The International Institute for Peace (IIP) cordially invite you to two online discussions on the topic:
Current Situation and Security Challenges of South Asia in 21th Century
Role of International Community and Way Forward For Future Generations
Date: Wednesday, 7 April 2021
Time: 2:00 PM (CEST)
Venue: Zoom link will be sent to registered participants
Content:
South Asia is a region marked by numerous armed conflicts, border disputes and inter-state hostilities, including the nuclear rivalry between India and Pakistan. For decades, security scholarship and policy-making in the region has been dominated by a focus on these traditional or ‘hard’ security issues that are focused primarily on security of the state and its apparatus. Yet, South Asia is also home to the largest number of poor and hungry people in the world. It is also one of the most vulnerable regions in the world to the impacts of climate change, with hundreds of millions of South Asians facing serious threats to their ways of life, livelihoods, and physical survival. These challenges are unfolding within broader socio-economic and political contexts that are underpinned by high levels of inequalities and social injustice. How policymakers respond to these emerging security challenges in South Asia will determine the fate of a vast swathe of humanity that has implications beyond South Asia’s borders.
Session I: Current Situation and Security Challenges of South Asia in 21th
(2:00-3:00 PM)
Panelists:
HINA RABBANI KHAR, Pakistani politician & the former Foreign Minister of Pakistan
HANNES SWOBODA, former Member of the European Parliament and President of the IIP
ASHOK SWAIN, Academic and Professor of Peace and Conflict Research at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University, UNESCO Chair on International Water Cooperation
SYED MOHAMMAD ALI, Non-Resident Scholar at the Middle East Institute in Washington D.C & Lecturer at Georgetown, John Hopkins and George Washington universities
Moderation:
STEPHANIE FENKART, Director of the IIP
Introduction:
HANNES SWOBODA, President of the IIP and former MEP
Session II: Role of International Community and Way Forward For Future Generations
(3:00-4:00 PM)
Panelists:
MASOOD KHAN, Pakistani diplomat & the 27th President of Azad Kashmir
HEINZ GÄRTNER, Chair of the IIP Advisory Board and Lecturer at the Department of Political Science at the University of Vienna, Diplomatic Academy and at the Danube University
KISHORE MANDHYAN, Political Director and Deputy Director of Peacekeeping, Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs in the Cabinet of the Secretary General of the United Nations
SABA GUL KHATTAK, Member of the Planning Commission of Pakistan & former Executive Director at Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI)
Moderation:
AFSAR RATHOR, President of Lios-Soil Organization
Introduction:
HEINZ GÄRTNER, Chair of the IIP Advisory Board and Lecturer at the Department of Political Science at the University of Vienna, Diplomatic Academy and at the Danube University
The discussion will be held in English.
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