Regional Stakeholders Discuss Regional Alliance-Building to Promote Human Security
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Alexandria—Regional experts and scholars convene to discuss problems in human security that have an impact on the West Asia and North Africa (WANA) region on 27 and 28 January 2010.
Under the patronage of HRH Prince El-Hassan bin Talal, the Regional Human Security Centre, in partnership with the Suzanne Mubarak Women’s International Peace Movement Institute for Peace Studies in the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, the WANA Forum, and the Canadian International Development Agency, host the seminar “Building Alliances for Human Security in the WANA Region”.
In response to a WANA-Led Reconstruction and Recovery Expert Consultation held in Amman, Jordan in October 2009, over 50 experts and scholars representing West Asia and North Africa attend the Alexandria seminar. The goal is to advance the development of regional understandings of the root causes of lack of human security for the people of the region. In addition, the seminar provides an opportunity to examine the region's resources that can help guarantee social sustainability through strengthening social cohesion and identifying regional priorities. Furthermore, best practices in managing and strengthening human security within the region will be presented and discussed. A regional network of experts that can support policy development and decision-making in priority areas impacting human security will be expanded and strengthened.
This two-day event is the first in a series of regional seminars which will bring together representatives of government, multi-lateral, academic, research and policy development institutions, as well as non-governmental organizations from the WANA Region to promote dialogue and partnerships to meet the challenges to human security that are most important to members of WANA. The event aims to contribute to an emerging, integrated approach to addressing human security issues through development of the relationships, alliances, networks and shared understanding of problems within the region.