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New on this website 4 February 2013 The following Websites have been updated AFES-PRESS Books New Book in Turkish
Sustainability Transition and Sustainability Peace Project (STSP) Video Podcasts of the first STSP Workshop in Mexico are online Selected Papers presented at IPRA Conference in Japan in November 2012 From Rio 1 to Rio 2: Climate Change Implementation Gap Book Launches of
Hexagon Series on Human and Environmental Security and Peace Scheffran, Jürgen; Brzoska, Michael; Brauch, Hans Günter; Link, Peter Michael; Schilling, Janpeter (Eds.): Climate Change, Human Security and Violent Conflict: Challenges for Societal Stability. Hexagon Series on Human and Environmental Security and Peace, vol. 8 (Heidelberg – Dordrecht – London – New York: Springer-Verlag, 2012).
SpringerBriefs in Vol. 1: Mely Caballero-Anthony, Youngho Chang and Nur Azha Putra (Eds.) [Singapore]: Energy and Non-Traditional Security (NTS) in Asia. SpringerBriefs in Environment, Security, Development and Peace [ESDP] vol. 1 (Heidelberg – Dordrecht – London – New York: Springer-Verlag, 2012). Vol. 2: Mely Caballero-Anthony, Youngho Chang and Nur Azha Putra (Eds.) [Singapore]: Rethinking Energy Security in Asia: A Non-Traditional View of Human Security. SpringerBriefs in Environment, Security, Development and Peace, vol. 2 (Heidelberg – Dordrecht – London – New York: Springer-Verlag, 2012). Vol. 3: Philip Jan Schäfer [Germany]: Human and Water Security in Israel and Jordan. SpringerBriefs in Environment, Security, Development and Peace, vol. 3 (Heidelberg – Dordrecht – London – New York: Springer-Verlag, 2012).
Springer Briefs on Pioneer in Science and Practice (PSP) Vol. 1: Arthur H. Westing [USA]: Arthur H. Westing: Pioneer on the Environmental Impact of War. SpringerBriefs on Pioneers in Science and Practice No. 1– presented by Hans Günter Brauch (Heidelberg – New York – Dordrecht – London: Springer-Verlag, 2013). Vol. 2: Rodolfo Stavenhagen [Mexico]: Pioneer on Indigenous Rights. Springer Briefs in Pioneers in Science and Practice No. 2– presented by Ursula Oswald Spring (Heidelberg – Dordrecht – London – New York: Springer-Verlag, 2013). Vol. 3: Rodolfo Stavenhagen [Mexico]: The Emergence of Indigenous Peoples. Springer Briefs on Pioneers in Science and Practice, vol. 3, Subseries with Texts and Protocols, vol. 1 (Heidelberg – New York – Dordrecht – London: Springer-Verlag, 2013). Vol. 4: Rodolfo Stavenhagen [Mexico]: Peasants, Culture and Indigenous Peoples: Critical Issues. Springer Briefs on Pioneers in Science and Practice, vol. 4, Subseries with Texts and Protocols, vol. 2 (Heidelberg – New York – Dordrecht – London: Springer-Verlag, 2013). Vol.6: Dieter Senghaas [Germany]: Pioneer of Peace and Development Research. SpringerBriefs on Pioneers in Science and Practice No. 6 – presented by Michael Zürn (Heidelberg – New York – Dordrecht – London: Springer-Verlag, 2013).
AFES-PRESS Presentation at NATO Conference in Moscow, 30 October 2012 Lecture and Book Launch in Singapore, 30 November 2012 Teaching at UKM in Malaysia, 3-7 December 2012 Teaching at Chulalongkorn University in Thailand, 11-14 December 2012
Teaching of Hans Günter Brauch Teaching at Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, 23-25 October 2012 Teaching at the European Peace University [EPU], Teaching at UKM in Malaysia, 3-7 December 2012 Teaching at Chulalongkorn University in Thailand, 11-14 December 2012
6 February 2012
Neuerscheinung über AFES-PRESS erhältlich (März 2012)
2. December 2011
French-German Excellence Prize for Charlène Cabot (Montpellier), SciencePo (Paris) and Thesis adviser was PD Dr. Hans Günter Brauch, Otto Suhr Institute for Political Science, Free University of Berlin and Master of Public Administration (MPA), SciencePo (Paris). Press Release 377/2011 Free University of Berlin Report of the Informationsdienst Wissenschaft (21 November 2011) See report on the website of French-German University Press folder on the 2011 prize recipients
28 November 2011
The New Challenges to Global Security MATO's Response Monday, 28 November 2011 About 200 experts from NATO and partner countries gathered in Brussels on 28 November 2011 for the first conference on “New Challenges to Global Security” organised by NATO’s new Emerging Security Challenges Division. Talking Notes by Dr. Hans Günter Brauch Links to reports on the websites of the organizers: and
For details see websites on Book Launches
10. October 2011 Teaching at EPU, Schlaining, Austria Teching at the Free University of Berlin, WS 2011-2012 Presentations by Prof. Dr. Ursula Oswald Spring Presentations by PD Dr. Hans Günter Brauch
