GOMEZ Oscar A

Profile Information

Affiliation: Associate Professor, College of Asia Pacific Studies, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University

Degree: 博士（環境科学）(東北大学)
修士（環境科学）(東北大学)
Doctoral degree (Environmental Studies)(Tohoku University)
Master degree (Environmental Studies)(Tohoku University)

J-GLOBAL ID: 201801006219548822
researchmap Member ID: 7000028309

Research Interests

Research Areas

Environmental science/Agricultural science / Environmental policy and society /
Social infrastructure (civil Engineering, architecture, disaster prevention) / Disaster prevention engineering /
Humanities & social sciences / International relations /

Education

Apr, 2008 - Mar, 2011

Human Security, Graduate School Division of Human and Environmental Studies, Tohoku University
Apr, 2006 - Mar, 2008

Human Security, Graduate School Division of Human and Environmental Studies, Tohoku University
Jan, 2005 - Apr, 2006

人間・環境学研究科, Civil and Environmental Engineering Department Andes UniversityCivil and Environmental Engineering Department Andes University
Jan, 1997 - Dec, 2002

Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, National University of Colombia

Committee Memberships

Jul, 2018 - Present

Steering Committee member, International Network of Disaster Studies Conference, Iwate University, Harvard University and Tsinghua University, to be held
Jul, 2018 - Present

Steering Committee member, International Network of Disaster Studies Conference, Iwate University, Harvard University and Tsinghua University, to be held
Jun, 2017 - Present

Scientific Committee member, Humanitarian Encyclopedia, Centre for Education and Research in Humanitarian Action (CERAH), Geneva. https://humanitarianencyclopedia.org/
Jun, 2017 - Present

Scientific Committee member, Humanitarian Encyclopedia, Centre for Education and Research in Humanitarian Action (CERAH), Geneva. https://humanitarianencyclopedia.org/
Apr, 2020 - Mar, 2021

Visiting fellow, JICA Ogata Sadako Research Institute
Apr, 2020 - Mar, 2021

客員研究員, JICA緒方貞子研究所

Awards

Oct, 2011

日本学術振興会外国人特別研究員
Apr, 2006

文部科学省国費外国人研究留学生

Papers

Solidarity and Human Insecurity: Interpreting and Extending the HDRO’s 2022 Special Report on Human Security

Gasper, Des, Oscar A. Gómez

Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, Jan 21, 2023 Peer-reviewed
Understanding humanitarian localization in Latin America—as local as possible: but how necessary?

Simone Lucatello, Oscar A. Gómez

Journal of International Humanitarian Action, 7 12, Jun 1, 2022 Peer-reviewed
Japan and the international humanitarian system: In the periphery by design, principle or strategy?

Asian Journal of Comparative Politics, 6(4) 315-329, Aug 17, 2021 Peer-reviewed
Protecting our human world order: A human security compass for a new sustainability decade.

Background paper for the Human Development Report Office, UNDP, Mar 30, 2021 Peer-reviewedInvited
Localisation or deglobalisation? East Asia and the dismantling of liberal humanitarianism

Third World Quarterly, Mar 21, 2021 Peer-reviewed
Humanitarianism in Latin America: Past and Present

Gómez, Oscar A, Lucatello, Simone

International Journal of Cooperation and Development, 7(1) 6-11, Jun 30, 2020 Invited
Fragility Risks (CFR) in Development Sectors: Six Principles for Managing Synergies and Trade-offs

May, 2019
Humanitarian Crises and the Rise of the Rest: The Future of Humanitarianism from the Perspective of Four Latin American Emerging Countries

JICA研究所ワーキングペーパー, 186, Mar, 2019 Peer-reviewed
Beyond the humanitarian-development nexus : Agenda of Humanitarian Crisis Management

8 61-69, 2019
Sovereignty as responsibility in East Asia’s response to crises

Humanitarian Alternatives, 9 78-89, Nov, 2018
The continuum of humanitarian crises management: Multiple approaches and the challenge of convergence

Gómez, O.A, Kawaguchi, C

JICA Research Institute Working Paper, 136, Dec, 2016 Peer-reviewed
Sharing the Journey: The Way Ahead for Human Development and Human Security Frameworks

