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Russia’s War in Ukraine and its Planetary Consequences for Sustainability

Russia’s War in Ukraine and its Planetary Consequences for Sustainability: An Interdisciplinary Conference

28 June 2022, Scarman Conference Centre

9:30 am - 6 pm

Conference Overview

IGSD in collaboration with GRPs at the University of Warwick is organizing this one-day conference, to discuss the global consequences of Russia’s War in Ukraine, for the sustainability of the planet. The ongoing war unleashed by Russia on 24 February 2022 against Ukraine does not only have devastating consequences for the latter, causing mass onslaught of civilians, and total obliteration of country’s infrastructure and resources. We are indeed witnessing what the Germans have called - a Zeitenwende – a major historical turning point that will have profound implications on everything - on a planetary scale - from trade, production, supply and wealth, to security, war and the ability of the global international society to meet urgent challenges such as climate change, poverty, inequality and global health. This mini-conference is only the first event of the series of the IGSD global sustainability encounters, and will address specific challenges of sustainability with planetary consequences:

  • Energy & food security in the context of Russia’s war: from cascading risks to global effects
  • Ruined cities & destroyed infrastructures: what are the consequences for global connectedness?
  • Cyber security & disinformation: how to build a more secure future?
  • The human dimension: what lessons for democratic sresilience?

Programme Details

Time Agenda
9:30 -10:00 Registration

10:00 -10:40

(40 mins)

Setting the Scene: European War, Planetary Consequences

Chair: Elena Korosteleva

Speakers:

  • Milja Kurki, Aberystwyth, on global relatedness & connectedness
  • Trine Flockhart, SDU/EUI, on shattering of global international order
  • Tim G. Benton, research Director for the Environment & Society Programme, Chatham House

10:40 - 11:40

(1 hr)

Panel 1. Energy & Food Security in the context of Russia’s war: from cascading risks to global effects?

Chair: Nikoleta Jones

Speakers:

  • Michael Bradshaw, UK Energy Supply & Security
  • Laura Wellesley, Senior Research Fellow, Chatham House, food sustainability programme
  • Elnur Soltanov, Deputy Minister of Energy, Azerbaija or Taleh Ziyadov, Direcvtor General, Baku International sea Trade Port, Azerbaijan, or Baktiyar Aslanbayli, Vice-President BP Azerbaijan
  • XU Qinhua, Vice Dean NADS, Executive Dean at Institute of Eurasian Studies, Renmin University of China

 
11: 40 - 12:00 Coffee Break
12:00 - 13:00

Panel 2. Ruined Cities, Obliterated Infrastructures & Displaced People: what are the consequences for global sustainability?

Chair: ??

Speakers:

  • Jon Coaffee
  • Anar Valiyev, ADA University
  • Anthony King 
  • Maria Koinova 
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:00

Panel 3. Cyberwarfare & Disinformation: how to build a more secure & sustainable future?

Chair: George Christou

 

Speakers:

  • Benjamine Heap - Senior Expert (A5) GBR-LVA CIV, NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence, Latvia
  • Carsten Maple – Data privacy, identity & cyber security
  • Richard Aldrich – Espionage, Data security
15:00 - 15:20 Coffee Break
15:20 - 16:20

Panel 4. The Human Dimension: what lessons for democratic resilience?

Chair: Elena Korosteleva

 

Speakers:

  • Richard Youngs
  • Irina Petrova, UCL SSEES
  • Anastasiia Kudlenko, Warwick IGSD
  • Tatsiana Chulitskaya/Beldiman, Office of Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya
16:20 - 16:40

Closing

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