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How Can the Business Community Help Build Human Security: A New Paradigm of Refugee Study? Report on the Todai Forum: International Conference on Human Security and Business: Conflicts, Human Mobility, and Governance, organized by the University of Tokyo at the Cass Business School, City University London, 27 and 28 April 2009
Human Security Program, University of Tokyo, 153-8902 3-8-1 Komaba, Meguroku, Tokyo
yamamoto@hsp.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp
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This international conference consisted of an expert symposium on 27 April and a student forum on 28 April 2009. It explored human security issues, especially new aspects arising from globalization. The focus was on the contribution of the business sector to improving human security in the Global North and South. Academics, international agencies, business people and a range of other stakeholders took part.
Over the last decade or so, the Japanese government has been promoting human security in the international sphere. It used the concept of human security for