GNSI Policy Dialogues Archive

Leading voices from the World Food Programme, International Committee of the Red Cross, Tufts University, Yale University, the University of South Florida and Feeding Tampa Bay (part of Feeding America) will gather, appropriately, in the Patel Center for Global Solutions at the University of South Florida for the first GNSI Policy Dialogues. The theme for this first event is: Hunger as a Weapon.

The use of HUNGER AS A WEAPON of manipulation, oppression and control is as old as history itself. But, the last several decades have seen slow but steady progress in the global  renouncement and eradication of this abhorrent practice. 

Partnering with the USF College of Arts and Sciences, as well as the Center for the Advancement of Food Security and Healthy Communities (CAFSHC), the GNSI Policy Dialogues: Hunger as a Weapon conference is going to explore how food insecurity and hunger are used by state and non-state entities as weapons of control, manipulation and suppression. Global hunger is a generator of social, economic and political instability and a threat to global and national security. 

The two panel discussions:
PANEL 1  Global Hunger: Generator of Social, Economic and Political Instability
PANEL 2  Food Insecurity in the United States: A Domestic Policy Challenge

Three Breakout sessions:
#1: Fireside Chat with Peter Cloutier, Professor of Development and Human Security at Joint Special Operations University, conducted by David Himmelgreen, Director of the Center for Advancement of Food Security and Healthy Communities
#2: Dangerously Hungry: The Link Between Food Insecurity and Conflict, an in-depth analysis and discussion of this latest report from the World Food Programme with Dr. Chase Sova, lead author and Senior Director, Public Policy and Thought Leadership, World Food Program USA
#3: Finding Solutions to Weaponized Hunger: A Multidimensional Approach, moderated by Patrick Hamilton, Regional Delegation (United States and Canada), International Committee of the Red Cross