Note No. 5716

                                                            1 March 2002

Note to Correspondents

‘NON-TRADITIONAL SECURITY IN ASIA:  GOVERNANCE, GLOBALIZATION, AND ENVIRONMENT’

TO BE ADDRESSED AT HEADQUARTERS SEMINAR, 15 MARCH

The United Nations University will host a seminar sponsored by the Ford Foundation on “Thinking Outside the Security Box -- Non-Traditional Security in Asia:  Governance, Globalization, and the Environment”.  The meeting is scheduled to take place from 9:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday, 15 March 2002, in Conference

Room 6, at United Nations Headquarters.

The seminar will focus in particular on understanding non-military and non-State centric security challenges.  The panel will examine the broadening concept of security, which addresses threats to individual security from disease, hunger, unsafe water, environmental contamination, crime and even terrorism.  The workshop will be divided into three sections:  the environment and security; globalization and socio-economic challenges to security; and the role of governance. 

Speakers will include the coordinators of the project, Ramesh Thakur, Vice Rector of the United Nations University, and Bradford Smith, Vice President, Peace and Social Justice Program, the Ford Foundation; Dipankar Banerjee, Executive Director, Regional Centre for Strategic Studies; Barry Desker, Director, Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies; Amitav Acharya, Deputy Director, Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies; Adil Najam, Assistant Professor, Department of International Relations, Boston University; Evelyn Goh, Assistant Professor, Institute of Defense and Strategic Studies; Guen Lee, Assistant Professor, School of International and Area Studies, Seoul University; Shaun Narine, Izaak Walton Killam Postdoctoral Fellow, Liu Centre for the Study of Global Issues, University of British Columbia; Shao Zhiqin, Senior Fellow, Shandong Academy of Social Sciences; Santishree Pandit, Director, International Centre, University of Pune, India; Tsuneo Akaha, Director, Center for East Asian Studies, Monterrey Institute of International Studies, California; P. Saravanamuttu, Director, Center for Policy Initiatives, Colombo, Sri Lanka; and Rizal Sukma, Director of Studies, Center for Strategic and International Relations, Jakarta.

For further information, please contact Ramon Ray at the United Nations University Office in New York, tel: 212-963-6387, fax: 212-371-9454,

Web site: www.unu.edu/ona.

Interested delegations, Secretariat staff, non-governmental organizations, and representatives from the media are invited to attend.  As seating is limited, kindly register at http://www.unu.edu/ona/unuseminarregistration.htm.