Chatham House
The Impact of Coronavirus on Central Asia’s Development
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- The Impact of Coronavirus on Central Asia’s Development
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- 1:36:14
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
- Description
- As with the rest of the world, the COVID-19 pandemic has put healthcare systems in the Central Asian states under severe strain. It has also affected the key drivers of their economies - trade and migrant remittances.
The governments' responses differ in speed and scale, and there are greater concerns than ever about their ability to deliver for their citizens.
This event explores in detail how the region's development may be affected. The speakers cover issues of external debt, humanitarian aid distribution, effects on regional cooperation, and relations with Russia and the Eurasian Economic Union.
This event is held in partnership with the Institute for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR).
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- Webinar: How Can We Increase Youth Representation in Government?
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- 20:23
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
- Description
- In this talk, Tighisti Amare from the Africa Programme at Chatham House outlines the main factors influencing youth participation. This event was the start of a new challenge on the Common Futures Conversations online platform, where young people from across Africa and Europe brainstorm solutions to the major policy issues facing our world.
Find out more about the project here: https://www.chathamhouse.org/about/structure/communications-and-publishing/common-futures
Follow Common Futures Conversation on Twitter: https://twitter.com/CommonFuturesCH
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- Webinar: How Can We Reduce and Sustainably Manage Waste?
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- 20:32
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
- Description
- In this talk, Dr Patrick Schroder from the Energy, Environment and Resources Programme at Chatham House and Muyiwa Oyinlola of De Montfort University, outline the obstacles preventing society from sustainably reducing waste. This event was the start of a new challenge on the Common Futures Conversations online platform, where young people from across Africa and Europe brainstorm solutions to the major policy issues facing our world. Find out more about the project here: https://www.chathamhouse.org/about/structure/communications-and-publishing/common-futures Follow Common Futures Conversation on Twitter: https://twitter.com/CommonFuturesCH
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- COVID-19 and the Future World Order
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- 1:03:57
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
- Description
- As the coronavirus outbreak looks to increase already rising US-China tensions, the speakers outline their views on its implications for the current world order.
They assess how global value chains might be restructured following the pandemic and discuss what role actors in Asia and Europe might play in the construction of a post-coronavirus world order.
This event is held in partnership with Yeosijae Future Consensus Institute.
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- Rethinking European National Security Strategies
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- 59:24
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
- Description
- In the context of the coronavirus crisis, the panellists look at European national security planning and how national governments balance their response to the mix of risks they face.
Traditionally, national security strategies have sought to protect against threats where there is a clear identifiable enemy. In recent decades, the risk of pandemics have been elevated to security threats in some countries as governments have come to realize the potentially disastrous consequences of global health crises on governance and civil infrastructures.
However, the securitization of public health policy is largely rhetorical and sufficient legal and policy preparedness is not always forthcoming not least because governments are often reluctant to allocate resources for contingency planning.
As the coronavirus outbreak continues to place significant strain on many European countries, what other non-traditional threats are governments aware of but under-pre...
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- Homeland Security and the Emergency Response to Coronavirus in the US
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- 56:59
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
- Description
- Jeh Johnson, former secretary of homeland security, discusses the role of agencies such as the Department of Homeland Security in responding to contemporary crises.
The United States federal system of government allows states a degree of autonomy when implementing new policy and responding to emerging challenges.
This structure has impacted the way that communities across the US, and the US itself, has responded to the outbreak of COVID-19. As states across the country determine their own ’stay at home’ orders and plans to tackle and recover from the devastation of the coronavirus, federal agencies are faced with coordinating a unified nationwide response.
The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), dealing with an unconventional threat, is adapting to the new normal as it seeks to limit and contain the spread of the virus with a nationwide response led by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, within the DHS.
FEMA in turn h...
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- South Africa's Economic Recovery Beyond COVID-19
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- 1:09:42
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
- Description
- Paul Mashatile, Treasurer General of the African National Congress (ANC), discusses the party's priorities for economic recovery during and after the pandemic.
South Africa's rapid action to prevent accelerated domestic transmission of the coronavirus has been widely praised. But, as in many countries, despite a substantial bailout, the pandemic is causing significant damage to the economy, from which it will take a long time to recover.
Even before the pandemic, South Africa's economy was in recession. Citizens’ support is being tested by the need for immediate livelihood protection, and long term recovery will require public trust.
As the long standing party of government, the African National Congress (ANC) is at the forefront of policy formation and debates on the future role of the state in the governance of state-owned enterprises, and transformation policies such as empowerment legislation and land reform.
He is joined fo...
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- Webinar: How Can We Prevent the Misuse of Surveillance Technologies?
