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Unconventional Security Research Group
Activities in this area focus on identifying root causes of today's unconventional security challenges and developing solutions that empower and protect communities with heightened vulnerability to processes of global change.
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Environment, Art and Human Security (eARTh) Studio
The eARTh Studio supports artistic endeavors on pressing environment, sustainability and human security issues. The studio promotes artist collaborations with scientists and environmental and human security practitioners. The studio also supports artist field research, performances and festivals that aim to advance sustainability and increase human security around the world.
Founding Artist/ Program Director: Pamela Donohoo
Transformational Media Lab (TML)
TML studies how media is (and can be) used to transform individuals, communities, and systems. Although media has been engaging and inspiring audiences throughout its history, new information and communication technologies have opened up a whole new set of opportunities for media to serve as an agent for social change. Our lab studies the potential and application of these technologies and their implications for civic action and social change.
Education and Service
This core area focuses on developing simple and effective strategies to improve preparedness, readiness and response at local, organizational, regional, national and international levels.
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Featured News and Events
CUSA's 2012 Sustainability Series begins January 25th!
Food for the Future:
A conversation with environmental historian Bryan McDonald
Read CUSA Senior Fellow, Bryan McDonald's interview on food security.
Glacier Melt, Early Snowmelt
and Sea Level Rise
Dr. Jay Famiglietti, Director of the UC Center for Hydrologic Modeling, and Dr. Richard Matthew have been collaborating on research around issues of sustainability and water security.
Preparing for the Security Challenges of the 21st Century
CUSA sponsored and hosted the second event in the Post 9/11: Science, Policy, & Law Series on “Preparing for the Security Challenges of the 21st Century.”
CUSA Co- Hosted "Security for the Future" October 13-15, 2011
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CUSA Advisory Board Member, Dave Maggard's editorial on the 10th anniversary of 911
CUSA Advisory Board Member, Dave Maggard talks about some of the changes made by police departments, and other public safety agencies throughout America during the past decade since the attacks on 9/11.
Groundwater Depletion Is Detected From Space
CUSA faculty affiliate, Jay S. Famiglietti, featured in the NY Times.
Richard Matthew, PhD, presented on Innovation in Sustainability and Peace-building
The 2011 Human Security Award was presented to Alexandra Cousteau, the founder of Blue Legacy.
Cyber Security: Current Challenges, Future Trends
February 18th, 2011
Food Price Shocks and Instability Highlight Weaknesses in Governance and Markets- CUSA Advisory Board Member, Bryan McDonald's contribution to The New Security Beat
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Global Climate Change on a Human Scale: Potential Savings and Psychological Approaches
January25 - 3:00 - 5:00 pm
Calit2 Auditorium
Global climate change is a human problem, both in terms of its causes and consequences. A closer look at the human scale of climate change can involve examining the potential savings of various approaches, differences and commonalities in climate change beliefs, and responses to messaging and information. This seminar features behavioral scientists discussing these issues and highlighting the importance of approaching climate change at the human scale.
Click here for more information and to view the rest of CUSA's 2012 Sustainability Series
2012 Call for Proposals: Human Security Research Fellowships
The Center for Unconventional Security Affairs (CUSA) is pleased to announce our 2011-2012 Human Security Research Fellowship Program call for proposals.
Our Human Security Research Fellowships are intended to support research on human security issues, including topics such as: human security, sustainable development, development of alternative energy sources and pro-poor technologies, medical and public health interventions, environmental change, peace building and conflict resolution.
We especially encourage applications in the fields of medicine, the natural sciences, engineering, and information technology where the research has applicability to reducing human insecurity.
Application Deadline: Monday, February 6, 2012 by 5:00 pm.
Download the full call for proposals (Acrobat reader required)
CUSA 's Women, War and Peace Performance and Presentations
CUSA participated in A Day of Service, "Women, War and Peace," presented by the Center for Living Peace on Saturday, October 8, 2011. CUSA had a unique opportunity to share a video created in DRC by CUSA Research Affiliate, Holly Dunn. In addition, CUSA Artist in Residence, Pamela Donohoo, performed an improvisational dance while simultaneously creating a large piece of visual art informed by the experience of women in war and in creating peace. Pamela's performance communicated the relationship between movement and women, war and peace. CUSA Director, Richard Matthew and Research Affiliate, Crystal Murphy also gave presentations on this topic based on their field experiances.
More information on CUSA's Environment, Art and Human Secuirty (eARTh) stuidio will be avaialable soon...
CUSA Director at TEDxOrangeCoast
May 19, 2011
Richard Matthew, PhD, founding director of the Center for Unconventional Security Affairs, will be inspiring audience members with his innovation in sustainability and peace-building efforts at TEDxOrangeCoast on May 19, 2011. To find more information about the event, and to register for it, please visit: http://tedxorangecoast.com/
About CUSA
The Center for Unconventional Security Affairs addresses the human and environmental security challenges of the twenty-first century through innovative research and education programs that integrate experts from the public and private sector.
CUSA is the hub of a global network that undertakes interdisciplinary research to understand and develop solutions to pressing security challenges. CUSA's education programs prepare the next generation of leaders and researchers and our public service activities enhance awareness, preparedness and response to help addressemerging security challenges that impact our families, communities, and nation.
CUSA's network includes faculty and students and is guided by an active Advisory Board of governmental, non-governmental and business leaders from around the world. Our researchers and students have conducted research fieldwork in more than twenty-five countries and on all seven continents, including Antarctica.