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In September 2009, on the 8th anniversary of 9/11, Oxford Research Group launched the new website SustainableSecurity.org.

The website is a platform for promoting a better understanding of the real threats to global security in the 21st century and the policies that should be implemented to address those threats at their root cause. It draws together the best new thinking and analysis from around the world.

The website is organised to highlight four interconnected drivers of global insecurity:

Articles and resources are allocated to one or more of these headings, but the overall emphasis is on the interconnected nature of these threats and the need for comprehensive, multilateral approaches to them.

As well as highlighting recently published reports, articles and books, the site also features specially commissioned articles by leading thinkers relating to one or more of the four themes. Recent articles have included:

Phillip Bruner: National Security and the Paradox of Sustainable Energy Systems
Michael Kugelman: The Global Land Rush: Catalyst for Resource-Driven Conflict?
Abdul Ebrahim Haro: Human Security and Marginalisation: A Case of Pastoralists in the Mandera Triangle
Obayedul Hoque Patwary: Assessing the Security Challenges of Climate Change

Updates about new articles and relevant news can be recieved by following the website's Twitter account: http://twitter.com/sustainablesec

For more information please contact: ben.zala@oxfordresearchgroup.org.uk

Job: 22 April 2013

Job Opportunity: Director, Sustainable Security Programme

We are advertising for a new Director of our Sustainable Security programme. This is an exciting opportunity to play a leading role in shaping our analysis and advocacy work on global security issues. Our Sustainable Security programme deals with the likely long-term drivers of insecurity over the coming decades. It examines how current policies can better address these underlying trends rather than treat their symptoms. Read more »

Publication: 5 March 2013

SustainableSecurity.org Digest: Extreme Weather, Climate Disruptions and Resource Insecurity

2012 bore witness to a gruelling amount of extreme weather conditions and a global strain on resources. Record droughts, wildfires, heat waves, floods, snowfalls, hurricanes and typhoons were reported. When does climate disruption become a sustained security risk? How does lack of access to food, water, land or energy feed regional and global insecurity? How should governments, industries and civil society recognise and approach security risks caused by these challenges? These are the vital questions raised in recent contributions on our SustainableSecurity.org blog. Read more »

Publication: 17 November 2012

A Top-Down Approach to Sustainable Security: The Arms Trade Treaty

2012 was hailed as a potential landmark year in the push for greater regulation of the global trade in conventional weapons. After more than a decade of advocacy, the United Nations Conference on the Arms Trade Treaty took place in July this year. However, after negotiations failed to result in a final treaty, decisions on future progress were left in the hands of the First Committee of the UN General Assembly. Just before the announcement that final negotiations for an Arms Trade Treaty will now take place in March 2013, ORG’s, Research Officer, Zoë Pelter explored what this treaty could do towards sustainable security around the world on our blog sustainablesecurity.org. Read more »

Publication: 25 October 2012

Sustainablesecurity.org Digest: Resources, Land Grabs and Conflict

The impacts of competition over resources are high on the global agenda, with rising tensions in East Asia over islands in the potentially resource-rich East China Sea, on-going armed conflict in oil-rich border regions between Sudan and South Sudan, dire food insecurity across the Sahel, and reports that Mozambique plans to sell 60,000km2 of land to Brazilian farmers for mainly export crops. Among many other topical subjects, ORG’s blog, www.sustainablesecurity.org, has continued to provide comment and analysis on the long term implications that growing competition over resources - water, food, energy, and land - will have on global security. Read more »

Publication: 25 May 2011

Non-Western Perspectives on Global Security: New Analysis on Sustainable Security

Despite making up the majority of the world’s people, perspectives from the countries collectively known as the ‘Global South’ are severely underrepresented in mainstream security debates. ORG’s project on Sustainable Security and the Global South is working hard to showcase some of the latest analysis of key global security trends by highlighting ‘voices from the margins’ in regions such as South Asia, Latin America and East Africa. ORG has recently commissioned a series of articles for sustainablesecurity.org on issues such as human security, marginalisation and environmental insecurity. Read more »

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