Bangkok Human Security Forum 2010
The Human Development Forum Foundation is a registered non-for-profit foundation in Bangkok, Thailand and a member of the United Nations Global Impact Initiative. Currently HDFF is planning to organize a conference with the title:
“Bangkok Human Security Forum 2010”- co-hosted by National Defence Studies Institute, Royal Thai Armed Forces.
Rational:
The actual discussion about “Non Traditional Security” (NTS) issues and “Human Security Issues” (HSI) is very broad. Theories ranging from the simple diction that this is a new Chinese wording for justifying the increase of military maritime power of mainland China, via the claim that the “new” security approaches have just emerged after the end of the Cold War, till the differentiating theory debate about various political approaches to the international relations and NTS issues. Against this backdrop this proposed conference will contribute to the discussion between experts, political decision makers and policy implementers as well as to interested laymen of the general public in ASEAN and beyond about the “Non-Traditional Security Issues as Challenge for the Armed Forces” in the 21st century, which are vastly different from the traditional security issues like war or armed conflicts between states, sea blockades or insurgencies several times seen during the Cold War and the early post-Cold War period.
Content:
Nowadays, in the political and academic discussion there are other fields than the traditional security issues like military, diplomacy and economy which have to be taken into consideration:
•Security of SLOCs / piracy
•Drug trafficking
•Migration
•Information, information technology and mass media
•Ecology (extended by famine, water-problems, diseases)
•Natural disaster
•Religion /religious fanaticism
•Terrorism / organized crime
•Education, science and the facilities for research
•Human rights
•Sustainable Development
•Chemical and biological threats
•Health security, Food Security
•Energy Security
Some of these important topics will be taken on in the proposed conference project via several presentations by internationally recognized experts.
Added value for supporting companies:
Additionally, there will be information provided about technical solutions by supporting companies in order to show the link between the human security challenges and the potential of the supporting industries in dealing with these issues. This is a unique opportunity for the participating companies to show their capabilities in the framework of the changing security environment and to present their ideas to an expertise audience. This audience will include military and political decision makers as well as technical experts from the armed forces.
Objectives of the action:
•Contributing to the discussion of Non-Traditional-Security Issues and Human Security Issues from an ASEAN perspective
•Contributing to implementing ideas by providing information about technological options
•Promoting supporting companies in the ASEAN region as well as the regional powers in the Pacific and Indian Ocean
Target group:
The project aims at three main target groups mainly in Thailand but also visiting ASEAN experts
1.high level policy makers and implementers
2.academics
3.interested laymen
Concrete Output:
•one 3 day conference
•a follow-up publication will be widely distributed free of costs to relevant ministries in ASEAN + 3 countries (ASEAN + China, Republic of Korea, Japan) and beyond (e.g. Australia, New Zealand, India and Pakistan) major think tanks as well as military and non-military facilitators in the framework of Non-Traditional Security/Human Security Issues
With a number of media and branding opportunities, rights are available one different level of each of HDFF’s conferences.
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