Webinar Series Workshop Announcement
Enhancing International Scientific Cooperation: Arctic Science and Technology Advice with Ministries
Registration deadline: Friday, 11 February 2022
For more information and to register, go to:
https://www.unitar.org/event/full-catalog/enhancing-international-scien…
Organizers announce an upcoming three-part virtual workshop on Enhancing International Scientific Cooperation: Arctic Science and Technology Advice with Ministries. The initial training webinar will take place 21 February 2022 at 1:00 p.m. GMT (8:00 a.m. EST), with the second and third webinars taking place during March.
The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), Program on Negotiation (PON) at Harvard Law School, and Polar Cooperation Research Center at Kobe University, with the coordination by the Science Diplomacy Center at EvREsearch LTD, will collaborate on a project supported by the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Consulate-General of Japan in Boston on Enhancing International Scientific Cooperation: Arctic Science and Technology Advice with Ministries.
This international, interdisciplinary, and inclusive project, consisting of three webinars, aims to help enhance international scientific cooperation by inclusively addressing inevitable questions that involve international law, ministries of nations, Indigenous peoples, and science inclusively with global relevance. More specifically, this project will consider relationships and synergies between the 2017 Agreement on Enhancing International Arctic Scientific Cooperation that entered into force in 2018 among the eight Arctic states and the Arctic Science Ministerial (ASM) process that began in 2016 with dialogues among Arctic and non-Arctic states as well as Indigenous Peoples’ Organizations. The Arctic will be analyzed as a global case study with science and ministerial relationships in view of climate and the grand challenges of humanity to balance national interests and common interests.
The series will consist of three webinars, including:
Webinar 1: What is Arctic Science? (21 February 2022)
- How do natural sciences, social sciences, and Indigenous knowledge ‘fit together’ and enhance each other?
- How is science facilitated/conducted? Who is needed to do ‘the science’?
- Is international cooperation needed? If so, to what degree?
Webinar 2: How can science transform data into evidence for informed decision making? (10 March 2022)
- How are the decisions on what priorities are to be addressed made?
- Who are the decision makers?
- What evidence is needed and how is that evidence defined?
Webinar 3: What international efforts/processes are needed to facilitate progress in understanding the Arctic system and its global impacts? (24 March 2022)
- What are the mechanisms that exist?
- How could enhanced science cooperation impact other areas of international relations?
Registration deadline: Friday, 11 February 2022
For more information and to register, go to:
https://www.unitar.org/event/full-catalog/enhancing-international-scien…