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INTERNATIONAL VILLAGE SEMINAR - WINTER 2007
This seminar will be held near the International Village in Arroyo Vista. It is open by permission to Education Abroad Program (EAP) reciprocity students, other residents of International Village, and to other continuing students particularly interested in international study. To get an authorization code, call the Division of Undergraduate Education at (949) 824-6987.
SCHOOL OF SOCIAL ECOLOGY Scenarios of the World's Future Richard Matthew, Policy, Planning and Design Tu, 1-1:50 pm, Arroyo Vista, House 1088 Course Code 87611 The rapid pace of technology innovation and diffusion along with the opening up of political systems and the expansion of global trade have provided remarkable opportunities and resources to many people. However, these changes have also generated new threats and vulnerabilities that have varying effects on people around the world. The magnitude of global change in recent years has stimulated much discussion of what sort of world is taking shape. Some see a future of great misery and violence, while others are optimistic about the world's capacity to solve problems such as chronic poverty, climate change and infectious disease. In this course we will examine different scenarios of the world's future, and ask how this discussion might influence the decisions we make today. Richard A. Matthew (Ph.D. Princeton) is an Associate Professor of International and Environmental Politics in the Schools of Social Ecology and Social Science at the University of California at Irvine, and Director of the Center for Unconventional Security Affairs. He is also the Senior Fellow for Security at the International Institute for Sustainable Development, and a member of the World Conservation Union's Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy. His research focuses on the environmental dimensions of conflict and security in the developing world, especially South Asia and East Africa, where he has collaborated with the International Institute for Sustainable Development to study environmental change in relation to the causes of conflict, conflict resolution and post-conflict reconstruction in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sudan. Recent books and co-edited volumes include Contested Grounds: Security and Conflict in the New Environmental Politics (SUNY Press: 1999); Dichotomy of Power: Nation versus State in World Politics (Lexington: 2002); Conserving the Peace: Resources, Livelihoods, and Security (IISD: 2002); Reframing the Agenda: The Impact of NGO and Middle Power Cooperation in International Security Policy (Praeger: 2003); and Landmines and Human Security: International Relations and War's Hidden Legacy (SUNY Press: 2004). |
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