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- 13:33
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
- Description
- In this talk, Dr Emily Taylor from the International Security Programme at Chatham House outlines the complexities of ensuring surveillance technologies are not misused. This event was the start of a new challenge on the Common Futures Conversations online platform, where young people from across Africa and Europe brainstorm solutions to the major policy issues facing our world.
Find out more about the project here: https://www.chathamhouse.org/about/structure/communications-and-publishing/common-futures
Follow Common Futures Conversation on Twitter: https://twitter.com/CommonFuturesCH
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- IUU Fishing in Southeast Asia
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- 1:07:25
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
- Description
- IUU fishing remains a pervasive problem in Southeast Asia, which accounts for approximately one-quarter of global fish production and whose fisheries sector supports tens of millions of jobs.
However, in recent years the threat of IUU fishing has received increased attention among policymakers in the region, and many governments are taking concrete action to address the issue.
This panel discusses the opportunities and challenges of eliminating IUU fishing in Southeast Asia, focusing on the following questions:
• What impact does IUU fishing have on environmental sustainability, human and national security, and economic development in Southeast Asia?
• What are the main drivers of IUU fishing in the region?
• What progress, if any, has been made in terms of combatting IUU fishing in Southeast Asia?
• What is needed to eliminate, or significantly reduce, IUU fishing in the region? What is being done already and what are the nex...
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- New Technologies and IUU Fishing
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- 1:59:18
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
- Description
- Technology can play a key role in the fight against IUU fishing. This session takes stock of some of the newest technologies available, including blockchain and artificial intelligence, and analyses the extent to which these can contribute to ending IUU fishing.
The session also includes a presentation of a brand new online transparency tool, deemed to be particularly relevant to the efforts of developing countries in reducing IUU fishing.
More specifically, the following questions are addressed by the panel:
• What role does, and can, technology play in combatting IUU fishing? What are the main opportunities and challenges?
• How can artificial intelligence and blockchain contribute to the fight against IUU fishing? Do these technologies have any drawbacks?
• Which technologies are most relevant in the developing country context?
• How may the new online tool, Spyglass, help combat IUU fishing?
This session is pa...
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- Transparency and IUU Fishing
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- 1:29:44
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
- Description
- Achieving transparency in the fishing industry, and throughout seafood supply chains, is essential to address the opaque environment in which IUU fishing thrives.
Moreover, recent research has shown how inadequate scrutiny and lack of transparency onshore contributes to the problem.
This session addresses the following questions:
• What progress have international organisations, national governments and the private sector made in improving transparency in recent years?
• How does the opacity surrounding onshore activities contribute to IUU fishing?
• What are the most important measures that can be undertaken, at sea and onshore, to combat IUU fishing, and what impact might these measures have?
This session is part of the Chatham House International Forum on Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing which brings together leading policymakers, researchers, industry representatives and civil society groups from across the...
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- Gender and IUU Fishing
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- 1:27:04
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- Women play an important role in the fisheries sector, especially in the post-harvesting, processing and marketing stages. However, their contribution is often overlooked, undervalued and unquantified. Moreover, the gender aspects of IUU fishing remain poorly understood.
This session will discuss these critical themes, focusing especially on the following questions:
• What role do women play in fisheries, and how can their position be strengthened?
• How does IUU fishing impact women and gender relations?
• How does – or doesn’t – international law address the gender dimensions of IUU fishing? How can the potential gaps be filled?
• How might combatting IUU fishing affect women and gender relations ?What does a gender-sensitive response to IUU fishing look like?
This session is part of the Chatham House International Forum on Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing which brings together leading policymakers, researcher...
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- Subsidies and IUU Fishing
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- 1:24:26
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- In 2015, world leaders agreed to ‘prohibit certain forms of fisheries subsidies which contribute to over-capacity and overfishing, eliminate subsidies that contribute to illegal, unreported and unregulated
fishing and refrain from introducing new such subsidies’ by 2020.
To what extent has this target – enshrined in Sustainable Development Goal 14.6 – been achieved?
This session discusses opportunities and challenges related to eliminating subsidies that contribute to overfishing, overcapacity and IUU fishing,
and take stock of the negotiations on fisheries subsidies that are taking place within the World Trade Organization (WTO).
More specifically, the following questions are addressed:
• Are all subsidies ‘bad’? What types of subsidies contribute to IUU fishing? How do we identify which subsidies that are most urgent to abolish?
• How may an agreement on fisheries subsidies in the WTO contribute to endi...