27 September 2011 German Embassy in Mexico City [in Spanish] Book Launch of the Volume Presentations by Dra. Estela Morales, Coordinadora de Humanidades [Vice Rector], UNAM
19. May 2011 The following pages were updated Mexico Book Launch of
Mexico City, 28 April, 11:00 Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico Speakers/Ponentes Prof. Dr. Ignacio Carriquiriborde, UNAM, Facultad de Ciencias Politícas Moderatora: Prof. Dr. Bodek Stavenhagen
26 April 2011 The following pages were updated Presentation of Dr. Hans Günter Brauch New York, 14 April 2011
Photo (from left to right): President of the 65th Session of the Downloadpage of Hans Günter Brauch
4 April 2011 The following pages were updated Book Launch of this volume Hans Günter Brauch, Úrsula Oswald Spring, Czeslaw Mesjasz, John Grin, Patricia Kameri-Mbote, Béchir Chourou, Pal Dunay, Jörn Birkmann (Eds.): Coping with Global Environmental Change, Disasters and Security – Threats, Challenges, Vulnerabilities and Risks. Hexagon Series on Human and Environmental Security and Peace, vol. 5 (Berlin – Heidelberg – New York: Springer-Verlag, 2011) 23 March New York, USA, United Nations Headquarter 16 March Montreal, Canada, 52nd ISA Convention 14 March Ottawa, Canada, British High Commission Downloadseite of Hans Günter Brauch (February - March 2011) Downloadseite ofn Úrsula Oswald Spring (February – March 2011)
7. February 2011 The following pages have been updated
Downloadseite of Hans Günter Brauch (January 2011) Downloadseite of Úrsula Oswald Spring (January 2011)
20 December 2010 Downloadseite of Hans Günter Brauch (May-December 2010) Downloadseite of Ursula Oswald Spring (May-December 2010) Hexagon Book Series (Overview) Hexagon Series – Greek Edition Hexagon Series – Volume IV – Book Launches Hexagon Series – Volume V– On this Book Teaching by AFES-PRESS Board Members Lehre von Mitgliedern des AFES-PRESS Vorstands (German) 29 April 2010 New free publication by Hans Günter Brauch European
Institute of the Mediterranean,
Barcelona, April 2010
Announcement IPRA Conference
International
Peace Research Association Speakers include:
6 April 2010 Book Launch in PARIS
Thursday, 1 April 2010, 15.00 – 16.30 Room 711 A/B, 117 Blvd Saint Germain Moderator: Chris Brooks, Associate Director for Community Relations Speakers: PD Dr. Hans Günter Brauch, FU Berlin, UNU-EHS, Bonn; AFES-PRESS, Mosbach Lectures in the The Master of Public Affairs (MPA) Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh and Hitomi Kubo PD Dr. Hans Günter Brauch, FU Berlin – AFES-PRESS, Mosbach Wednesday, 31 March 2010, 10.15 – 12.15 and 12.30-14.30 Prof. Dr. Ursula Oswald Spring, UNAM-CRIM, Cuernavaca, Mor., Mexico Friday, 2 April 2010, 10.15 – 12.15 and 12.30-14.30
Brussels , 24 March 2010
The UNITED NATIONS ASSOCIATION BELGIUM/FLANDERS Wednesday 24 March 2010, 12:30 - 15.00 UNRIC, the UN Regional Information Centre, rue de la Loi 155, 1000 Brussels, 7th floor Book Launch
24 March 2010, 17.00-18.30 Lecture by Hans Günter Brauch Water and Security Royal High Institute for Defence
12 March 2010 New books to be published in the Hexagon Book Series in 2010 To be published in 2010
To be published in 2011
NEW ORLEANS , LA, USA , FEBRUARY 17-20, 2010 Panel, Wednesday, 17 February WA 5, 8.30-10.15 Peace and Security in the Anthropocene Chair Hans Günter Brauch, Free University of Berlin and AFES-PRESS 8.30-8.35: Chair Hans Günter Brauch, AFES-PRESS:. Introduction and presentation of the speakers Impacts of Desertification, Land Degradation and Drought (DLDD) on Security Policy in the Anthropocene Assessing and Preventing Climate Conflicts and Security Risks The Bottom Billion and Climate Change Towards Sustainable Peace in the Anthropocene 9.35-9.50: Discussant: Ronnie Lipschutz, University of California, Los Angeles The four powerpoint presentations may be viewed and downloaded here. The academic papers are available for ISA members only at the ISA paper archives website at: by going to this website of Allacademic. Book Launches of the English Volume
11:00-13:00 Uhr mit Referaten, Laudatio, Diskussion und Apero
Climate Change, Social Stress and Violent Conflict RECONCEPTUALIZAR LA SEGURIDAD EN EL SIGLO XXI 25 November 2009 in the Senate of the Republic of Mexico by the Commission on Rural Development presided by Senator Heladio Ramírez López.14 October, Mexico City, UNAM
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Cuernavaca, Morelos, México
Sala Manuel M. Ponce, Jardín Borda, Cuernavaca, Morelos
Reconceptualizar la seguridad en el siglo XXI
Úrsula Oswald Spring y Hans Günter Brauch (Editores )
Monday, 13 August 2009
TV Podcasts on the Book Launch in New York
on 11 May 2009 are now online.
