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Is Climate Security Human Security?

Join the GPPAC Improving Practice Working Group online roundtable on: Is Climate Security Human Security?

Guiding questions:

1. What aspects of climate change are relevant for your region?

2. Does climate change trigger any conflict in your local community/country/region?

3. Do you or your organisation cooperate with other CSOs in relation to these challenges?

Click here to join the online roundtable. No registration required.

Speakers:

• Professor Paula Banerjee: Paula is the Director of the Center on Gender and Forced Displacement at the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Thailand, and holds the IDRC Endowed Research Chair on Gender and Forced Displacement. A leading scholar on migration and gender in South and Southeast Asia, she earned her PhD from the University of Cincinnati and previously served as Vice Chancellor of Sanskrit College and University in Kolkata. She has published extensively on forced migration, statelessness, and gender, and is a former President of the International Association for the Study of Forced Migration.

• Asel Murzakulova, Senior Research Fellow at the University of Central Asia. Asel is a researcher and peacebuilding expert with more than 20 years of experience in conflict analysis and management in Central Asia. Asel managed projects on climate change and environmental stress, and the mapping of the conflicts' contextualisation in Central Asia.

• Tazhykan Shabdanova, President of the Foundation for Tolerance International (FTI). FTI is a non-governmental organisation based in Kyrgyzstan and the Regional Secretariat for GPPAC Central Asia. FTI is an implementing partner of CLIMPSE, a 30-month project co-funded by the European Commission and coordinated by GPPAC that aims to look at the bigger picture of climate, peace, and security and act upon it (https://www.gppac.net/what-we-do/climate-security-and-emerging-threats).

Facilitators and organisers: Lucy Nusseibeh, Improving Practice Working Group Chair, Jon Rudy and Tatjana Popovic, Improving Practice Working Group Co-Chairs.

Exploring Innovative Technology for Peacebuilding

Are you interested in learning more about the history of technology used to enhance conflict resolution and prevent deadly conflict?

Join a presentation by Bill Warters, PhD, retired from the Master of Arts in Dispute Resolution Program at Wayne State University and a facilitator with the Alternatives to Violence Project of Michigan, organised by GPPAC’s Peace Education Working Group.

Dr Warters will explore the evolution of Online Dispute Resolution (ODR) tools and techniques that aim to maintain neutrality, as well as other forms of info-activism, civic engagement practices, and peace tech initiatives. These approaches often include explicit value orientations that promote peace, mutual well-being, and the protection of those affected by conflict.

While not offering definitive predictions in a time of rapidly advancing Artificial Intelligence (AI), the session will also examine areas where AI may be used constructively in the pursuit of nonviolence and peace.

How to register? 

Click on this link here to register for the session. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email with details on how to join the meeting.