Future Strategic Leaders' Congress

Resource Security - Vulnerabilities of a Globalised Democracy

Friday 31 May- Sunday 2 June 2013

In the world of increasing dependence on finite resources, Australia must strike a balance between self-reliance and international trade to achieve a resource-secure Australia that supports a national security posture. What is resource security? How can Australia achieve a resource-secure position in balancing its self-reliance and international relations?

This congress will examine the role Australia’s resources, vast and varied, play in supporting national security into the coming decades and how it can balance its economic, industrial and diplomatic capabilities to achieve this goal.

About the Future Strategic Leaders' Congresses

The Future Strategic Leaders' Program gathers twice a year for a weekend-long Future Strategic Leaders' Congress.

The purposes of the Congress are to:

• Enable Future Strategic Leaders to meet and network with senior national security decision makers
  
  
• Foster the professional development of Future Strategic Leaders through seminars, workshops hypothetical/s and informal discussions
  
  
• Facilitate networking of Future Strategic Leaders with their professional colleagues in other organisations
  
  
• Foster the development of esprit de corps amongst the Future Strategic Leaders