The United Nations University – Office New York ( UNU-ONY)
has now uploaded seven TV Podcasts on the Launch of this Volume:
Facing Global Environmental Change:
Environmental, Human, Energy, Food, Health and Water Security Concepts
and two related Interviews with
Ursula Oswald Spring and Hans Günter Brauch
2 New Book Presentations of this volume
in July 2009 in Stuttgart and Munich
Hans Günter Brauch, Úrsula Oswald Spring, John Grin, Czeslaw Mesjasz, Patricia Kameri-Mbote, Navnita Chadha Behera, Béchir Chourou, Heinz Krummenacher (Eds.): Facing Global Environmental Change: Environmental, Human, Energy, Food, Health and Water Security Concepts. Hexagon Series on Human and Environmental Security and Peace, vol. 4 ( Berlin – Heidelberg – New York: Springer-Verlag, 2009). |
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Klimawandel, Wassermangel und Wüstenbildung:
Eine große Herausforderung für die
Umwelt-, menschliche und Gender Sicherheit
Mittwoch, den 29. Juli 2009, 19:00 Uhr
80333 München, Karlstraße 50 (Rückgebäude )
c/o IG-Initiativgruppe, Tram 20 u. 21
Stuttgart , 24 July 2009 [in Germany only]
Klimawandel, Wassermangel und Wüstenbildung:
Bedrohung für die menschliche Sicherheit
Strom aus der Sahara: Eine klimaverträgliche Antwort?
Freitag, den 24. Juli 2009, um 18.00 Uhr
Stuttgarter Rathaus, Kleiner Sitzungssaal
(23 June 2009)
DESERTEC Project: Solar Energy from the Sahara
These publications may here be ordered from AFES-PRESS
| 1994: | Hans Günter Brauch: “ Partnership Building Measures for Conflict Prevention in the Western Mediterranean“, in: (Co-Ed.): Confidence Building and Partnership in the Western Mediterranean. Tasks for Preventive Diplomacy and Conflict Avoidance, AFES-PRESS Report No. 51 (Mosbach: AFES-PRESS, 1994) : 257-324. |
| 1997: | Hans Günter Brauch: Energy Policy in North Africa (1950-2050): From Hydrocarbon to Renewables, UNISCI Papers 11-12 (Madrid: UNISCI/Marcial Pons, 1997). |
| 1997: | Hans Günter Brauch: „ Energieoptionen für eine langfristige Nord-Süd-Energiepartnerschaft im westlichen Mittelmeer“, in : Hans Günter Brauch (Hrsg.): Energiepolitik - Technische Entwicklung, politische Strategien, Handlungskonzepte zu erneuerbaren Energien und zur rationellen Energienutzung (Berlin-Heidelberg: Springer, 1997): 487-506. |
| 1997: | Hans Günter Brauch: „Energy Partnership in the Mediterranean : The Medium and Long - Term Potential of Renewable Energy“, in : Antonio Marquina (Ed.) :Les Elites et le Processus de Changement Dans la Méditerranée - Elites and Change in the Mediterranean, Collection Strademed (Madrid, 1997): 173-213. |
| 1999: | Hans Günter Brauch: „Zum Import erneuerbarer Energien nach Deutschland. Vorschläge an politische Entscheidungsträger“, in: Gerhard Knies; Gregor Czisch; Hans Günter Brauch (Eds.): Regenerativer Strom für Europa durch Fernübertragung elektrischer Energie (Mosbach: AFES-PRESS, 1999): 149-162. |
| 2000: | Hans Günter Brauch: „Sustainable EU Energy Policy Between Market Liberalisation and Environmental Obligations. Implications for the Euro-Mediterranean Dialogue“, in : Antonio Marquina, Hans Günter Brauch (Eds.) : Political Stability and Energy Cooperation in the Mediterranean, Collection Strademed 10 (Mosbach: AFES-PRESS, 2000) : 71-150. |
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| 2006: | Hans Günter Brauch: Destabilisierungs- und Konfliktpotential Prognostizierter Umweltveränderungen in der Region Südeuropa und Nordafrika bis 2020/2050 . AFES-PRESS Studie für den Wissenschaftlichen Beirat der Bundesregierung Globale Umweltveränderungen (WBGU). Background Contract Study for WBGU (Mosbach, 14 June). Download at. |
| 2007: | Hans Günter Brauch : “ Projected Climate Change Impacts for Mediterranean Security by 2020 and 2050 Vulnerability of Mediterranean Urban Centres – Energy Vision of Montpellier: Mediterranean Renewable Partnership ”, 6-8 December 2007, Montpellier, France. For download in English and French |
English Presentation
by Hans Günter Brauch on 19 June 2009
at the Castle Schlaining, Austria
at a workshop organized by the University of Vienna on:
Security in Peace Research and Security Studies
English Presentation by Hans Günter Brauch on 17 June 2009
at a UNCCD meeting in the Old City Hall of Bonn on:
Securitizing the ground, grounding security
Launch of this study on 14 May 2009
at the UN Headquarters in New York
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Book Launches
| Hans Günter Brauch, Úrsula Oswald Spring, John Grin, Czeslaw Mesjasz, Patricia Kameri-Mbote, Navnita Chadha Behera, Béchir Chourou, Heinz Krummenacher (Eds.): Facing Global Environmental Change: Environmental, Human, Energy, Food, Health and Water Security Concepts. Hexagon Series on Human and Environmental Security and Peace, vol. 4 ( Berlin – Heidelberg – New York: Springer-Verlag, 2009). | |