Gómez, O.A, Muto, A, Kamidohzono, S

Background paper, Human Development Report, Dec, 2016
Moving Development and Security Narratives a Step Further: Human Security in the Human Development Reports

Oscar A. Gomez, Des Gasper, Yoichi Mine

JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT STUDIES, 52(1) 113-129, Jan, 2016 Peer-reviewed
Alternative views of security in latin America: Towards a global contribution to human security

Oscar A. Gómez

Regions and Cohesion, 5(1) 26-53, Mar 1, 2015 Peer-reviewed
Human security thinking in practice: 'personal security', 'citizen security' and comprehensive mappings

Des Gasper, Oscar A. Gomez

CONTEMPORARY POLITICS, 21(1) 100-116, Jan, 2015 Peer-reviewed
What Can the Human Development Approach Tell Us about Crisis? An Exploration

International Journal of Social Quality, 4(2) 28-45, Dec, 2014 Peer-reviewed
Forcing migration of globalised citizens

Forced Migration Review, 45 48, Feb, 2014
The Emergence of Food Panic: Evidence from the Great East Japan Earthquake

Journal of Disaster Research, sp 814-825, Sep, 2013 Peer-reviewed
Lessons from International Students' Reaction to the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake: The Case of the School of Engineering at Tohoku University

Oscar A. Gomez

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DISASTER RISK SCIENCE, 4(3) 137-149, Sep, 2013 Peer-reviewed
Climate change and migration: A review of the literature

International Institute of Social Studies, The Hague (Erasmus University Rotterdam) Working Paper Series, 572, May, 2013

Misc.

The Position of Crises in Human Development Processes and Thinking—Using the Human Security Approach in an Era of Transitions

Gómez, Oscar A, Des Gasper

Oct 22, 2022 Peer-reviewed

Books and Other Publications

Human security, the UN development system and the SDGs

Gasper, Des, Oscar A. Gómez (Role: Joint author)

Edward Elgar Publishing, Oct 14, 2022
International Migration and Human Security Under the COVID-19 Pandemic

Springer, Jan 1, 2022
Population Movements and Human Security

Springer, 2021
災害時の外国人

(Role: Contributor)

明石書店, Dec, 2019
Human Security in East Asia: Assembling a Puzzle

Yoichi Mine, Oscar A. Gómez, Ako Muto (Role: Joint author)

Palgrave Macmillan, Jan, 2019
What Is at Stake in Localizing Human Security Norms in the ASEAN+3?: A Comparative Analysis of 11 Qualitative Regional Review Surveys

Palgrave Macmillan, Jan, 2019
Human Security Norms in East Asia

Mine, Yoichi, Gómez, Oscar A, Muto, Ako (Role: Editor)

Palgrave Macmillan, Jan, 2019
Human Security After the Great East Japan Earthquake: Rethinking the Role of External Assistance

Palgrave Macmillan, Jan, 2019
The continuum in the management of disasters: An overview

Hiroshi Higashiura, Oscar A. Gómez (Role: Joint author)

Routledge, Oct, 2018
Prevention through the continuum of crisis management: The case of Honduras after Hurricane Mitch

Routledge, Oct, 2018
Crisis Management Beyond the Humanitarian-Development Nexus

Atsushi Hanatani, Oscar A. Gómez, Chigumi Kawaguchi (Role: Editor)

Routledge, Oct, 2018
Conclusion: The continuum beyond the humanitarian-development nexus

Atsushi Hanatani, Oscar A. Gómez, Chigumi Kawaguchi (Role: Joint author)

Routledge, Oct, 2018
A theory for the continuum: Multiple approaches to humanitarian crises management

Oscar A. Gomez, Chigumi Kawaguchi (Role: Joint author)

Routledge, Oct, 2018
Embracing human security: New directions of Japan’s ODA for the 21st century

Kamidohzono, S, Gómez, O.A, Mine, Y (Role: Joint author)

Palgrave Macmilan, Jan, 2016
Evolution of Thinking and Research on Human Security and Personal Security 1994–2013

Gasper, D, Gómez, O.A (Role: Joint author)

United Nations Development Programme, Jan, 2014
Uncertainty as Insecurity: Lessons on preparing for contingencies in Japan,

Earthscan, Jun, 2013
Implementing Human Security: Japanese perspective through the United Nations Trust Fund for Human Security

