, Florida International University)
And many other distinguished scholars…
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