Online Conference on Global Risks and Security Challenges

The IPSA Research Committee on Security, Conflict, and Democratization (RC44) and the Research Committee on Climate Security and Planetary Politics (RC52) are jointly organizing a global online conference on Global Risks and Security Challenges on 10 March 2024, from 03:45 to 16:50 UTC (Universal Time).

Join us for a one-day online conference exploring the complex connections between global risks and contemporary security challenges. The conference will cover a wide range of topics, including violent conflicts, terrorism, nuclear threats, climate change, geopolitics, and insights from the Global South. The resurgence of populist and authoritarian political decision-making, the coronavirus crisis, floods in Bangladesh and Pakistan, wildfires in Chile and Australia, droughts in Somalia and Ethiopia, worldwide interlinked networks of terrorism and violence, and other challenges, such as those arising from the war in Ukraine and Gaza, all highlight the impact of these risks, disasters, and conflicts on the global community. Scientific research has increasingly shown that many risk factors are often compounded and interconnected, aggravating their consequences. This conference aims to identify some of the linkages between global risks and contemporary security challenges, and investigate their institutional and political contexts.

Program

Opening Keynotes (03:45 - 03.55 UTC) 

SESSION 1: Interconnected Global Risks: How we can prevent “Polycrisis”? (04:00-07:00 UTC)

Chair/Discussant: Fumihiko Yoshida (Nagasaki University, Japan)

Discussant: Radomir Compel (Nagasaki University,Japan),  Kazuko Hikawa (Osaka Jogakuin University, Japan)

Global Risks and Interconnected Security

Dan Smith, Director, SIPRI, Sweden

Co-creation of the Sustainable Future based on the Linkage of the Earth-human System

Makoto Taniguchi, Deputy Director, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Japan

SESSION 2: Facing Multiple Risks: Climate, AI, Finance, Energy Resources and New Roles for the Global South (10:00-11:30 UTC)

Chair/Discussant: Rosalie Hall, University of the Philippines - Visayas, Philippines

Discussant: Liliana Filip, Political Research Group, Romania

Women Leadership in Disaster Management: The Case of the Beirut Blast

Fatima Nasser, American University of Beirut, Lebanon

Emerging Challenges to Multilateral Institutionalism: A Case of the New Development Bank (NDB)

Bipul Biplav Mukherjee , University of Delhi, India

Digital Lending and Cybercrimes of China in India

Chandu Doddi, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

(In)security and Political Economy of Inter-State Relations in Chad Basin

Olatunde Isaac Olaniyi, University of Ibadan/ Nigerian Army College, Ilorin, Nigeria

Resource Based Conflict in Mozambique

Shaimaa Moheyeldin, Cairo University, Egypt

"Peace Reactor": Georgian Model of Nuclear Diplomacy - for a Secure World Order

Alexander Rusetsky, Caucasus International University, Georgia

SESSION 3: New Security Challenges and Responses in the Changing World Order (12:00-13:30 UTC)

Chair/Discussant: Hamdy Hassan, Zayed University, UAE

Discussant: Yasmin Calmet, Universidad Nacional Pedro Ruiz Gallo, Perú

SurRealism of the Liberal World Order and the Place of the EU in its Future

Peter Rada, Budapest Metropolitan University, Hungary; Laura Nyilas, University of Public Service, Hungary

Entropic Proliferation: Systemic Disorder within the Nuclear Polity and its Implications for Peripheral Armament

Mehrdad Khakparaghi, ELTE, Hungary

Brazil's Foreign Policy Responses to Geopolitical Conflicts: A Study of the Russia-Ukraine and Israel-Hamas Disputes from the Global South Perspective

Alexandre Coelho, Observa China, Brasil

Private Security Agencies

Martin Medina, Universidad de la Cuenca del Plata, Argentina

The Human Dimension of Conflict: Palestine Bloodbath in Retrospect

Sumit Mukerji, University of Kalyani, India

The Transition from Kantian to Machiavellian Morality in International Relations: Evidence from the Russo-Ukrainian and Israeli-Palestinian Conflicts

Aashriti Gautam, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science; Shyama Prasad Mukherjee College for Women - Delhi University, India

SESSION 4: Issues in the Upcoming World Order: Risks and Conflicts (14:00-15:30 UTC)

Chair/Discussant: Gladys Lechini, UNR (Universidad Nacional de Rosario), Argentina

Presentations:

Hegemonic Disputes between US and China

Javier Vadell, PUC Minas, Brazil

South America's International Insertion in a Context of Policrisis

Gisela Pereyra Doval, UNR, Argentina

2024 Elections in South Asia: Geopolitical Continuity or Change?

Maria Noel Dussort, UNR, Argentina

Is Africa the Continent of the Future?

Igor Castellano, UFSM, Brazil 

Closing Keynotes: 15:40 - 15:50 (UTC)