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under way, in particular with a view to defining human security
agendas at the regional and in particular at the subregional level.
Thus, in the framework of the International SecuriPax
Network for the Promotion of Human Security and Peace
launched by the participants in November 2000, four regional
follow-up expert meetings have been organized for the second
half of 2001 on the theme ‘Peace, Human Security and Conflict
Prevention’:
first, on Africa, in cooperation with the Institute for
Security Studies, in Pretoria (South Africa), July 2001;
second, on South Asia, in cooperation with the Pakistan
Institute of International Affairs (PIIA), in Karachi (Pakistan),
October 2001;
third, on Central Asia, in cooperation with the National
Commission for UNESCO, in Almaty, (Kazakhstan), November
2001;
fourth, on Latin America and the Caribbean, in
cooperation with the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences
(FLACSO), in Santiago (Chile), November 2001.
The proceedings of these expert meetings will also be
jointly published by UNESCO and its partners and will serve to
set the agendas of the regional international conferences planned
for 2002–2003, as well as the Second International Meeting of
Directors of Peace Research and Training Institutions, to be held
in 2003 at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris.
Last but not least, many of the issues already identified
have also been duly reflected in UNESCO’s Draft Medium-Term
Strategy for 2002–2007, in which human security is given a
prominent place under Strategic Objective 5, entitled Improving
human security by better management of the environment
and social change. In this framework, UNESCO will, inter alia,
‘further address the need to prevent conflicts at their source and the
needs of the most vulnerable populations at regional and
subregional levels, through its global network of peace research
and training institutions, thereby reinforcing human security and
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