Dignity and Global Security
Track |
- Human Security
Tuesday, 31 May 2011, 14:00 - 15:30
Hosted by the Geopolitics of Globalisation and Transnational Security Programme, Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP)
In the opening sentence of the preamble of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, human dignity is recognized as an inalienable right constituting the “foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world.” Although the era we live in possesses the tools and resources to promote and protect dignity for all, human suffering and affronts to dignity are making the headlines everyday. Globalization has indeed created new challenges to the preservation of human dignity, while conspicuous infringement of human dignity worldwide is nurturing new threats to global security.
This panel will consider the intrinsic relations between dignity and global security, all concepts defined by Dr Nayef Al-Rodhan in Sustainable History and Dignity of Man . It will look more specifically to three critical dimensions of global security:
- National security, which refers to the more traditional economic, societal (state population), political and military dimensions of national security;
- Transnational security, which involves security against transnational threats that refer to any type of illegal cross-border movements;
- Transcultural security, which refers to the integrity of large collective identities.
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Chair
Nayef Al-Rodhan
Director, Geopolitics of Globalization and Transnational Security Programme, Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP), Switzerland
Senior Associate Member, St Antony’s College, Oxford University, UK
Speakers
Dignity and Transcultural Security
Joseph Prabhu
Professor of Philosophy, California State University of Los Angeles (CSLA), US
Dignity and National Security
Gregory Fried
Professor and Chair, Philosophy Department, Suffolk University, Boston, US
Dignity and Transnational Security
Evelin Gerda Lindner
Founding President, Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies
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