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• Peter HAYES
  Co-founder and Executive Director of Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainability.
  Professor of International Relations, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology.
  Contact: phayes@nautilus.org
• Arabella Imhoff: Research Officer
• Mihiri Weerasinghe: Research Officer
  

PUBLIC EVENT: 

November 12, 2011, 9.00AM to 12.30PM

At the International House, 5-11-16 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-0032

This symposium will identify the key dynamics of the Japan-Australia strategic relationship, identify next steps in two important areas of shared interest (extended nuclear deterrence and nuclear disarmament), analyze the origins and consequences of non-security issues disruptive to the relationship and develop means of containing them, and strengthen the civil society underpinnings of the developing bilateral security community in the post-Fukushima era.

Simultaneous translation from English to Japanese and Japanese to English will be available.  

For more information click here.

After the Deluge: Short and Medium-term Impacts of the Reactor Damage Caused by the Japan Earthquake and Tsunami

 The Nautilus Institute released this report as a rapid response evaluation of the implications of the March 11, 2011 earthquake and consequent tsunami off the northeast coast of Japan, focusing on Japan’s electricity system, its energy security and the future of the nuclear power plants located in the earthquake- and tsunami-affected regions. 

Read the executive summary.

Go to the report.

Australia-Japan: Towards a Sustainable Security Community

The Australia-Japan Foundation has awarded the Nautilus Institute a grant to host a public symposium in Tokyo in November 2011. The events aim to deepen security cooperation between Japan and Australia. The symposium will identify the key dynamics of the strategic relationship, identify next steps in two important areas of shared interest (extended nuclear deterrence and nuclear disarmament), analyze the origins and consequences of non-security issues disruptive to the relationship and develop means of containing them, and strengthen the civil society underpinnings of the developing bilateral security community.

This follows on Nautilus Institute's successful Australia-Japan Civil Society Cooperation for Nuclear Disarmament Project, also funded by the Australia-Japan Foundation.

Strong connections: Australia-Korea strategic futures

"Strong connections: Australia-Korea strategic futures and strengthened civil society policy connections" explores government and civil society perspectives on the enduring consequences of the Korean War. Through a research workshop and public forum in Seoul, it developed new approaches to shared strategic problems such as extended nuclear deterrence.

Nautilus Institute would like to thank the Australia-Korea Foundation for their support of this project.

Workshop draft papers and presentations

Nautilus in the news

• New regulatory requirements to make nuclear power uneconomical, Raeson, 25 March 2011

• Japan fears nuclear plant meltdown, Al Jazeera News, 12 March 2011

• Nuclear expert comments on Japan's crisis [VIDEO], Al Jazeera, 11 March 2011

• N. Korea seeks to sell global carbon credits, Jung Ha-won, Agence France Presse, 8 March 2011

Austral Peace and Security Network (APSNet)

The Nautilus Institute published the final edition of APSNet on December 15, 2010. In early 2011 we will begin publishing a new weekly report, the NAutilus Peace and Security Network (NAPSNet).

• The last APSNet, a message from Richard Tanter, former Director, Nautilus Institute RMIT

APSNet Policy Forums, Special Reports and Briefing Notes

• Policy forum: Out of the war: policies for an Australian contribution to a sustainable peace in Afghanistan - Richard Tanter.
• Policy forum: North by North West Cape: Eyes on China  - Richard Tanter.

• Special report: Deep Borehole Disposal of Nuclear Spent Fuel and High Level Waste as a Focus of Regional East Asia Nuclear Fuel Cycle Cooperation - David von Hippel and Peter Hayes
• Briefing note: The return of Indonesian state terror? Australian involvement in police and military torture - Richard Tanter.
  

Previous policy forums, special reports and briefing notes

Australian Forces Abroad Briefing Books

Drawing together existing knowledge concerning Australian Defence Force (ADF) and Australian Federal Police (AFP) deployments on missions outside Australia. By making such material accessible, a pool of common knowledge will be created which will assist the Australian community and those communities in which ADF and AFP forces are deployed to assess Australian government policy and its impact. Briefing Books already published deal with Australian Forces in Afghanistan, Solomon Islands, East Timor and Tonga. Subsequent Briefing Books will deal with Iraq, East Timor, and other Pacific deployments and relationships.

• Australia in Afghanistan
• Australia in East Timor
• Australia in the Pacific Islands
• Australia in Solomon Islands
• Australia in Tonga
• Australian Bases Abroad
• Australian Defence Facilities

Reframing Australia – Indonesia security

Reframing Australia-Indonesia security is a Nautilus project in collaboration with Indonesian partner organisations through shared work on global problems: in particular climate change and energy insecurity.

• Australia-Indonesia nuclear dynamics
• Indonesia - nuclear power
• Australia - nuclear proliferation
• Climate change and security
• Mapping Causal Complexity in Climate Change Impacts and Responses - Australia and Indonesia.

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