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- International Affairs Webinar: Lessons from History for COVID-19
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- 43:22
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
- Description
- History helps us to understand our world and to navigate its challenges. While drawing historical parallels needs to be done carefully, there are lessons we can learn from the First World War and the turbulent world it left in its wake. Revolutions, competing nationalisms and the deadly Spanish influenza epidemic, all threatened to spread even more misery and violence after 1918. What can we learn from that period about how to rebuild societies and establish a workable international order?
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- Chatham House Webinar: Weekly COVID-19 Pandemic Briefing
- Runtime
- 59:59
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
- Description
- As countries grapple with how best to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic and the reverberations it is sending through their societies and economies, understanding of how the virus is behaving, and what measures might best combat it, continues to advance.
Join us for the tenth in a weekly series of interactive webinars on the coronavirus with Professor David Heymann and special guest, Professor Richard Kock, helping us to understand the facts and make sense of the latest developments in the global crisis. Where did this virus come from? What does the pandemic tell us about our relationship with animals and with nature? What is really important for reducing the risk in the future?
Professor Heymann is a world-leading authority on infectious disease outbreaks. He led the World Health Organization’s response to SARS and has been advising the organization on its response to the coronavirus.
Professor Kock is an eminent wildlife veterinary scientist. He is ...
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- International Cooperation to End IUU fishing
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- 1:33:04
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
- Description
- International cooperation is critical for combatting illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing. This session discusses opportunities and challenges related to the implementation of relevant international agreements.
It provides examples of how governments, businesses, non-governmental organisations and scientists worldwide are cooperating to combat IUU fishing and consider what types of new partnerships are needed to address the issue.
The discussion centres on the following questions:
• What role does international cooperation play in combatting IUU fishing?
• What progress has been made in implementing relevant international agreements, such as the Port State Measures Agreement? What are the key challenges and next steps?
• What types of international partnerships are needed to combat IUU fishing? How can international cooperation be strengthened?
This session is part of the Chatham House International Forum on I...
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- Climate Change and Threats to Security
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- 57:16
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
- Description
- This webinar highlights geographical regions in which climate change is posing a security threat and will explore what is being done to alleviate these risks.
In recent years, climate change has become an increasing security threat given its potential to exacerbate existing social, economic and political tensions. As a ‘threat multiplier’, it risks adding to these tensions by placing strain on basic resources which in turn make a region more vulnerable to conflict and unrest.
Climate stress will continue to cause a rise in temperatures, water scarcity and rising sea levels across the globe – all contributing to increased competition for resources and forced migration.
What are some of the security implications of climate change and how do they differ in different parts of the world? In which regions will both long-term and short-term climate trends pose the greatest risk? And how can countries and regions increase resilience against the ef...
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- Brexit Negotiations and the Coronavirus Outbreak
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- 1:00:40
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
- Description
- Panellists assess the current state of Brexit negotiations and highlight some key points of divergence which still remain between the UK and Brussels.
In recent months, containing the spread of the COVID-19 outbreak has been a primary focus for policymakers across the globe. In the EU, the pandemic has dominated government agendas, de-prioritising Brexit negotiations and placing further pressure on the agreed timeline.
With the second round of talks delayed, doubts have been cast over negotiators' ability to reach agreements on key issues including governance, trade, fisheries and security co-operation.
What might compromise and a common direction look like? Is an extension necessary to reach an agreement particularly given the far-reaching impact of the COVID-19 outbreak? And what are some of the concerns for businesses and citizens regarding prolonging negotiations?
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- International Humanitarian Law Amid Coronavirus
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- 55:37
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
- Description
- Against the backdrop of a growing health and economic emergency, the panellists reflect on the state of humanitarian action and its relationship with international humanitarian law.
In April 2020, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres called for a global ceasefire in order for communities and states to focus efforts on responding to the coronavirus outbreak.
However, in many regions affected by conflict, belligerent activity has continued to impede access to essential goods and services, exacerbating the suffering already experienced by civilians.
These include the sieges and severe limitations on humanitarian action in Syria, the maritime restrictions in Yemen and the blockade of Gaza.
Counter-terrorism measures taken by states against groups such as Al Qaeda affiliates, Hamas or Hezbollah, compounded by measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19, make the delivery of life-saving assistance even more challenging.
Wha...
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- The Future of African Development: Levers of Support Through the Coronavirus Pandemic
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- 58:43
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
- Description
- Abebe Aemro Selassie discusses the levers available to support African countries as they navigate the crisis, expectations of African governments and development partners, and prospects ahead.
Described as an unprecedented threat to development, the COVID-19 pandemic will cause significant damage to African economies. The IMF has forecast a contraction in GDP growth of 1.6 per cent in sub-Saharan Africa in 2020 – its lowest on record – followed by a projected recovery of 4.1 per cent growth in 2021.