22 April 2009 at the German Foreign Ministry in Berlin (in German)
29 April 2009 in the Bundestag in Bonn (in English)
11 May 2009 at the UN Headquarters in New York (in English)
English Presentations by
Ursula Oswald Spring and Hans Günter Brauch
at scientific conferences in Bonn on 29 April 2009, in Copenhagen on 12 March 2009 and, New York, 15-18 February 2009
English and Spanish Presentations by Ursula Oswald Spring in Mexico
(17 October 2008)
India
Kota , Rajasthan, India, 14-15 October 2008
Reconceptualising Security in the 21st Century :
The South Asian Context
Presentation by Úrsula Oswald Spring:
Richness of Philosophical, Cultural and Religious Diversity
Why Reconceptualizing of Security Matters for the South?
Presentation by Hans Günter Brauch:
Securitzing Global Environmental Change
The Environmental Dimension of Human Security
(13 October 2008)
Presentation by Úrsula Oswald Spring:
Gender and Regional Frames for the Processes of
Environmental Induced Migration
Presentation by Hans Günter Brauch:
Climate Change, Desertification and Environmentally-Induced Migration
in the Western Mediterranean : Possible Scenarios for Southern Europe
and North Africa by 2020 and 2050
(8 October 2008)
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Third Preparatory Meeting of the
2008 EuroMeSCo Annual Conference
Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt , 6 & 7 October 2008
Strengthening Euro-Mediterranean Relations.
Emerging Dynamics, Challenges and their Potential Implications for the Mashreq
Presentation by Hans Günter Brauch:
Soft Security Risks in the Euro-Mediterranean Area:
What Justification for Increased Securitization?
(1 October 2008)
Impacting health, the environment and global governance
The challenges of taking a security approach
Paris , 26 September 2008
Presentation by Hans Günter Brauch
Environment and Security : A Historic Link
(28 July 2008)
The download pages of Prof. Dr. Ursula Oswald Spring
and Dr. Hans Günter Brauch have been updated.
The documentation of speeches of the book launch event
in Ljubljana , Slovenia (25 July) is now online.
(17 July 2008)
The documentation of speeches of the book launch events in Brussels (14 July)
and in Leuven (16 July 2008) are now online
(14 July 2008)
The documentation of all speeches and photos of the
book launch events in Berlin (23 June 2008)
and in Geneva (26 June 2008) are now online.
(20 May 2008)
Announcement of Book Launch Events
Brussels , 14 July 2008, 16.30-18.00 (followed by a reception)
Co-organized by the Institute for Environmental Security (IES), EGMONT - Royal Society for International Relations , and the EastWest Institute and hosted by The Centre
Thursday, 26 June 2008, 13.30-16.30 Book launch at the 12 th EADI General Conference
Berlin, 23 June 2008, 18.00-20.00 (followed by a reception)
Book Launch in the German Foreign Ministry in the visitor’s centre [in German] (im Lichthof, Zugang über Haupteingang Werderscher Markt 1)
Im Anschluss findet ein Empfang im Lichthof statt
(2 May 2008)
Paper presentations and book launches in Mexico (UNAM and El Colegio de Mexico in Mexico City; Cidhem and UNAM/CRIM in Cuernavaca, Morelos) and in the United States (San Francisco, Berkeley, Washington, DC, D.C. and New York. NY) between January and April 2008 by
Hans Günter Brauch, Ursula Oswald Spring and Czeslaw Mesjasz
(21 January 2008)
Book announcements and
Book presentations and press conferences
on volume III of the Hexagon Series have started :
Hans Günter Brauch, Úrsula Oswald Spring, Czeslaw Mesjasz, John Grin, Pal Dunay, Navnita Chadha Behera, Béchir Chourou, Patricia Kameri-Mbote, P.H. Liotta (Eds.) :
Globalization and Environmental Challenges:
Reconceptualizing Security in the 21 st Century
(21 December 2007)
Book Aid Project for University Libraries in the Third World
was launched for the book:
Hans Günter Brauch, Úrsula Oswald Spring, Czeslaw Mesjasz, John Grin, Pal Dunay, Navnita Chadha Behera, Béchir Chourou, Patricia Kameri-Mbote, P.H. Liotta (Eds.) :
Globalization and Environmental Challenges:
Reconceptualizing Security in the 21 st Century
A first donation was received from a local bank in Germany
Sparkasse Neckartal Odenwald in Mosbach)
and the first book gifts were shipped to Africa and Asia
(7 December 2007)
Friday, 7 December 2007
6-8 December 2007, Montpellier, France
Projected Climate Change Impacts for Mediterranean Security
by 2020 and 2050
Vulnerability of Mediterranean Urban Centres –
Energy Vision of Montpellier: Mediterranean Renewable Partnership
(powerpoint presentation in English and in French)
(scientific paper: English and in French)
(3 December 2007)
Thursday, 29 November – Saturday, 1 December 2007
