The Sophia Institute for Human Security (SIHS) considers poverty, environment, health care, immigrants and refugees, and peacebuilding as the five important human security issues for an international society. The SIHS will work on the realization of human security through academic research by becoming an international center of excellence using social science research methods to design effective policies for institutions to solve these issues. The SIHS considers the following two basic policies as essential for the realization of human security: 1) To tackle the realization of human security through social science research results and 2) to promote research based on local circumstances and problems while collaborating with local researchers.

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