New Trends in Societal Security research in the Nordic countries 26 - 27 November 2014 in Stockholm

2. Project leader: Dr. Kamrul Hossain
Project funded by: Academy of Finland
Funding granted: 550.000 €
Project duration: January 2015 – December
2018 (48 months)

3. Scope of Human Security: Threats in Seven Areas
Economic Security
Food Security
Health Security
Environmental Security
Personal Security
Community Security
Political Security
Poverty
Diseases
Violence
Others
Remove threats
Empowerment
Building better
systems

4. Framing Human Security:
Freedom from fear:
Threats to physical violence caused by poverty, lack of state
capacity, inequities etc.
Freedom from want:
A holistic approach
Threats agenda includes: hunger, disease, natural disasters,
environmental degradation etc.

5. Human Security: Understanding security at large
 Negative security (protection)
 Positive security (empowerment)
 Top down approach
 Bottom-up approach

6. Human Security offers an integrated approach
 Categorize threats to security
 Issue specific
 Region specific
 Prioritize threats
 Contribute to norm building in domestic & international law

7. Human Security and its relevance for the
Arctic
Climate change
Rapid melting of sea ice
Increased human activities, i.e.
shipping
In-land and offshore resource
extractions

8. Human Security relevance for the Arctic
inhabitants
 Dependence on the unique Arctic ecosystem
 Nature-based and traditional ways of livelihood
 Impact of multiple security dimensions
 Environmental security
 Food security
 Health security
 Economic security
 Community Security (Identity and culture)

9. Environmental Security vs. Economic Security
 Overlapping security
 Protection of environment
 Benefit from revenue flow
 One influencing the other
 Democratization of security?

10.  We will show:
• Importance
• Applicability
• Inter-connection (between Human Security
and Societal security)

11.  Right based approach
• How does security discussions enable people to be more involved and
consulted in the decision-making process?
• In what ways the corporate responsibility can be integrated within the
right based approach of human security?
 Social dynamics
• How demographic changes (e.g. increasing incoming population due to
industrial development) may contribute to different challenges in an
interaction amongst indigenous, local and incoming population?
 Other challenges
• How can the other apparent sociocultural challenges pertaining to
health and well-being (e.g. food safety and security, access to fresh
water as well as to health care facility) of the Arctic population be
perceived from human security perspective?

12. FiveWork Packages:
 WP1: Theoretical framework
 WP2: Security challenges to region’s inhabitants
 WP3: Societal security governance: multi-actor security framework
 WP4: Synthesis
 WP5: Workshops and seminars, deliverables, dissemination and
communication

13. IMPLEMENTATION
Kick-off meeting
framing of the plans for
implementation
Final seminar
results of specific studies are
presented and examined
Mid-term seminar

14.  Research
 Network building
Workshops and seminars
 Field visits and interviews
 Stakeholder co-operation
 Developing new strategies

15. Website
 Newsletters
 Press releases
 Public events
 Conference presentations

16.  Policy level decision-makers
 Representatives of relevant business sectors (for
example mining and industry sectors)
 Local people and communities
 Local NGOs
 Indigenous peoples
 Reindeer herders and their associations (for example
International Centre for Reindeer Husbandry)

17.  Northern Institute for Environmental
and Minority Law / Arctic Centre
 University of Lapland
 Academy of Finland

18. In case you wish to have further information on the
HuSArctic project, do not hesitate to contact the project
team:
Kamrul Hossain: kamrul.hossain@ulapland.fi
Anna Petrétei: anna.petretei@gmail.com
Gerald Zojer: gerald.zojer@ulapland.fi
Or visit our blog:
http://husarctic.wordpress.com/