Mesa: Estructuración de Planes de Negocios
Acapulco, Mexico
El Papel de las Mujeres en el Encadenamiento Productivo
(Scientific paper; powerpoint presentation short version and long version)
(23 November 2007 )
Tuesday, 20 November
Globalización, Cambio Climático, Conflictos y Seguridad
Wednesday, 21 November
Agua, Desertifiación e Inundaciones: Vulnerabilidad y Retos Ambientales
(19 November 2007)
Presentation on Climate Change
at the
International Women Leaders Global Security Summit
15-17 November 2007
Jumeirah Essex House, New York City
(16 November 2007)
Volume 3 of the Hexagon Book Series is published
on 6 December 2007 by Springer Verlag
Hexagon Series on Human, Environmental Security and Peace (HESP)
Hexagon Series on Human and Environmental Security and Peace, vol. 3
(Berlin – Heidelberg – New York: Springer-Verlag, 2008)
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November 2007
New Graduate Seminar by Hans Guenter Brauch at the Free Univesity of Berlin (in English)
Mo 18.00-20.00 26 November .2007 22/UG 2 (first session, distribution of topics) Wednesday - Friday 09.00-20.00 20.-22.02.2008 22/E2 ()
Green Wars?
Environment between Conflict and Cooperation in the MENA Region
Beirut , Lebanon , 2-3 November 2007
Climate Change Scenarios and Possible Impacts for the MENA Region:
Hazards, Migration and Conflicts?
New Publications by Ursula Oswald Spring in Mexico in Spanish
(31.8.2007 )
Presentation of this Book
Hillel Shuval, Israel; Hassan Dweik, Palestine (Eds.): Water Resources in the Middle East: Israel-Palestinian Water Issues – from Conflict to Cooperation. ( Berlin – Heidelberg – New York –: Springer-Verlag, 2007).
Press Conference, 31 August 2007 (in German)
Book Presentation in Jerusalem, 20 June 2007 (in English)
(12 July 2007)
Global Change and Desertification:
Scenarios and Social and Ecological Impact
Keynote speech at the meeting of the
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Spanish Environment Ministry and the Fundacion Biodiversidad on:
Global Change and Desertification
(5 July 2007)
Opening Lecture by
Global Environmental Change and Security for the People
Ipogea and ITKNET ( International Traditional Knowledge Network Conference)
Climate Change, Desertification,
Environmental Conflicts and Migrations
An International Network of Experts on
Traditional Knowledge for a Common Strategy
28-20 June 2007, Florence, Italy
Sala Giunta Regione Toscana, Via Cavour 19
(26 June 2007)
Lectures by
Ursula Oswald Spring
Human, Gender and Environmental Security: A HUGE Concept
12 June 2007, Schlaining, Austria
(25 June 2007)
Climate Change and Reconceptualization of Security
12 June 2007, Schlaining, Austria
(14 June 2007)
World in Transition – Climate Change as a Security Risk
German Advisory Council on Global Change
Earthscan , London (will be published in spring 2008)
Berlin, 2007
Commissioned Expert's Studies
For this Report, the Council has commissioned expert's studies, which are available for download (in German only):
Hans Günter Brauch
Regional expert study: Destablising and Conflict Potential of projected Environmental Changes in the Region of Southern Europe and North Africa
In German: Regionalexpertise: Destabilisierungs- und Konfliktpotential prognostizierter Umweltveränderungen in der Region Südeuropa und Nordafrika bis 2020/2050.
(10 June 2007)
Lectures by
Ursula Oswald Spring during 2006 and 2007
(16 April 2007 )
On 17 April 2007, during the British presidency
the United Nations Security Council will discuss for the first time on:
“Climate Change as a Security Issue”
Policy Memorandum by Scientists regarding the
UN Security Council’s
first discussion on Climate Change
Climate Change and Human Security
Ben Wisner, Maureen Fordham, Ilan Kelman, Barbara Rose Johnston, David Simon, Allan Lavell, Hans Günter Brauch, Ursula Oswald Spring, Gustavo Wilches-Chaux, Marcus Moench, and Daniel Weiner
Affiliations (for identification purposes only), in order: (1) Oberlin College, USA & DESTIN/LSE & BUHRC, UCL, London, UK; (2) Disaster & Development Centre, Northumbria University, UK; (3) NCAR, Boulder, CO, USA; (4) Center for Political Ecology, Santa Cruz, CA, USA; (5) IHDP-UGEC & Department of Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, UK; (6) General Secretariat FLACSO, San Jose, Costa Rica; (7) Free University of Berlin & AFES-Press [Working Group on Peace Research & European Security Press], Mosbach, Germany; (8) Autonomous University of Mexico, UNAM/CRIM, Cuernavaca, Mexico; (9) La Red, Bogota, Colombia; (10) Institute for Social & Ecological Transition, Boulder, CO, USA; (11) Department of Geography, University of West Virginia. All views expressed here are solely those of the authors and not of their institutions.
