Shipping risks: Lessons from Wakashio disaster for island states – Event Summary

The Charles Telfair Centre, in partnership with the University of Copenhagen and the SafeSeas network for maritime security research, hosted a public event on “Shipping Risks: Lessons from the Wakashio for Western Indian Ocean Islands” on Friday, August 18, 2023 in Mauritius. Over 100 guests attended the event, which showcased the latest research on shipping … Read more

Maritime security is one of the new blue paradigms in ocean politics – new article

Global ocean politics has continuously been evolving, and maritime security is part of that development. A new article, co-authored by Christian Bueger, shows how maritime security is related to debates on the blue economy, ocean health, and blue justice – three other key ‘blue paradigms’. Thinking through how maritime security connects and contributes to the … Read more

New Article on the EU as a Global Maritime Security Provider

Image source: https://www.eeas.europa.eu/eeas/maritime-security-eu-republic-korea-and-oman-carry-out-joint-naval-exercise_en SafeSeas directors Christian Bueger and Tim Edmunds have published a new article entitled ‘The European Union’s Quest to become a Global Maritime Security Provider.’ The article is published in Vol.76 No.2 (2023) of the US Naval War College Review. It is open access and available to view at the link above. In … Read more

SafeSeas director presents at the Indian Ocean Island Forum in Bangkok

SafeSeas director Professor Tim Edmunds presented a paper on ‘The Environment and Maritime Security’ at the Indian Ocean Island Forum in Bangkok, Thailand, on 10-12 May 2023. Organised by the Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies (NESA) of the US National Defense University, the event brought together over 40 participants from 21 countries … Read more

New Policy Brief – ‘Maritime security sector governance and reform’

SafeSeas’ Tim Edmunds and Scott Edwards collaborated with the Geneva Centre for Security Sector Governance (DCAF) on ‘Maritime security sector governance and reform’ (MSSG/R). The policy brief, available here, is a backgrounder document intended to provide a consideration of the challenges and opportunities of security sector reform and governance in the maritime sector. The maritime … Read more

SafeSeas directors visit Indian Ocean Commission

During a field visit, SafeSeas directors, Christian Bueger and Tim Edmunds, visited the Indian Ocean Commission (IOC). They met with the secretary general of the organization, H.E. Prof Vêlayoudom Marimoutou, as well as Raj Mohabeer, commissioner in charge of maritime security. The discussions firstly focused on the current state of political affairs in the Western … Read more

SafeSeas attends Wilton Park conference on Human Rights Law at Sea

SafeSeas director Professor Tim Edmunds participated in a Wilton Park conference on Human Rights Law at Sea on 5-7 December 2022. The conference brought together an international group of experts, including academics, policy makers, practitioners, and industry representatives to consider how human rights obligations can best be projected into the maritime domain. Professor Edmunds addressed … Read more

Researcher presents at maritime situational awareness meeting hosted by Italian navy

Maritime Situational and Domain Awareness (MDA) is one of the key solutions in the maritime security tool box and one of the core themes of SafeSeas research. Since almost 20 years the Italian navy facilitates one of the most important international mechanisms for MDA, known as the Virtual-Regional Maritime Traffic Center and the Trans-Regional Maritime … Read more