However, major uncertainties remain. As containment and suppression measures are lifted and economies begin to reopen, added public health risks and pressures to already strained fiscal and healthcare response capacities will increase the imperative for well-designed and efficiently delivered support mechanisms from development partners.
Temporary debt relief has featured prominently, but wider coordinated multilateral responses are also critical.
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- 12th International Forum on Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing: Introductory Keynote
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- 15:41
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
- Description
- Peter Thomson, the UN Secretary General's Special Envoy for the Ocean, opens the event.
The Chatham House International Forum on Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing brings together leading policymakers, researchers, industry representatives and civil society groups from across the world to discuss the latest initiatives, regulations and research in the areas of fisheries governance and trade in illegal fish products.
https://www.chathamhouse.org/event/12th-international-forum-illegal-unreported-and-unregulated-fishing
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- Explainer: India's Economy and COVID-19
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- 1:22
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
- Description
- India has announced a major rescue package to help the country’s economy cope with the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. But how will it be financed?
Mihir Swarup Sharma of the Observer Research Foundation sets out India’s options as part of a webinar explored the political and social implications of India’s response to coronavirus.
Watch the full event at
https://www.chathamhouse.org/event/indias-response-covid-19-political-and-social-implications-0
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- One Year of Zelenskyy’s Presidency: Is Ukraine’s Foreign Policy in Lockdown?
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- 1:31:31
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
- Description
- Speakers discuss the major events that shaped Ukraine’s foreign policy in the first year of Zelenskyy’s presidency.
May 20 marks one year since Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s inauguration as president. His victory in the elections led many in Ukraine to hope for an economic breakthrough and an end to the armed conflict in Donbas.
But, inexperienced in international politics, Zelenskyy and his team have struggled with managing many of the foreign policy crises that hit them. Their efforts to resolve the conflict in the east have not borne results, and US President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial and the downing of a Ukrainian passenger airplane in Iran have dominated Kyiv’s foreign policy agenda in the past year.
As advancing Ukraine’s national interest is becoming increasingly difficult, where does the country stand with regard to sustaining international support for its sovereignty and territorial integrity?
What are the prospe...
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- Does COVID-19 Spell the End of America's Interest in Globalization?
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- 1:28:08
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
- Description
- Until recently, globalization had accelerated around the world, making states more connected through trade, technology and global financial integration. But even as globalization has increased, states have remained the primary political actor and sovereignty has superseded the role of international organizations.
A backlash against globalization has preoccupied many leaders as voters around the world give their support to nationalist politicians. COVID-19 looks set to accelerate these trends but it may also be a moment for leaders and publics to rethink existing policies and create new norms and institutions designed to manage globalization in new ways.
Stephen Walt, Robert and Renee Belfer Professor of International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School, and Anne-Marie Slaughter, CEO, New America, will discuss how the novel coronavirus will elevate or tame calls for de-globalization as states prioritize their own nation’s need for medical resources over the need...
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- Explainer: COVID-19 and the US Elections
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- 1:39
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
- Description
- She says that US federal authorities must begin their planning for how to conduct the election during the public health crisis of COVID-19 as the likelihood grows that the US epidemic will still be active in November.
Voting access is a crucial issue to tackle, as well as election information and campaigning as more voters find themselves looking online, with cyber security vital to ensure the integrity of the result.
Read more from Lindsay on this issue:
https://www.chathamhouse.org/expert/comment/covid-19-americas-looming-election-crisis
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- Land Reform in Ukraine: Is Zelenskyy's Government Getting it Right?
- Runtime
- 48:25
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
- Description
- Ukraine is known as the ‘breadbasket of Europe’ thanks to its grain exports. On 31 March 2020, the Ukrainian parliament passed a landmark law ending a 19-year ban on the sale of privately owned agricultural land.
Due to come into force in July 2021, the law applies to 41.5 million hectares of farmland and economists predict substantial economic gains from this liberalization.
This event discusses the impact of the law on Ukraine’s agricultural sector and food security. How can the government best implement this reform and ensure that small and medium-sized agricultural companies increase their productivity?
What does this change mean for Ukraine’s capacity to export grain? Can the country’s food supply withstand crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic? What role could foreign direct investors play in boosting production?
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- Webinar: Weekly COVID-19 Pandemic Briefing
- Runtime
- 58:28
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
- Description
- As countries grapple with how best to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic and the reverberations it is sending through their societies and economies, understanding of how the virus is behaving, and what measures might best combat it, continues to advance.
The ninth in our weekly series of interactive webinars on the coronavirus with Professor David Heymann and special guest, Professor Devi Sridhar, helping us to understand the facts and make sense of the latest developments in the global crisis, including issues emerging from the virtual World Health Assembly, the annual meeting of member states of the World Health Organization.
