Peace and Security Academy
CPG’s Academy on “Peace and Security”
The Academy gathered 41 participants - from 11 countries including Canada, Germany, Italy, Jordan, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Taiwan.
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The provision of peace and security is the fundamental objective of statehood and international order. As much as peace and security unquestionably form the primary and most precious goal of any political order, they are inescapably challenged by a broad phalanx of threats. To maintain and restore peace andsecurity on the local, national, and international level therefore lies at the core of statecraft and remains one of the most consequential subjects of political, legal, historical, psychological, sociological, and military studies. While the Cold War era brought about a great interest in the conceptual foundations of the peace and security layer of statecraft, the focus of interest expanded to various challenges like ethnical violent conflicts, terrorism, piracy, and organized crime since the end of the Cold War. At the same time, with the 1994 Human Development Report, these issues became often embedded in a broader practical approach to human security comprising the interconnected economic, food, health, environmental, personal, community and political dimension of security. At present, the eternal quest for peace and security faces the concurrence of particularly challenging conditions on a global scale that are affecting the full spectrum of human security from the local to the international level.
Mr. Henning Glaser, Director of CPG, during welcoming remarks
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Insofar, the global state of peace and security is shaped by critically shifting parameters in five interrelated dimensions:
• a fraying global order,
• an increasingly fierce great power rivalry,
• an emerging primacy of geopolitics,
• a disrupted and reshaping globalization,
• an unprecedented rise of global challenges among which some pose existential threats to human civilization.
Under these conditions, peace and security will be at the heart of politics, law, and governance in all domains for the years to come. Against this backdrop, CPG´s Peace and Security Academy 2023 seeks to explore questions such as:
A total of 26 sessions were held at the Faculty of Law, Thammasat University Tha Phrachan Campus
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• Which paradigms and basic conditions shape the strategies of and outlooks for peace and security?
• Which institutions, normative orders, governance mechanisms and tools are available to maintain or restore peace and security?
• What are some of the most pressing challenges for peace and security in our time?
• How will some of the current conflict spots in Asia likely develop in the foreseeable future?