Abstract
The global impacts of climate change, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the humanitarian crisis of refugee and forced migration flows, have demonstrated that old, state-centric models of peacebuilding and development are insufficient to address the contemporary threat environment. These non-traditional security (NTS) issues pose additional challenges to policymakers in East Asia (both Northeast and Southeast), a region dominated by traditional state-centric approaches, and overshadowed by conflictual legacies. These challenges have also, however, given an opportunity to actors which are little regarded in the traditional paradigms, including small and medium-ranked powers, NGOs, and representatives of civil society. Furthermore, new policy platforms related to good governance, human security, sustainable development, the responsibility to protect (R2P), and the humanitarian-development-peace nexus (HDPN) are increasingly prominent. This paper advocates disruptive policy innovation, through a form of regional international commission driven by East Asian middle powers and civil society organisations (CSOs) engaging in track 1 and track 2 diplomacy, to address the new global challenges.
Presenters
Brendan HoweDean and Professor of International Relations, Graduate School of International Studies, Ewha Womans University, Seoul Teugbyeolsi [Seoul-T'ukpyolshi], South Korea
Details
Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Theme
2022 Special Focus—What to Make of Crises: Emerging Methods, Principles, Actions
KEYWORDS
COVID-19, Climate Change, Refugees, East Asia, International Commissions, CSOs