Professor Heymann is a world-leading authority on infectious disease outbreaks. He led the World Health Organization’s response to SARS and has been advising the organization on its response to the coronavirus.
Professor Sridhar is a Professor at the University of Edinburgh where she holds a Personal Chair in Global Public Hea...
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- India's Response to COVID-19: Political and Social Implications
- Runtime
- 45:59
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
- Description
- On March 23rd, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi ordered the world’s largest lockdown on its population of 1.3 billion.
The strict measures were praised by some for their success in slowing the spread of coronavirus but faced criticism for the lack of warning which led millions of migrant workers to return home without assistance. Recently the government has begun to lift restrictions in an attempt to revive the economy.
The Indian government has sought technological solutions to contain the pandemic and these have raised concerns around privacy, surveillance, equity and mass use. Furthermore, some low wage workers are forced to accept these solutions if they are to return to work, leaving them with little choice.
Will India seek to rethink its strategy for leadership in the post-COVID-19 global order? Is it possible to develop technologies that can effectively limit the spread of the coronavirus and ensure privacy?
The speak...
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- How Can We Work Towards a Stable #Cyberspace4All? - English Version
- Runtime
- 3:42
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
- Description
- With the number of threats increasing in cyberspace, the views between states on how to deal with those threats and how to govern cyberspace more generally are diverging rather than converging.
This reflects the different interests and visions of cyberspace, whether global and open, or sovereign and controlled.
However, between these two distinct pillars lies a large number of countries which do not fit neatly into one or the other camps – yet. Many of these countries are in the process of developing their internet policies and they are part of the ongoing UN negotiations on the issue of security in the use of information communications technologies (ICTs).
However, they are facing a challenge of how to make an informed decision on the strategies and policies that they need to adopt and that would sit well with their other socio-economic and security priorities.
With the fragmented debate on cyberspace governance and the prolifer...
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- How Can We Work Towards a Stable #Cyberspace4All? - French Version
- Runtime
- 4:22
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
- Description
- This animation is available in six languages - English, French, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, Arabic. Access them all via this playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLy9ppGFZeRr7tjbIQYBzfxQu-ZMCCQ5nc
With the number of threats increasing in cyberspace, the views between states on how to deal with those threats and how to govern cyberspace more generally are diverging rather than converging.
This reflects the different interests and visions of cyberspace, whether global and open, or sovereign and controlled.
However, between these two distinct pillars lies a large number of countries which do not fit neatly into one or the other camps – yet. Many of these countries are in the process of developing their internet policies and they are part of the ongoing UN negotiations on the issue of security in the use of information communications technologies (ICTs).
However, they are facing a challenge of how to make an informed ...
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- How Can We Work Towards a Stable #Cyberspace4All? - Spanish Version
- Runtime
- 4:22
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
- Description
- This animation is available in six languages - English, French, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, Arabic. Access them all via this playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLy9ppGFZeRr7tjbIQYBzfxQu-ZMCCQ5nc
With the number of threats increasing in cyberspace, the views between states on how to deal with those threats and how to govern cyberspace more generally are diverging rather than converging.
This reflects the different interests and visions of cyberspace, whether global and open, or sovereign and controlled.
However, between these two distinct pillars lies a large number of countries which do not fit neatly into one or the other camps – yet. Many of these countries are in the process of developing their internet policies and they are part of the ongoing UN negotiations on the issue of security in the use of information communications technologies (ICTs).
However, they are facing a challenge of how to make an informed ...
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- How Can We Work Towards a Stable #Cyberspace4All? - Arabic Version
- Runtime
- 4:21
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
- Description
- This animation is available in six languages - English, French, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, Arabic. Access them all via this playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLy9ppGFZeRr7tjbIQYBzfxQu-ZMCCQ5nc
With the number of threats increasing in cyberspace, the views between states on how to deal with those threats and how to govern cyberspace more generally are diverging rather than converging.
This reflects the different interests and visions of cyberspace, whether global and open, or sovereign and controlled.
However, between these two distinct pillars lies a large number of countries which do not fit neatly into one or the other camps – yet. Many of these countries are in the process of developing their internet policies and they are part of the ongoing UN negotiations on the issue of security in the use of information communications technologies (ICTs).
However, they are facing a challenge of how to make an informed ...
- Title
- How Can We Work Towards a Stable #Cyberspace4All? - Russian Version
- Runtime
- 4:31
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
- Description
- This animation is available in six languages - English, French, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, Arabic. Access them all via this playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLy9ppGFZeRr7tjbIQYBzfxQu-ZMCCQ5nc
With the number of threats increasing in cyberspace, the views between states on how to deal with those threats and how to govern cyberspace more generally are diverging rather than converging.
