Canterbury Workshop

8-10 September 2001
Security and the Environment in the Mediterranean
in the 20th Century -

Conceptualising Security and Environmental Conflicts

Session 1: Saturday, 8 September 2001, 9.30-11.00

NATO's Mediterranean Security Dialogue Revisited: 1995-2001

Chairman: Antonio Marquina, University Complutense, Madrid, Spain

Paper 1

Nicola de Santis, Liaison Officer Italy, Officer for Southern and Eastern Mediterranean Countries, NATO Headquarters, Brussels: NATO's Agenda and the Mediterranean Security Dialogue

Gen. Kadry Said, Al Ahram Centre, Cairo, Egypt: A Southern perspective and assessment of NATO's Mediterranean Security Dialogue

General Félix Sanz, Director General for Policy, Spanish Ministry of Defense, Madrid, Spain: A European Perspective and Assessment of NATO's Mediterranean Security Dialogue

Discussant: Mohammed El-Sayed Selim, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt

Session 2: Saturday, 8 September 2001, 11.45-13.15

Conceptualising Security in the Post Cold War Period in the North

Chairman: Paul Rogers, Bradford School of Peace Studies

Hans Günter Brauch, Free University of Berlin and AFES-PRESS, Germany: Worldviews and Mindsets of Decision-makers: Hobbesian vs. Grotian or American vs. European Perspectives – Relevance for Security Policy in the Mediterranean

John Grin, Mehdi Parvizi Amineh: University of Amsterdam, Department of Political Science: New Regionalism as a Grotian approach to security, development and democracy in the Mediterranean region

Bjørn Møller, Copenhagen Peace Research Institute, COPRI, Denmark: Levels of Security Analysis: Global, Regional, National, Societal and Human Security With two Case Studies on the Balkans and the Mediterranean

Discussant: Béchir Chourou, Tunis University, Tunisia

Session 3: Saturday, 8 September 2001, 14.30-16.00

Conceptualising Security in the Post Cold War Period in the North

Chairman: Kamel Abu Jaber, former Foreign Minister of Jordan

Czeslaw Mesjasz, Cracow Academy of Economy and Institute of Management, Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland: Economic and Financial Globalisation and its Consequences for Security in the Beginning of the 21st Century

Peter H. Liotta, US Naval War College, Providence, R.I., USA: Military Security Concepts Revisited and Application to the Mediterranean

Antonio Marquina, University Complutense, Madrid, Spain: Political Security Concepts Revisited: Security Partnership and Co-operative Security: Application to the Mediterranean

Discussant: Mohammed Selim, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt

Session 4: Saturday, 8 September 2001, 16.30-18.15

Conceptualising Security in the Post Cold War Period and Non-military Security Challenges in the Euro-Mediterranean Region – Southern Perceptions

Chairman: Bjørn Møller, COPRI, Copenhagen

Béchir Chourou, University of Tunis, Tunisia: Conceptualisations of Security in the Maghreb Countries

Mohammed El-Sayed Selim, Cairo University, Egypt: Conceptualising Security in Mediterranean Arab Countries

Kamel Abu Jaber, President of the Institute of Diplomacy, Amman, Jordan: Arab Perceptions of Non-military Security Challenges in the Mediterranean

Mustafa Aydin, Ankara University, Turkey: Conceptualising of Security in Turkey

Discussant: Antonio Marquina, CUM, Madrid

Session 5: Sunday, 9 September 2001, 9.30-11.00

Security Challenges in the Euro-Mediterranean Region

Chairman: Antonio Marquina, CUM, Madrid

Ephraim Kam, Tel Aviv University, Jaffee Center, Israel: Conceptualising Security in Israel

Robin Twite (Director, IPCRI Environmental Program, Jerusalem, Israel): The Environmental Impact of the Conflict on the Territory of Israel and the Palestinian Authority: 2000-2001

Hiroshi Oka: Analysis of the Multilateral Environmental Talks in the Middle East Peace Process

Discussant: John Grin, Amsterdam University, Netherlands

Session 6: Sunday, 9 September 2001, 11.30-13.00

Conceptualising Environmental Security for the Mediterranean Region

Chairman: E. Kam, Tel Aviv University, Jaffee Center, Israel

Stacy D. VanDeveer, University of New Hampshire, Durham, US: Environmental Security: Conceptualisation and Empirical Results and Relevance for the Mediterranean

Colin Kahl, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, US: The Political Ecology of Violence: Lessons for the Mediterranean

Nils Petter Gleditsch, University of Trondheim and Peace Research Institute Oslo, PRIO: Environment Security and Environmental Conflicts

Discussant: Paul Rogers, Bradford School of Peace Studies

Session 7: Sunday, 9 September 2001, 14.45-16.00

Population Growth, Urbanisation and Migration in the Mediterranean

Chairman: Peter H. Liotta, US Naval War College

Gen. Kadry Said, Al Ahram Centre, Cairo, Egypt: Landmines from external powers: World War II (El Alamein)

Catherine Withol de Wenden, CERI, France: Migration as an international and a domestic security issue?

Discussant: Hans Günter Brauch, Free University of Berlin – AFES-PRESS

Session 8: Sunday, 9 September 2001, 16.30-18.00

Desertification in the MENA Region as Causes of Conflicts?

Water Scarcity in the MENA Region as Causes of Conflicts?

Chairman: John Grin, Amsterdam University, Netherlands

T. Mendizabal, CSIC, Madrid, J. Puig de Fabregas, Almerío, Spain: Desertification in Southern Europe and in the Maghreb

Tony Allan, SOAS, London, UK: Water Scarcity in the Middle East and in the Mediterranean in the 20th Century

Discussants: Béchir Chourou, Tunis University, Tunisia
Gen. Kadri Said, Al Ahram Centre, Egypt

Session 9: Monday, 10 September 2001, 9.30-11.30

Food Shortages, Urbanisation and Pollution as Causes of Conflicts?

Chairman: Hans Günter Brauch, Free University of Berlin – AFES-PRESS

Béchir Chourou, Tunis University, Tunisia: Implications of Declining Food Supplies: Food Security vs. Market Economy

Djilali Sari, University of Algiers, Algeria: Increasing Urbanisation in the MENA region: Cause of Conflicts?

Discussant: Czeslaw Mesjasz, Cracow Academy of Economy and Institute of Management, Jagiellonian University, Poland