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International Security Summit:
Security Challenges in the New World Order
13 - 14 January 2021
International Experts
Exclusive Networking
Theoretical and Practical Lectures
Official
Certificate
Official
Certificate
General admission fee
$37 USD
(or €30)
Fee for Alumni
$17 USD
(or €14)

Chantal de Jonge Oudraat

President of Women In International Security

María Cristina Rosas González

International Relations and International Security Expert

Alfonso Aragón Camarena

International Security Expert

Ernesto Ángeles Guerrero

International Relations Expert

As part of the World Youth Academy´s core topics, we are pleased to host the “International Security Summit: Security Challenges in the New World Order”. Considering the new current world challenges, and the changes in the international order that we are facing, we consider it to be imperative to go beyond the conventional. That is why we bring up new discussions, a new theoretical and practical program, and new experts with diverse backgrounds and mindsets; this will allow us to identify, evaluate, acknowledge and widen our action field towards a highly dynamic and complex world. 

When: 13-14 January 2021

Language: The complete summit will be held in English.

A Digital International Official Certificate of participation will be awarded by the WYAcademy.

Contribution Fee:

  • General: $37 USD =  €30
  • Alumni: $17 USD = 14 € (if you attended a previous WYAcademy-Program in the past)

The World Youth Academy only uses the fees to cover running costs and to make events like this possible. Therefore, we stick to an affordable participation fee and give scholarships for people in need. 

Refund Policy: No refunds are applicable to this program.

Through the years, the Security agenda has been extended to address new challenges, not just nationally, but internationally. Topics such as terrorism, cybercrime, migration, natural disasters, food, governability, economy and sanitary crisis, among others, can jeopardize the Security and safety from States, people, multinational organizations, and transnational corporations around the globe. Due to all the emerging challenges, International actors such as Governments and the private sector, have been forced to reformulate security strategies at various levels, from the particular to the global, and to focus on a joint effort based on risk management and the development of preventive policies with a comprehensive scope. 

The pandemic has been a catalyst for old and new “glocal” (global and local) challenges, and it is important to identify them as the scope of its impact has transcended borders and it is urgent to find viable solutions. After a year dealing with uncertainty, 2021 will be the year in which the changes already underway in the world order will take on a more perceptible effect. The growing interdependence among the actors of international society and the complexity of the relationships among them, in a particularly vulnerable context, exposes the need for preventive actions and the implementation of security measures that respond to the new challenges of today and those to come in the future, related to the novelties carried out by the called “post-liberal order” and the challenges for international security that are coming with it.

As part of the World Youth Academy´s core topics, we are pleased to host the “International Security Summit: Security Challenges in the New World Order”. Considering the new current world challenges, and the changes in the international order that we are facing, we consider it to be imperative to go beyond the conventional. That is why we bring up new discussions, a new theoretical and practical program, and new experts with diverse backgrounds and mindsets; this will allow us to identify, evaluate, acknowledge and widen our action field towards a highly dynamic and complex world. 

This program will allow you to gain an important knowledge of International Security topics with an objective analysis base in a very short period of time. In addition, it offers the opportunity to network with esteem Security experts and young professionals from all around the world through an amazing virtual experience. This program allows many doors being opened within your personal, academical, and professional life, along with obtaining an international certificate with academic value. 

The program is particularly designed for a distinguished group of young professionals, that aim to learn, comprehend and analyze Security from the new international order perspective. The International Security Summit will allow you to explore and study international challenges from diverse views and will guide you to an informed decision making with a broad comprehensive criteria. Moreover, this summit will allow you to extend your professional network by interacting with respected experts in the Security field, and future decision makers from all around the world. 

Wednesday, January 13th 2021

  • Welcoming & Introduction
    • 3:30 – 4:00 PM CET (Vienna Time)
    • 8:30 – 9:00 AM GMT-6 (Mexico Time)
    • by Ramiro Murguia, Founder of the WYAcademy and the Program Coordinators

  • Session 1: Space Security: What Lies Beneath
    • 4:00 – 5:30 PM CET (Vienna Time)
    • 9:00 – 10:30 AM GMT-6 (Mexico Time)
    • by María Cristina Rosas González

  • Break 
    • 5:30 – 6:00 PM CET (Vienna Time)
    • 10:30 – 11:00 AM GMT-6 (Mexico Time)

  • Session 2: Weapons of Mass Destruction
    • 6:00 – 7:30 PM CET (Vienna Time)
    • 11:00 – 12:30PM GMT-6 (Mexico Time)
    • by Alfonso Aragón Camarena

  • Interactive Session & Networking
    • 7:30 – 8:30 PM CET (Vienna Time)
    • 12:30 – 1:30PM GMT-6 (Mexico Time)
    • by the Program Coordinators

Thursday, January 14th 2021

  • Session 3: The Gender and Security Agenda: Strategies for the 21st Century 
    • 3:30 – 5:00 PM CET (Vienna Time)
    • 8:30 – 10:00 AM GMT-6 (Mexico Time)
    • by Chantal de Jonge Oudraat

  •  Break
    • 5:00 – 5:30 PM CET (Vienna Time)
    • 10:00 – 10:30 AM GMT-6 (Mexico Time)