(10 April 2007 )
The AFES-PRESS Study
on Climate Change and Conflicts
for the German Federal Ministry for the Environment,
Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety
Is now available for download here
Hans Günter Brauch: "Climate Change, Environmental Stress and Conflict - AFES-PRESS Report for the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety", in: Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (Ed.): Climate Change and Conflict. Can climate change impacts increase conflict potentials? What is the relevance of this issue for the international process on climate change? ( Berlin: Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, 2002): 9-112.
(21 March 2007)
Obituary of the AFES-PRESS Board
Prof. Dr. Georg Zundel (15.5.1931-11.3.2007)
Founder and Sponsor of the
Berghof Foundation on Conflict Research
Speech on the occasion of the 75 th Birthday of
Prof. Dr. Georg Zundel, 30 September 2006
(20.3.2007)
Vol. 2 of the Hexagon Book Series
will be published on 23 May 2007
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Vol 2 | Hillel Shuval, Israel; Hassan Dweik, Palestine (Eds.): Water Resources in the Middle East: Israel-Palestinian Water Issues – from Conflict to Cooperation. ( Berlin – Heidelberg – New York – Hong Kong – London – Milan – Paris – Tokyo: Springer-Verlag, 2007). Order form |
(11 December 2006)
PD Dr. Hans Günter Brauch
Free University of Berlin, UNU-EHS, Fellow, Bonn, AFES-PRESS
Impact of Global Environmental Change
on National, Environmental and Human Security in the Mediterranean Region by 2020 and 2050
presentation at the
WORKSHOP: NATO Collaborative Linkage Grant
“Combating Desertification with Traditional Knowledge – A Contribution to Euro-Mediterranean Security”
Rome (Italy), 5-6 December, 2006
PD Dr. Hans Günter Brauch
Free University of Berlin, UNU-EHS, Fellow, Bonn, AFES-PRESS
Panel Discussion on the Role of Genebanks in Promoting the Use of Agricultural Biodiversity to Combat Desertification
Desert Research Centre, Cairo, Egypt
27 November 2006, 10:00-13:00
Training Course on
The Role of Genebanks in Promoting the Use of Agricultural Biodiversity to Combat Desertification
from 27 November – 7 December 2006
Organised by:
Desert Research Centre (DRC), Cairo, Egypt
in cooperation with Biodiversity International, Rome
in Cairo, and El Arish, Sinai, Egypt
27 November – 7 December 2006
Sponsored by
the Egyptian Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation
and the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
In the office of the President of the Desert Research Center, Cairo
Prof. Dr. Ismail Abd El-Galil Hussein, President, DRC, Cairo, Egypt;
Prof. Dr. Ursula Oswald Spring, UNAM-CRIM, Cuernavaca, Mexico;
PD Dr. Hans Günter Brauch, Free University of Berlin, UNU-EHS, Fellow, Bonn, AFES-PRESS, Mosbach, Germany
PD Dr. Hans Günter Brauch
Free University of Berlin, UNU-EHS, Fellow, Bonn, AFES-PRESS
Desertification and Climate Change:
Challenges, Impacts and Policy Responses in the 21st Century for
North African, Sahelian, Horn and Nile Basin Countries
Prof. Dr. Ursula Oswald Spring
UNU-EHS Munich Re Chair (2005-2006)
Hazard Prone Regions due to
Desertification and New Security Concepts Combining
Top-down and bottom-up Response Strategies
An Experiment in Food Sovereignty
Learning from Indigenous Knowledge in Mexico
Introducing the Cactus as a new Source of Food to Egypt
Prof. Oswald in the Sinai desert near Rafah, Egypt
(6 November 2006)
Prof. Dr. Ursula Oswald Spring
UNU-EHS Munich Re Chair (2005-2006)
El papel de la mujer en la megalópolis y los suburbios marginales. Respuestas políticas: ordenamiento territorial y cooperación para el desarrollo
International Symposium Desertification and Migration
Almeria , Spain, 25-27 October 2006
Opening Session on 25 October 2006 with
Her Majesty the Queen of Spain,
the Minister of Environment of Spain,
Amb. Diallo, Sectretary General of UNCCD, Bonn
the Rector of the University of Almeria
(3 November 2006)
PD Dr. Hans Günter Brauch
Free University of Berlin, UNU-EHS, Fellow, Bonn, AFES-PRESS
From Almeria I to Almeria II : Achievements and Policy Tasks
International Symposium Desertification and Migration
Almeria , Spain , 25-27 October 2006
Policy Conclusions (English) and (Spanish)
wil be added later
Website of Organisers (English) and (Spanish)
(28
August 2006)
UNU-EHS
and Munich Re Foundation
Summer Academy on Social Vulnerability
23-29 July 2006, Castle Hohenkammer, Germany
Photo by Oliver Jung © MunichRe Foundation
Keynote
Addresses by
Prof. Dr. Ursula Oswald Spring
UNU-EHS Munich Re Chair (2005-2006)
Gender,
Vulnerability and Resilience Building in
Extreme Hydro-meteorological Events
For
a shorter version of this keynote speech please press here:
PD
Dr. Hans Günter Brauch
UNU-EHS, Fellow,
Member of the College of Associated Scientists and Advisors (CASA)
The
Conceptual Security Context:
Human, Environmental and Water Security
Do Water-related Social Vulnerabilities Create Human Security
Threats, Challenges Vulnerabilities and Risks?
