Final Programme - 13th International Anti-Corruption Conference

MC 3 / L. -114:00 – 16:00 Workshop 5.4Climate Change and Migration:Human Security Risk for the Mediterranean RegionStream 3: Climate ChangeCoordinator:Thanos Dokos, Director General, Hellenic Foundation for European & Foreign Policy, ELIAMEPFor most countries, security today is primarily measured in non-military terms and threats to security arenon-military in nature. These threats include incompetent government, corruption, organized crime,insecure borders, smuggling [weapons, drugs, contraband, people], illegal migration, ethnic andreligious conflict, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, shortage of natural resources [e.g.,water] and, of course, terrorism. Security today takes in social development and demands the involvementof all elements of society in a way which security in the Cold War days did not.Although the issues under examination have a global dimension, the panel will have a regional focus:the Mediterranean. In terms of thematic areas, after introducing the concept of human security, it willfocus on two non-traditional and interlinked security challenges: migration and climate change.The reaction and future strategies of governments will be discussed, both in relation with the managementof population movements and in connection to the mitigation of climate change.It will be argued that meeting these new security requirements demands fundamental reform ofregional and national structures, and systems of governance. Likewise it demands the evolution ofinternational institutions on a truly radical scale. Corruption will be a major issue as it is connected to anumber of challenges such as:• human trafficking, as a by product of migration• corruption of public servants by organized crime• the need to reduce pollution, encourage clean energy and manage the consequences of climatechange, which will involve the distribution of considerable funds by government agencies and internationalorganizations to municipalities, corporations and individuals;Respective speakers will address the importance of reducing corruption in addressing the problemsoutlined above.Moderator: Thanos Dokos, Director General, Hellenic Foundation for European & Foreign Policy ELIAMEPRapporteur: Josie Hooker, Américas department, Transparency InternationalPanellists: Anna Triantaphyllidou, Senior Research Fellow, Hellenic Foundation for European & Foreign Policy ELIAMEPDimitri Lalas, Director, FACE3TS Ltd.Theodore Skylakakis, Secretary-General for International Economic Relations and Development Co-operation and SpecialRepresentative of the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs on climate change70