UT: March 24-25 2011 Munk Graduate Student Conference

In case you are interested:

RPS Partner The Munk School Presents the following Graduate Conference:

2011 Munk Graduate Student Conference
Empty Stomachs and Loaded Rifles: Food Scarcity and Global Security
March 24th – 25th Vivian and David Campbell Conference Facility

The Munk School of Global Affairs is pleased to announce the 2011 Graduate Student Conference. The Munk School of Global Affairs is a hub for scholars and practitioners at the forefront of research and debate. Accordingly, the conference will draw on multidisciplinary scholars and practitioners in the governmental, non-governmental, and private sectors.

This year’s conference, Empty Stomachs and Loaded Rifles: Food Scarcity and Global Security, promises to ignite a timely discussion of the leading issues confronting the global community in the 21st century. Specifically, the conference will explore the critical links between food shortage and conflict. Indeed, issues of food scarcity and global security are increasingly inseparable. As such, the conference will stimulate panel discussions on three leading themes, namely Control and Equity of Food Supply, Food Scarcity as a Catalyst for Political Unrest, and Weaponization of Food.

The conference will be held at the University of Toronto from March 24th – 25th at the Vivian and David Campbell Conference Facility (1 Devonshire Place, M5S 3K7). On March 24th, Jeffrey Sachs, Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, will deliver a special address via videoconference. This will be followed by a keynote address by Peter Gill, author of “Famine and Foreigners: Ethiopia Since Live Aid”. The three panel discussions will be held on March 25th. Among the panelists are filmmaker and journalist Alexandre Trudeau, coauthor of “Witness to Transformation: Refugee Insights into North Korea,” Stephan Haggard, former Deputy Commander of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan, Lt. General Andrew Leslie, and Ambassador John Schram (Ret’d).

For the conference website and registration details, please visit: http://www.munkschool.utoronto.ca/mgc/

Student registration is $10.00 and regular registration is $15.00.

For further information, contact us at:

munk.graduateconference@utoronto.ca

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