The Relational Studies on Global Crises project, a five-year research initiative launched in Japan in 2016, pursues the establishment of a new paradigm in multi-disciplinary and practical research. The project is centered within the social sciences and area studies, and is based on the fact that the scale encompassing the local to the global level—and the relationships between such levels—are constantly changing and mutually influencing one another due to the globalization of information, ideas, objects and money, as well as the movement of people. This project focuses on these multi-level relationships in order to analyze and understand the crises facing the modern global society since the turn of the century. Toward this end, this project focuses on issues related to contemporary global crises, of which the increasing number of migrants and refugees is one of the most serious and urgent. In addition, we promote research and debate not only among the project members, but within the wider networks of global scholarship. In 2019, the project has focused on the topics of resources and human mobility, while considering that resources serve as both a base of production and the origin of conflict and crisis. The scarcity of tangible resources, such as water, land and other natural resources often results in territorial disputes among states, as well as inter-ethnic violence and the marginalization and displacement of people. Likewise, intangible resources, such as ideas as well as human capital and other types of assets, can be the source of creation, innovation and wealth; but are also at risk of conflict and humanitarian crises when the flow of such resources becomes mismanaged.

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会议报告：资源与人力流动国际会议

全球危机关系研究项目是 2016 年在日本启动的一项为期五年的研究计划，旨在建立多学科和实践研究的新范式。该项目以社会科学和区域研究为中心，基于这样一个事实，即由于信息全球化，从地方到全球层面的规模以及这些层面之间的关系不断变化并相互影响、思想、物品和金钱，以及人的流动。本项目着眼于这些多层次的关系，以分析和理解世纪之交以来现代全球社会面临的危机。为此，该项目侧重于与当代全球危机相关的问题，其中越来越多的移民和难民是最严重和紧迫的问题之一。此外，我们不仅在项目成员之间，而且在更广泛的全球学术网络中促进研究和辩论。2019年，项目重点关注资源和人口流动的主题，同时考虑到资源既是生产基地，又是冲突和危机的根源。水、土地和其他自然资源等有形资源的稀缺往往会导致国家之间的领土争端，以及种族间的暴力以及人们的边缘化和流离失所。同样，无形资源，例如思想以及人力资本和其他类型的资产，可以成为创造、创新和财富的源泉；