For
a shorter version of this keynote speech please press here:
(23 June 2006)
Two
presentations by Hans Günter Brauch in
Bangkok, Thailand, 30 May 2006 and 5 June 2006
Human
Security Network
International Symposium On Building and Synergizing Partnership for Global
Human Security and Development, Bangkok, Thailand, 30-31 May 2006
Towards
a Fourth Pillar of Human Security:
"Freedom from Hazard Impacts"
Addressing Global Environmental Change, Environmental Stress
and Natural Hazards
Luncheon
Lecture by Hans Günter Brauch
Environment and Human Security
Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, 5 June 2006
Joint Poster with Ursula Oswald Spring at:
Third
International Conference on Early Warning (EWC III):
From Concept to Action, Bonn, 27-29 March 2006
Mainstreaming Early Warning
of Hazards and Conflics
Seven Presentations in Mexiko 6-21 March 2006
Fourth World Water Forum in Mexico City, México, 21 March 2006
UNU-EHS Workshop, Yautepec, Morelos, México, 13-15 March 2006
Survival Dilemma, Hazards, and Human Security
4 Public lectures at the invitation of El Colegio de Tlaxcala
Tlaxcala, State Tlaxcala, México, 8-9 March 2006
Meeting with researchers of El Colegio de Tlaxcala
Multilateral European Security Perspective: The European Security Strategy of the EU of 2003
Public Lecture at
Centro Regional de Investigaciones Multidisciplinarias
de la UNAM (CRIM), Cuernavaca, Morelos, México, 6 March 2006:
Global
Environmental Change and Extreme Outcomes: Implications for Human and
Environmental Security
(1 March 2006)
6-17
February 2007,
NATO Advanced Study Institute,
Arrava Institute for Environmental Studies, Israel
Joint
lectures Úrsula Oswald Spring
and Hans Günter Brauch
7 February 2006, Kibbuz Ketura, Israel
(1 February 2006)
27-29
January 2006, Iserlohn
Ver-Wüstungen und Tsunamis
Politik und Praxis für einen nachhaltigen Umgang mit unseren Lebensgrundlagen
Zwei Vorträge von Úrsula Oswald Spring und Hans Günter Brauch
(January 2006)
Personal
Website by Prof. Dr. Ùrsula Oswald
Spring
(18 May 2005)
10 May 2005, Bonn, Bundestag Conference Centre
Chairman:
Amb. Mohamed M. El Ghaouth,
Representative of Mauritania at the United Nations, New York
Moderator PD Dr. Hans Günter Brauch,
Free University of Berlin & AFES-PRESS
Hans
Günter Brauch:
From Almeria, Valencia to
Bonn:
Introduction of the theme and the panellists
Ursula
Oswald und Hans Günter Brauch:
Desertification and Migration:
Case Study on Mexico
(1 March 2005)
Hans
Günter Brauch: Reconceptualising Security in the 21st Century
Facing the Challenges of Global Environmental Change and Globalisation
Opening remarks to Seminar, 21.-23.2.2005
Hans
Günter Brauch: Reconceptualising Security: Relevance for GMOSS?,
GMOSS Meeting Consolidated Security Concept
Goldegg / Salzburg February 17.2. - 18.2.2005
New Members of the AFES-PRESS Scientific Advisory Board
(1 November 2004)
Final
Programme of the Hague Workshop with photos
and links to all available papers
Book
Reviews: Security and Environment in the Mediterranean
(26 October 2004)
Seminar
at the Free University Berlin,
Otto-Suhr-Institute for Political Science on the topic:
Reconceptualising Security in the 21st Century
Facing the Challenges of Global Environmental Change and Globalisation
This seminar will be held in English.
