On Saturday, April 20th from 11am-12pm, eARTh Studio will present an interactive lecture for all ages! Learn about the important relationship between art and sustainability. Participants will receive 2 free tickets to the Human Security Award ceremony recognizing the work of artist Chris Jordan.
The Center for Unconventional Security Affairs (CUSA), started in 2003, is a department at UC Irvine that takes a look at modern issues and challenges for human and environmental security through “innovative research and education programs that integrate experts from the public and private sector.”
CUSA focuses on two core areas in it’s programming and research, Environment Conflict and Peace Building and Global Change and Human Security. It’s interdisciplinary approach seeks to cultivate a new generation of leaders and researchers with education programs involving experts from the public and private sector. CUSA researchers and students have conducted research fieldwork in more than twenty-five countries and on all seven continents, including Antarctica.
Here’s a TEDxOrangeCoast talk with Richard Matthew, Ph.D., the founding director of the Center for Unconventional Security Affairs.
Professor Matthew spends much of his time in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, studying how environmental stress contributes to violent conflict and other types of crisis. For several years he has worked closely with the United Nations to integrate natural resource management and climate change adaptation into peace-building efforts, participating in various field assessments and directing one in Sierra Leone. He teaches courses on sustainability and social enterprise.
The Environment Art and Human Security (eARTh) Studio, founded by Pamela Donohoo, aerialist, cirque-style acrobat, dancer/ choreographer, gymnast, approaches the issues of environment, sustainability and human security issues through art. Pamela Donohoo performed an improvisational dance while simultaneously creating a 9′x9′ painting that captured movements informed and inspired by the experience of women in conflict zones as part of our Women, War, and Peace Lecture.
Support CUSA’s efforts towards a more peaceful world and read more about it’s upcoming events and projects at their website.
This Fall on October 10th, TEDxOrangeCoast will be hosting a new event, TEDxOrangeCoast 2012 Redefining Relevance, at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts! This will be an exciting conference with a mission to help turn inspiring ideas into action. UCI’s Center for Unconventional Affairs’s founder, Professor Richard Matthews, will be featured in his second TEDxOrangeCoast talk. His talk in 2011 was on Natural Resources for Peacebuilding and can be viewed on the TEDxOrange Coast website along with their other past talks.
This year’s conference will revolve around the questions, how do you make sense of a world that is constantly changing and how do you solve problems that haven’t been defined?
The Center for Unconventional Security Affairs will honor social entrepreneur Jessica Jackley with the 2012 Human Security Award on Thursday, May 10 at the Arnold and Mable Beckman Center in Irvine at 7 p.m.
Jessica is focused on empowering other entrepreneurs by creating new ways and resources for them to succeed. She is the Founder and CEO of ProFounder, a Venture Founder with Collaborative Fund and the co-founder of Kiva.
Learn more about Jackley’s innovative and inspiring work by attending this great event! More details and information on how to RSVP can be found here.
