NON-TRADITIONAL SECURITY CHALLENGES IN ASIA

5 - 8 March 2007, USA

The NTS Dissemination Seminars in the US were held from the 5 th to 8 th of March 2007. The Dissemination Seminars are geared at raising awareness of emerging NTS issues and challenges in the Asian region as well as to facilitate the exchange of information and experiences in responding to a wide range of NTS threats confronting the region.  These dissemination seminars are also designed to build regional capacity and expertise on the broad field of non-traditional security by bringing together scholars, analysts and the policy community at large to help the wider community understand how and why certain issues need to be securitised in order for various actors, both state and non-state, to respond to these challenges. Six members from the NTS-Asia network participated and presented papers during the seminars including several members from China and South Asia .

The three dissemination meetings were held in New York , Washington DC and San Francisco , all of which were well received by the American audiences, including NTS skeptics. The first seminar in New York was jointly organized by NTS-Asia Secretariat and the International Peace Academy (IPA). This was held at the Malaysian Mission to the United Nations. The IPA meeting was followed by a small working meeting with officials from the Ford Foundation Headquarters, which allowed the NTS-Asia representatives to brief the Foundation on the progress of the Consortium. The second and third seminars were held at Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington D.C. and at the Institute of East Asian Studies in the University of Berkeley, San Francisco, respectively.

Click here for the IPA report on the meeting in New York.