This reflects the different interests and visions of cyberspace, whether global and open, or sovereign and controlled.
However, between these two distinct pillars lies a large number of countries which do not fit neatly into one or the other camps – yet. Many of these countries are in the process of developing their internet policies and they are part of the ongoing UN negotiations on the issue of security in the use of information communications technologies (ICTs).
However, they are facing a challenge of how to make an informed ...
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- How Can We Work Towards a Stable #Cyberspace4All? - Chinese Version
- Runtime
- 3:44
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
- Description
- This animation is available in six languages - English, French, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, Arabic. Access them all via this playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLy9ppGFZeRr7tjbIQYBzfxQu-ZMCCQ5nc
With the number of threats increasing in cyberspace, the views between states on how to deal with those threats and how to govern cyberspace more generally are diverging rather than converging.
This reflects the different interests and visions of cyberspace, whether global and open, or sovereign and controlled.
However, between these two distinct pillars lies a large number of countries which do not fit neatly into one or the other camps – yet. Many of these countries are in the process of developing their internet policies and they are part of the ongoing UN negotiations on the issue of security in the use of information communications technologies (ICTs).
However, they are facing a challenge of how to make an informed ...
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- Webinar: Weekly COVID-19 Pandemic Briefing – Vaccines
- Runtime
- 48:46
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
- Description
- This briefing focuses on the progress towards and prospects for a coronavirus vaccine, exploring the scientific considerations, the production, distribution and allocation challenges as well as the access politics.
As countries grapple with how best to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic and the reverberations it is sending through their societies and economies, scientific understanding of how the virus is behaving, and what measures might best combat it, continues to advance.
This is the eighth in a weekly series of interactive webinars on the coronavirus with Professor David Heymann and special guest, Professor David Salisbury, helping us to understand the facts and make sense of the latest developments in the global crisis.
With 80 candidate vaccines reported to be in development, how will scientists and governments select the 'right' one? What should be the role of global leadership and international coordination in the development and distribution...
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- Webinar: Implications of the COVID-19 Pandemic for African Elections and Democracy
- Runtime
- 1:10:32
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
- Description
- Dr Christopher Fomunyoh discusses the likely impact of COVID-19 on elections and democracy in various African countries, as well as the responses and measures to meet the challenges.
2020 was anticipated to be a year of landmark elections across Africa, including general elections scheduled in Somalia and Ethiopia – countries at critical junctures in their transitions to electoral democracy – as well as a re-run of annulled presidential elections in Malawi.
COVID-19 has created new challenges for African countries seeking to hold elections or further democratization – including the practicalities of adapting containment measures to electoral processes in the context of strained financial and logistical resources.
It may also be used as a pretext for the pursuit of repressive legislation and constitutional amendments to preclude elections or bolster authoritarianism, compounded by new constraints on accountability mechanisms such as electio...
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- Weekly COVID-19 Pandemic Briefing – The Geopolitics of the Coronavirus
- Runtime
- 47:59
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
- Description
- A weekly series of interactive webinars on the coronavirus with Professor David Heymann and special guest Professor Ilona Kickbusch helping us understand the facts and make sense of the latest developments in the global crisis.
The coronavirus pandemic continues to claim lives around the world. As countries grapple with how best to tackle the virus and the reverberations the pandemic is sending through their societies and economies, scientific understanding of how the coronavirus is behaving, and what measures might best combat it, continues to advance.
What will the geopolitics of the pandemic mean for multilateralism? As the US retreats, what dynamics are emerging around other actors and what are the implications for the World Health Organization? Is the EU stepping up to play a bigger role in global health? Will the pandemic galvanize the global cooperation long called for?
Professor Heymann is a world-leading authority on infectious disease ou...
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- International Affairs Webinar: How Could COVID-19 Change the Financial Sector?
- Runtime
- 40:57
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
- Description
- Since the global financial crisis, there have been unsatisfied critics demanding that financial systems better reflect social values. Yet as the COVID-19 pandemic escalates, our focus on financial sectors has shifted to appeals for help. In fact, after COVID-19, our societies may owe financial sectors two debts. The first will be the kind of debt one typically owes a financial sector—cold hard dollars. But the second could be one of warm gratitude—for enabling many of us to keep our homes and livelihoods during the pandemic. Financial sectors are now among the ‘essential workers’ playing their role in the crisis effort, demonstrating why functioning financial systems make economies more inclusive and sustainable.
