2009
December 14, 2009
The recipient of the 2009 Right Livelihood Award (also called the Alternative Nobel Prize) Alyn Ware is visiting University of Hamburg. He is invited by Jürgen Scheffran and Martin Kalinowski who both have worked with Alyn Ware in drafting the Model Nuclear Weapons Convention (for more information see the book Security and Survival of 1999, which has been updated in 2007).
December 13, 2009
Symposium on "Climate Change and Conflicts: The danger of future wars" in Copenhagen, Denmark. This side event of COP 15 is organized by the International Network of Engineers and Scientists for Global Responsibility (INES) and No To War Denmark (NTK). Talk by Jürgen Scheffran. Further details of this event can be found here and here.
December 04, 2009
Symposium on "Energy, Climate Change, and Global Food Security" in Copenhagen, Denmark held at the University of Copenhagen. Lecture by Jürgen Scheffran.
December 01, 2009
Workshop on "Klimakriege - die neue Herausforderung im 21. Jahrhundert?" in Ingelheim, Germany, hosted by the Fridtjof-Nansen-Academy for Political Education. Talks by Jürgen Scheffran on "Zukunftsszenario Klimakriege? Klimawandel und gewaltsame Konflikte - ein vernachlässigter Zusammenhang" and on "Friedliche, gerechte und nachhaltige Klimapolitik? Ein Ausblick". Details about this event are available here (PDF).
November 25, 2009
Panel discussion with Jürgen Scheffran on "Klimapolitik in den USA: Was hat sich geändert unter Präsident Barack Obama?", which is organized by the Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung für die Freiheit. More detailed information on this event can be found here (PDF).
November 19-20, 2009
The Research Group Climate Change and Security coordinates an international conference on "Climate Change, Social Stress and Violent Conflict - State of the Art and Research Needs", which is held at University of Hamburg, November 19 and 20, 2009. More detailed information on this conference is available here.
November 06, 2009
Presentation by Janpeter Schilling of an overview of his Ph.D. research ("Promotionsvorhaben Klimawandel-Sicherheit als Anwendungsbeispiel Agenbasierter Modellierung") in a seminar on Agententechnik organized by the Department of Computer Science at University of Hamburg.
November 05, 2009
Talk by Jürgen Scheffran on "Sicherheitsrisiken und Konflikte infolge des Klimawandels - Wer sind die Betroffenen?" in a colloquium organized by the Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker-Zentrum für Naturwissenschaft und Friedensforschung (ZNF), Hamburg.
October 29, 2009
The German weekly newspaper Die ZEIT published a special on science in Hamburg. The article "Klimawandel durch Annäherung - Natur- und Sozialwissenschaftler suchen gemeinsam nach Lösungen, um die Erde zu retten" (pp. 52-54) addresses the research conducted by CLISEC.
October 27, 2009
Talk by Michael Link at the Ida-Ehre-Gesamtschule in Hamburg about "Die weltweite Hochseefischerei - totale Ausbeutung oder nachhaltige Nutzung mariner Ressourcen?"
Presentation by Jürgen Scheffran about the "Modeling of Conflict and Cooperation on Natural Resources" as part of the Adam-Smith-Seminar organized by Institute of SocioEconomics at University of Hamburg.
October 21, 2009
Publication of an article by Jürgen Scheffran on "Gesellschaften im Klimastress:Konflikt oder Kooperation?" (p. 31, in German) in the newspaper Hamburger Abendblatt. It is available here (PDF).
September 20-23, 2009
Bi-annual Convention of German Geographers in Vienna, Austria with a talk by Jürgen Scheffran about "Risikozonen, Unsicherheitsgrenzen und Konfliktgeographie des Klimawandels", which was part of a session on resource conflicts. Poster presentations by Michael Link on "Auswirkungen eines Zusammenbruchs der atlantischen thermohalinen Zirkulation auf die Fischerei in der Barentssee" and on "Die aktuellen Veränderungen der agrarischen Landnutzung auf der Halbinsel Eiderstedt und deren Auswirkungen".