Security, Insecurity and the Anthropocene

Feb 15, 2022 | Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
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Fifty years on from the Stockholm Conference - the 1972 United Nations Conference on the Human Environment - we find ourselves in a world marked by profound, accelerating and possibly irreversible environmental change. No ecosystem is untouched by human influence. And no area of human activity is unaffected by environmental change.

The Anthropocene concept has been advanced to capture this new world. When humanity dangerously disrupts the earth’s biosphere and life-upholding systems, what new insecurities emerge? What, fundamentally, does security mean in the Anthropocene, and how can we deliver it?

In this webinar, the editors and chapter authors of the new volume Anthropocene (In)securities: Reflections on Collective Survival 50 Years After the Stockholm Conference will discuss some of the key issues of security and insecurity raised in the Anthropocene.

This webinar is organized by SIPRI, the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) and Mistra Geopolitics.

Introductory Remarks:

  • Dr Eva Lövbrand, Associate Professor in Environmental Change at the University of Linköping
  • Dr Malin Mobjörk, Senior Research Officer, Formas and former Director of SIPRI’s Climate Change and Risk Programme

Discussants:

  • Anthony Burke, Professor of Environmental Politics and International Relations at the University of New South Wales, Australia
  • Dr Stefanie Fishel, Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at the University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia
  • Marcus King, John O. Rankin Associate Professor of International Affairs and the Director of the Master of International Affairs Program at George Washington University, United States
  • Björn-Ola Linnér, Professor in Environmental Change at the Centre for Climate Science and Policy Research at Linköping University and Associate Research Fellow at SEI, Sweden
  • Beatriz Rodrigues Bessa Mattos, Assistant Professor in International Relations at Universidade Veiga de Almeida, Brazil
  • Johanna Lissinger Peitz, Ambassador for Stockholm+50, Swedish Ministry of the Environment

Moderator:

  • Dan Smith, SIPRI Director 

Register for the event here.

When: Tuesday 15 February 2022, 13:00 - 14:30 CEST.