In this webinar Lee-Anne Sim, from the Australian National University, will discuss what we can learn by comparing the COVID-19 and the global financial crises and how we can apply these learnings to financial system reform to create a more inclusive and s...
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- Re-integration or Dis-integration: What Does the Future Hold for Occupied Donbas?
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- 1:27:13
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- 6 years ago
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- Looking at the origins of the armed conflict in Donbas and the region’s economic role in Ukraine’s economy, this event discusses the prospects for conflict resolution.
The armed conflict in Donbas has now entered its seventh year. President Zelenskyy, who came to power in May 2019, promised to end the war with Russia and bring peace to Ukraine.
Since assuming office, Zelenskyy has managed to revive the Normandy Format talks, complete military disengagement at three points along the line of contact and negotiate the release of over a hundred Ukrainians held as prisoners of war in Russia. However, ceasefire violations continue to occur frequently.
Do the recent events signify an opportunity for peace? Does Zelenskyy have a viable plan for re-integrating Donbas or will the region be cut off from mainland Ukraine for the foreseeable future?
The speakers assess the strategy and track record of the Ukrainian government and its Wester...
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- What Does the Path Through the Pandemic Look Like?
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- 16:37
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- 6 years ago
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- The Way Forward is a new initiative hosted by The Atlantic in collaboration with Chatham House, Emerson Collective, and the Peterson Institute for International Economics.
We believe it is essential to look beyond the immediate impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and understand its long-term implications.
In this first conversation, The Atlantic’s editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, was joined by The Right Honorable Gordon Brown, United Nations Special Envoy for Global Education and former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, for a discussion on global challenges and cooperation during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Watch the full event series
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwj46yNDLyTXWdUunrxGBVvMIIxDAY_KL
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- Webinar: Big Data, AI and Pandemics
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- 57:29
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- 6 years ago
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- Discussing the nature of beneficial tech while also identifying issues that arise out of fast-tracking AI solutions during emergencies and pandemics.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the potential to benefit healthcare through a variety of applications including predictive care, treatment recommendations, identification of pathogens and disease patterns as well as the identification of vulnerable groups.
With access to increasingly complex data sets and the rise of sophisticated pattern detection, AI could offer new means to anticipate and mitigate pandemics.
However, the risks associated with AI such as bias, infringement on privacy and limited accountability become amplified under the pressurized lens of a global health crisis. Emergency measures often neglect standard checks and balances due to time-constraints.
Whether temporary or permanent, AI applications during the pandemic have the potential to mark a watershed moment in ...
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- Webinar: US Foreign Policy in a Post COVID-19 World
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- 1:17:35
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- 6 years ago
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- The coronavirus crisis has accentuated the need for US leadership and international cooperation to address the global health emergency and economic crisis.
The pandemic comes at a time of profound uncertainty over America's future role in the world, its commitments to transatlantic security, and its relationship with China.
As we face the 2020 US presidential elections, America's European partners look ahead to the potential foreign policy priorities of the next US administration.
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- Internet Consolidation: What Lies Beneath the Application Layer?
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- 7:00
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- 6 years ago
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- Four experts explain the big questions that the Journal of Cyber Policy addresses in its open access special issue on internet consolidation and its possible implications on the internet of the future.
Despite the introduction of massive technological and commercial changes in the past 20 years, and the emergence of a handful of tech giants, the internet’s architecture continued to retain its unique qualities.
However, in recent years, it has become apparent that this architecture is also experiencing consolidation. A handful of big technology companies enjoy significant power over the network and are increasingly contributing to the consolidation of the internet by operating deep down in the infrastructure layer – resolving domain name queries, providing application programming interfaces, cloud hosting or computation.
This phenomenon has called for the need for more research in this area, to explore the challenges and opportunities of int...
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- Webinar: Weekly COVID-19 Pandemic Briefing – The Swedish Approach
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- 44:58
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- 6 years ago
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- The latest in our weekly series of interactive webinars on the coronavirus with Professor David Heymann and special guest, Johan Giesecke, helping us to understand the facts and make sense of the latest developments in the global crisis.
The coronavirus pandemic continues to claim lives around the world. As countries grapple with how best to tackle the virus, and the reverberations the pandemic is sending through their societies and economies, scientific understanding of how the COVID-19 virus is behaving and what measures might best combat it continues to advance.
What strategy has Sweden embraced and why? Can a herd immunity strategy work in the fight against COVID-19? How insightful is it to compare different nations’ approaches and what does the degree of variation reveal?
Professor Heymann is a world-leading authority on infectious disease outbreaks. He led the World Health Organization’s response to SARS and has been advising the organ...
