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Facing
Global Environmental Change
and Globalisation
Reconceptualising
Security in the 21st Century
This
section/workshop at the fifth Pan-European conference in The Hague,
9-11 September 2004 is part of a wider effort to reconceptualise
security by members of the AFES-PRESS board. This panel is a contribution
to an EU Network of Excellence on Security on: Global Monitoring
for Stability and Security (GMOSS) in the framework of the joint
EU/ESA initiative on Global Monitoring for Environment and Security
(GMES).
In
this context AFES-PRESS is in charge of a work package 21 000 on
Security Concepts and Threats that will be conducted in close
cooperation with FOI in Stockholm. The AFES-PRESS con-tribution
to the first stage of this work package is a major dialogue and
publication project on: Reconceptualising Security in the 21st
Century - between Globalisation and Global Environmental Change.
This book are contributes to the foruth pahse of environmental security
studies and to a new research programme on: Human and Environmental
Security and Peace (HESP).
During
2004 three major AFES-PRESS GMOSS workshops have been organised
at the:
a)
45th International Studies Association
in Montreal (Canada) 17-20 March 2004 where AFES-PRESS, FOI
and ODA participants in GMOSS appeared with colleagues from GECHS
(Global Environmental Change and Human Security), from the peace
research and the security studies communities in Canada and in
the United States;
b)
20th International Peace Research
Association in Sopron, Hungary, 5-9 July 2004 where two panels
were co-sponsored by IPRA sections on environment, security and
global political economy;
c)
Fifth Pan-European conference
in The Hague, 9-11 September 2004 where most papers will contribute
to a major book and others may lead to a special issue of a journal
in the frame-work of a GMOSS work package on Security Concepts
and Threats.
Many
contributions to these three workshops and additionally commissioned
papers will be included after peer-review in a volume to be co-edited
by: Hans Günter Brauch, John Grin, Czeslaw Mesjasz, Navnita
Chadha Behera, Béchir Chourou, Ursula Oswald Spring, P.H.
Liotta, Patricia Kameri-Mbote (Eds.): Facing Global Environmental
Change and Globalisation - Reconceptualising Security in the 21st
Century. This book will be published in 2006 in the Hexagon
Series on Human and Envi-ronmental Security and Peace by 2006 and
will be published by Springer, one of the two largest global scientific
publishers.
Funding
for the Conference
Funding
for this third AFES-PRESS workshop was made possible:
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for 14 speakers from NATO Mediterranean Dialogue partner countries
by the NATO Pu-blic Diplomacy Division, Information and Press
Office for Mediterranean Dialogue and Partner Countries;
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for seven AFES-PRESS GMOSS members by a EU-sponsored network of
Excellence on Security (GMOSS) Global Monitoring For Stability
and Security, contract SNE3-CT-2003-503699, funded by the Research
Directorate General of the European Commission;
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and for two speakers by the United Nations University in Tokyo;
Previous
Conferences and Publications
This
conference series builds directly on two previous conference projects
organised by AFES-PRESS with Mediterranean partners during the
- 3rd
Pan-European Conference on International Relations in September
1998 in Vienna (Aus-tria). This Vienna Workshop resulted in a
major book on:
Hans
Günter Brauch, Antonio Marquina, Abdelwahab Biad (Eds.)
in cooperation with Peter H. Liotta: Euro-Mediterranean Partnership
for the 21st Century (London: Macmillan und New York: St.
Martin's Press, June 2000).
- 4th
Pan-European Conference on International Relations from 8-10 September
2001 in Canter-bury (United Kingdom). The Canterbury Workshop
resulted in another major reference book on:
Hans
Günter Brauch P. H. Liotta, Antonio Marquina, Paul Rogers,
Mohammed Selim (Eds.): Security and Environment in the Mediterranean.
Conceptualising Security and Environmental Conflicts (Berlin-Heidelberg:
Springer 2003).
Goals of the Workshop in The Hague
This
workshop aims to achieve three scientific goals:
- a
global North-South scientific debate on reconceptualising
security since the global turn of 1990 that was instrumental
for a widening (from the classical political and military
dimension) to additional societal, economic and environmental
dimensions and a deepening - from the narrow focus on nation
states to other referent objects from the individual to the global
level -, as well as to a sectorialisation of security as
was developed by several international organisations, such as
energy (IEA), food (FAO), health (WHO), and water security (UNEP);
- an
interdisciplinary debate and learning on efforts to reconceptualise
security among philoso-phers, international lawyers, social and
political scientists, international relations, as well as security
studies and peace research specialists;
- a
dialogue between academia and policy makers in international
organisations, national gov-ernments and nongovernmental actors
on security concepts.
Ten
panels and evening sessions in The Hague will address these topics:
Opening
Session:
After
an opening speech by a Dutch government official, a first keynote
speech by a former minister of environment from Mexico and a former
president of the International Peace Research Association (IPRA)
will discuss: "Peace, environment and security: A gender
perspective from the Third World - IPRA 40 years after Groningen".
In a second keynote speech a major philosopher from the Arab world
will review "Security conceptualisation in Arab Philosophy
and Ethics and Muslim Perspectives".
Panel
1: Towards Reconceptualising Security
The
three co-chairmen of the section and AFES-PRESS Board members
outline their respective introductions towards a reconceptualisation
of security from a systemic perspective, from the van-tage point
of sociological and political theory and in the systematic context
of security with three other key concepts of the conceptual quartet:
peace, development and the environment.
