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What does it mean to be secure? Human security in our region
Summary
"Security" is a preoccupation of many Australians including policy makers. In responding to change and instability in some of our nearest neighbours, Australia has had to reconsider what security really means for the region and the people who live there.
Human security depends on freedom from fear and freedom from want. The traditional tools of 'statecraft' - defence and diplomacy - cannot achieve sustainable security without addressing the challenges of poverty, violence and environmental degradation?
But what does human security really mean? How does it relate to traditional concepts of security? Or to human development or human rights?
What about human trafficking and transnational crime? What about violence against women and the underrepresentation of women in government? Or the health threats of pandemic disease or poor access to water and sanitation?
Is human security the protection of individuals so that they become free from fear and want or is it the protection of individuals and communities so that they have the freedom to make their own decisions that impact on their well-being?
Is human security a territorial issue that should be the responsibility of individual states or does the international community have a role to play in protecting individuals under threat?
Join Sydney Ideas and One Just World to see how we can work towards human security in our region.
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York Theatre, Seymour Centre, The University of Sydney, Corner of City Rd and Cleveland St, Chippendale NSW 2006
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Wednesday, 5 May 2010 6:00 PM |
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'Human Security' One Just World Forum from e+b media on Vimeo.
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Speakers
Professor Alan Dupont Director, Centre for International Security Studies, University of Sydney
Professor Alan Dupont is the foundation Michael Hintze Chair of International Security, the Director of the Centre for International Security Studies at the University of Sydney and a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Lowy Institute for International Policy. Professor Dupont has worked on Australian defence and Asian security issues for more than thirty years as a strategist, diplomat, policy analyst and scholar. He was previously a Senior Fellow for International Security at the Lowy Institute and a Senior Fellow at the Australian National University's Strategic and Defence Studies Centre. During his time in government he served in the Departments of Defence and Foreign Affairs and Trade which included postings with the Australian embassies in Seoul and Jakarta, the latter as Counsellor.Professor Dupont has served as a Ministerial advisor to the Australian government and is a member of the Council of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute. |
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The Hon Bob McMullan MP. Parliamentary Secretary for International Development Assistance
In February 1988, Bob was sworn in as Senator for the Australian Capital Territory. In 1990 he was appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer and in 1991 became Manager of Government Business in the Senate. In 1993 Bob was appointed Minister for the Arts and Administrative Services and became a member of the Cabinet, the first time the Arts portfolio was represented in Cabinet. In January 1994, he was appointed Minister for Trade. Following a redistribution of Canberra’s House of Representative seats, Bob stood for the seat of Canberra in 1996, and was elected. Following a redistribution in 1998, Bob became Member for Fraser. Between 1996 and 2007 Bob held a number of Shadow Ministerial positions. After the election of the Rudd Government in November 2007 Bob was appointed as Parliamentary Secretary for International Development Assistance. |
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Conny Lenneberg Director of Policy and Programs, World Vision Australia
Conny Lenneberg has been working with World Vision Australia for the past seven years in various roles. In her capacity as the Director of Policy and Programs she oversees a team of 170 staff including International Programs, Advocacy, Policy and Program Effectiveness, Humanitarian Emergency Affairs, Australia Programs, and Innovative Partnerships teams. Prior to joining World Vision Conny was the Head of Strategic Planning with the Tsunami Response Team, based in Aceh, she consulted with communities around Banda Aceh and the west coast, to assess initial needs and to develop a five-year strategy for both immediate relief response and longer term social rehabilitation, economic recovery and infrastructure rehabilitation. She has also worked with Australian Volunteers International as the Senior Manager for Asia and with a Danish Agency in Afghanistan as the Rural Development Advisor. Conny also was a Board member of Oxfam/Community Aid Abroad, the Executive Committee member of the Australian Council for International Development and Co-chair of the Development Practice Advisory Committee.Conny has a Master of Arts, specialising in rural development, and a wide range of interests within the sector. |
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Professor Dennis Altman AM. Director, Institute for Human Security, La Trobe University
Dennis Altman is a writer and academic who first came to attention with the publication of his book Homosexual: Oppression & Liberation in 1972. This book, which has often been compared to Greer’s Female Eunuch and Singer’s Animal Liberation was the first serious analysis to emerge from the gay liberation movement, and was published in seven countries, with a readership which continues today. [In 2010 it was published in Japan]
Since then Altman has written eleven books, exploring sexuality, politics and their inter-relationship in Australia, the United States and now globally. These include The Homosexualization of America; AIDS and the New Puritanism; Rehearsals for Change, a novel (The Comfort of Men) and memoirs (Defying Gravity). His book, Global Sex (Chicago U.P, 2001), has been translated into five languages, including Spanish, Turkish and Korean. Most recently he published Gore Vidal’s America (Polity) and Fifty First State.
Altman is Professor of Politics and Director of the Institute for Human Security at LaTrobe University in Melbourne. |
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Moderator
Eleanor Hall - Presenter, The World Today, ABC Radio
Eleanor Hall has been with the ABC for 12 years, working both as a reporter and presenter in news and current affairs. Eleanor’s media experience spans the globe. She has a master’s degree in Journalism from New York’s ivy league Columbia University and spent two years working and studying in the USA as a recipient of the prestigious Harkness Fellowship. Eleanor has also worked on Lateline, as both a reporter and political correspondent. In 1998 she was the ABC’s Washington correspondent covering the Clinton impeachment. Her most recent ABC Television incarnation was as a roving reporter for Foreign Correspondent, reporting from a range of countries including India, the UK, Hungary, Thailand and the Philippines. In 2000 Eleanor joined ABC Radio's current affairs reporting team serving AM, PM and The World Today. After a short break for maternity leave, Eleanor returned to present AM over the Christmas 2000 period, which led her to take up her current position as presenter of The World Today.
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