  • Session 4: Cyberspace and International Security: Hybrid Wars and Other Forms of Use of Force in Cyberspace
    • 5:30 – 7:00 PM CET (Vienna Time)
    • 10:30 – 12:00 PM GMT-6 (Mexico Time)
    • by Ernesto Ángeles Guerrero

  • Interactive Session & Networking
      • 7:00 – 8:00 PM CET (Vienna Time) 
      • 12:00 – 1:00 PM GMT-6 (Mexico Time) 
      • by the Program Coordinators

  • Closing & Feedback
    • 8:00 – 8:30 PM CET (Vienna Time)
    • 1:00 – 1:30 PM GMT-6 (Mexico Time)
    • by Ramiro Murguia, Founder of the WYAcademy and the Program Coordinators
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For the World Youth Academy it is a privilege to collaborate with the following extraordinary experts in the field of Security from all around the world, due to their excellent distinction and contribution to the International Relations discipline.

María Cristina Rosas González 

International Relations and International Security Expert

(PhD., Mexico City, 1965). She is a full-time Professor and Researcher at the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). For almost three decades she has been Professor at the Center for Naval Higher Studies (CESNAV) of the Secretariat of the Navy in Mexico. She belongs to the National Researchers System. She heads the Olof Palme Center for Analysis and Research on Peace, Security and Development. She was head of the Mexican Association for Canadian Studies between 1999 and 2000. She was awarded the Jesús Silva-Herzog Prize for her contributions to research in international economics. She was also awarded a public recognition due to her academic life-time achievements by all the Universities based in Mendoza, Argentina in 2018. Rosas has served as consultant to the Mexican Ministry for Foreign Affairs, the Japanese, Canadian and Swedish Governments and international organizations based in Geneva on trade negotiations. 

She is the author of around 100 books on international trade and security. Most recently she edited a volume on The North American Free Trade Agreement 2.0 in preparation for the USMCA negotiations and authored an analysis on Space Security published by UNAM, and the Mexican and Australian Spaces Agencies. She studied in Mexico and Sweden receiving two doctorates, in International Relations and Latin American. She comments on a regular basis on international politics and economic issues for various national and international media networks such as TV Azteca, the Congress Channel, UNAM Radio, Radio France, Deutsche Welle, Sputnik News, CNN and BBC News, Rio Grande Guardian among others. She is a life-long fan of The Simpsons and enjoys studying viticulture and playing piano.

Alfonso Aragón Camarena

International Security Expert

Prof. Alfonso Aragón is a graduate of the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, California in the USA and the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He received specialized academic training in the William Perry Center of Hemispheric Defense Studies (CHDS), at the National Defense University in Washington, D.C.

Alfonso is the academic coordinator of the Diploma on Contemporary Terrorism Studies and currently teaches the Dissarmament Course in the Political and Social Sciences School at UNAM. He is an active guest lecturer of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons, terrorism, organized crime, and Northeast and Southeast Asia regional studies at international conferences and events. 

He has a BA and a MA in International Relations Studies, a MA in International Policy Studies, a Certificate in Nonproliferation Studies and is a Ph.D Candidate in International Relations.

Chantal de Jonge Oudraat 

President of Women in International Security

Dr. Chantal de Jonge Oudraat is President of Women in International Security (WIIS) since February 2013. She was the founding and executive director of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) North America (2012-2014).  Previous positions include: senior advisor to the U.S. Institute of Peace Center for Gender and Peacebuilding; associate vice president and director of the U.S. Institute of Peace Jennings Randolph Fellowship Program;  adjunct associate professor at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University; and senior fellow at the Center for Transatlantic Relations, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University. She has also held senior positions at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, DC; and the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) in Geneva.

Her areas of specialization are: women, peace and security, gender, international organizations, arms control and disarmament, terrorism and countering violent extremism, peacekeeping, use of force, economic sanctions, U.S.-European relations.

Dr. de Jonge Oudraat is co-editor of The Gender and Security Agenda: Promoting Equality and Peace in the 21stCentury (forthcoming 2019); Women and War: Power and Protection in the 21st Century (USIP Press, 2011); and Managing Global Issues: Lessons Learned (Carnegie Endowment, 2001).

De Jonge Oudraat did her undergraduate studies at the University of Amsterdam and received her PhD in Political Science from the University of Paris II (Panthéon). She is a Dutch and US national.

Ernesto Ángeles Guerrero 

International Relations Expert

International Relations Scholar and MA in International Relations from the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Specialist in political analysis of cyberspace and its technologies such as the internet, 5G and artificial intelligence. 

He has worked as a political analyst in the private sector (2013-2018) and as a researcher on the protection of personal data in civil society (2018-2019). He is the author of diverse writings and research papers on topics such as cyberwar, cybersecurity, protection of personal data and cyberspace.

He volunteers in different cyberspace and internet governance organizations such as the Internet Corporation for the Assignment of Names and Numbers (ICANN), the Internet Governance Forum (IGF), the Artificial Intelligence Agenda for Mexico (IA2030MX) and the Internet Society (ISOC) Mexico chapter. He currently works as a researcher and commentator at InfodemiaMx, a Mexico City government program for digital education against disinformation, part of the UN initiative against infodemic.

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