Working Groups


Security

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Includes national and foreign policy-based as well as borders-crossing social issues, such as disaster relief, community health, food distribution, cyber security, threats of terrorism, drug trafficking. And ethno-politics in relation to migration/immigration.

TEAM LEADER: Paul Kowert


Governance

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Defined as the exercise of political authority at various levels, refers not only to political decision-making, but also to the interplay of non-state actors, such as civil society or markets, with legitimate political authorities on a local, subnational, national and supranational level.

TEAM LEADER: Markus Thiel


Environment

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Covering resource management in light of environmental hazards and natural catastrophes, especially affecting urban areas, as well as defining the human-environment relationship and the "natural" in relation to the pressing need for renewable energy development.

TEAM LEADER: Gail Hollander


Identity

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Involves problems of social identity construction as well as cultural and commercial exchanges such as trade and tourism that incorporate economic, political, religious and other aspects at levels ranging from the individual to the regional, and the national to the transnational.

TEAM LEADERS: Rebecca Friedman and Jean Rahier