Student Panel: Health problems as a non-traditional threat to global security

Organisers:

Studentischer Vereiin für Entwicklungspolitik, Student Association for Development Politics Bonn

Speakers
Young scientists from Germany, Norway and the Czech Republic represent their research:

Mohammad Musfequs Salehin , Center for Peace Studies, University of Tromso, Norway
"Health, Poverty and Human Security: A case Study on Bangladesh"

Isabel Fischer , Institute for Agricultural Economics and Social Sciences in the Tropics and Subtropics, University of Hohenheim, Germany
"The correlation of risks, poverty and health problems in Northern Vietnam"

Tereza Nemecková , Department of World Economy (Faculty of international relations), University of Economics in Prague, Czech Republic
"Botswana - a country with the highest HIV/AIDS prevalence in the world"

Sophia Benz, Institute of Political Science, University of Tübingen, Germany
"The killing of the fittest - A quantitative analysis of HIV/AIDS and conflict"

Abstract

Since the end of the Cold War and most recently since the terrorist attacks of 9/11, the world community faces new and unknown threats to security. These challenges range from civil war and ethnic conflicts to failing states, terrorism and weapons of mass destruction. Only recently the aspect of "human security", defined as the economical, political and personal security of the individual, has been recognized as a basic factor for national security and therefore forces international players to develop new concepts of security and development. Health problems such as infectious diseases, hunger and the results of violence are of increased significance, particularly if they are the major causes of avoidable death and unnecessary handicaps. The analysis of these health problems is the main focus of this panel.

News:

Insecurity and Development
Resources

10th General Conference