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This course is to explore the role of nuclear weapons in international politics, looking at history, strategy, regional situations in Asia and Europe, as well as nuclear arms control and the relationship with ballistic missile defence. Nuclear weapons have affected our life and international politics since the weapon was first used in Hiroshima. Understanding nuclear weapons is therefore central in understanding the nature of international politics and security.

This seminar will focus on environment and disaster risk reduction, with specific emphasis on examples from community development and community empowerment in Asia. Asia has the highest population and density, and the region has different crucial issues of high economic development, differential poverty, and environmental issues. To address this complex issue, it needs to be linked to human security, environmental management and disaster risk reduction. Since environment and disaster issues are interlinked, to address this problem in an integrated way, it is important to understand stakeholder participation. This seminar will aims at learning on community empowerment and community development and its relation with environment and disaster risk reduction.

This seminar will focus on different issues of environment, disaster and development in Asia