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The Munk School of Global Affairs is pleased to announce the 2011 Graduate Student Conference. This year’s conference, Empty Stomachs and Loaded Rifles: Food Scarcity and Global Security, promises to ignite a timely discussion of the leading issues confronting the global community in the 21st century. Specifically, the conference will explore the critical links between food shortage and conflict. Indeed, issues of food scarcity and global security are increasingly inseparable. As such, the conference will stimulate panel discussions on three leading themes, namely Control and Equity of Food Supply, Food Scarcity as a Catalyst for Political Unrest, and Weaponization of Food.

The conference will be held at the University of Toronto from March 24th – 25th. On March 24th, Jeffrey Sachs, Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, will deliver a special address via videoconference. This will be followed by a keynote address by Peter Gill, author of “Famine and Foreigners: Ethiopia Since Live Aid”. The three panel discussions will be held on March 25th. Among the panelists are filmmaker and journalist Alexandre Trudeau, coauthor of “Witness to Transformation: Refugee Insights into North Korea” Stephan Haggard, former Deputy Commander of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan Lt. General Andrew Leslie, and Ambassador John Schram (Ret’d).

For the conference website and registration details, please visit: https://www.munkschool.utoronto.ca/mgc/

Student registration is $10.00 and regular registration is $15.00.

For further information, contact us at:
munk.graduateconference@utoronto.ca

We look forward to seeing you there!

Conference agenda:
March 24th, 2011

5:00 p.m. – Registration Begins

5:45 p.m. – Special Address by Jeffrey Sachs (Via Video Conference)
Director, Earth Institute, Columbia University

6:00 p.m. – Keynote Address Peter Gill
Author, “Famine and Foreigners: Ethiopia Since Live Aid”

7:00 p.m. – Reception

March 25th, 2011

9:00 a.m. – Registration Opens (coffee and tea served)

9:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Panel 1: Control and Equity of Food Supply
Panelists:
Dr. Harriet Friedmann
Dr. Sabrina Schulz
Mr. Alexandre Trudeau
Chair: Mr. Brian Stewart

11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. – Lunch break

1:15 p.m. – 2:50 p.m.

Panel 2: Food Scarcity as a Catalyst for Political Unrest
Panelists:
Dr. John Schram
Mr. Peter Gill
Mr. Alexandre Trudeau
Chair: Dr. Sabrina Schulz

2:50 p.m. – 3:10 p.m. – Break

3:10 p.m. – 4:45 p.m.

Panel 3: Weaponization of Food
Panelists:
Dr. Stephan Haggard
Lt. General Andrew Leslie
Dr. Ellen Messer
Chair: Dr. Jean-Yves Haine