Human Security in South-East Asia
Human Security in South East Asia
May 28 & 29, 2010
Vienna, Austria
While traditional military conflicts have declined since the end of the Cold War, new non-traditional menaces, such as poverty, migration, people smuggling and environmental degradation, have increased. Major events like the 1997 Asia Financial Crisis, the SARS epidemic in 2003 and the tsunami in 2004 demonstrated that individuals felt and experienced a much deeper impact from these incidents than the state. The United Nations’ 1994 Human Development Report defines human security as both “freedom from want” and “freedom from fear”. The UN focuses on seven threatening areas: economic, food, health, environment, personal, community and political security. Yet, human security remains a vague inter-disciplinary concept. A concept that is consequently still contested, both theoretically and politically. The upcoming 5th Viennese Conference on South-East Studies invites submissions from various disciplines to dissect the main question of ‘how the broad spectrum of human security challenges has been conceptually and politically addressed on the transnational, national and/or local level?’ Panel 1 examines how human security is defined in South-East Asia. Panel 2 looks at the concrete implementation of human security in South-East Asia. Panel 3 offers researchers from all disciplines the opportunity to present analyses that are relevant to South-East Asia.
Please submit your paper proposals (max. two A4 pages) and your CV via e-mail (publics@seas.at) by March 8, 2010.
The staff will send out notifications to all submitters of abstracts not later than March 31, 2010. Participants can give their presentations either in German or English. Presentations should not exceed 20 minutes and leave another 10 minutes for discussions in the plenum.
Successful conference contributions can also be submitted to the Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies (ASEAS) for publication.
For further information, please visit SEAS and ASEAS at: www.seas.at or email to: publics@seas.at