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- International Affairs Webinar: Civil Society and COVID-19 in Sub-Saharan Africa
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- 39:07
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- 6 years ago
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- With over 10,000 cases and 500 deaths as of early April, sub-Saharan Africa may quickly become the next ‘epicentre’ for the coronavirus. The pandemic’s effects on the economy—a decline in commodity prices and the decrease in tourism, for example—are already being felt.
With fragile health-care systems that have shortages of health care professionals, supplies and the necessary infrastructure, most countries are ill-prepared for the large number of critically ill patients.
Indigenous civil society organizations, including religious institutions, NGOs and community-based organizations, play a crucial role in mobilization to prevent viral spread and provide care.
In this webinar, Professor Amy S. Patterson from the University of the South examines how lessons from previous health mobilization efforts by civil society in Africa might apply to the COVID-19 crisis.
Amy S. Patterson is Carl Gustav Biehl Jr. Professor of Internati...
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- Webinar: Idlib at Risk – Doctors and First Responders in Northwest Syria
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- 58:51
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- 6 years ago
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- Highlighting potentially catastrophic risks of a coronavirus outbreak in Idlib and displacement camps in north-west Syria by speaking with medical and civil society actors working in the region.
In Syria, uncertainty about the safety of the ceasefire agreed between Russia and Turkey last month is inhibiting 1 million people who have been displaced since December 2019 from returning home.
The looming COVID-19 global health crisis threatens to further devastate those most vulnerable as the conditions in northwest Syria’s refugee camps make it hard to practice common social distancing guidelines.
Added to this, the medical infrastructure in the region has been decimated after years of bombings which has disabled over 70 health facilities since April 2019.
How are doctors and local humanitarian organizations scaling up their medical and prevention response to the COVID-19 outbreak? What key supplies such as ventilators, testing kits a...
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- Webinar: Is It All Over For Globalization?
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- 56:46
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- 6 years ago
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- Speakers debate what impact the COVID-19 pandemic will have on the future of globalization, both in Asia and around the world.
The coronavirus pandemic has led many to predict the end of globalization. Confronted with unprecedented social and economic challenges, countries are prioritizing their own citizens.
Now, more than ever, international cooperation is necessary but, amidst the rise of nationalist-populist governments, global partnerships are absent or faltering.
And as economies grind to a halt, so does international commerce — particularly in trade-dependent Asia, a region whose rise drove the period of 'hyper-globalization' which preceded the global financial crisis.
Yet there are other possible futures too. The level of scientific collaboration and information-sharing now underway in search of a vaccine is unprecedented, and after a hesitant beginning the major powers have woken up to the importance of concerted economi...
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- Virtual Roundtable: US Global Leadership After COVID-19
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- 1:05:14
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- 6 years ago
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- The COVID-19 pandemic highlights the absence of US global leadership. Michèle Flournoy talks with Dr Leslie Vinjamuri about the impact of COVID-19 on US domestic priorities and foreign policy commitments.
Flournoy discusses current US strategy towards China and the Middle East and how this might change under a Democratic administration.
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- Webinar: Implications of the COVID-19 Pandemic for Food Security and Resilience in Africa
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- 58:45
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- 6 years ago
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- Dr Arif Husain from the World Food Programme gives his assessment of the potential impact that the COVID-19 pandemic will have on food security in Africa and what can be done to prevent a food security emergency.
Linked to the immediate public health consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic are those of economic and food security, particularly significant for low- and middle-income countries.
Currently more than 821 million people globally go hungry, with 100 million of those suffering acute hunger, and this will worsen if the evolving economic emergency becomes a food security emergency.
Sub-Saharan African countries rely on trade for food security and for revenue; they imported more than 40 million tons of cereal from around the world in 2018, according to the World Food Programme (WFP). The region faces stark new challenges due to the pandemic.
This event launches the WFP paper, 'COVID-19: Potential impact on the world’s poorest p...
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- Circular Economy Conference: Advancing Multilateral Action on Marine Plastic Pollution
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- 1:08:36
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- Discussing issues around marine plastic pollution, including micro-plastics, as a major emerging risk for global environmental governance.
To promote collaborative opportunities for an inclusive and sustainable circular economy transition at the international level, a clearer understanding of the opportunities, trade-offs and winners and losers of such a transition is needed.
Supporting transformative alliances and finding solutions to overcome challenges especially in poorer countries, disadvantaged industry sectors and consumers is equally critical. In short, a ‘win-win-win’ vision for the environment, people and the economy, needs to be built together with credible pathways to achieving this vision.
This virtual conference brings together circular economy leaders from policy, business, academia and civil society across the emerging economies and the developed world to identify best practices, initiatives and existing alliances that can he...