Gómez, O.A, Saito, C (Role: Joint author)

CSDS Chula, Jan, 2012

Presentations

Covid‐19 and power redistribution in global crisis response

International Studies Association (ISA) 2023, Mar 18, 2023
Humanitarian action and human security practice: Clues for future transformative protection institutions

2022 Human Development and Capabilities Association Conference, Sep 20, 2022, HDCA, University of Antwerp
Thinking about Human (In)Security in the Anthropocene

Pensando en la Seguridad humana, la inseguridad y las crisis: uso y adaptación del lenguaje de las Naciones Unidas de "seguridad humana", Jul 22, 2022, Universidad de los Andes Invited
Security, Development, Solidarity: A comment on the 2022 Special Report on human security

HDCA webinar on the 2022 UNDP Special Report on Human Security, Apr 12, 2022, Human Security thematic group, Human Development and Capabilities Association Invited
Southern sources of humanitarian norms: emerging agency after crises

International Studies Association (ISA) 2022, Mar 28, 2022
Humanitarianism in the Asia-Pacific: Engaging the Debate in Academia, Policy and Practice

International Studies Association (ISA) 2022, Mar 28, 2022
Towards a post-liberal humanitarian paradigm: Insights from an East Asia-Latin America comparison

LASA/Asia 2022, Feb 18, 2022, Latin American Studies Association and East Asian Network of Latin American Studies
Disasters, Climate Change and Population Movements in Asia: Challenges for Human Security

The Second International Conference on Environmental Peacebuilding, Feb 2, 2022, The Graduate Institute Geneva
Can inequality close the door to humanitarianism? The Latin American experience

International Humanitarian Studies Association Conference, Nov 4, 2021, Sciences Po
International migration and human security under the COVID 19 pandemic

11th Annual Japan Association for Human Security Studies, Oct 10, 2021, National Center for Global Health and Medicine
Understanding climate change through a human security perspective

Climate Change and Communities: a Human Security Perspective, Jul 28, 2021, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University Invited
The human security lens and peaceful development: some hints for practice

European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes Conference, Jul 8, 2021, International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) of Erasmus University Rotterdam
The need for a human security approach to crises through and beyond development

Virtual Symposium: “A New Generation of Human Security, Jun 10, 2021, Human Development Report Office, UNDP Invited
Humanitarianism in Latin America: Past and Present

International Journal of Cooperation and Development launching event, Nov 30, 2020, Universidad de San Buenaventura
Protecting our human world order: A human security compass for a new sustainability decade

Japan Association for Human Security Studies, Nov 29, 2020, Chubu University
A model for the global governance of crises? The Health Emergencies Programme and the limits of international response

Japan Association of International Relations, Oct 24, 2020, Tsukuba University
Japan and the International Humanitarian Order: In the Periphery by Design, Principle or Strategy?

RSIS Conference on Asia-Pacific and the Humanitarian World, Dec 5, 2019, Nanyang Technological University Invited
Localization or de-globalization? East Asia and the dismantling of international humanitarianism

AP Conference, Nov 30, 2019, APU
A model for the global governance of humansecurity crises? Public health emergencies and theperils of specialization

JAHSS - JASID Joint International Conference, Nov 17, 2019, University of Tokyo
Humanitarian Crises and the Global South: The future of humanitarianism from four Latin American emerging countries perspective

ISA Accra 2019, Aug 2, 2019, University of Ghana

Professional Memberships

Research Projects

Comparative Study of Global Policies on Humanitarian Crisis

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Jul, 2018 - Mar, 2021

Academic Activities

Workshops for the Humanitarian Encyclopedia project（国外）

Other

Aug, 2018 - Feb, 2019
Human Security Summer School（国内）

Other

Sep, 2011 - Sep, 2011

Social Activities

Working group for Climate-Fragility risk assessment（国内）

Other

Jun, 2018 - Feb, 2019
A human security index for Japan（国内）

Other

Oct, 2018 - Jan, 2019
UNESCO Youth Forum “Looking Beyond Disaster”（国内）

Other

Aug, 2012 - Aug, 2012
Volunteer work during the aftermath of March 11 Great East Japan Earthquake（国内）

Other

Apr, 2011

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