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Title: "Human Security in Crisis? Global Insecurity After the Financial Crisis and Fukushima"

Date and Time: January 26 (Sat), 2013, 9:30 – 18:00

Location: International Conference Room, Dialogue House, ICU, Mitaka, Tokyo http://www.icu.ac.jp/en/access.html

Sponsors: The Social Science Research Institute (SSRI,
ICU) and the Institute for Global Concern (IGC,Sophia
University)
http://subsite.icu.ac.jp/ssri/

Language: English and Japanese (simultaneous translation available)

Description:

Human Security represents a ‘widening’ and ‘deepening’
of security intended in part to cope with the problems caused by globalization. This is evident in the ground-breaking 1994 Human Development Report and the Final Report of the Commission on Human Security (CHS), headed by Amartya Sen and Sadako Ogata. Human Security, the authors of the Final report argued, needs to take into account ‘freedom from want, freedom from fear and freedom to take action on one's own behalf’. The objective of Human Security, it was argued, should be to protect ‘the vital core of all human lives in ways that enhance human freedoms and human fulfillment’ (CHS 2003). In recent years, this ‘vital core’ of human lives has been threatened by a combination of man-made and natural disasters which has led to increased human insecurity in both North and South. The global financial crisis has resulted in a ‘savage sorting of winners and losers’ (Sassen 2011) on a global scale. In Japan last year, a natural disaster of unprecedented proportions hit the Tohoku region sweeping away families, homes and entire communities. The devastation wrought by the tsunami was compounded in Fukushima by the meltdown of nuclear reactors which exposed the entire Kanto area to radiation. As in the financial crisis, many were uprooted from their homes and effectively ‘expelled’ from the region of their birth.
In the process, people became less secure and more resilient. Restoring a sense of ‘security’ among the Japanese population and wider global community remains an urgent task and will be the main focus of this international symposium.
Schedule:

PROGRAMME

Introductory remarks:

9:30-9:35 Professor Junko Hibiya (President, ICU)

9:35-9:40 Professor Wilhelm Vosse (Director, SSRI; Chair, Department of Politics and International
Relations)

9:40-10:00 Symposium Theme: Human Security in Crisis?
Dr. Giorgio Shani (Senior Associate Professor of Politics and International Relations, ICU; Convener of the Symposium)

10:00-11:30 Plenary Session I

Chair: Professor Koichi Nakano (Director, Institute for Global Concern, Sophia)

Keynote Presentation:
"Human Insecurity of the Terminal Phase of Westphalian
Capitalism: Human Security after the Lehman Shock, 9-11 and 3-11"
Professor Kinhide Mushakoji (Professor, Centre for Asia Pacific Partnership, Osaka University of Economics and Law; Ex-President, Japan Association Human Security)

Discussant: Professor Shin Chiba (Professor of Political Theory, ICU)

11:30-12:00 Short Film on Post-3.11 Relief Work by ICU Rotary Peace Fellows (Class IX)

12:00-13:00 Lunch

13:00-14:30 Plenary Session II

Chair: Professor Wilhelm Vosse (Director, SSRI, ICU)

Keynote Presentation:
"Expulsions: When Complexity Produces Elementary Brutalities"
Professor Saskia Sassen (Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology, Columbia University/ Centennial Visiting Professor, London School of Economics)

Discussant: Dr. Nana Osihi (Associate Professor of Sociology, Sophia University)

14:30-14:45 Break

14:45- 16:15 Plenary Session III

Chair: Professor Katsuhiko Mori (Professor of International Relations, ICU)

Keynote Presentation:
"Human Security and Abandonment"
Professor Mustapha Kamal Pasha (Sixth Century Professor of International Relations, University of Aberdeen, UK/ Vice-President, ISA)

Discussant: Dr. Giorgio Shani (ICU/SSRI Member)

16:15-16:30 Coffee Break

16:30- 18:00 Panel Discussion: Human Insecurity After Fukushima

Chair: Prof. Wilhelm Vosse (Director, SSRI)
Presentations:

1) The politics of hybrid-monster (Fukushima daiichi)
Professor Hiroyuki Tosa (Professor of International Relations, GSIC, Kobe)

2) Catastrophes and Contracts: Technologies of Gender
and Race in the Making of the Present
Dr. Anna Agathangelou (Associate Professor of International Relations, York University, Canada)

3) Human Security after Fukushima: Plus ça change…’
Dr. Christopher Hobson (Research Associate, United Nations University)

Discussant: Professor Kosuke Shimizu (Professor of International Relations, Ryukoku University)

18:00 Concluding Address:
Professor Koichi Nakano (Director, Institute of Global Concern, Sophia)

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Dr. Christopher Hobson
Research Associate
Institute for Sustainability and Peace
United Nations University

Email: hobson[at]unu.edu
Web: http://unu.edu/faculty/christopher-hobson