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The 2023 Annual Symposium focused on the issue of human security, including the intersections of human security with sustainable development, durable peace, and gender justice.
Human Security for All (HS4A) is the central theme of the CES 2023, held in Las Vegas, USA on 5-8 January 2023. Consumer Technology Association (CTA) promotes innovative solutions by businesses to address global human security issues.
What is human security? Human security starts with people and what it means for us to be safe and secure. It means security from harmful disruptions and calamities – in our homes, our jobs, our communities, and our environment. It’s also about our needs and hopes, our chance to develop our potential, especially those of …
Florence, ItalyDecember 15, 2022 The conference Climate Change and Heritage Forum will be held at Palazzo Vecchio-Salone dei Cinquecento, Florence, Italy on December 15, 2022. WAAS Vice President Donato Kiniger Passigli, representing the HS4A campaign will intervene. Also former UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova and Art for the World founder Adelina von Fürstenberg will participate in …
Statement delivered by Donato Kiniger-Passigli, Vice-President of WAAS Climate change, biodiversity, cultural heritage and human security People, planet, peace, prosperity, and partnerships. These are the concerns that bring us together and elevate the importance of why human security must be central to our discussions on climate change and the loss of biodiversity. Human security is …
HS4A at the CES 2023 by Garry Jacobs, President & CEO, World Academy of Art & Science; Executive Chairman of HS4A In most cases the global challenges are interrelated and interdependent, so they cannot be addressed effectively in a piecemeal fashion. For example, the COVID-19 pandemic represents a multidimensional threat to every aspect of people’s …
#2, Summer 2022 Michael MarienSenior Principal, The Security & Sustainability Guidemmarien@twcny.rr.com Reporting on the Sustainable Development Goals Advancing the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals requires evidence-based information and advocacy that is widely disseminated and cited. Transdisciplinary approaches are especially required, exemplified in reports from UN agencies, programs, and many NGOs and government agencies. These reports …
News about the Academy & its Fellows ACADEMY NEWS Election of Officers We are pleased to announce the results of the election of officers held during the WAAS Board of Trustees meeting in Bucharest on October 11, 2022 and effective from December 1, 2022. Garry Jacobs has been reelected as President and CEO for another …
Gerald Gutenschwager This slogan, coined by Shakespeare and popularized by Dumas in the Three Musketeers, illustrates how for thousands of years human beings (and some other species) discovered that through cooperation survival was much enhanced. Cooperation requires communication and many suggest that this was the stimulus for creating language. In any case cooperation still characterizes …
Wednesday, 23 November 2022 Opening Session – 10:00 AM (CET)Moderators: Zvonimir Šikić, president of Pugwash Croatia, and Ana Jerković, Vice-President of Pugwash Croatia and World Academy of Art and Science Associate Fellow Nuclear Security in Contemporary Conflicts – 10:40-11:40 AM (CET) 11:40 – 12:00 Short Break Hybrid Warfare and Future Defense – 12:00-13:00 AM (CET) …
IDEAS RELATED TO EDUCATION FOR HUMAN SECURITY SOURCE MATERIALS Global Leadership Challenges in Higher Education for Effective Multilateralism & Sustainable Human Security – Report on the 5th International Conference on Future Education, World Academy of Art & Science and World University Consortium, 2022. Approaching Human Security – by Jonathan Granoff, Cadmus Journal, November 2020. UNDP …
The Climate Change and Heritage Forum will be held at Palazzo Vecchio-Salone dei Cinquecento, Florence, Italy on December 15, 2022.
#3, Fall 2022 Michael MarienSenior Principal, The Security & Sustainability Guidemmarien@twcny.rr.com INTRODUCTION: Multiple Crises, Multiple Solutions The UNDP’s latest Human Development Report (3.1) provides thorough discussion of multiple crises and “the new uncertainty complex,” as well as fresh insights on how to deal with this “new normal.” The UN Secretary-General offers an extensive list of …