‘Is Region Ready for a New Pandemic?’, an article written by Head of the RSIS Centre for NTS Studies, Prof. Mely Caballero-Anthony and Centre’s Research Analyst, Ms Gayle Amul, has been published in TODAY on 13 May. The article has since been re-published in The Malaysian Insider on 20 May, and in The Edge Review in its 17–23 May edition.
Posted on: 05 May 2013 |
Topic: Climate Change, Environmental Security and Natural Disasters / Food Security
This meeting, to be organised by the RSIS Centre for NTS Studies on 5–6 June in Manila, seeks to explore which elements of climate change (scenarios or events) may impact the components of the food ecosystem, and in doing so, affect the food security of ASEAN.
This meeting, to be organised by the RSIS Centre for NTS Studies on 3–4 June in Manila, seeks to explores which elements of the AEC may impact one or more of the components of the food ecosystem, and in doing so, affect the food security of the ASEAN region generally, and Singapore more specifically (as a case study country which imports over 90 per cent of its food).
Posted on: 14 April 2013 |
Topic: Other NTS Issues
The Centre now has its own blog to provide an online platform for a multiplicity of young voices on increasingly pressing NTS issues endemic in the region. Contributors include the centre’s researchers as well as junior fellows from the ASEAN-Canada Research Partnership. This blog is a natural expansion of the MacArthur Asia Security Initiative Blog which started in 2009. Topics discussed cover a wide spectrum, from disaster preparedness, energy security post-Fukushima, perceptions of ASEAN inequality to tobacco packaging in Australia.
Posted on: 06 April 2013 |
Topic: Climate Change, Environmental Security and Natural Disasters / Energy Security / Food Security / Health Security / Internal and Cross-Border Conflict / Other NTS Issues
ISEAS recently published a book titled Non-Traditional Security in Asia: Issues, Challenges and Framework for Action. The book is a collection of the Centre’s research on non-traditional security issues and challenges in the region.
Posted on: 06 April 2013 |
Topic: Other NTS Issues
An abridged version of an article on Singapore’s water experience written by Prof. Mely Caballero-Anthony (Head of Centre) and PK Hangzo (Associate Research Fellow) was featured in the February/March 2013 edition of Engineering World.
Transitional Justice in Asia II Amnesty International issued a report last month, Time to Face the Past: Justice for Past Abuses in Indonesia’s Aceh Province, that urges for meaningful [...]
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Waste picking to waste managing in Asian cities In a recent NTS Alert on urban vulnerabilities, it was noted that the informal economic sector plays a significant role in supporting the formal economic [...]