We are pleased to announce that The Chair of the State of Qatar in Islamic Area Studies at Waseda University will be organizing the Majlis@Waseda on 22nd April 2024. We would like to provide you with some details of the event:
“Creative Insecurity: Institutional Inertia and Youth Potential in the GCC”
Dr. Dania Thafer (Georgetown University)
Monday April 22, 17:30-19:00
Waseda University Building 3, Room 502
Large youth populations can be a boon or a curse: nurtured and integrated, they can jumpstart stratospheric growth; but if alienated and confined, they can drain a society politically and economically. The Gulf Cooperation Council countries are no exception to this perilous dilemma. This book explores the problem through a new concept, “creative insecurity”: a state’s subjection to an institutional ecosystem that is suppressing opportunities for innovation–to the extent that it is causing economic and political vulnerabilities, which in turn threaten national security.
Creative insecurity threatens the longevity of many states today. In this original, incisive study, Dania Thafer argues that GCC member-states should make it a national security imperative to cash in their demographic dividend, by averting the deleterious effects of ill-disposed elite politics. Investing in an innovation ecosystem that harnesses the talent of the youth majority will be crucial for the GCC’s successful transition to the post-oil era.
Please pre-register if you wish to attend at: https://forms.gle/NHwJJZMmwjNemrTX7