(22 October 2004)
New Website of Mara Tignino (Italy), GMOSS Junior Team, Geneva
New
Website of Fabien Nathan (France), GMOSS Junior Team, Geneva
(19 October 2004)
Presentation
and scientific paper
by Hans Günter Brauch at the
Second International Israeli Palestinian Conference:
Water for Life in the Middle East
10th - 14th October 2004, Antalya, Turkey on:
Impact of Global Warming and Non-Conventional Water Resources: Potential
of solar thermal desalination to defuse water as a conflict issue A conceptual
contribution to conflict resolution and long-term conflict avoidance
New
Website of Annabelle Houdret, GMOSS Junior Team, FU Berlin
(23 August 2004)
Third
AFES-PRESS GMOSS Workshop in The Hague, 8 -11 September 2004
(Programme
and Workshop Papers)
Six
new presentations by Hans Günter Brauch (September 2004)
(30 June 2004)
Presentations during the Second AFES-PRESS GMOSS Workshop
At
the 20th IPRA Conference in Sopron, Hungary, 5.-9.7.2004
(6 June 2004)
Our new AFES-PRESS Virtual Library is now online.
Please
visit us here!
(1 June 2004)
Preliminary
Programme for the Third AFES-PRESS GMOSS Workshop
in The Hague, 9.-11.9.2004
(7 May 2004)
Presentation
by H.G. Brauch in Den Haag, 10 May 2004
at The Hague Conference on Environment, Security and
Sustainable Development
(19 April 2004)
GMOSS-Activities
of AFES-PRESS (WP 21.000)
GMOSS Kickoff Meeting in Brüssel
AFES-PRESS
GMOSS Panels in Montreal
Interview
of Washington Profile with H.G. Brauch (English)
Four
lectures by H.G. Brauch in Washington, 27.-31.3.2004
Two
lectures by H.G. Brauch in Montreal, 19.3.2004
Two
lectures by H.G. Brauch in Amman, 18.12.2004
(10 February 2004)
Presentation
by H.G. Brauch on 28 January 2004
at the Seminar
GlobalEurope 2020 at the
Institute
of International Relations Clingendael,
The Hague, Netherlands on:
Nonmilitary environmental security challenges
for
Europe and North America from the MENA region
(15 December 2003)
Invited Lecture by H.G. Brauch at the NATO-Workshop
Security issues of desertification in the Mediterranean region
in Valencia, Spanien, 2.-5.12.2003 on this subject:
Desertification
- A New Security Challenge for the Mediterranean?
Policy
agenda for recognising and coping with fatal outcomes of
global environmental change and potentially violent societal consequences
(3. November 2003)
Three English powerpoint presentations by H.G. Brauch
(22
September 2003)
on the German language page:
Seminar
at the Free University of Berlin in the Winter Semester 2003/2004
on: Global Environmental Change and Fatal Outcomes
(1 September 2003)
Major International Bookstores and Libraries and Union Book Catalogues
"AFES-PRESS
Book of the Year"
Security and Environment in the Mediterranean Conceptualising Security
and Environmental Conflicts
(1162 pages, large size, 2 columns, hardcover)
In
August 2003 this book has also been published by
Springer-Verlag
New York Inc.
(20 June 2003)
New Download section (with English texts)
New Section: "Texte" (with German texts
only)
AFES-PRESS - The Hague Workshop, 9-11 September
2004
(more information on this page)
(for call of paper by the organisers)
(26 May 2003)
Announcement
of a Major New Publication:
"AFES-PRESS Book of the Year"
In June 2003 this book will be published by Springer-Verlag:
Security and Environment in the Mediterranean Conceptualising Security and Environmental Conflicts
(1162 pages, large size, 2 columns, hardcover
AFES-PRESS Call for Papers:
Section
31: Reconceptualising
Security in an Era of Globalisation
AFES-PRESS on other Websites
Hans Günter Brauch: Keynote address at Eurisy Workshop in Matera (Italy) on: Security: Services and Benefits from GMES, with support by Space Agency, Telespazio, the Council of Europe, EC/Joint Research Centre and the European Space Agency [http://www.eurisy.asso.fr] (28 January 2003)
Hans Günter Brauch: Climate Change, Environmental Stress and Conflicts (100 pp.)in: Report published by German Environment MinistryHans Günter Brauch: Contribution for a Conference of the ProVention Consortium at the World Bank on:Urbanization and Natural Disasters in the Mediterranean (5.12.2002)
Hans Günter Brauch: Contribution for the GMES Forum in Brussels at a workshop by the EU Commission and ESA (15-17 July 2002) Environment and Security Challenges in the Mediterranean until 2050 - Potential Contributions of GMES to Reducing Natural Disasters, Environmental Migration and Avoiding Conflicts
New on this website (17. January 2003)
Prof. Dr. Dr. Dieter S. Lutz (1949-2003)
Orbituary of the AFES-PRESS Board
19
July 2002
1)
Publications - New: Results of an UBA Project
with GERTEC:
UBA Texts: Environment and Energy in the Czech Republic (6 volumes)
New on this website, September 2001
With the update you find on this website for the first time a comprehensive collection of: 'Mediterranean Region Links'. This collection covers more than 7000 links to organisations and documents focusing on the following issue areas:
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