Panel
2: Political and Energy Security in the MENA
A
NATO official will analyse NATO's role in the Mediterranean and
in the Middle East after the Istanbul Summit while two colleagues
from Egypt and Turkey will discuss a political and eco-nomic perspective
on energy security from the Arab world as well as the water and
food security relevance of the Eastern Anatolia project.
Panel
3: Human Security in the MENA
A
UNESCO official will review and assess the efforts to conceptualise
human security globally as part of UNESCO's mandate while three
colleagues from Jordan, Algeria and Tunisia with a focus on human
security concepts, debates and initiatives in the Arab world,
in the Maghreb specifically and on human rights and human security.
Open
Evening Session on Remote Sensing:
In
a special evening session, three remote sensing specialists will
offer three presentations on methods and techniques of remote
sensing to contribute to security research, on space-based re-mote
sensing applications for non-military security issues as well
as on the application of remote sensing for security decision-making
in the wider European Union.
During
the second day on 10 September, five sessions review the regional
and sectoral debates on environmental, human and water security
Panel
4: Environmental and Human Security in Israel and Palestine: Three
Perspectives
Two
colleagues from Israel and Palestine will discuss the different
conceptualisations of security in their re-spective communities
with a special focus on the emerging debate on environmental and
human security while a third colleague tries to interpret pertinent
environmental and human security issues in the holy land during
the unresolved conflict in terms of these concepts.
Panel
5: Environmental and Human Security Issues in Africa
In
the first part, two water and soil specialists from Morocco and
Algeria analyse desertification as a chal-lenge for water and
food security in the Maghreb as well as an environmental and human
security challenge in the Sahara. In the second part problems
of water and food security in the River Nile Basin will be re-viewed
focusing on the perspectives of governments and NGOS of upstream
countries and in the major downstream country Egypt. These four
papers will be discussed by the spokesman of the secretariat of
the UN Convention to Combat Desertification in Bonn.
Panel
6: Environmental and Human Security in Asia
Two
colleagues from India and Malaysia will analyse the debates on
environmental security in South Asia and on human security concepts
in Southeast Asia. A third colleague will review the South Asian
debate on peace and security as an alternative for-mulation in
the post-cold war era in the new millennium.
Panel
7: Environmental Security in Africa, Central Asia and Latin America
The
three papers focus on environmental security in practice with
regard to transboundary natural resource management in Africa,
review environmental security debates in Eastern Europe and Central
Asia, espe-cially in the OSCE/UNEP/UNDP context, and discuss the
debates on human security in Central America and the Caribbean.
Panel
8: Water and Security Linkages
In
this session three Ph.D. candidates in international law, political
science and sociology from France, Germany and Italy outline aspects
of their Ph.D. projects dealing with water scarcity in North Africa,
the protection of water in wartime and with hydro-meteorological
disasters in La Paz.
During
the third day on 11 September, two panels address a variety of theoretical
perspectives and empirical security problems
Panel
9: Nordic Theoretical Perspectives on Security
Three
papers from Finland, Sweden and Norway focus on the role and narratives
of military power and secu-ritisation in the hierarchical international
system, on 'functional' security in a wider Europe - towards a
framework for analysis of the European security and defence policy,
and on the the security-development nexus.
Panel
10: Alternative Security Futures and Terrorism
The
papers address alternative security futures, and analyse non-state
actors such as terrorist networks as referents of security policy
as well as counter-terrorist strategies in Southeast Asia: their
risks and lessons.
Planned
Publication
Abstracts
of all papers will be presented in July and August 2004 on this
website. Most papers and powerpoint presentations will be made available
on this website and on the CD Rom of the Standing Group on International
Relations (SGIR). The copyright for all early drafts remains
solely with the authors, and after acceptance as book chapters solely
with Springer Verlag. Based on papers presented at the workshops
in Montreal, Sopron and The Hague, as well as on additional commissioned
papers a major reference book is being pre-pared to be published
in the Hexagon Series on Human and Environmental Security and
Peace by Springer-Verlag in 2006 to be co-edited by
Hans
Günter Brauch, John Grin, Czeslaw Mesjasz, Navnita Chadha Behera,
Béchir Chourou, Ursula Oswald Spring, P. H. Liotta, Patricia
Kameri-Mbote (Eds.):
Facing
Global Environmental Change and Globalisation
Reconceptualising Security in the 21st Century
Hexagon
Series on Human and Environmental Security and Peace
(Berlin
- Heidelberg - New York - Hong Kong - London - Milan - Paris - Tokyo
Springer Verlag, 2006).
This
book will be organised into twelve major parts:
I.
Introduction: Outlining Theoretical Contexts: The Conceptual Quartet
of Peace, Security, Development and Environment and Reconceptualisations
since 1990
II. Cultural and Religious Contexts for Reconceptualisation
of Security
III. Spatial Context and Referents of Security Concepts
IV. Reconceptualisation of Security in Scientific Disciplines
since 1990
V. Reconceptualising the Dimensions of Security (Scientific
and Political Debates since 1990)
VI. Security Conceptualisation of Causes of Global Environmental
Change and of Fatal Effects
VII. Institutional Security Concepts Revisited for the 21st
Century
VIII. Sectoral Security Concepts Revisited for the 21st Century
IX. Global and Regional Environmental Security Revisited
X. Global and Regional Human Security Approaches and Debates
Revisited
XI. Reconceptualising Security for the 21st Century and the
Tool of Remote Sensing
XII. Conclusions: Reconceptualising Security for the 21st
Century in an Era of Globalisa-tion and Global Environmental Change
The
lead editor for the book is: PD
Dr. Hans Günter Brauch, Free University of Berlin
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