Ernährung, Handel und Sicherheit
Gespräch mit Gilad Ben-Nun und Sara Ashour, Moderation: Lena Dallywater
// in englischer Sprache mit deutscher Simultanübersetzung
// in Kooperation mit dem Leibniz ScienceCampus »Eastern Europe – Global Area« (EEGA)
Sara Ashour aus Kairo zeigte politische Dimensionen von Ernährungssicherheit auf und fragte mit Blick auf „Food Security, Climate Risks and Trade Nexus: Can Trade Policies Mitigate the Food Security Crises in the MENA region?”
Gilad Ben-Nun ist Experte für Sicherheitsfragen im Nahen Osten in seinen globalen Bezügen. Er wies auf die Folgen der Energie- und Ernährungskrisen für bestehende und neue gesellschaftliche Spannungen hin.
Gilad Ben-Nun is a Senior Researcher at Leipzig University’s Research Centre Global Dynamics (ReCentGlobe), where he teaches Global Studies and the History of International Law. Previously, he was a Marie Curie Individual Fellow at the International Law Department of Verona University, a Ford Foundation Research Fellow at UNIDIR, and a UN Middle East Program Officer. He has published the book Seeking Asylum in Israel: Refugees and the History of Migration Law (I.B. Tauris, 2017), which was nominated for the 2017 US National Jewish book award.
Sara S. Ashour A trade policy analyst and negotiator at the Egyptian Ministry of Trade and Industry with more than twelve years of experience in development, trade agreements, rules of origin, and trade facilitation. Through working within various developmental organizations and her experience within the International Labour Organization, she developed significant experience on development issues specifically, children’s rights, health rights, and gender issues. Besides currently being a PhD Fellow within the Regional Centre for sustainable Adaptation to Global Change in the Middle East (SAGE), she holds an M.A in Development and Governance from University Duisburg Essen in Germany and a B.A. in Political Science from Cairo University. Within the course of her PhD, she focuses on topics of agricultural trade policies, food security and climate mitigation efforts within the Jordan river Basin.
Lena Dallywater
After work experience in the Corporate Communications of the Robert Bosch GmbH (2002-2004) and a subsequent M.A. in Communication and Media Studies and Cultural Studies at Leipzig University and Haagse Hogeschool (2005-2011), I worked as Research Programme Coordinator at the Global and European Studies Institute and the Centre for Area Studies at Leipzig University. I was also responsible for the coordination of the DFG-funded Priority Programme 1448 „Adaptation and Creativity in Africa – Technologies and Significations in the Production of Order and Disorder“ (2011-2016). Since then, my research interests include transnational intellectual history, (Pan-)African philosophy, aesthetics and literature, the Black Arts and Black Consciousness Movement in South and West Africa, and the African diaspora in France and the USA. Currently, I am academic coordinator of the Leibniz ScienceCampus “Eastern Europe – Global Area” (EEGA).