Conflict and Human Security Studies Group
Study groups at the U.S. Naval War College (NWC) help to promote and exchange major research and educational relationships with counterpart institutions around the world. The Conflict and Human Security Group (CHSG) consists of faculty, staff and students with interest, expertise, or experience in the wide variety of human security topics.
Director, Dr. Cameron
About this Study Group
The Conflict and Human Security Studies Group (CHSG) is an interdisciplinary team of faculty, staff, and students with interest, expertise, or experience in the wide variety of conflict and human security topics. The CHSG explores how joint warfighting is connected to non-traditional and transnational security threats and their impact on U.S. national security, strategic goals, operational success, and economic interests. It is often human security that leads to mass migration challenging security forces to address symptoms rather than underlying conditions that destabilize societies. As a specialized study group at the Naval War College, this forum connects those across campus promoting information exchange as well as educational and research relationships with counterpart institutions around the world.
Strategic thinking, operational readiness, and tactical success for the joint warfighter relies on mission accomplishment across the continuum of conflict under any conditions. Within this group, human security topics that affect the security environment may include, but are not limited to, economic insecurity, food insecurity, health insecurity, environmental insecurity, energy insecurity, water scarcity, among others. Themes may encompass the strategic implications/operational impacts of resource competition, ocean and earth system science, urbanization and population growth, pandemics, humanitarian crises, and migration.
Overall operational resilience ensures the continuity of operations/mission assurance from homeland defense to deploying anywhere in the world. The Department of the Navy requires installation fortification to support the rapid deployment of maritime capabilities. This can be affected by extreme weather events, cyber-attacks, hybrid warfare, and vulnerabilities to civilian infrastructure. Distributed maritime operations in the contemporary and future security environment requires readiness and resilience at all nodes of operations.
In cooperation with other groups, the CHSG seeks facilitate group meetings, guest speakers, dissemination of published research and articles, professional development and training opportunities, and workshops and conferences. The CHSG will also network affiliated faculty and subject matter experts with communities of scholars and professionals in other government agencies and academic institutions. This supports the CNO’s initiative of expanding and strengthening our network of partners by unifying related non-traditional security concerns which can be the root causes and complicating factors of conflict and essential elements to building and sustaining peace.
Signing Up
NWC community members can elect to join this group or with the approval of the individual program director, the group also includes experts from outside the NWC community. Please note, this group is not open to the general public except where invited by the Director of the Conflict and Human Security Studies Group, Dr. Cameron.
To request more information or to sign up for the Conflict and Human Security Studies Group, please email Dr. Cameron at humansecurity.studies@usnwc.edu.
