The mission of the Ford Institute for Human Security is to promote effective responses to severe threats faced by civilians as a result of violent conflict. To that end, the Institute conducts research on the causes and consequences of political violence and works to advance the idea that governments have a sovereign responsibility to protect their people.
  

The Ford Institute for Human Security


The Ford Institute for Human Security engages in independent and collaborative research on causes of political violence, the effects of conflict on civilians, methods of conflict resolution, and transitions from conflict to stable peace. We make our research findings available through publications, presentations and consultation to national and international policy makers, non-governmental organizations and other interested parties.

The Ford Institute treats human security and national security as mutually reinforcing. The gravest threats to human security arise when governments are unable or unwilling to protect their population from internal and external threats. Governments face their greatest challenges when the lives and livelihoods of the people they govern are threatened.

Human Security at GSPIA

The Graduate School of Public and International Affairs offers a major concentration in human security for degree candidates in International Affairs and International Development. The major adopts a broad definition of human security as the protection of people from large-scale threats to their physical and economic well being. The Ford Institute and the human security major together make GSPIA a leader in research and education concerning the complex security challenges people face in this rapidly changing world.

 

“Human Nature: Terrorism and Conflict” Lecture

03/24/2010

The University of Pittsburgh’s Matthew B. Ridgway Center for International Security Studies, the Ford Institute for Human Security and the Professor Paul M. Katz Lecture on Economic and Social Development will present a lecture by Dr. Dipak K. Gupta, director of International Security & Conflict Resolution at San Diego State University. This lecture titled, “Human Nature: Terrorism and Conflict,” will be presented at 12 – 1 p.m. Wed., March 24 in room 3911. GSPIA students and faculty are invited to attend.

John Prendergast, Co-founder of Enough, to Speak on Genocide

04/06/2010

The Ford Institute for Human Security will host John Prendergast, co-founder of the anti-genocide group Enough and one of the strongest voices in Washington arguing for the U.S. government to “never again” allow genocide to happen without a response, Tues., Apr. 6 from 4:30 – 6 p.m. The university community is invited to attend.

 
 

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