Open seminar on Human Security

18.2.2016

The Arctic Centre at the University of Lapland will organize open research seminar “Towards Arctic Security: Northern Aspects of Human Security” on Thursday 25th February 2016 at 10. The seminar will open the concept of human security for example from the dimensions of climate change and cyber security.

The seminar is organized by the HuSArctic research project, hosted by the Northern Institute for Environmental and Minority Law at the Arctic Centre. The main objective of the project, funded by the Academy of Finland, is to address human the challenges of the Arctic population from a different angle, namely from the human security perspective as it is conceptualized today.

The seminar is open for all and it is free of charge. The seminar will be held in Thule meeting room in the Arktikum building, Pohjoisranta 4, Rovaniemi.

More information:
Dr. Kamrul Hossain
Tel. +358 40 484 4281
kamrul.hossain(at)ulapland.fi

Anna Petrétei
Tel. +358 40 484 4427
anna.petretei(at)gmail.com

HuSArctic-projekti: www.husarctic.org


Programme:

10.00 – 10.05 Kamrul Hossain: Welcoming words and Introduction

10.05 – 10.35 Alexander Sergunin: The Concept of Human Security in Russia's Arctic Studies: Contending Views

10.35 – 11.05 Sandra Cassotta: Climate Change and Human Security in a Multilevel and Multidisciplinary Dimension: The Case of the Arctic Environmental Ocean

11.05 – 11.35 Jingzheng Ren: Integrated Analysis, Assessment and Modeling of the Potential Attitudes-Aspirations, Possible Policies-Strategies, and Political Dynamics of Some Countries towards Arctic Security and Climate Change: An Initial Framework

11.35 – 12.05 Mirva Salminen: Enablement besides Constraints - Cyber Security in the North


LaY/AC/JW